Growing Black Holes: Accretion in a Cosmological Context: Proceedings of the MPA/ESO/MPE/USM Joint Astronomy Conference Held at Garching, Germany, 21-25 June 2004

From the Earliest Seeds to Today’s Supermassive Black Holes....Pages 3-17
The Environmental Impact of Supermassive Black Holes....Pages 18-29
The Growth of the Earliest Supermassive Black Holes and Their Contribution to Reionization....Pages 30-41
Formation of the First Supermassive Black Holes....Pages 42-49
Black Hole Accretion and Starbursts Triggered by Interactions in Hierarchical Galaxy Formation....Pages 50-55
Calibrating the Galaxy Halo – Black Hole Relation Based on the Clustering of Quasars....Pages 56-59
From First Galaxies to QSOs –Feeding the Baby Monsters....Pages 60-65
Evolution of the ISM in Elliptical Galaxiesand Black Hole Growth....Pages 66-67
A Physically Motivated Toy Model for the BH-Spheroid Coevolution....Pages 68-69
Highest Redshift Quasars and the Early Growth of Supermassive Black Holes in the Universe....Pages 75-89
X-rays from the First Massive Black Holes....Pages 90-101
A Search for the First Massive Galaxy Clusters....Pages 102-107
The Spatial Clustering of X-ray Selected AGN in the Chandra Msec Fields....Pages 108-113
What Powers High-Redshift SCUBA Galaxies?....Pages 114-119
Early Spitzer Detections of Extreme X-ray/Optical Sources (EXOs)....Pages 120-125
The Masses of X-ray Emitting EROs....Pages 126-127
Why Are Only High-Redshift Obscured AGN Bright Submillimeter Sources?....Pages 128-129
VLT Adaptive Optics Imaging of QSO at z ~ 2.5....Pages 130-131
XMM-Newton Observations of Four High-z Quasars....Pages 132-133
Black Hole Mases of the SDSS QSO Sample....Pages 134-135
Beyond the Spectroscopic Limit in the GOODS/CDFS Survey....Pages 136-137
AGN and Starbursts Already Massive at z > 3....Pages 138-139
VLT Optical Spectroscopy of BL Lac Objects....Pages 140-141
Red Optical Quasars are X-ray Blue Quasars....Pages 142-143
Supermassive Black Holes in Nearby Galaxy Centers....Pages 147-153
Intermediate-Mass Black Holes in Active Galactic Nuclei....Pages 154-158
Growing Black Holes: Observational Evidence for Stellar Tidal Disruption Events....Pages 159-163
Narrow Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies and the “Anti-hierarchical” Black Hole Growth....Pages 164-169
Measuring the Masses and Accretion Rates in Rapidly Growing Young NLS1s....Pages 170-174
X-ray/UV Correlation in MCG–6-30-15....Pages 175-176
Dynamical Models Linking BH Masses and DM Content....Pages 177-178
Super Massive Black Holes in Disk Galaxies: HST/STIS Observations for 3 new Objects....Pages 179-180
X-ray Variability of the Milky Way....Pages 181-182
Growing Black Holes in Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies....Pages 183-184
SMBH Mass Derived from ReverberationMapping and Gravitational Redshift....Pages 185-188
First Simultaneous NIR/X-ray Flare Detection from SgrA*....Pages 191-196
Sgr A West: A Parsec Scale Reservoirfor Accretion onto Sgr A*?....Pages 197-202
Star Formation in the Accretion Disk of Sgr A* a Million Years Ago....Pages 203-208
Accretion in the Galactic Center: Via a Cool Disk?....Pages 209-210
A Disk in the Galactic Center in the Past?....Pages 211-212
Accretion onto a Dupermassive Black Hole in Sgr A*....Pages 213-214
Non-Keplerian Potential at the Galactic Centre?....Pages 215-216
The Compact Stellar Cluster Around Sgr A* and the Nature of Sgr A*....Pages 217-218
Interaction of Supermassive Black Holes with Their Stellar and Dark Matter Environments....Pages 221-235
ISM Dynamics Around Black Holes in Nearby (Radio) Early-Type Galaxies with HST....Pages 236-241
Torus Models for Obscuration in Type 2 AGN....Pages 242-247
Growing Stars in AGN Disks....Pages 248-249
Modelling a Nuclear Star Cluster – Interaction with an Embedded Accretion Disc....Pages 250-253
Super-Eddington Black Hole Accretion:....Pages 257-273
Black Hole Spin-Up in the Light of General Relativistic MHD Simulations....Pages 274-283
Time Variability of Low Angular Momentum Flows Accreting onto Black Holes: A Natural Mechanism for Radiation Flaring....Pages 284-289
Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies: Growing Black Holes at Supercritical Accretion?....Pages 290-295
Probing the Magnetic Field at Sub-Parsec Radiiin the Accretion Disk of NGC 4258....Pages 296-301
Mass and Angular Momentum of Sgr A*....Pages 302-303
What Triggers the Activity Cycle in Galactic Nuclei?....Pages 304-305
A Simple Test for two Accretion Modes in AGN....Pages 306-306
Super-Eddington Active Galctic Nuclei:Spectral Modeling and Black Hole Growth....Pages 307-308
Global Three-Dimensional MHD Simulations of Co-existence of Hard State and Soft State Disks in Black Hole Accretion Flows....Pages 309-310
Super-Eddington Luminosity from Fragmented Accretion Disks....Pages 311-312
Oscillations of Thick Accretion Disks Around Black Holes....Pages 313-314
AGN Outbursts and Accretion Disks....Pages 315-316
Shocks Near a Black Hole of an Accretion-Powered AGN....Pages 317-318
The Art and Science of Black Hole Mergers....Pages 321-332
How Black Holes Get Their Kicks:Radiation Recoil in Binary Black Hole Mergers....Pages 333-339
Black Holes in Galaxy Mergers....Pages 340-345
The Effect of Gaseous Dissipation on the Fate of Supermassive Black Holes in Merging Galaxies....Pages 346-351
The Role of Gas in the Merging of Massive Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei....Pages 352-353
Mergers and Binary Systems of SMBH in the Contexts of Nuclear Activity and Galaxy Evolution....Pages 354-355
Gravitational Waves from Massive Black Holes Binaries....Pages 356-359
Outbursts from Supermassive Black Holes and Their Impacts on the Hot Gas in Elliptical Galaxies....Pages 363-370
The Importance of Jets for Black Hole Growth....Pages 371-376
Properties of Jets at Different Scales and the Connection with Accretion....Pages 377-385
Radiative Feedback from Quasars and the Growth of Supermassive Black Holes....Pages 386-392
Feedback from Quasars in Galaxy Formation....Pages 393-398
A Possible Feature of the Thermal Matter in Relativistic Jets in Radio-Loud Quasars....Pages 399-400
The Influence of Black Hole Mass and Accretion Rate on the FRI/FRII Radio Galaxy Dichotomy....Pages 401-404
The Obscured X-ray Background and Evolution of AGN....Pages 407-417
When Supermassive Black Holes Were Growing: Clues from Deep X–ray Surveys....Pages 418-431
GOODS Discovery of a Significant Population of Obscured AGN....Pages 432-440
Obscured Accreting Black Holes at High Redshift....Pages 441-446
Local Supermassive Black Holes, Relics of Active Galactic Nuclei and the X-ray background....Pages 447-452
Anti-hierarchical Growth of Supermassive Black Holes and QSO Lifetimes....Pages 453-458
Growing Black Holes and Metal Enrichment in High Redshift Luminous Quasars....Pages 459-462
A New Approach to Characterizing the SEDs of AGN from Deep Multi-wavelength Observations....Pages 463-465
The Growth of SMBHs in Optically-Thick Starburst Galaxies....Pages 466-467
Statistical Properties of Local AGNs Inferred from the RXTE 3-20 keV All-Sky Survey....Pages 468-469
The Match Between Accreted and Local Mass Functions of Super-massive Black Holes....Pages 470-471
Black Hole Growth in a Cosmological Context and the Associated Cosmic Star Formation History....Pages 472-476
A Black Hole Manifesto....Pages 477-490