Accelerating NBODY6 with Graphics Processing Units
June 12th, 2012by Nitadori, Keigo and Aarseth, Sverre J.
8 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables, MNRAS accepted
Editors: Pau Amaro-Seoane & Bernard Schutz
The
last GW Note is a Special Issues on eLISA/NGO
Collisions of charged black holes
June 12th, 2012by Zilhão, Miguel and Cardoso, Vitor and Herdeiro, Carlos and Lehner, Luis and Sperhake, Ulrich
15 pages, 8 figures
Fokker-Planck Models for M15 without a Central Black Hole: The Role of the Mass Function
June 12th, 2012by Murphy, Brian W. and Cohn, Haldan N. and Lugger, Phyllis M.
10 pages, 7 figures
An ultraviolet-optical flare from the tidal disruption of a helium-rich stellar core
June 12th, 2012by Gezari, S. and Chornock, R. and Rest, A. and Huber, M. E. and Forster, K. and Berger, E. and Challis, P. J. and Neill, J. D. and Martin, D. C. and Heckman, T. and Lawrence, A. and Norman, C. and Narayan, G. and Foley, R. J. and Marion, G. H. and Scolnic, D. and Chomiuk, L. and Soderberg, A. and Smith, K. and Kirshner, R. P. and Riess, A. G. and Smartt, S. J. and Stubbs, C. W. and Tonry, J. L. and Wood-Vasey, W. M. and Burgett, W. S. and Chambers, K. C. and Grav, T. and Heasley, J. N. and Kaiser, N. and Kudritzki, R. -P. and Magnier, E. A. and Morgan, J. S. and Price, P. A.
To appear in Nature on May 10, 2012
High Accuracy Gravitational Waveforms from Black Hole Binary Inspirals Using OpenCL
June 9th, 2012by McKennon, Justin and Forrester, Gary and Khanna, Gaurav
8 pages; to appear in NSF XSEDE12
Testing Chern-Simons Modified Gravity with Gravitational-Wave Detections of Extreme-Mass-Ratio Binaries
May 26th, 2012by Canizares, Priscilla and Gair, Jonathan R. and Sopuerta, Carlos F.
RevTeX 4.1. 21 pages, 2 Figures, 7 Tables
Binary Black Hole Merger in Galactic Nuclei: Post-Newtonian Simulations
May 3rd, 2012by Berentzen, Ingo and Preto, Miguel and Berczik, Peter and Merritt, David and Spurzem, Rainer
16 pages, 13 figures, submitted to the Astrophysical Journal. Minor corrections following the referee report
On the determination of the spin of the black hole in Cyg X-1 from X-ray reflection spectra
April 27th, 2012by Fabian, A. C. and Wilkins, D. R. and Miller, J. M. and Reis, R. C. and Reynolds, C. S. and Cackett, E. M. and Nowak, M. A. and Pooley, G. G. and Pottschmidt, K. and Sanders, J. S. and Ross, R. R. and Wilms, J.
7 pages, 10 figures, MNRAS in press
On the hunt for ultramassive black holes in brightest cluster galaxies
April 27th, 2012by Hlavacek-Larrondo, J. and Fabian, A. C. and Edge, A. C. and Hogan, M. T.
9 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
A Monte Carlo Markov Chain based investigation of black hole spin in the active galaxy NGC3783
April 27th, 2012by Reynolds, C. S. and Brenneman, L. W. and Lohfink, A. M. and Trippe, M. L. and Miller, J. M. and Fabian, A. C. and Nowak, M. A.
Submitted to the Astrophysical Journal
Models of cuspy triaxial stellar systems. I. Stability and chaoticity
April 25th, 2012by Zorzi, Alejandra F. and Muzzio, Juan C.
10 pages, 5 figures. The Article has been submitted for publication in Monthly Notices of the RAS by the Royal Astronomical Society and Blackwell Publishing. At this time has been accepted but not yet published
Collisionless dynamics in Globular Clusters
April 25th, 2012by Williams, Liliya L. R. and Barnes, Eric I. and Hjorth, Jens
27 pages, 18 figures; accepted to MNRAS
No evidence for a central IMBH in M15
April 23rd, 2012by Kirsten, F. and Vlemmings, W. H. T.
6 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
Tilted black hole accretion disc models of Sagittarius A*: time-variable millimetre to near-infrared emission
April 23rd, 2012by Dexter, Jason and Fragile, P. Chris
17 pages, 18 figures, submitted to MNRAS; for movies and version with high-res figures see http://astro.berkeley.edu/~jdexter/tiltedsgra
Spacetime Metrology with LISA Pathfinder
April 21st, 2012by Congedo, Giuseppe
PhD thesis defended at University of Trento on 26th March 2012. Advisors: Stefano Vitale, Mauro Hueller. Committee: Eugenio Coccia (Univ. of Rome, Tor Vergata), Philippe Jetzer (Univ. of Z\”urich), Eric Plagnol (APC-CNRS, Paris), Rita Dolesi (Univ. Of Trento)
Light scalar field constraints from gravitational-wave observations of compact binaries
April 21st, 2012by Berti, Emanuele and Gualtieri, Leonardo and Horbatsch, Michael and Alsing, Justin
9 pages, 4 figures
On the Link Between Central Black Holes, Bar Dynamics, and Dark Matter Halos in Spiral Galaxies
April 21st, 2012by Treuthardt, Patrick and Seigar, Marc S. and Sierra, Amber D. and Al-Baidhany, Ismaeel and Salo, Heikki and Kennefick, Daniel and Kennefick, Julia and Lacy, Claud H. S.
17 pages, 1 table, 11 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Stable counteralignment of a circumbinary disc
April 21st, 2012Central kinematics of the globular cluster NGC 2808: Upper limit on the mass of an intermediate-mass black hole
April 21st, 2012by Lützgendorf, Nora and Kissler-Patig, Markus and Gebhardt, Karl and Baumgardt, Holger and Noyola, Eva and Jalali, Behrang and de Zeeuw, P. Tim and Neumayer, Nadine
12 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables, accepted for publication in A&A
A pilgrimage to gravity on GPUs
April 21st, 2012by Bédorf, Jeroen and Zwart, Simon Portegies
To appear in: European Physical Journal “Special Topics” : “Computer Simulations on Graphics Processing Units” . 18 pages, 8 figures
The Intermediate Mass Black Hole Candidate in the Center of NGC 404: New Evidence from Radio Continuum Observations
April 21st, 2012by Nyland, Kristina and Marvil, Josh and Wrobel, Joan and Young, Lisa and Zauderer, B. Ashley
Accepted for publication to ApJ
The hidden AGN main sequence: Evidence for a universal SMBH accretion to star formation rate ratio since z~2 producing a M_BH-M* relation
April 21st, 2012by Mullaney, J. R. and Daddi, E. and Béthermin, M. and Elbaz, D. and Juneau, S. and Pannella, M. and Sargent, M. T. and Alexander, D. M. and Hickox, R. C.
6 Pages, 3 Figures, Submitted to ApJL
Bonsai: A GPU Tree-Code
April 12th, 2012by Bédorf, Jeroen and Gaburov, Evghenii and Zwart, Simon Portegies
5 pages, 2 figures. Proceedings of “Advances in Computational Astrophysics: methods, tools and outcomes”, June 13-17, 2011, Cefalu, Sicily, Italy, eds. Capuzzo Dolcetta, Limongi, Tornambe and Giobbi
BLR kinematics and Black Hole Mass in Markarian 6
April 10th, 2012by Doroshenko, V. T. and Sergeev, S. G. and Klimanov, S. A. and Pronik, V. I. and Efimov, Yu. S.
17 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Chaotic orbits in a 3D galactic dynamical model with a double nucleus
April 10th, 2012by Caranicolas, Nicolaos D. and Zotos, Euaggelos E.
Published in Mechanics Research Communications journal
3-D Radiative Transfer Calculations of Radiation Feedback from Massive Black Holes: Outflow of Mass from the Dusty “Torus”
April 10th, 2012by Roth, Nathaniel and Kasen, Daniel and Hopkins, Philip F. and Quataert, Eliot
15 pages, 14 figures. Submitted to ApJ; v2 Corrected spelling and other small typos
Review: Accretion Disk Theory
April 10th, 2012Binary Disruption by Massive Black Holes: Hypervelocity Stars, S Stars, and Tidal Disruption Events
April 10th, 2012by Bromley, Benjamin C. and Kenyon, Scott J. and Geller, Margaret J. and Brown, Warren R.
ApJ Letters, accepted; 13 pages, including 3 figures
No Evidence for Intermediate-Mass Black Holes in Globular Clusters: Strong Constraints from the JVLA
April 10th, 2012by Strader, Jay and Chomiuk, Laura and Maccarone, Thomas and Miller-Jones, James and Seth, Anil and Heinke, Craig and Sivakoff, Gregory
6 pages, 2 figures. ApJL in press