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Loss Cone Refilling Rates in Galactic Nuclei
David Merritt, Jianxiang Wang
A gap in phase space is opened up by a binary supermassive black hole as it ejects stars in a galactic nucleus. This gap must be refilled before the single black hole that subseque…
Interaction of Supermassive Black Holes with their Stellar and Dark Matter Environments
David Merritt
A review of recent theoretical work on the interactions of supermassive single and binary black holes with their nuclear environments, highlighting ways in which the observed struc…
Massive Black Hole Binary Evolution
David Merritt, Milos Milosavljevic
Coalescence of binary supermassive black holes (SBHs) would constitute the strongest sources of gravitational waves to be observed by LISA. While the formation of binary SBHs durin…
Brownian Motion of Black Holes in Dense Nuclei
David Merritt, Peter Berczik, Frederik Laun
We evaluate the Brownian motion of a massive particle ("black hole") at the center of a galaxy using N-body simulations. Our galaxy models have power-law central density cusps like…
Central Masses and Broad-Line Region Sizes of Active Galactic Nuclei. II. A Homogeneous Analysis of a Large Reverberation-Mapping Database
B. M. Peterson, L. Ferrarese, K. M. Gilbert +9
We present improved black hole masses for 35 active galactic nuclei (AGNs) based on a complete and consistent reanalysis of broad emission-line reverberation-mapping data. From obj…
Supermassive Black Holes in Active Galactic Nuclei. II. Calibration of the M-sigma Relationship for AGNs
Christopher A. Onken, Laura Ferrarese, David Merritt +5
We calibrate reverberation-based black hole masses in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) by using the correlation between black hole mass, M, and bulge/spheroid stellar velocity dispers…