David Merritt

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Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Performance analysis of direct N-body algorithms on special-purpose supercomputers
    New Astronomy, vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 357–377, 2007
  2. The structure of the nuclear stellar cluster of the Milky Way
    Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 469, no. 1, pp. 125–146, 2007
  3. The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. XIII. SBF Distance Catalog and the Three-dimensional Structure of the Virgo Cluster
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 655, no. 1, pp. 144–162, 2007
  4. Brownian Motion of Black Holes in Dense Nuclei
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 133, no. 2, pp. 553–563, 2007
  5. The ACS Fornax Cluster Survey. I. Introduction to the Survey and Data Reduction Procedures
    The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, vol. 169, no. 2, pp. 213–224, 2007
  6. Model Atmospheres for Irradiated Giant Stars: Implications for the Galactic Center
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 661, no. 1, pp. 203–209, 2007
  7. Large Merger Recoils and Spin Flips from Generic Black Hole Binaries
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 659, no. 1, pp. L5–L8, 2007
  8. The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. XII. The Luminosity Function of Globular Clusters in Early-Type Galaxies
    The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, vol. 171, no. 1, pp. 101–145, 2007
  9. Self-consistent Models of Cuspy Triaxial Galaxies with Dark Matter Halos
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 666, no. 1, pp. 165–180, 2007
  10. How Special Are Brightest Cluster Galaxies? The Impact of Near-Infrared Luminosities on Scaling Relations for BCGs
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 663, no. 2, pp. L85–L88, 2007
  11. Collisionally regenerated dark matter structures in galactic nuclei
    Physical Review D, vol. 75, no. 4, 2007
  12. Spin flips and precession in black-hole-binary mergers
    Physical Review D, vol. 75, no. 6, 2007
  13. Impact of astrophysical processes on the gamma-ray background from dark matter annihilations
    Physical Review D, vol. 76, no. 2, 2007
  14. Maximum Gravitational Recoil
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 98, no. 23, 2007
  15. The nature of the HE0450-2958 system
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 367, no. 4, pp. 1746–1750, 2006
  16. Algorithmic regularization with velocity-dependent forces
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 372, no. 1, pp. 219–223, 2006
  17. Dynamics of galaxy cores and supermassive black holes
    Reports on Progress in Physics, vol. 69, no. 9, pp. 2513–2579, 2006
  18. The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. IX. The Color Distributions of Globular Cluster Systems in Early-Type Galaxies
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 639, no. 1, pp. 95–119, 2006
  19. The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. XI. The Nature of Diffuse Star Clusters in Early-Type Galaxies
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 639, no. 2, pp. 838–857, 2006
  20. The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. VI. Isophotal Analysis and the Structure of Early-Type Galaxies
    The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, vol. 164, no. 2, pp. 334–434, 2006
  21. The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. VIII. The Nuclei of Early-Type Galaxies
    The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, vol. 165, no. 1, pp. 57–94, 2006
  22. Efficient Merger of Binary Supermassive Black Holes in Nonaxisymmetric Galaxies
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 642, no. 1, pp. L21–L24, 2006
  23. A Fundamental Relation between Compact Stellar Nuclei, Supermassive Black Holes, and Their Host Galaxies
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 644, no. 1, pp. L21–L24, 2006
  24. Dynamical Cusp Regeneration
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 648, no. 2, pp. 890–899, 2006
  25. Mass Deficits, Stalling Radii, and the Merger Histories of Elliptical Galaxies
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 648, no. 2, pp. 976–986, 2006
  26. Contribution of Stellar Tidal Disruptions to the X-Ray Luminosity Function of Active Galaxies
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 652, no. 1, pp. 120–125, 2006
  27. The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. XIV. Analysis of Color-Magnitude Relations in Globular Cluster Systems
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 653, no. 1, pp. 193–206, 2006
  28. Empirical Models for Dark Matter Halos. I. Nonparametric Construction of Density Profiles and Comparison with Parametric Models
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 132, no. 6, pp. 2685–2700, 2006
  29. Empirical Models for Dark Matter Halos. II. Inner Profile Slopes, Dynamical Profiles, and ?/?3
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 132, no. 6, pp. 2701–2710, 2006
  30. Empirical Models for Dark Matter Halos. III. The Kormendy Relation and the log??e?log?Re Relation
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 132, no. 6, pp. 2711–2716, 2006
  31. Trends in the Globular Cluster Luminosity Function of Early-Type Galaxies
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 651, no. 1, pp. L25–L28, 2006
  32. Time-dependent models for dark matter at the galactic center
    Physical Review D, vol. 72, no. 10, 2005
  33. The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. IV. Data Reduction Procedures for Surface Brightness Fluctuation Measurements with the Advanced Camera for Surveys
    The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, vol. 156, no. 2, pp. 113–125, 2005
  34. Loss Cone Refilling Rates in Galactic Nuclei
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 621, no. 2, pp. L101–L104, 2005
  35. A Note on Gravitational Brownian Motion
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 628, no. 2, pp. 673–677, 2005
  36. The Advanced Camera for Surveys Virgo Cluster Survey. V. Surface Brightness Fluctuation Calibration for Giant and Dwarf Early-Type Galaxies
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 625, no. 1, pp. 121–129, 2005
  37. The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. VII. Resolving the Connection between Globular Clusters and Ultracompact Dwarf Galaxies
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 627, no. 1, pp. 203–223, 2005
  38. A Universal Density Profile for Dark and Luminous Matter?
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 624, no. 2, pp. L85–L88, 2005
  39. The Low End of the Supermassive Black Hole Mass Function: Constraining the Mass of a Nuclear Black Hole in NGC 205 via Stellar Kinematics
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 628, no. 1, pp. 137–152, 2005
  40. Integral Field Spectroscopy of 23 Spiral Bulges
    The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, vol. 160, no. 1, pp. 76–86, 2005
  41. Long-Term Evolution of Massive Black Hole Binaries. II. Binary Evolution in Low-Density Galaxies
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 633, no. 2, pp. 680–687, 2005
  42. The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. X. Half-Light Radii of Globular Clusters in Early-Type Galaxies: Environmental Dependencies and a Standard Ruler for Distance Estimation
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 634, no. 2, pp. 1002–1019, 2005
  43. Galaxies and Star Clusters - From the Computer to the Real World
    Astronomische Nachrichten, vol. 326, no. 7, pp. 589–605, 2005
  44. Core Collapse via Coarse Dynamic Renormalization
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 95, no. 8, 2005
  45. Modern Physics Letters A [Particles and Fields; Gravitation; Cosmology and Nuclear Physics], vol. 20, no. 14, p. 1021, 2005
  46. Henry Kandrup's Ideas About Relaxation of Stellar Systems
    Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 1045, no. 1, pp. 3–11, 2005
  47. Evolution of Binary Supermassive Black Holes via Chain Regularization
    Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 1045, no. 1, pp. 225–231, 2005
  48. Evolution of the Dark Matter Distribution at the Galactic Center
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 92, no. 20, 2004
  49. Revised Rates of Stellar Disruption in Galactic Nuclei
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 600, no. 1, pp. 149–161, 2004
  50. Difficulties with Recovering the Masses of Supermassive Black Holes from Stellar Kinematical Data
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 602, no. 1, pp. 66–92, 2004
  51. Chaotic Loss Cones and Black Hole Fueling
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 606, no. 2, pp. 788–798, 2004
  52. A Self-Consistent Study of Triaxial Black Hole Nuclei
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 606, no. 2, pp. 774–787, 2004
  53. The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. I. Introduction to the Survey
    The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, vol. 153, no. 1, pp. 223–242, 2004
  54. Consequences of Gravitational Radiation Recoil
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 607, no. 1, pp. L9–L12, 2004
  55. Core Formation by a Population of Massive Remnants
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 608, no. 1, pp. L25–L28, 2004
  56. The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. III. Chandra and Hubble Space Telescope Observations of Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries and Globular Clusters in M87
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 613, no. 1, pp. 279–301, 2004
  57. The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. II. Data Reduction Procedures
    The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, vol. 154, no. 2, pp. 509–517, 2004
  58. Central Masses and Broad-Line Region Sizes of Active Galactic Nuclei. II. A Homogeneous Analysis of a Large Reverberation-Mapping Database
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 613, no. 2, pp. 682–699, 2004
  59. Supermassive Black Holes in Active Galactic Nuclei. II. Calibration of the Black Hole Mass–Velocity Dispersion Relationship for Active Galactic Nuclei
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 615, no. 2, pp. 645–651, 2004
  60. N-Body Growth of a Bahcall-Wolf Cusp around a Black Hole
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 613, no. 2, pp. L109–L112, 2004
  61. Systolic and hyper-systolic algorithms for the gravitational N-body problem, with an application to Brownian motion
    Journal of Computational Physics, vol. 185, no. 2, pp. 484–511, 2003
  62. Rotational Brownian Motion of a Massive Binary
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 568, no. 2, pp. 998–1003, 2002
  63. Triaxial Black Hole Nuclei
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 568, no. 2, pp. L89–L92, 2002
  64. Instability of the Gravitational N-Body Problem in the Large-N Limit
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 580, no. 1, pp. 606–609, 2002
  65. Tracing Black Hole Mergers Through Radio Lobe Morphology
    Science, vol. 297, no. 5585, pp. 1310–1313, 2002
  66. Galaxy cores as relics of black hole mergers
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 331, no. 4, pp. L51–L55, 2002
  67. Black hole demographics from the relation
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 320, no. 3, pp. L30–L34, 2001
  68. The M•-s Relation for Supermassive Black Holes
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 547, no. 1, pp. 140–145, 2001
  69. Orbital Structure of Triaxial Black Hole Nuclei
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 549, no. 1, pp. 192–204, 2001
  70. The Nuclear Dynamics of M32. I. Data and Stellar Kinematics
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 550, no. 2, pp. 668–690, 2001
  71. Cusp Disruption in Minor Mergers
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 551, no. 1, pp. L41–L44, 2001
  72. Brownian Motion of a Massive Binary
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 556, no. 1, pp. 245–264, 2001
  73. Dynamics of the Globular Cluster System Associated with M87 (NGC 4486). II. Analysis
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 559, no. 2, pp. 828–850, 2001
  74. Supermassive Black Holes in Active Galactic Nuclei. I. The Consistency of Black Hole Masses in Quiescent and Active Galaxies
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 555, no. 2, pp. L79–L82, 2001
  75. Formation of Galactic Nuclei
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 563, no. 1, pp. 34–62, 2001
  76. No Supermassive Black Hole in M33?
    Science, vol. 293, no. 5532, pp. 1116–1118, 2001
  77. A Fundamental Relation between Supermassive Black Holes and Their Host Galaxies
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 539, no. 1, pp. L9–L12, 2000
  78. Elliptical Galaxy Dynamics
    Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, vol. 111, no. 756, pp. 129–168, 1999
  79. Resonant Orbits in Triaxial Galaxies
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 118, no. 3, pp. 1177–1189, 1999
  80. Dynamical Evolution of Elliptical Galaxies with Central Singularities
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 498, no. 2, pp. 625–639, 1998
  81. Regular and Chaotic Dynamics of Triaxial Stellar Systems
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 506, no. 2, pp. 686–711, 1998
  82. Self-Consistent Gravitational Chaosa
    Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 848, no. 1 LONG-RANGE CO, pp. 48–61, 1998
  83. Cusps and Triaxiality
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 486, no. 1, pp. 102–109, 1997
  84. The Stellar Dynamics of M87
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 113, p. 1279, 1997
  85. Recovering Velocity Distributions Via Penalized Likelihood
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 114, p. 228, 1997
  86. The stellar dynamics of omega centauri.
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 114, p. 1074, 1997
  87. Periodic Orbits in Triaxial Galaxies with Weak Cusps.
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 114, p. 1479, 1997
  88. Evidence From Intrinsic Shapes for Two Families of Elliptical Galaxies
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 111, p. 2243, 1996
  89. Optimal Smoothing for N-Body Codes
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 111, p. 2462, 1996
  90. The Dynamical Inverse Problem for Axisymmetric Stellar Systems
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 112, p. 1085, 1996
  91. Triaxial Galaxies with Cusps
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 460, p. 136, 1996
  92. Planetary nebulae as probes of dark matter in NGC 3384
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 443, p. L5, 1995
  93. The Frequency Function of Elliptical Galaxy Intrinsic Shapes
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 110, p. 1039, 1995
  94. Nonparametric estimation of density profiles
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 108, p. 514, 1994
  95. Instabilities of counterrotating stellar disks
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 425, p. 530, 1994
  96. Bending instabilities in stellar systems
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 425, p. 551, 1994
  97. Mapping spherical potentials with discrete radial velocities
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 409, p. 75, 1993
  98. Dynamical mapping of hot stellar systems
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 413, p. 79, 1993
  99. The distribution of dark matter in the halo of M87
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 106, p. 2229, 1993
  100. Inferring the mass of spherical stellar systems from velocity moments
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 391, p. 531, 1992
  101. Stability of nonrotating stellar systems. II - Prolate shell-orbit models
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 376, p. 439, 1991
  102. The structure and dynamics of galaxies formed by cold dissipationless collapse
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 354, p. 33, 1990