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Physics World, 2002 After a brief historical introduction, we summarize current efforts and accomplishments in the study of supermassive black holes.
Ferrarese, Laura, Merritt, David
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Decomposition of the central structure of NGC 2273 in the NIR: A case study
Astronomische Nachrichten, Volume 344, Issue 10, December 2023., 2023 Abstract The Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 2273 is a prime target to explore how active nuclei can be fed. It has a star‐forming innermost nuclear ring with a radius of 0.33kpc from where material may be funneled to the supermassive black hole in its center. In this article, we discuss high‐resolution adaptive optics aided JHKs images of NGC 2273 taken with the
L. Schey +13 more
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Astronomische Nachrichten, Volume 344, Issue 8-9, October-November 2023., 2023 The Potsdam Arrayed Waveguide Spectrograph (PAWS) is based on an integrated photonic spectrograph designed and developed by innoFSPEC to work in the astronomical H‐band. PAWS demonstrates how a traditional bulk optics spectrograph can be miniaturized and additionally serves as a tool for testing in‐house developed astrophotonical devices.
Eloy Hernandez +6 more
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PAWS and POCO: NIR Astrophotonic Instruments for Astronomy
Astronomische Nachrichten, Volume 344, Issue 8-9, October-November 2023., 2023 Abstract For near‐infrared ground and space‐based astronomy, compact photonic devices can replace the large bulk optical components in spectrographs, frequency combs, beam combiners, and sky subtraction filters, thus saving cost, reducing volume, weight, and power requirements.
Kalaga Madhav +8 more
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The spin of supermassive black holes [PDF]
Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2013 Invited article accepted for publication in the focus issue on astrophysical black holes in Classical and Quantum Gravity, guest editors: D. Merritt and L. Rezzolla.
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Mass Functions of Supermassive Black Holes across Cosmic Time
Advances in Astronomy, 2012 The black hole mass function of supermassive black holes describes the evolution of the distribution of black hole mass. It is one of the primary empirical tools available for mapping the growth of supermassive black holes and for constraining ...
Brandon C. Kelly, Andrea Merloni
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Shadow of rotating and twisting charged black holes with cloud of strings and quintessence
European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, 2023 Testing gravity theories is an important and interesting issue in relativistic astrophysics using astrophysical observations. In recent years, Event horizon telescope collaboration provided valuable data from shadow of supermassive black holes located at
Muhammad Zahid +4 more
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Gravitational Larmor precession
European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, 2023 Inspired by the reported existence of substantive magnetic fields in the vicinity of the central supermassive black holes in Sagittarius A* and Messier 87*, we consider test particle motion in the spacetime close to a generic spherical black hole in the ...
Chandrachur Chakraborty +1 more
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A supermassive black hole awakes [PDF]
Science, 2017 Active Galaxies Every large galaxy hosts a supermassive black hole at its center, which grows by consuming passing gas or stars. Most are quiescent, but when the black hole is feeding, an accretion disk forms, causing the galaxy nucleus to shine brightly as a quasar. Gezari et al.
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Formation of supermassive black holes [PDF]
The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 2010 To appear in The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review.
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