The last GW Note is by Miguel Preto
Archive for the ‘supermassive black holes’ Category
The search for spinning black hole binaries in mock LISA data using a genetic algorithm
Monday, February 1st, 2010by Petiteau, Antoine and Shang, Yu and Babak, Stanislav and Feroz, Farhan
25 pages, 9 figures
Dependence of inner accretion disk stress on parameters: the Schwarzschild case
Thursday, January 28th, 2010by Noble, Scott C. and Krolik, Julian H. and Hawley, John F.
Accepted for publication in ApJ, 52 pages, 38 figures, AASTEX. High-resolution versions can be found at the following links: http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/papers/schwarzstress.ps, http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/papers/schwarzstress.pdf
On the role of supernovae-driven turbulence in the feeding of supermassive black holes
Monday, January 25th, 2010by Hobbs, Alexander and Nayakshin, Sergei and Power, Chris and King, Andrew
19 pages, 17 figures. Submitted to MNRAS
High redshift formation and evolution of central massive objects I: model description
Monday, January 25th, 2010by Devecchi, B. and Volonteri, M. and Colpi, M. and Haardt, F.
11 pages, 4 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Toward Precision Measurement of Central Black Hole Masses
Sunday, January 24th, 2010by Peterson, Bradley M.
10 pages, 2 figures. To be published in the Proceedings of IAU Symposium 267 “Co-Evolution of Central Black Holes and Galaxies”
Direct Formation of Supermassive Black Holes via Multi-Scale Gas Inflows in Galaxy Mergers
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009by Mayer, Lucio and Kazantzidis, Stelios and Escala, Andres and Callegari, Simone
26 pages, 4 Figures, submitted to Nature (includes Supplementary Information)
How Do Massive Black Holes Get Their Gas?
Friday, December 18th, 2009by Hopkins, Philip F. and Quataert, Eliot
15 figures, 30 pages. Submitted to MNRAS. Movies of the simulations described here can be found at http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~phopkins/Site/Movies_zoom.html
Inflow-Outflow Solution with Stellar Winds and Conduction near Sgr A*
Friday, December 18th, 2009by Shcherbakov, Roman V. and Baganoff, Frederick K.
3 pages, 2 figures; to be published in “The Galactic Center: a Window to the Nuclear Activity of Disk Galaxies”, ed. Mark Morris et al., Astron. Soc. Pacific, 2010
The EXIST view of Super-Massive Black Holes in the Universe
Thursday, December 17th, 2009by Della Ceca, Roberto and Ghisellini, Gabriele and Tagliaferri, Gianpiero and Foschini, Luigi and Pareschi, Giovanni and Tavecchio, Fabrizio and Coppi, Paolo and Grindlay, Josh E. and Fiocchi, Maria Teresa and Natalucci, Lorenzo and Panessa, Francesca and Ubertini, Pietro
6 pages, 2 figures. Proc. of Workshop “The Extreme sky: Sampling the Universe above 10 keV”, Otranto (Lecce) Italy, October 13-17, 2009 Proceedings of Science, http://pos.sissa.it. Submitted version
Cosmic Evolution of Black Holes and Spheroids. IV. The BH Mass – Spheroid Luminosity Relation
Thursday, December 17th, 2009by Bennert, Vardha Nicola and Treu, Tommaso and Woo, Jong-Hak and Malkan, Matthew A. and Bris, Alexandre Le and Auger, Matthew W. and Gallagher, Sarah and Blandford, Roger D.
39 pages, 11 figures. Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
Ring Formation from an Oscillating Black Hole
Thursday, December 17th, 2009Near infrared flares of Sagittarius A*: Importance of near infrared polarimetry
Thursday, December 17th, 2009by Zamaninasab, M. and Eckart, A. and Witzel, G. and Dovciak, M. and Karas, V. and Giessuebel, R. Schoedel R. and Bremer, M. and Garcia-Marin, M. and Kunneriath, D. and Muzic, K. and Nishiyama, S. and Sabha, N. and Straubmeier, C. and Zensus, A.
26 pages, 38 figures, accepted for publication by A&A
The early evolution of massive black holes
Thursday, December 17th, 2009by Volonteri, Marta
8 pages. To appear in the proceedings of the IAU Symposium 267, Co-evolution of Central Black Holes and Galaxies
Evolution of Supermassive Black Holes from Cosmological Simulations
Thursday, December 17th, 2009by Filloux, Ch. and Durier, F. and Pacheco, J. A. de Freitas and Silk, J.
Talk given at the International Workshop on Astronomy and Relativistic Astrophysics (IWARA 2009), Maresias, Brazil. to be published in the International Journal of Modern Physics D
The quasar M_bh – M_host relation through Cosmic Time II – Evidence for evolution from z=3 to the present age
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009by Decarli, R. and Falomo, R. and Treves, A. and Labita, M. and Kotilainen, J. K. and Scarpa, R.
10 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
The quasar M_bh – M_host relation through Cosmic Time I – Dataset and black hole masses
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009by Decarli, R. and Falomo, R. and Treves, A. and Kotilainen, J. K. and Labita, M. and Scarpa, R.
16 pages, 6 figures, 5 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Disk-outflow coupling: Energetics around spinning black holes
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009by Bhattacharya, Debbijoy and Ghosh, Shubhrangshu and Mukhopadhyay, Banibrata
26 pages including 7 figures; submitted in ApJ
Black Hole Spin and the Radio Loud/Quiet Dichotomy of Active Galactic Nuclei
Friday, November 13th, 2009by Tchekhovskoy, Alexander and Narayan, Ramesh and McKinney, Jonathan C.
15 pages, 7 figures, submitted to ApJ. Uses emulateapj format
Effective Inner Radius of Tilted Black Hole Accretion Disks
Monday, November 2nd, 2009Constraining the initial mass function of stars in the Galactic Centre
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009by Loeckmann, Ulf and Baumgardt, Holger and Kroupa, Pavel
MNRAS, accepted, 8 pages, 4 figures
Transition from radiatively inefficient to cooling dominated phase in two temperature accretion discs around black holes
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009by Sinha, Monika and Rajesh, S. R. and Mukhopadhyay, Banibrata
13 pages including 8 figures; to appear in Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Two temperature accretion around rotating black holes: Description of general advective flow paradigm in presence of various cooling processes to explain low to high luminous sources
Monday, October 26th, 2009by Rajesh, S. R. and Mukhopadhyay, Banibrata
25 pages including 22 figures; to appear in MNRAS
Emergent Spectra From Disks Surrounding Kerr Black Holes: Effect of Photon Trapping and Disk Self-Shadowing
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009On strong mass segregation around a massive black hole: Implications for lower-frequency gravitational-wave astrophysics
Monday, October 19th, 2009by Preto, Miguel and Amaro-Seoane, Pau
5 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, submitted to ApJL
The orbit of the star S2 around SgrA* from VLT and Keck data
Monday, October 19th, 2009by Gillessen, S. and Eisenhauer, F. and Fritz, T. K. and Bartko, H. and Dodds-Eden, K. and Pfuhl, O. and Ott, T. and Genzel, R.
submitted to ApJL
The evolution of Black Hole scaling relations in galaxy mergers
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009by Johansson, Peter H. and Burkert, Andreas and Naab, Thorsten
6 pages, 4 figures, submitted to ApJL
Triplets of supermassive black holes: Astrophysics, Gravitational Waves and Detection
Monday, October 12th, 2009by Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Sesana, Alberto and Hoffman, Loren and Benacquista, Matthew and Eichhorn, Christoph and Makino, Junichiro and Spurzem, Rainer
Submitted to MNRAS
Estimating Black Hole Masses in Triaxial Galaxies
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009by Bosch, Remco C. E. van den and de Zeeuw, P. Tim
Accepted for publication in MNRAS. 11 pages, 9 figures. PDFlatex
Black Hole Growth and Starburst Activity at z=0.6-4 in the Chandra Deep Field South
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009by Brusa, M. and Fiore, F. and Santini, P. and Grazian, A. and Comastri, A. and Zamorani, G. and Hasinger, G. and Merloni, A. and Civano, F. and Fontana, A. and Mainieri, V.
19 pages, 11 figures, A&A in press
