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The Inner Workings of Early-Type Galaxies: Cores, Nuclei and Supermassive Black Holes (Including a Critical Comparison of Nuker and core-Sersic/Sersic models)
Laura Ferrarese, Patrick Cote, John P. Blakeslee +3
Recent years have seen dramatic progress in the study of the core and nuclear properties of galaxies. The structure of the cores has been shown to vary methodically with global and…
Spin Flips and Precession in Black-Hole-Binary Mergers
Manuela Campanelli, Carlos O. Lousto, Yosef Zlochower +2
We use the `moving puncture' approach to perform fully non-linear evolutions of spinning quasi-circular black-hole binaries with individual spins not aligned with the orbital angul…
Consequences of Triaxiality for Gravitational Wave Recoil of black holes
Alessandro Vicari, Roberto Capuzzo-Dolcetta, David Merritt
Coalescing binary black holes experience a ``kick'' due to anisotropic emission of gravitational waves with an amplitude as great as 200$ km/s. We examine the orbital evolution of…
Collisionally Regenerated Dark Matter Structures in Galactic Nuclei
David Merritt, Stefan Harfst, Gianfranco Bertone
We show that the presence of a rho~1/r^{3/2} dark matter overdensity can be robustly predicted at the center of any galaxy old enough to have grown a power-law density cusp in the…
How Special are Brightest Cluster Galaxies? The Impact of Near-Infrared Luminosities on Scaling Relations for BCGs
Dan Batcheldor, Alessandro Marconi, David Merritt +1
Using the extended J, H and K magnitudes provided by the 2MASS data archive, we consider the position of brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) in the observed relations between inferre…
The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. XIV. Analysis of Color-Magnitude Relations in Globular Cluster Systems
Steffen Mieske, Andres Jordan, Patrick Cote +8
We examine the correlation between globular cluster (GC) color and magnitude using HST/ACS imaging for a sample of 79 early-type galaxies (-21.7<M_B<-15.2 mag) with accurate SBF di…