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Archive for the ‘supermassive black holes’ Category
Accurate Black Hole Mass Measurements for Thermal AGNs and the Origin of the Correlations Between Black Hole Mass and Bulge Properties
Thursday, November 10th, 2011by 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
No evidence of obscured, accreting black holes in most z=6 star-forming galaxies
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011A new type of compact stellar population: dark star clusters
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011by Banerjee, Sambaran and Kroupa, Pavel
14 pages, 4 figures. Published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters
The scaling relation between the mass of supermassive black holes and the kinetic energy of random motions of the host galaxies
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011by Mancini, Luigi and Feoli, Antonio
11 pages, 8 figures, to appear in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Properties of a thin accretion disk around a rotating non-Kerr black hole
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011by 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
Accretion onto Black Holes from Large Scales Regulated by Radiative Feedback. II. Growth Rate and Duty Cycle
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011by 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
Counter-rotating stellar discs around a massive black hole: self-consistent, time-dependent dynamics
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011Radiatively Inefficient Accretion: Breezes, Winds and Hyperaccretion
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011by Begelman, Mitchell C.
13 pages, 8 figures, to appear in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Strong field effects on emission line profiles: Kerr black holes and warped accretion disks
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011by Wang, Yan and Li, Xiang-Dong
22 pages, 8 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ
Empirical Constraints on the Coevolution of Supermassive Black Holes and their Host Spheroids
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011by Li, Gongjie and Conroy, Charlie and Loeb, Abraham
8 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables
Observing Lense-Thirring Precession in Tidal Disruption Flares
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011The low-mass end of the Mbh/Mhost relation in quasars
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011by 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”
Accretion Onto the Supermassive Black Hole in the High-redshift Radio-loud AGN 0957+561
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011by 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
Faint high-redshift AGN in the Chandra Deep Field South: the evolution of the AGN luminosity function and black hole demography
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011by 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
Selection effects in the black hole-bulge relation and its evolution
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011by Schulze, Andreas and Wisotzki, Lutz
20 pages, 20 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
Evidence for cosmic evolution in the spin of the most massive black holes
Monday, September 12th, 2011by 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
1H0707-495 in 2011: An X-ray source within a gravitational radius of the event horizon
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011by 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
Evolution of growing black holes in axisymmetric galaxy cores
Monday, August 22nd, 2011by Fiestas, Jose and Porth, Oliver and Berczik, Peter and Spurzem, Rainer
15 pages, 7 figures,accepted by MNRAS
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, 2011by Dubois, Yohan and Devriendt, Julien and Slyz, Adrianne and Teyssier, Romain
24 pages, 18 figures, 1 table, submitted to MNRAS
Stability of self-gravitating discs under irradiation
Thursday, August 18th, 2011by Rice, W. K. M. and Armitage, P. J. and Mamatsashvili, G. R. and Lodato, G. and Clarke, C. J.
MNRAS, in press
Dynamical Friction around Supermassive Black Holes
Thursday, August 18th, 2011Tidal disruption rate of stars by supermassive black holes obtained by direct N-body simulations
Thursday, August 18th, 2011by Brockamp, M. and Baumgardt, H. and Kroupa, P.
19 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
A Scaling Relation Between Megamaser Disk Radius and Black Hole Mass in Active Galactic Nuclei
Thursday, August 18th, 2011Is there a black hole in NGC 4382?
Thursday, August 18th, 2011by 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
Supermassive Black Hole Growth in Starburst Galaxies over Cosmic Time: Constraints from the Deepest Chandra Fields
Thursday, August 18th, 2011by 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
Black hole Spin in Sw J1644+57 and Sw J2058+05
Thursday, August 18th, 2011Relativistic collapse and explosion of rotating supermassive stars with thermonuclear effects
Thursday, August 18th, 2011by Montero, Pedro J. and Janka, Hans-Thomas and Mueller, Ewald
12 pages, 8 figures, submitted to the Astrophysical Journal
The mass function of black holes at 1<z<4.5: comparison of models with observations
Wednesday, July 27th, 2011by Natarajan, Priyamvada and Volonteri, Marta
7 pages, 4 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Electromagnetic counterparts of supermassive black hole binaries resolved by pulsar timing arrays
Monday, July 18th, 2011by Tanaka, Takamitsu and Haiman, Zoltán and Menou, Kristen
16 pages with 5 figures, submitted to MNRAS