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Observational evidence for intermediate-mass black holes [PDF]

International Journal of Modern Physics D, 2017
Intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs), with masses in the range [Formula: see text]–[Formula: see text][Formula: see text]M[Formula: see text], are the link between stellar-mass BHs and supermassive BHs (SMBHs). They are thought to be the seeds from which SMBHs grow, which would explain the existence of quasars with BH masses of up to 10[Formula: see ...
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Enhancing Synaptic Plasticity and Multistate Retention of Organic Neuromorphic Devices Using Anion‐Excessive Gel Electrolyte

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Anion‐excessive gel‐based organic synaptic transistors (AEG‐OSTs) that can maintain electrical neutrality are developed to enhance synaptic plasticity and multistate retention. Key improvement is attributed to the maintenance of electrical neutrality in the electrolyte even after electrochemical doping, which reduces the Coulombic force acting on ...
Yousang Won, Jeongwoo Lee, Hyunwook Kim, Joon Hak Oh   +3 more
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From Young Massive Clusters to Old Globular Clusters: Density Profile Evolution and Intermediate-mass Black Hole Formation

The Astrophysical Journal
The surface brightness profiles of globular clusters are conventionally described with the well-known King profile. However, observations of young massive clusters (YMCs) in the local Universe suggest that they are better fit by simple models with flat ...
Kuldeep Sharma, Carl L. Rodriguez
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Entropy of Intermediate-Mass Black Holes

, 2009
Observational searches for Intermediate-Mass Black Holes (IMBHs), defined to have masses between 30 and 300,000 solar masses, provide limits which allow up to ten percent of what is presently identified as halo dark matter to be in the form of IMBHs.
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Hybrid Microdiscs for Magnetically Induced Non‐Cytotoxic Thermal Actuation and Programmable Biomolecule Delivery

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Hybrid magnetic microdiscs with customizable size and composition are engineered through refined photolithography and LbL assembly. Embedded Fe3O4 nanoparticles enable localized, non‐cytotoxic heating, while protein cargos can be incorporated in tunable quantities.
Daniela Iglesias‐Rojas, Danny Villanueva, Jon Mentxaka‐Salgado, Nerea Lete, Ane Olazagoitia‐Garmendia, Eduardo Fernández, Iñaki Orue, Alfredo García‐Arribas, Maria Luisa Fdez‐Gubieda, Ainara Castellanos‐Rubio, Robert Morel, Bernard Dieny, Maite Insausti, Idoia Castellanos‐Rubio   +13 more
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Counting the Unseen. II. Tidal Disruption Event Rates in Nearby Galaxies with REPTiDE

The Astrophysical Journal
Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are a class of transients that occur when a star is destroyed by the tides of a massive black hole (MBH). Their rates encode valuable MBH demographic information, but this can only be extracted if accurate TDE rate ...
Christian H. Hannah, Nicholas C. Stone, Anil C. Seth, Sjoert van Velzen   +3 more
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Mimicking Block Copolymer Self‐Assembly with One‐Pot Synthesized Polyphosphoester Gradient Copolymers

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Degradable Polyphosphoester (PPE) gradient copolymers (GCPs) are synthesized via one‐pot copolymerization. We show that GCPs self‐assemble into nanostructures like polymersomes, effectively mimicking the behavior of traditional BCPs. The gradient strength is key, with softer gradients favoring micelles.
Suna Azhdari, Timo Rheinberger, Ulrich Mansfeld, Yorick Post, Jürgen Linders, Olga Koshkina, André H. Gröschel, Frederik R. Wurm   +7 more
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Rates of Stellar Tidal Disruption Events around Intermediate-mass Black Holes

The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Rates of stellar tidal disruption events (TDEs) around supermassive black holes (SMBHs) have been extensively calculated using the loss cone theory, while theoretical work on TDE rates around intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) has been lacking.
Janet N. Y. Chang, Lixin Dai, Hugo Pfister, Rudrani Kar Chowdhury, Priyamvada Natarajan   +4 more
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Unraveling Quantitative Sensing Mechanism and Predictive Molecular Metrics for High‐Performance OFET Amine Sensors

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This study introduces a novel chloro boron subphthalocyanine/polymer blend OFET sensor achieving 0.005 ppb limit of detection for ammonia at room temperature and high selectivity against similar amines. An original theoretical framework is proposed to describe the sensing mechanism, relating analyte molecular volume and Lewis basicity to sensor ...
Kavinraaj Ella Elangovan, Matthew P. Confer, Rui Zhang, Siqing Wang, Jeffrey S. Moore, Rohit Bhargava, Ying Diao   +6 more
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An Intermediate-mass Black Hole Hidden behind Thick Obscuration

The Astrophysical Journal
Abstract Recent models suggest approximately half of all accreting supermassive black holes (SMBHs; M BH ≳ 105 M ⊙) are expected to undergo intense growth phases behind Compton-thick (N H > 1.5 × 1024 cm−2) veils of obscuring gas.
Peter G. Boorman, Daniel Stern, Roberto J. Assef, Abhijeet Borkar, Murray Brightman, Johannes Buchner, Chien-Ting Chen, Hannah P. Earnshaw, Fiona A. Harrison, Gabriele A. Matzeu, Ryan W. Pfeifle, Claudio Ricci, Jiří Svoboda, Núria Torres-Albà, Ingyin Zaw   +14 more
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