Sgr A*: The Optimal Testbed of Strong-Field Gravity
Monday, January 10th, 2011by Psaltis, Dimitrios and Johannsen, Tim
11 pages, 11 figures, Invited Talk in Recent Developments in Gravity XIV, June 2010
Editors: Pau Amaro-Seoane & Bernard Schutz
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Archive for the ‘supermassive black holes’ Category
Spinning super-massive objects in galactic nuclei up to $a_* > 1$
Monday, January 10th, 2011Strong lensing of gravitational waves as seen by LISA
Thursday, November 25th, 2010by 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
Massive black holes in stellar systems: ‘quiescent’ accretion and luminosity
Monday, November 22nd, 2010by Volonteri, Marta and Dotti, Massimo and Campbell, Duncan and Mateo, Mario
Submitted to ApJ
Star Formation in Quasar Disk
Thursday, November 18th, 2010A Very Close Binary Black Hole in a Giant Elliptical Galaxy 3C 66B and its Black Hole Merger
Friday, November 12th, 2010by Iguchi, Satoru and Okuda, Takeshi and Sudou, Hiroshi
5 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Retrograde Accretion and Merging Supermassive Black Holes
Wednesday, November 10th, 2010by 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
Fundamental physics and cosmology with LISA
Wednesday, November 10th, 2010by Babak, Stanislav and Gair, Jonathan R. and Petiteau, Antoine and Sesana, Alberto
Based on the talk given at GR19. 10 pages, 2 figures
The Murmur of The Hidden Monster: Chandra’s Decadal View of The Super-massive Black Hole in M31
Friday, November 5th, 2010by 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
Variability of black-hole accretion discs: a theoretical study
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010by Ferreira, Barbara T.
PhD thesis, 199 pages, 32 figures. For higher quality images, please contact the author
Constraining properties of the black hole population using LISA
Friday, October 1st, 2010by 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
Recoiling Black Holes in Merging Galaxies: Relationship to AGN Lifetimes, Starbursts, and the M-sigma Relation
Tuesday, September 28th, 2010by Blecha, Laura and Cox, Thomas J. and Loeb, Abraham and Hernquist, Lars
29 pages, 18 figures. Submitted to MNRAS
One-zone models for spheroidal galaxies with a central supermassive black-hole. Self-regulated Bondi accretion
Tuesday, September 28th, 2010by Lusso, E. and Ciotti, L.
Accepted for publication in A&A, 12 pages, 5 figures
Constraining the Black Hole Mass Spectrum with LISA Observations II: Direct comparison of detailed models
Tuesday, September 7th, 2010by Plowman, Joseph E. and Hellings, Ronald W. and Tsuruta, Sachiko
32 pages, 21 Figures, 6 Tables; Submitted to MNRAS
The Black Hole Mass in Brightest Cluster Galaxy NGC 6086
Tuesday, September 7th, 2010by 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
The central black hole mass of the high-sigma but low-bulge-luminosity lenticular galaxy NGC 1332
Friday, September 3rd, 2010by 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
Constraining scalar fields with stellar kinematics and collisional dark matter
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010by Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Barranco, Juan and Bernal, Argelia and Rezzolla, Luciano
22 pages, 8 figures; submitted to JCAP
Tidal breakup of binary stars at the Galactic Center. II. Hydrodynamic simulations
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010by Antonini, Fabio and Lombardi, James C. and Merritt, David
20 pages, 16 figures
The Globular Cluster/Central Black Hole Connection in Galaxies
Monday, August 30th, 2010by Harris, Gretchen L. H. and Harris, William E.
7 pages, 4 figures; accepted for publication in MNRAS
A Local Baseline of the Black Hole Mass Scaling Relations for Active Galaxies. I. Methodology and Results of Pilot Study
Monday, August 30th, 2010by 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
The growth of supermassive black holes fed by accretion disks
Friday, August 27th, 2010by Armijo, M. A. Montesinos and Pacheco, J. A. de Freitas
10 pages, 5 figures. Submitted to A&A
A Tidal Disruption Flare in Abell 1689 from an Archival X-ray Survey of Galaxy Clusters
Friday, August 27th, 2010by Maksym, Peter and Ulmer, Melville P. and Eracleous, Michael
24 pages, including 6 figures and 2 tables Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
Spectroscopic Signatures of the Tidal Disruption of Stars by Massive Black Holes
Friday, August 27th, 2010by Strubbe, Linda E. and Quataert, Eliot
14 pages, 5 figures; submitted to MNRAS
Observational characteristics of accretion onto black holes
Monday, August 16th, 2010by Done, Chris
56 pages. To appear in XXI Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics. Ed T Shahbaz, CUP
The two states of Sgr A* in the near-infrared: bright episodic flares on top of low-level continuous variability
Friday, August 13th, 2010by Dodds-Eden, K. and Gillessen, S. and Fritz, T. K. and Eisenhauer, F. and Trippe, S. and Genzel, R. and Ott, T. and Bartko, H. and Pfuhl, O. and Bower, G. and Goldwurm, A. and Porquet, D. and Trap, G. and Yusef-Zadeh, F.
16 pages, 9 figures, submitted to ApJ
Broad emission lines for negatively spinning black holes
Thursday, July 29th, 2010by Dauser, T. and Wilms, J. and Reynolds, C. S. and Brenneman, L. W.
7 pages, 6 figures; accepted by MNRAS for Publication
The Origin and Detection of High-Redshift Supermassive Black Holes
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010by Haiman, Zoltán
10 pages, 5 figures. Review contribution to the Proceedings of “The First Stars and Galaxies: Challenges for the Next Decade”, Austin, TX, March 8-11, 2010
An expanded M_bh-sigma diagram, and a new calibration of active galactic nuclei masses
Friday, July 23rd, 2010by Graham, Alister W. and Onken, Christopher A. and Athanassoula, E. and Combes, Francoise
17 pages. Submitted to MNRAS on July 19
Precise Black Hole Masses From Megamaser Disks: Black Hole-Bulge Relations at Low Mass
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010by Greene, J. E. and Peng, C. Y. and Kim, M. and Kuo, C. Y. and Braatz, J. A. and Impellizzeri, C. M. V. and Condon, J. J. and Lo, K. Y. and Henkel, C. and Reid, M. J.
21 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
The Galactic Centre star S2 as a dynamical probe for intermediate-mass black holes
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010by Gualandris, Alessia and Gillessen, Stefan and Merritt, David
8 pages, 11 figures, submitted to MNRAS