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Golden Binary Gravitational-Wave Sources: Robust Probes of Strong-Field Gravity
Scott A. Hughes, Kristen Menou
Space-born gravitational-wave interferometers such as {\it LISA} will detect the gravitational wave (GW) signal from the inspiral, plunge and ringdown phases of massive black hole…
FUSE Observations of the Dwarf Nova SW UMa During Quiescence
M. S. Povich, J. C. Raymond, A. Lobel +1
We present spectroscopic observations of the short-period cataclysmic variable SW Ursa Majoris, obtained by the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) satellite while the sy…
On The Dark Side of Quasar Evolution
Kristen Menou, Zoltan Haiman
Recent improved determinations of the mass density rho_BH of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the local universe have allowed accurate comparisons of rho_BH with the amount of l…
The Mass Budget of Merging Quasars
Kristen Menou, Zoltan Haiman
Two spectacular results emerging from recent studies of nearby dead quasars and distant active quasars are (i) the existence of tight relations between the masses of black holes (B…
Local Axisymmetric Diffusive Stability of Weakly-Magnetized, Differentially-Rotating, Stratified Fluids
Kristen Menou, Steven A. Balbus, Henk C. Spruit
We study the local stability of stratified, differentially-rotating fluids to axisymmetric perturbations in the presence of a weak magnetic field and of finite resistivity, viscosi…
Differential Rotation in Weakly-Magnetized Neutron Star Atmospheres
Kristen Menou
The atmospheres of weakly-magnetized neutron stars expand hydrostatically and rotate differentially during thermonuclear X-ray bursts. Differential rotation is probably related to…