Constraining 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
The last GW Note is by Miguel Preto
Archive for the ‘supermassive black holes’ Category
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
Soft gamma-ray constraints on a bright flare from the Galactic Center supermassive black hole
Monday, October 5th, 2009by Trap, G. and Goldwurm, A. and Terrier, R. and Dodds-Eden, K. and Gillessen, S. and Genzel, R. and Pantin, E. and Lagage, P. O. and Ferrando, P. and Belanger, G. and Porquet, D. and Grosso, N. and Yusef-Zadeh, F. and Melia, F.
30 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in ASR
Mass of black holes: The State of the Art
Monday, October 5th, 2009by Czerny, B. and Nikolajuk, M.
Submitted to proceedings of the Frascati Workshop 2009, Multifrequency Behaviour of High Energy Cosmic Sources, Vulcano (Italy), May 25 – 30
Hydrodynamical Response of a Circumbinary Gas Disk to Black Hole Recoil and Mass Loss
Friday, October 2nd, 2009by Corrales, Lia R. and Haiman, Zoltán and MacFadyen, Andrew
16 pages with 14 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Black hole mergers: the first light
Friday, October 2nd, 2009by Rossi, Elena M. and Lodato, G. and Armitage, P. J. and Pringle, J. E. and King, A. R.
16 pages, accepted by MNRAS. Animations of the simulations are available at http://jilawww.colorado.edu/~pja/recoil.html
Measuring the Spin of GRS 1915+105 with Relativistic Disk Reflection
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009by Blum, J. L. and Miller, J. M. and Fabian, A. C. and Miller, M. C. and Homan, J. and van der Klis, M. and Cackett, E. M. and Reis, R. C.
Accepted for publication in ApJ
An exploration of CUDA and CBEA for a gravitational wave source-modelling application
Friday, September 25th, 2009by Khanna, Gaurav and McKennon, Justin
8 pages, 4 figures, Accepted for publication in Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS 2009)
A Relationship between Supermassive Black Hole Mass and the Total Gravitational Mass of the Host Galaxy
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009by Bandara, Kaushala and Crampton, David and Simard, Luc
29 pages, 10 figures, Accepted for publication in ApJ
An Electromagnetic Signature of Galactic Black Hole Binaries That Enter Their Gravitational-Wave Induced Inspiral
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009Radial Distribution of X-ray Point Sources near the Galactic Center
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009by Hong, Jaesub and Berg, Maureen van den and Grindlay, Jonathan E. and Laycock, Silas
17 pages, 7 figures, 6 tables, accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal
Two phase galaxy formation: The Gas Content of Normal Galaxies
Saturday, August 29th, 2009by Cook, M. and Evoli, C. and Barausse, E. and Granato, G. L. and Lapi, A.
16 pages, 12 figures, 1 table. MNRAS submitted
Three Dimensional Simulations of Vertical Magnetic Flux in the Immediate Vicinity of Black Holes
Friday, August 28th, 2009by Punsly, Brian and Igumenshchev, Igor V. and Hirose, Shigenobu
To appear in ApJ. The referenced movies can be found in the electronic on-line journal or http://85.20.11.14/punsly/PHI/movies/
The mass function of nearby black hole candidates
Thursday, August 20th, 2009by Caramete, Laurentiu I. and Biermann, Peter L.
23 pages, 4 figures, submitted to A&A
The Black Hole Mass and Magnetic Field Correlation in AGN: Testing by Optical Polarimetry
Thursday, August 20th, 2009by Silant’ev, N. A. and Piotrovich, M. Yu. and Gnedin, Yu. N. and Natsvlishvili, T. M.
7 pages
Role of emission angular directionality in spin determination of accreting black holes with broad iron line
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009by Svoboda, J. and Dovciak, M. and Goosmann, R. W. and Karas, V.
18 pages, 18 figures, accepted to Astronomy and Astrophysics
The black hole mass-bulge mass correlation: bulges versus pseudo-bulges
Monday, August 17th, 2009The Millennium Galaxy Catalogue: The $M_{bh}$–$L_{spheroid}$ derived supermassive black hole mass function
Monday, August 17th, 2009by Vika, Marina and Driver, Simon P. and Graham, Alister W. and Liske, Jochen
10 pages, 6 figures, accepted to MNRAS
Nonlinear Dynamical Friction in a Gaseous Medium
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009by Kim, Hyosun and Kim, Woong-Tae
40 pages, 18 figures, accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal
Nuclear Disk Formation by Direct Collisions of Gas Clouds with the Central Black Hole
Monday, August 10th, 2009by Alig, Christian and Burkert, Andreas and Johansson, Peter H. and Schartmann, Marc
10 pages, 6 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Empirical Constraints on the Evolution of the Relationship between Black Hole and Galaxy Mass: Scatter Matters
Friday, August 7th, 2009by Somerville, Rachel S.
9 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
The Lick AGN Monitoring Project: Broad-Line Region Radii and Black Hole Masses from Reverberation Mapping of Hbeta
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009by Bentz, Misty C. and Walsh, Jonelle L. and Barth, Aaron J. and Baliber, Nairn and Bennert, Nicola and Canalizo, Gabriela and Filippenko, Alexei V. and Ganeshalingam, Mohan and Gates, Elinor L. and Greene, Jenny E. and Hidas, Marton G. and Hiner, Kyle D. and Lee, Nicholas and Li, Weidong and Malkan, Matthew A. and Minezaki, Takeo and Sakata, Yu and Serduke, Frank J. D. and Silverman, Jeffrey M. and Steele, Thea N. and Stern, Daniel and Street, Rachel A. and Thornton, Carol E. and Treu, Tommaso and Wang, Xiaofeng and Woo, Jong-Hak and Yoshii, Yuzuru
24 pages, 16 figures and 13 tables, submitted to ApJ
