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Reaction of Accretion Disks to Abrupt Mass Loss During Binary Black Hole Merger
Sean M. O'Neill, M. Coleman Miller, Tamara Bogdanovic +2
The association of an electromagnetic signal with the merger of a pair of supermassive black holes would have many important implications. For example, it would provide new informa…
SDSSJ092712.65+294344.0: NGC 1275 at z=0.7?
Timothy M. Heckman, Julian H. Krolik, Sean M. Moran +2
SDSSJ092712.65+294344.0 was identified by the SDSS as a quasar, but has the unusual property of having two emission line systems offset by 2650 km/s. One of these contains the usua…
Hypercompact Stellar Systems Around Recoiling Supermassive Black Holes
David Merritt, Jeremy D. Schnittman, Stefanie Komossa
A supermassive black hole ejected from the center of a galaxy by gravitational wave recoil carries a retinue of bound stars - a "hypercompact stellar system" (HCSS). The numbers an…
The Infrared Afterglow of Supermassive Black Hole Mergers
Jeremy D. Schnittman, Julian H. Krolik
We model the spectra and light curves of circumbinary accretion disks during the time after the central black holes merge. The most immediate effect of this merger is the dissipati…
Retaining Black Holes with Very Large Recoil Velocities
Jeremy D. Schnittman
Recent numerical simulations of binary black hole mergers show the possibility of producing very large recoil velocities (> 3000 km/s). Kicks of this magnitude should be sufficient…
The Distribution of Recoil Velocities from Merging Black Holes
Jeremy D. Schnittman, Alessandra Buonanno
We calculate the linear momentum flux from merging black holes (BHs) with arbitrary masses and spin orientations, using the effective-one-body (EOB) model. This model includes an a…