Oct 2007
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American Physical Society, 2007 Joint Fall Meeting of the Texas Sections of the APS and AAPT; Zone 13 of SPS, October 18-20, 200
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Mergers of spinning black holes can result in the final black hole receiving a `kick' from gravitational radiation of up to several thousand km/s. A recoiling super-massive black hole in an AGN can retain the inner part of its accretion disk, providing fuel for continuing activity. A search for evidence of such kicks in AGN spectra from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) leads us to place upper limits on the incidence of high velocity recoils in AGN. Other observational signatures will be discussed, including brief flares in soft X-rays that may occur when marginally-bound material falls back onto the moving accretion disk.
Bonning Erin
Salviander Sarah
Shields Greg
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