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A Parallel Monte Carlo Code for Simulating Collisional N-body Systems

Friday, June 29th, 2012

arXiv:1206.5878

by Pattabiraman, Bharath and Umbreit, Stefan and Liao, Wei-Keng and Choudhary, Alok and Kalogera, Vassiliki and Memik, Gokhan and Rasio, Frederic A.
47 pages, 12 figures, submitted to ApJ Supplements

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N-body Integrators with Individual Time Steps from Hierarchical Splitting

Tuesday, June 12th, 2012

arXiv:1205.5668

by Pelupessy, Federico I. and Jänes, Jürgen and Zwart, Simon F. Portegies
20 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in New Astronomy

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Demonstration of Time Delay Interferometry and Spacecraft Ranging in a Space-based Gravitational Wave Detector using the UF-LISA Interferometry Simulator

Tuesday, June 12th, 2012

arXiv:1205.1934

by Mitryk, Shawn J. and Mueller, Guido
Non-Refereed Pre-Print

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Accelerating NBODY6 with Graphics Processing Units

Tuesday, June 12th, 2012

arXiv:1205.1222

by Nitadori, Keigo and Aarseth, Sverre J.
8 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables, MNRAS accepted

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A pilgrimage to gravity on GPUs

Saturday, April 21st, 2012

arXiv:1204.3106

by Bédorf, Jeroen and Zwart, Simon Portegies
To appear in: European Physical Journal “Special Topics” : “Computer Simulations on Graphics Processing Units” . 18 pages, 8 figures

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Bonsai: A GPU Tree-Code

Thursday, April 12th, 2012

arXiv:1204.2280

by Bédorf, Jeroen and Gaburov, Evghenii and Zwart, Simon Portegies
5 pages, 2 figures. Proceedings of “Advances in Computational Astrophysics: methods, tools and outcomes”, June 13-17, 2011, Cefalu, Sicily, Italy, eds. Capuzzo Dolcetta, Limongi, Tornambe and Giobbi

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The end-to-end testbed of the Optical Metrology System on-board LISA Pathfinder

Tuesday, April 10th, 2012

arXiv:1203.4842

by Steier, Frank and Cervantes, Felipe Guzmán and Marín, Antonio F. García and Gerardi, Domenico and Heinzel, Gerhard and Danzmann, Karsten

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Subtraction of test mass angular noise in the LISA Technology Package interferometer

Tuesday, April 10th, 2012

arXiv:1203.4476

by Cervantes, Felipe Guzmán and Steier, Frank and Wanner, Gudrun and Heinzel, Gerhard and Danzmann, Karsten
Applied Physics B – Lasers and Optics (2008)

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Characterization of photoreceivers for LISA

Tuesday, April 10th, 2012

arXiv:1203.2862

by Cervantes, Felipe Guzmán and Livas, Jeffrey and Silverberg, Robert and Buchanan, Ernest and Stebbins, Robin

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Pseudo-Newtonian Potentials for Nearly Parabolic Orbits

Monday, February 27th, 2012

arXiv:1202.5336

by Wegg, Christopher
4 pages, 1 figure. Accepted by ApJ

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Modelling supermassive black hole growth: towards an improved sub-grid prescription

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012

arXiv:1202.4725

by Hobbs, Alexander and Power, Chris and Nayakshin, Sergei and King, Andrew
7 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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Removing the trend of drift induced from acceleration noise for LISA

Thursday, February 16th, 2012

arXiv:1202.2976

by Tang, Alf and Sumner, Timothy J.
12 pages, 6 figures

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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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