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Archive for the ‘supermassive black holes’ Category

Jets from Tidal Disruptions of Stars by Black Holes

Monday, November 14th, 2011

arXiv:1111.2802

by Krolik, Julian H. and Piran, Tsvi

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Accurate Black Hole Mass Measurements for Thermal AGNs and the Origin of the Correlations Between Black Hole Mass and Bulge Properties

Thursday, November 10th, 2011

arXiv:1111.2067

by Gaskell, C. Martin
SF2A-2011: Proceedings of the 2011 annual meeting of the French Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics. G. Alecian, K. Belkacem, S. Collin, R. Samadi and D. Valls-Gabaud (eds), p. 573. 6 pages, 4 figures

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No evidence of obscured, accreting black holes in most z=6 star-forming galaxies

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

arXiv:1110.4118

by Willott, Chris J.
4 pages, 2 figures, ApJ Letters, in press

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A new type of compact stellar population: dark star clusters

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

arXiv:1110.4103

by Banerjee, Sambaran and Kroupa, Pavel
14 pages, 4 figures. Published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters

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The scaling relation between the mass of supermassive black holes and the kinetic energy of random motions of the host galaxies

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

arXiv:1110.3542

by Mancini, Luigi and Feoli, Antonio
11 pages, 8 figures, to appear in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Properties of a thin accretion disk around a rotating non-Kerr black hole

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

arXiv:1110.3462

by Chen, Songbai and Jing, Jiliang
13 pages, 5 figures. References added, Expanded discussion of the marginally stable orbit and its consequence. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1106.5183

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Accretion onto Black Holes from Large Scales Regulated by Radiative Feedback. II. Growth Rate and Duty Cycle

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

arXiv:1110.4634

by Park, KwangHo and Ricotti, Massimo
27 pages, 10 figures, submitted to ApJ, for associated mpeg files, see http://www.astro.umd.edu/~kpark/research.html

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Counter-rotating stellar discs around a massive black hole: self-consistent, time-dependent dynamics

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

arXiv:1110.4588

by Touma, Jihad R. and Sridhar, S.
41 pages, 5 figures, Submitted to MNRAS

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Radiatively Inefficient Accretion: Breezes, Winds and Hyperaccretion

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

arXiv:1110.5356

by Begelman, Mitchell C.
13 pages, 8 figures, to appear in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Strong field effects on emission line profiles: Kerr black holes and warped accretion disks

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

arXiv:1110.4997

by Wang, Yan and Li, Xiang-Dong
22 pages, 8 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ

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Empirical Constraints on the Coevolution of Supermassive Black Holes and their Host Spheroids

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

arXiv:1110.0017

by Li, Gongjie and Conroy, Charlie and Loeb, Abraham
8 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables

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Observing Lense-Thirring Precession in Tidal Disruption Flares

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

arXiv:1109.6660

by Stone, Nicholas and Loeb, Abraham
4 pages, 4 figures

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The low-mass end of the Mbh/Mhost relation in quasars

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

arXiv:1110.1487

by Decarli, Roberto and Falomo, Renato and Kotilainen, Jari K. and Hyvonen, Tomi and Uslenghi, Michela and Treves, Aldo
Accepted for publication in Advances in Astronomy. To appear in the special issue: “Seeking for the Leading Actor on the Cosmic Stage: Galaxies versus Supermassive Black Holes”

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Accretion Onto the Supermassive Black Hole in the High-redshift Radio-loud AGN 0957+561

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

arXiv:1109.3330

by Gil-Merino, Rodrigo and Goicoechea, Luis J. and Shalyapin, Vyacheslav N. and Braga, Vittorio F.
21 pages, 7 text pages, 13 figures, 2 tables, accepted by The Astrophysical Journal

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Faint high-redshift AGN in the Chandra Deep Field South: the evolution of the AGN luminosity function and black hole demography

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

arXiv:1109.2888

by Fiore, F. and Puccetti, S. and Grazian, A. and Menci, N. and Shankar, F. and Santini, P. and Piconcelli, E. and Koekemoer, A. M. and Fontana, A. and Boutsia, K. and Castellano, M. and Lamastra, A. and Malacaria, C. and Feruglio, C. and Mathur, S. and Miller, N. and Pannella, M.
A&A in press

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Selection effects in the black hole-bulge relation and its evolution

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

arXiv:1109.2787

by Schulze, Andreas and Wisotzki, Lutz
20 pages, 20 figures, accepted for publication in A&A

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Evidence for cosmic evolution in the spin of the most massive black holes

Monday, September 12th, 2011

arXiv:1109.0997

by Martinez-Sansigre, Alejo and Rawlings, Steve
Accepted by MNRAS. 6 pages, 3 colour figures. Supplementary material can be found at: http://research.icg.port.ac.uk/~martinea/spin_suppl_fig.pdf

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1H0707-495 in 2011: An X-ray source within a gravitational radius of the event horizon

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011

arXiv:1108.5988

by Fabian, A. C. and Zoghbi, A. and Wilkins, D. and Dwelly, T. and Uttley, P. and Schartel, N. and Miniutti, G. and Gallo, L. and Grupe, D. and Komossa, S. and Santos-Lleo, M.
9 pages, 19 figures, MNRAS in press

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Evolution of growing black holes in axisymmetric galaxy cores

Monday, August 22nd, 2011

arXiv:1108.3993

by Fiestas, Jose and Porth, Oliver and Berczik, Peter and Spurzem, Rainer
15 pages, 7 figures,accepted by MNRAS

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Self-regulated growth of supermassive black holes by a dual jet/heating AGN feedback mechanism: methods, tests and implications for cosmological simulations

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

arXiv:1108.0110

by Dubois, Yohan and Devriendt, Julien and Slyz, Adrianne and Teyssier, Romain
24 pages, 18 figures, 1 table, submitted to MNRAS

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Stability of self-gravitating discs under irradiation

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

arXiv:1108.1194

by Rice, W. K. M. and Armitage, P. J. and Mamatsashvili, G. R. and Lodato, G. and Clarke, C. J.
MNRAS, in press

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Dynamical Friction around Supermassive Black Holes

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

arXiv:1108.1163

by Antonini, Fabio and Merritt, David
28 pages, 23 figures

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Tidal disruption rate of stars by supermassive black holes obtained by direct N-body simulations

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

arXiv:1108.2270

by Brockamp, M. and Baumgardt, H. and Kroupa, P.
19 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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A Scaling Relation Between Megamaser Disk Radius and Black Hole Mass in Active Galactic Nuclei

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

arXiv:1108.2175

by Wardle, Mark and Yusef-Zadeh, Farhad
Submitted to ApJ Letters

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Is there a black hole in NGC 4382?

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

arXiv:1108.1808

by Gultekin, Kayhan and Richstone, Douglas O. and Gebhardt, Karl and Faber, S. M. and Lauer, Tod R. and Bender, Ralf and Kormendy, John and Pinkney, Jason
10 pages, 8 figures, accepted by ApJ

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Supermassive Black Hole Growth in Starburst Galaxies over Cosmic Time: Constraints from the Deepest Chandra Fields

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

arXiv:1108.3229

by Rafferty, D. A. and Brandt, W. N. and Alexander, D. M. and Xue, Y. Q. and Bauer, F. E. and Lehmer, B. D. and Luo, B. and Papovich, C.
25 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

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Black hole Spin in Sw J1644+57 and Sw J2058+05

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

arXiv:1108.3115

by Lei, Wei-Hua and Zhang, Bing
5 pages, 1 figures

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Relativistic collapse and explosion of rotating supermassive stars with thermonuclear effects

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

arXiv:1108.3090

by Montero, Pedro J. and Janka, Hans-Thomas and Mueller, Ewald
12 pages, 8 figures, submitted to the Astrophysical Journal

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The mass function of black holes at 1<z<4.5: comparison of models with observations

Wednesday, July 27th, 2011

arXiv:1107.4916

by Natarajan, Priyamvada and Volonteri, Marta
7 pages, 4 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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Electromagnetic counterparts of supermassive black hole binaries resolved by pulsar timing arrays

Monday, July 18th, 2011

arXiv:1107.2937

by Tanaka, Takamitsu and Haiman, Zoltán and Menou, Kristen
16 pages with 5 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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