'Black hole mass' presentation slideshows

Are Black Holes Elementary Particles? Y.K. Ha Temple University 2008

Are Black Holes Elementary Particles? Y.K. Ha Temple University 2008. 75 years since Solvay 1933. Classical size Classical radius of an object given by its classical theory. Quantum size Compton wavelength of a particle given by quantum mechanics.

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Testing GR with Ground-Based GW Detectors

Testing GR with Ground-Based GW Detectors. B.S. Sathyaprakash, Cardiff University, UK (based on a Living Reviews article with Schutz) at University of Birmingham, March 30-31, 2006. Gravitational-wave spectrum What might be observed from ground Gravitational-wave observables

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Clustering and Environment of Quasars at High Redshift

Clustering and Environment of Quasars at High Redshift. Michael A. Strauss, Princeton University. Joe Hennawi. Jenny Greene. Xin Liu. Nic Ross. The Clustering of High-Redshift Objects. The clustering of dark matter with time (and thus redshift) is well-understood.

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Dark energy accretion onto black holes

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Velocity distribution of NGC 205 from its optical spectrum

Alexander Rasskazov. Velocity distribution of NGC 205 from its optical spectrum. Goals of the project. To determine the velocity distribution of a galaxy at different points using its spectrum. Observed spectrum. Velocity distribution to be found. Template spectrum

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Goal: To understand special stars.

Goal: To understand special stars. Objectives: To learn the basics about Black holes To examine the different sizes/masses of Black holes To learn about the physics inside a black hole To explore Kerr black holes. To explore Hawking Radiation To learn about some other black hole oddities.

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Ten Years of Monitoring 3C 273 with XMM-Newton

Ten Years of Monitoring 3C 273 with XMM-Newton. Liu Liu Advisor: Youhong Zhang Dec. 2, 2010. The Core and the Jet of 3C 273. 2-10 keV Luminosity: Black Hole Mass: (Uchiyama et al. 2006). Spectral Energy Distribution (SED). Kataoka 1999. Optical/UV bump. ( Soldi et al. 2009).

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The Fundamental Plane Relationship of Astrophysical Black Holes

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Supermassive Black Holes in Radio-loud AGNs

Supermassive Black Holes in Radio-loud AGNs. Xue-Bing WU (Peking Univ.). Collaborators: PKU: FuKun Liu, Ran Wang NAOC: JinLin Han, MinZhi Kong. 1. Introduction. Supermassive black holes in nearby galaxies (mass determined by stellar, gas, & water maser dynamics)

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Scaling relations of spheroids over cosmic time:

Scaling relations of spheroids over cosmic time:. Tommaso Treu (UCSB). Outline. Use scaling laws (e.g. Fundamental Plane, M-sigma relation) to map the cosmic evolution of the three main constituents of spheroids: Stars Dark matter Supermassive black holes. 1: Stars.

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Probing Black Holes with Gravitational Lensing Eric Agol Chandra Fellow, Caltech

Probing Black Holes with Gravitational Lensing Eric Agol Chandra Fellow, Caltech PhD, UCSB (University of the Chronically Sun-Burned). (ITP 1999). Outline of talk: Stellar mass black holes as Lenses - How many black holes in Milky Way disk? Can we weigh SMBH with lensing?

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The correlations between spectral properties in the spectra of AGNs type 1

The correlations between spectral properties in the spectra of AGNs type 1. Jelena Kova? evi ? 1 , Luka ? . Popovi ? 1 , Milan S. Dimitrijevi ? 1 , Payaswini Saikia 1 1 Astronomical Observatory Belgrade , Serbia. Outline:.

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The GOOD NICMOS Survey (GNS): Observing Massive Galaxies at z > 2

The GOOD NICMOS Survey (GNS): Observing Massive Galaxies at z > 2. Christopher J. Conselice (University of Nottingham) with Asa Bluck, Ruth Gruethbacher, Amanda Bauer, Fernando Buitrago (Nottingham) + others.

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Black Hole Chaos

Black Hole Chaos. The Environments of the most super-massive black holes in the Universe. Belinda Wilkes, Chandra X-ray Center, CfA Francesca Civano, CfA. Black Hole. Nothing beats gravity ? collapses forever Light cannot escape from inside the event horizon.

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Weighing black holes in radio-loud AGNs

Weighing black holes in radio-loud AGNs. Xue-Bing Wu ( ??? ) (Dept. of Astronomy, Peking Univ.) wuxb@bac.pku.edu.cn Collaborators: Ran Wang, F.K. Liu (PKU); M.Z. Kong, J.L. Han (NAOC). Content. Introduction BH mass from the BLR size - emission line luminosity relation

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AMUSE-Virgo AGN MUlti-wavelength Survey in Early type galaxies

AMUSE-Virgo AGN MUlti-wavelength Survey in Early type galaxies. Black Hole Accretion in the Nearby Universe: Evidence for Down-Sizing. Elena Gallo | MIT Kavli Institute. Galaxies & super-massive black holes. Empirical scaling relation between black hole mass and host bulge properties

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Black Holes in our Galaxy

Black Holes in our Galaxy. J. Eric Grove (NRL) and Jonathan E. Grindlay (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA). Dynamically Established BH Systems.

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