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How well do STARLAB and NBODY compare? II: Hardware and accuracy

Monday, January 30th, 2012

arXiv:1201.5692

by Anders, P. and Baumgardt, H. and Gaburov, E. and Zwart, S. Portegies
14 pages incl. 3 pages with figures and 4 pages of tables (analysis results), MNRAS in press

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PSDF: Particle Stream Data Format for N-Body Simulations

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

arXiv:1201.1694

by Farr, Will M. and Ames, Jeff and Hut, Piet and Makino, Junichiro and McMillan, Steve and Muranushi, Takayuki and Nakamura, Koichi and Nitadori, Keigo and Zwart, Simon Portegies
5 pages; submitted to New Astronomy

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MOCCA Code for Star Cluster Simulations – II. Comparison with N-body Simulations

Monday, January 2nd, 2012

arXiv:1112.6246

by Giersz, Mirek and Heggie, Douglas C. and Hurley, Jarrod and Hypki, Arkadiusz
15 pages, 24 figures

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Measuring the Effects of Artificial Viscosity in SPH Simulations of Rotating Fluid Flows

Saturday, December 24th, 2011

arXiv:1112.5120

by Taylor, Paul A. and Miller, John C.
14 pages, 9 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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Implementation of a Parallel Tree Method on a GPU

Saturday, December 24th, 2011

arXiv:1112.4539

by Nakasato, Naohito
Journal of Computational Science, 2011; See our recent update at http://galaxy.u-aizu.ac.jp/trac/note/wiki/Octree_On_GPU

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Searching for Gravitational Waves with a Geostationary Gravitational Wave Interferometer

Thursday, December 8th, 2011

arXiv:1112.1565

by de Araujo, J. C. N. and Aguiar, O. D. and Alves, M. E. S. and Tinto, M.
21 pages, 9 eps figures

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LAGRANGE: LAser GRavitational-wave ANtenna at GEo-lunar Lagrange points

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011

arXiv:1111.5264

by Conklin, J. W. and Buchman, S. and Aguero, V. and Alfauwaz, A. and Aljadaan, A. and Almajed, M. and Altwaijry, H. and Al-Saud, T. and Balakrishnan, K. and Byer, R. L. and Bower, K. and Costello, B. and Cutler, G. D. and DeBra, D. B. and Faied, D. M. and Foster, C. and Genova, A. L. and Hanson, J. and Hooper, K. and Hultgren, E. and Jaroux, B. and Klavins, A. and Lantz, B. and Lipa, J. A. and Palmer, A. and Plante, B. and Sanchez, H. S. and Saraf, S. and Schaechter, D. and Sherrill, T. and Smith, E. and Shu, K. -L. and Tenerelli, D. and Vanbezooijen, R. and Vasudevan, G. and Williams, S. D. and Worden, S. P. and Zhou, J. and Zoellner, A.
Comments: 24 pages, to be submitted to Classical and Quantum Gravity

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Improving the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics with an integral approach to calculate gradients

Tuesday, November 15th, 2011

arXiv:1111.3261

by Garcia-Senz, Domingo and Cabezon, Ruben M. and Escartin, Jose Antonio
15 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Dusty gas with SPH – II. Implicit timestepping and astrophysical drag regimes

Tuesday, November 15th, 2011

arXiv:1111.3089

by Laibe, Guillaume and Price, Daniel J.
Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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Dusty gas with SPH – I. Algorithm and test suite

Tuesday, November 15th, 2011

arXiv:1111.3090

by Laibe, Guillaume and Price, Daniel J.
Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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REBOUND: An open-source multi-purpose N-body code for collisional dynamics

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

arXiv:1110.4876

by Rein, Hanno and Liu, Shang-Fei
10 pages, 9 figures, re-submitted to A&A, source code available at https://github.com/hannorein/rebound

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Time domain maximum likelihood parameter estimation in LISA Pathfinder Data Analysis

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

arXiv:1108.0862

by Congedo, G. and Ferraioli, L. and Hueller, M. and De Marchi, F. and Vitale, S. and Armano, M. and Hewitson, M. and Nofrarias, M.
16 pages (two columns), 15 figures, 5 tables, submitted to Phys. Rev. D

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Comparison of LISA and Atom Interferometry for Gravitational Wave Astronomy in Space

Sunday, June 19th, 2011

arXiv:1106.2767

by Bender, Peter L.
Submitted to Proc. 46th Rencontres de Moriond: Gravitational Waves and Experimental Gravity, March 20 – 27, 2011, La Thuile, Italy

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A sparse octree gravitational N-body code that runs entirely on the GPU processor

Sunday, June 19th, 2011

arXiv:1106.1900

by Bédorf, Jeroen and Gaburov, Evghenii and Zwart, Simon Portegies
Submitted to Journal of Computational Physics. 34 pages, 13 figures, single column

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Time-domain modelling of Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna

Monday, March 14th, 2011

arXiv:1103.2149

by Canizares, Priscilla and Sopuerta, Carlos F.
4 pages, 2 figures, JPCS latex style. Submitted to JPCS (special issue for the proceedings of the Spanish Relativity Meeting (ERE2010))

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Time Domain Simulations of Arm Locking in LISA

Tuesday, March 1st, 2011

arXiv:1102.5423

by Thorpe, James Ira and Maghami, Peiman and Livas, Jeffrey
Submitted to Phys. Rev. D

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Gravitational Wave Detection by Interferometry (Ground and Space)

Thursday, February 17th, 2011

arXiv:1102.3355

by Pitkin, Matthew and Reid, Stuart and Rowan, Sheila and Hough, Jim
Submitted as a major update to Living Rev. Relativity 3, (2000), 3

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Neural network interpolation of the magnetic field for the LISA Pathfinder Diagnostics Subsystem

Friday, January 21st, 2011

arXiv:1101.3955

by Diaz-Aguilo, Marc and Lobo, Alberto and García-Berro, Enrique

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From laboratory experiments to LISA Pathfinder: achieving LISA geodesic motion

Monday, January 10th, 2011

arXiv:1012.5968

by Antonucci, F and Armano, M and Audley, H and Auger, G and Benedetti, M and Binetruy, P and Boatella, C and Bogenstahl, J and Bortoluzzi, D and Bosetti, P and Brandt, N and Caleno, M and Cavalleri, A and Cesa, M and Chmeissani, M and Ciani, G and Conchillo, A and Congedo, G and Cristofolini, I and Cruise, M and Danzmann, K and De Marchi, F and Diaz-Aguilo, M and Diepholz, I and Dixon, G and Dolesi, R and Dunbar, N and Fauste, J and Ferraioli, L and Fertin, D and Fichter, W and Fitzsimons, E and Freschi, M and Marin, A García and Marirrodriga, C García and Gerndt, R and Gesa, L and Giardini, D and Gibert, F and Grimani, C and Grynagier, A and Guillaume, B and Guzmán, F and Harrison, I and Heinzel, G and Hewitson, M and Hollington, D and Hough, J and Hoyland, D and Hueller, M and Huesler, J and Jeannin, O and Jennrich, O and Jetzer, P and Johlander, B and Killow, C and Llamas, X and Lloro, I and Lobo, A and Maarschalkerweerd, R and Madden, S and Mance, D and Mateos, I and McNamara, P W and Mendestì, J and Mitchell, E and Monsky, A and Nicolini, D and Nicolodi, D and Nofrarias, M and Pedersen, F and Perreur-Lloyd, M and Perreca, A and Plagnol, E and Prat, P and Racca, G D and Rais, B and Ramos-Castro, J and Reiche, J and Perez, J A Romera and Robertson, D and Rozemeijer, H and Sanjuan, J and Schleicher, A and Schulte, M and Shaul, D and Stagnaro, L and Strandmoe, S and Steier, F and Sumner, T J and Taylor, A and Texier, D and Trenkel, C and Tombolato, D and Vitale, S and Wanner, G and Ward, H and Waschke, S and Wass, P and Weber, W J and Zweifel, P
Proceedings of the 8th LISA Symposium. Submitted to Classical and Quantum Gravity

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Fractal Geometry of Angular Momentum Evolution in Near-Keplerian Systems

Thursday, November 25th, 2010

arXiv:1011.5226

by Gürkan, M. Atakan
5 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS Letters

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The LISA PathFinder DMU and Radiation Monitor

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010

arXiv:1009.5651

by Canizares, Priscilla and Conchillo, Aleix and Diaz–Aguilo, Marc and Garcia-Berro, Enrique and Gesa, Lluis and Gibert, Ferran and Grimani, Catia and Lloro, Ivan and Lobo, Alberto and Mateos, Ignacio and Nofrarias, Miquel and Ramos-Castro, Juan and Sanjuan, Josep and Sopuerta, Carlos F
11 pages, 7 figures, prepared for the Proceedings of the 8th International LISA Symposium, Classical and Quantum Gravity

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MYRIAD: A new N-body code for simulations of Star Clusters

Friday, June 18th, 2010

arXiv:1006.3326

by Konstantinidis, Simos and Kokkotas, Kostas D.
24 pages, 28 figures

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Experimental Demonstration of Time-Delay Interferometry for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna

Monday, May 17th, 2010

arXiv:1005.2176

by de Vine, Glenn and Ware, Brent and McKenzie, Kirk and Spero, Robert E. and Klipstein, William M. and Shaddock, Daniel A.
4 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Physical Review Letters end of May 2010

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Detection, Localization and Characterization of Gravitational Wave Bursts in a Pulsar Timing Array

Sunday, May 9th, 2010

arXiv:1004.3499

by Finn, Lee Samuel and Lommen, Andrea N.
43 pages, 13 figures, submitted to ApJ.

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The Supermassive Black Hole at the Heart of Centaurus A: Revealed by Gas- and Stellar Kinematics

Friday, February 5th, 2010

arXiv:1002.0965

by Neumayer, Nadine
8 pages, accepted for publication in PASA, contribution for “The Many Faces of Centaurus A” conference in Sydney, 2009

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Supercomputing and stellar dynamics

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

arXiv:0909.0879

by Capuzzo-Dolcetta, R.
Invited talk to the 2009 general Conference of the Societa’ Astronomica Italiana. 6 pages including 1 figure

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Oct-tree Method on GPU

Friday, September 4th, 2009

arXiv:0909.0541

by Nakasato, N.
Poster paper to be appeared in SC09

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A Bayesian approach to the study of white dwarf binaries in LISA data: The application of a reversible jump Markov chain Monte Carlo method

Saturday, July 18th, 2009

arXiv:0907.2198

by Stroeer, Alexander and Veitch, John
18 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables, submitted to PRD

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