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Black Holes : proceedings of the Space Telescope Science Institute Symposium, held in Baltimore, Maryland, April 23-26, 2007 /

A collection of review papers exploring the astrophysics of black holes, providing an invaluable resource for researchers and graduate students.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Space Telescope Science Institute (U.S.). Symposium
Otros Autores: Livio, Mario, 1945-, Koekemoer, Anton
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Colección:Space Telescope Science Institute Symposium Series, 21.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Participants; Preface; Black holes, entropy, and information; Gravitational waves from black-hole mergers; Out-of-this-world physics: Black holes at future colliders; Black holes in globular clusters; Evolution of massive black holes; Supermassive black holes in deep multiwavelength surveys; Black-hole masses from reverberation mapping; Black-hole masses from gas dynamics; Evolution of supermassive black holes; Black-hole masses of distant quasars; The accretion history of supermassive black holes. 
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880 8 |6 505-00/(S  |a Birth of massive black hole binaries -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Dynamics of BHs in disk-galaxy mergers -- 2.1. Modeling galaxy mergers -- 2.2. Large-scale dynamics and BH pairing -- 2.3. Formation of a circumnuclear disk -- 2.4. Birth of a BH binary -- 2.5. Effect of thermodynamics of the BH sinking -- 3. BH inspiral in equilibrium rotating nuclear disks -- 3.1. Initial conditions -- 3.2. Orbital decay on circular orbits -- 3.3. Orbital decay along eccentric orbits -- 3.4. High-resolution run: dynamics -- 3.5. High resolution runs: constraints on accretion processes -- 4. BH binaries, the MBH versus σ relation and the stalling problem -- 5. Summary -- REFERENCES -- Dynamics around supermassive black holes -- 1. Characteristic scales -- 2. Core structure -- 3. Massive binaries -- 3.1. Non-axisymmetric geometries -- 3.2. Secondary slingshot -- 3.3. Bound subsystems -- 3.4. Massive perturbers -- 3.5. Multiple SBHs -- 3.6. Gas -- 4. SBH/IBH binaries -- 5. Kicks and cores -- 6. Black-hole-driven expansion -- REFERENCES -- Black-hole formation and growth: Simulations in general relativity -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Numerical relativity and the 3 + 1 formalism -- 2.1. The BSSN scheme -- 3. Binary neutron star mergers and hypermassive stars -- 3.1. Collapse of a magnetized HMNS -- 4. Black holes as central engines for GRBs -- 5. Magnetorotational collapse of massive stars to black holes -- 6. Cosmological growth of supermassive black holes -- 7. Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- Estimating the spins of stellar-mass black holes -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The method: Fitting the x-ray continuum spectrum -- 3. Establishing the continuum-fitting method -- 4. A basis for optimism -- 5. Importance of measuring spin -- 6. Conclusions and future prospects -- REFERENCES -- Stellar relaxation processes near the Galactic massive black hole -- 1. Introduction. 
880 0 |6 505-00/(S  |a Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Participants -- Preface -- Black holes, entropy, and information -- 1. Introduction -- 2. String theory -- 3. Application to black holes -- REFERENCES -- Gravitational waves from black-hole mergers -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Calculating black-hole binary coalescence -- 3. Observing black-hole binary mergers -- 4. Kicks from black-hole binary mergers -- 5. Summary -- REFERENCES -- Out-of-this-world physics: Black holes at future colliders -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The hierarchy problem -- 3. Brief history of space -- 4. Large extra-spatial dimensions -- 5. The Randall-Sundrum model -- 6. Mini black holes in large extra dimensions -- 6.1. Black-hole production in particle collisions -- 6.2. Black-hole evaporation -- 6.3. Testing Hawking radiation in decays of black holes -- 6.4. Simulation of black-hole production and decay -- 6.5. Discovering new particles in black-hole decays -- 7. Randall-Sundrum black holes -- 8. Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- Black holes in globular clusters -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Observations of stellar-mass black holes in star clusters -- 3. Observational evidence for intermediate-mass black holes -- 3.1. Ultraluminous x-ray sources -- 3.2. Dynamical modeling of cluster velocity structure -- 3.2.1. The Milky Way globular cluster M15 -- 3.2.2. Globular clusters G1 (M31) and ω Centauri (Milky Way) -- 3.3. Indirect evidence for central black holes -- 3.3.1. Weak cusps -- 3.3.2. Cluster structural Parameters -- 4. Formation of intermediate-mass black holes -- 4.1. Mass segregation and runaway mergers -- 4.2. Evolution of the merger product -- 4.3. Connection with globular clusters -- 4.4. Systems of black holes -- 5. Modeling dense stellar systems -- 5.1. The state of the art -- 5.2. Shortcomings of current models -- 5.3. The MUSE Project. 
880 8 |6 505-00/(S  |a Black-hole masses of distant quasars -- 1. Introduction: Mass-estimation methods for active galaxies and quasars -- 2. The radius-luminosity relationship -- 2.1. The optical R-L relationship -- 2.2. The UV R-L relationships -- 2.3. Do the R-L relations apply to distant luminous quasars-- 2.4. The power of the R-L relationships -- 3. Single-epoch mass estimates based on scaling relations -- 3.1. An empirical determination of the f-factor -- 3.2. Improved mass-scaling relations for Hβ and Civ -- 3.3. Mass-scaling relations for Mgii -- 3.4. Relationship involving the Hβ luminosity -- 4. Black-hole masses in distant quasars -- 4.1. Quasar samples -- 4.2. Does radio-loudness depend on black-hole mass-- 4.3. Distributions with redshift -- 4.4. The Eddington luminosity ratio distribution with redshift -- 5. Mass functions of actively accreting black holes -- 5.1. Constraints on black-hole growth -- 5.2. The space density of very massive black holes -- 6. Potential issues with scaling relationships -- 6.1. Source inclination issues -- 6.2. High-ionization outflows -- 6.3. The unexpected relative line widths of Civ and Hβ -- 6.4. Are the masses overestimated-- 7. Summary and conclusions -- REFERENCES -- The accretion history of supermassive black holes -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The data -- 3. The growth of SMBHs in a low luminosity regime at z <1 -- 3.1. Selection of a population of red galaxies -- 3.2. Optical line diagnostics -- 3.3. X-ray stacking -- 3.4. SMBH growth -- 4. The growth of SMBHs in a luminous, obscured phase at z ~ 2-3 -- 4.1. The nature of optically faint, luminous infrared galaxies -- 4.2. Rapid but obscured SMBH growth at z ~ 2-3 -- 5. Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- Strong field gravity and spin of black holes from broad iron lines -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Observations -- 3. Spin -- 4. Variability -- 5. Discussion -- REFERENCES. 
880 8 |6 505-00/(S  |a 6. Summary and Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- Evolution of massive black holes -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Massive black holes in a hierarchical universe -- 3. Scenarios for massive black-hole formation -- 3.1. Observational tests of MBH-formation scenarios -- 4. Accretion: mass growth and quasar activity -- 5. Probing the other hair of astrophysical black holes -- 5.1. MBH spins and galaxy morphology -- REFERENCES -- Supermassive black holes in deep multiwavelength surveys -- 1. Cosmic growth of black holes and galaxies -- 2. Deep multiwavelength surveys -- 3. Finding obscured AGN -- 3.1. Connecting x-ray, optical, and infrared surveys -- 3.2. Quantitative results from the Population Synthesis Model: Number counts, redshift distributions, and the x-ray background -- 3.3. INTEGRAL and Swift hard x-ray surveys -- 4. Evolution of the obscured fraction of AGN -- 5. Summary -- REFERENCES -- Black-hole masses from reverberation mapping -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The virial relationship -- 3. The MBH-σ* relationship -- 4. Direct comparison with other methods -- 5. The BLR radius-luminosity relationship -- 6. The MBH-Lbulge Relationship -- 7. Uncertainties in reverberation-based mass measurements -- 8. Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- Black-hole masses from gas dynamics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The sample, observational strategy and modeling -- 3. M87 -- 4. The black-hole mass of a Seyfert galaxy -- 5. Cen A -- 6. NGC 4041 -- 7. NGC 5252 -- 8. NGC 1300 -- 9. NGC 2748 -- 10. NGC 3310 -- 11. NGC 4303 -- 12. NGC 4258 -- 13. Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- Evolution of supermassive black holes -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Deep surveys -- 1.2. AGN classification criteria -- 2. Separate evolution of AGN classes -- 2.1. Anti-hierarchical growth of SMBHs -- 2.2. Luminosity-dependence of AGN type-2 fraction -- 3. The cosmic x-ray background -- 4. Conclusions -- REFERENCES. 
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