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Archive for the ‘supermassive black holes’ Category

Supermassive Black Hole in an Elliptical Galaxy: Accretion of a Hot Gas with a Low but Finite Angular Momentum

Monday, February 7th, 2011

arXiv:1101.5550

by Inogamov, N. A. and Sunyaev, R. A.
Full text of the paper with two Appendices is published in Astronomy Letters, Vol. 36, p. 835 (2010)

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Constraint on the quadrupole moment of super-massive black hole candidates from the estimate of the mean radiative efficiency of AGN

Monday, February 7th, 2011

arXiv:1102.0616

by Bambi, Cosimo
4 pages, 2 figures

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Physics of Coevolution of Galaxies and Supermassive Black Holes

Monday, February 7th, 2011

arXiv:1102.0262

by Cen, Renyue
29 pages, 3 figures, submitted to the Astrophysical Journal

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Supermassive black holes do not correlate with dark matter halos of galaxies

Wednesday, January 26th, 2011

arXiv:1101.4650

by Kormendy, John and Bender, Ralf
12 pages, 9 Postscript figures, 1 table; published in Nature (20 January 2011)

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Cosmic Lighthouses : Unveiling the nature of high-redshift galaxies

Friday, January 21st, 2011

arXiv:1101.3925

by Dayal, Pratika
PhD Thesis

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Resolution requirements for Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics simulations of self-gravitating accretion discs

Friday, January 14th, 2011

arXiv:1101.2448

by Lodato, Giuseppe and Clarke, Cathie C.
7 pages, 2 figures. Accepted by MNRAS

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The Black-Hole Mass in M87 from Gemini/NIFS Adaptive Optics Observations

Wednesday, January 12th, 2011

arXiv:1101.1954

by Gebhardt, Karl and Adams, Joshua and Richstone, Douglas and Lauer, Tod R. and Faber, S. M. and Gultekin, Kayhan and Murphy, Jeremy and Tremaine, Scott
12 pages, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

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Relation Between Globular Clusters and Supermassive Black Holes in Ellipticals as a Manifestation of the Black Hole Fundamental Plane

Monday, January 10th, 2011

arXiv:1101.1299

by Snyder, Gregory F. and Hopkins, Philip F. and Hernquist, Lars
7 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in ApJL

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HST WFC3/IR Observations of Active Galactic Nucleus Host Galaxies at z~2: Supermassive Black Holes Grow in Disk Galaxies

Monday, January 10th, 2011

arXiv:1012.1855

by Schawinski, Kevin and Treister, Ezequiel and Urry, C. Megan and Cardamone, Carolin N. and Simmons, Brooke and Yi, Sukyoung K.
7 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters

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Dynamical Black Hole Masses of BL Lac Objects from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Monday, January 10th, 2011

arXiv:1012.1601

by Plotkin, Richard M. and Markoff, Sera and Trager, Scott C. and Anderson, Scott F.
9 pages, 5 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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Sgr A*: The Optimal Testbed of Strong-Field Gravity

Monday, January 10th, 2011

arXiv:1012.1602

by Psaltis, Dimitrios and Johannsen, Tim
11 pages, 11 figures, Invited Talk in Recent Developments in Gravity XIV, June 2010

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Spinning super-massive objects in galactic nuclei up to $a_* > 1$

Monday, January 10th, 2011

arXiv:1101.1364

by Bambi, Cosimo
4 pages, 2 figures

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Strong lensing of gravitational waves as seen by LISA

Thursday, November 25th, 2010

arXiv:1011.5238

by Sereno, M. and Sesana, A. and Bleuler, A. and Jetzer, Ph. and Volonteri, M. and Begelman, M. C.
4 pages, 6 figures, in press on Phys. Rev. Lett

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Massive black holes in stellar systems: ‘quiescent’ accretion and luminosity

Monday, November 22nd, 2010

arXiv:1011.4311

by Volonteri, Marta and Dotti, Massimo and Campbell, Duncan and Mateo, Mario
Submitted to ApJ

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Star Formation in Quasar Disk

Thursday, November 18th, 2010

arXiv:1011.3541

by Jiang, Yanfei and Goodman, Jeremy
34 pages, 8 figures. Submitted to ApJ

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A Very Close Binary Black Hole in a Giant Elliptical Galaxy 3C 66B and its Black Hole Merger

Friday, November 12th, 2010

arXiv:1011.2647

by Iguchi, Satoru and Okuda, Takeshi and Sudou, Hiroshi
5 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Letters

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Retrograde Accretion and Merging Supermassive Black Holes

Wednesday, November 10th, 2010

arXiv:1011.1914

by Nixon, C. J. and Cossins, P. J. and King, A. R. and Pringle, J. E.
8 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS. Movies of the simulations can be found at: http://www.astro.le.ac.uk/users/cjn12/RetroBinaryMovies.html

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Fundamental physics and cosmology with LISA

Wednesday, November 10th, 2010

arXiv:1011.2062

by Babak, Stanislav and Gair, Jonathan R. and Petiteau, Antoine and Sesana, Alberto
Based on the talk given at GR19. 10 pages, 2 figures

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The Murmur of The Hidden Monster: Chandra’s Decadal View of The Super-massive Black Hole in M31

Friday, November 5th, 2010

arXiv:1011.1224

by Li, Zhiyuan and Garcia, Michael R. and Forman, William R. and Jones, Christine and Kraft, Ralph P. and Lal, Dharam V. and Murray, Stephen S. and Wang, Q. Daniel
12 pages, 3 figures, submitted to ApJL, comments welcome

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Variability of black-hole accretion discs: a theoretical study

Wednesday, October 13th, 2010

arXiv:1010.2259

by Ferreira, Barbara T.
PhD thesis, 199 pages, 32 figures. For higher quality images, please contact the author

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Constraining properties of the black hole population using LISA

Friday, October 1st, 2010

arXiv:1009.6172

by Gair, Jonathan R and Sesana, Alberto and Berti, Emanuele and Volonteri, Marta
11 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Class. Quantum Grav. for proceedings of 8th LISA Symposium

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Recoiling Black Holes in Merging Galaxies: Relationship to AGN Lifetimes, Starbursts, and the M-sigma Relation

Tuesday, September 28th, 2010

arXiv:1009.4940

by Blecha, Laura and Cox, Thomas J. and Loeb, Abraham and Hernquist, Lars
29 pages, 18 figures. Submitted to MNRAS

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One-zone models for spheroidal galaxies with a central supermassive black-hole. Self-regulated Bondi accretion

Tuesday, September 28th, 2010

arXiv:1009.5292

by Lusso, E. and Ciotti, L.
Accepted for publication in A&A, 12 pages, 5 figures

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Constraining the Black Hole Mass Spectrum with LISA Observations II: Direct comparison of detailed models

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

arXiv:1009.0765

by Plowman, Joseph E. and Hellings, Ronald W. and Tsuruta, Sachiko
32 pages, 21 Figures, 6 Tables; Submitted to MNRAS

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The Black Hole Mass in Brightest Cluster Galaxy NGC 6086

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

arXiv:1009.0750

by McConnell, Nicholas J. and Ma, Chung-Pei and Graham, James R. and Gebhardt, Karl and Lauer, Tod R. and Wright, Shelley A. and Richstone, Douglas O.
21 pages, 17 figures; submitted to ApJ

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The central black hole mass of the high-sigma but low-bulge-luminosity lenticular galaxy NGC 1332

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

arXiv:1009.0515

by Rusli, Stephanie P. and Thomas, Jens and Erwin, Peter and Saglia, Roberto P. and Nowak, Nina and Bender, Ralf
15 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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Constraining scalar fields with stellar kinematics and collisional dark matter

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

arXiv:1009.0019

by Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Barranco, Juan and Bernal, Argelia and Rezzolla, Luciano
22 pages, 8 figures; submitted to JCAP

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Tidal breakup of binary stars at the Galactic Center. II. Hydrodynamic simulations

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

arXiv:1008.5369

by Antonini, Fabio and Lombardi, James C. and Merritt, David
20 pages, 16 figures

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The Globular Cluster/Central Black Hole Connection in Galaxies

Monday, August 30th, 2010

arXiv:1008.4748

by Harris, Gretchen L. H. and Harris, William E.
7 pages, 4 figures; accepted for publication in MNRAS

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A Local Baseline of the Black Hole Mass Scaling Relations for Active Galaxies. I. Methodology and Results of Pilot Study

Monday, August 30th, 2010

arXiv:1008.4602

by Bennert, Vardha Nicola and Auger, Matthew W. and Treu, Tommaso and Woo, Jong-Hak and Malkan, Matthew A.
27 pages, 19 figures. Submitted to the Astrophysical Journal

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