Multimessenger astronomy with pulsar timing and X-ray observations of massive black hole binaries
Monday, July 18th, 2011by Sesana, A. and Roedig, C. and Reynolds, M. T. and Dotti, M.
19 pages, 11 figures, submitted to MNRAS
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Archive for the ‘supermassive black holes’ Category
3C390.3: More Stable Evidence for Origination of Double-Peaked Broad Balmer Lines from Accretion Disk Near Central Black Hole
Tuesday, July 5th, 2011Detection of jet precession in the active nucleus of M81
Tuesday, July 5th, 2011by Marti-Vidal, I. and Marcaide, J. M. and Alberdi, A. and Perez-Torres, M. A. and Ros, E. and Guirado, J. C.
16 pages; 13 figures; 8 tables. Submitted to A&A
Formation of galactic nuclei with multiple supermassive black holes at high redshifts
Tuesday, July 5th, 2011by Kulkarni, Girish and Loeb, Abraham
18 pages, 14 figures, 2 tables; submitted to MNRAS; comments welcome
SMBH Formation via Gas Accretion in Nuclear Stellar Clusters
Thursday, June 30th, 2011by Davies, Melvyn B. and Miller, M. Coleman and Bellovary, Jillian M.
5 pages, 2 figures, submitted to ApJ letters
Resolving the Bondi Accretion Flow toward the Supermassive Black Hole of NGC 3115 with Chandra
Sunday, June 19th, 2011by Wong, Ka-Wah and Irwin, Jimmy A. and Yukita, Mihoko and Million, Evan T. and Mathews, William G. and Bregman, Joel N.
5 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters
X-ray and Radio Constraints on the Mass of the Black Hole in Swift J164449.3+573451
Sunday, June 19th, 2011Chandra Discovery of a Binary AGN in Mrk 739
Sunday, June 19th, 2011by Koss, Michael and Mushotzky, Richard and Treister, Ezequiel and Veilleux, Sylvain and Vasudevan, Ranjan and Miller, Neal and Sanders, D. B. and Schawinski, Kevin and Trippe, Margaret
9 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal Letters
Assessing black hole spin in deep Suzaku observations of Seyfert 1 AGN
Sunday, June 19th, 2011by Patrick, A. R. and Reeves, J. N. and Lobban, A. P. and Porquet, D. and Markowitz, A. G.
25 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Observational selection effects and the M-sigma relation
Thursday, June 9th, 2011by Gultekin, Kayhan and Tremaine, Scott and Loeb, Abraham and Richstone, Douglas O.
8 pages, ApJ accepted
The mass assembly history of black holes in the Universe
Thursday, May 26th, 2011by Natarajan, Priyamvada
28 pages, 9 figures, Proceedings of the XVth Congress of Philosophy & Foundations of Science to be published by the American Institute of Physics
Gravitational waves from the Papaloizou-Pringle instability in black hole-torus systems
Thursday, May 26th, 2011by Kiuchi, Kenta and Shibata, Masaru and Montero, Pedro J. and Font, José A.
4 pages, 4 figure, to be published in PRL
Mass of the black hole in the Seyfert 1.5 galaxy H 0507+164 from reverberation mapping
Tuesday, May 10th, 2011by Stalin, C. S. and Jeyakumar, S. and Coziol, R. and Pawase, R. S. and Thakur, S. S.
7 pages, 8 figures, Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Discovery of the Onset of Rapid Accretion by a Dormant Massive Black Hole
Friday, April 29th, 2011by Burrows, D. N. and Kennea, J. A. and Ghisellini, G. and Mangano, V. and Zhang, B. and Page, K. L. and Eracleous, M. and Romano, P. and Sakamoto, T. and Falcone, A. D. and Osborne, J. P. and Campana, S. and Beardmore, A. P. and Breeveld, A. A. and Chester, M. M. and Corbet, R. and Covino, S. and Cummings, J. R. and D’Avanzo, P. and D’Elia, V. and Esposito, P. and Evans, P. A. and Fugazza, D. and Gelbord, J. M. and Hiroi, K. and Holland, S. T. and Huang, K. Y. and Im, M. and Israel, G. and Jeon, Y. and Jeon, Y. -B. and Kawai, N. and Krimm, H. A. and Mészáros, P. and Negoro, H. and Omodei, N. and Park, W. -K. and Perkins, J. S. and Sugizaki, M. and Sung, H. -I. and Tagliaferri, G. and Troja, E. and Ueda, Y. and Urata, Y. and Usui, R. and Antonelli, L. A. and Barthelmy, S. D. and Cusumano, G. and Giommi, P. and Marshall, F. E. and Melandri, A. and Perri, M. and Racusin, J. L. and Sbarufatti, B. and Siegel, M. H. and Gehrels, N.
Submitted to Nature. 4 pages, 3 figures (main paper). 26 pages, 13 figures (supplementary information)
Cosmic Train Wreck by Massive Black Holes: Discovery of a kpc-Scale Triple Active Galactic Nucleus
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011A relativistic jetted outburst from a massive black hole fed by a tidally disrupted star
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011by Bloom, Joshua S. and Giannios, Dimitrios and Metzger, Brian D. and Cenko, S. Bradley and Perley, Daniel A. and Butler, Nathaniel R. and Tanvir, Nial R. and Levan, Andrew J. and Brien, Paul T. O’ and Strubbe, Linda E. and De Colle, Fabio and Ramirez-Ruiz, Enrico and Lee, William H. and Nayakshin, Sergei and Quataert, Eliot and King, Andrew R. and Cucchiara, Antonino and Guillochon, James and Bower, Geoffrey C. and Fruchter, Andrew S. and Morgan, Adam N. and van der Horst, Alexander J.
Submitted, 32 pages including supplemental online material
Constraints on the black hole spin in the quasar SDSS J094533.99+100950.1
Friday, April 15th, 2011by Czerny, Bozena and Hryniewicz, Krzysztof and Nikolajuk, Marek and Sadowski, Aleksander
Cosmography with strong lensing of LISA gravitational wave sources
Tuesday, April 12th, 2011by Sereno, M. and Jetzer, Ph. and Sesana, A. and Volonteri, M.
10 pages, 10 figures, in press on MNRAS
Supermassive Black Hole Mass Estimates Using Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Spectra at 0.7 < z < 2
Tuesday, April 12th, 2011by Rafiee, Alireza and Hall, Patrick B.
38 Pages, 12 figures, 3 Tables, 1 hyperlink to catalogue data. Accepted for publication in ApJS
Exploring the effects of pressure on the radial accretion of dark matter by a Schwarzschild supermassive black hole
Wednesday, March 30th, 2011by Guzman, F. S. and Lora-Clavijo, F. D.
9 pages, 24 eps figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Constraining the coalescence rate of supermassive black-hole binaries using pulsar timing
Wednesday, March 16th, 2011by Wen, Z. L. and Jenet, F. A. and Yardley, D. and Hobbs, G. B. and Manchester, R. N.
Self-Regulated Star Formation and the Black Hole-Galaxy Bulge Relation
Thursday, March 10th, 2011by Power, C. and Zubovas, K. and Nayakshin, S. and King, A. R.
6 pages, no figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
How important is the dark matter halo for black hole growth?
Thursday, March 10th, 2011by Volonteri, Marta and Natarajan, Priyamvada and Gultekin, Kayhan
Submitted to ApJ Letters
Estimates of Black Hole Spin Properties of 55 Sources
Monday, March 7th, 2011Observability of pulsar beam bending by the Sgr~A* black hole
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011by Stovall, Kevin and Creighton, Teviet and Price, Richard H. and Jenet, Fredrick A.
18 pages, 16 figures
Evidence for Black Hole Growth in Local Analogs to Lyman Break Galaxies
Tuesday, February 15th, 2011by Jia, Jianjun and Ptak, Andrew and Heckman, Timothy M. and Overzier, Roderik A. and Hornschemeier, Ann and LaMassa, Stephanie M.
Accepted for publication in ApJ
Observational constraints on the spin of the most massive black holes from radio observations
Monday, February 14th, 2011by Martinez-Sansigre, Alejo and Rawlings, Steve
Accepted for publication by MNRAS. 30 Pages, 14 Figures, 5 Tables
The Relation between Black Hole Mass and Host Spheroid Stellar Mass out to z~2
Friday, February 11th, 2011by Bennert, Vardha Nicola and Auger, Matthew W. and Treu, Tommaso and Woo, Jong-Hak and Malkan, Matthew A.
7 pages, 3 figures. Submitted to the Astrophysical Journal Letters
The Halo Occupation Distribution of Black Holes: Dependence on Mass
Wednesday, February 9th, 2011by DeGraf, Colin and Oborski, Matthew and Di Matteo, Tiziana and Chatterjee, Suchetana and Nagai, Daisuke and Zheng, Zheng and Richardson, Jonathan
10 pages, 7 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Radio transients from stellar tidal disruption by massive black holes
Wednesday, February 9th, 2011by Giannios, Dimitrios and Metzger, Brian D.
5 pages, 2 figures, submitted to MNRAS Letters