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Archive for the ‘EMRI’ Category

Transition from adiabatic inspiral to plunge into a spinning black hole

Thursday, January 20th, 2011

arXiv:1101.3749

by Kesden, Michael
9 pages, 6 figures, submitted to PRD

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Beyond the geodesic approximation: conservative effects of the gravitational self-force in eccentric orbits around a Schwarzschild black hole

Wednesday, January 19th, 2011

arXiv:1101.3331

by Barack, Leor and Sago, Norichika
29 pages, 4 eps figures

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Tuning Time-Domain Pseudospectral Computations of the Self-Force on a Charged Scalar Particle

Friday, January 14th, 2011

arXiv:1101.2526

by Canizares, Priscilla and Sopuerta, Carlos F.
IOP LaTeX style. 11 pages, 4 pages. Contribution to the NRDA/CAPRA 2010 Conference

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Binary black hole coalescence in the extreme-mass-ratio limit: testing and improving the effective-one-body multipolar waveform

Monday, January 10th, 2011

arXiv:1012.2456

by Bernuzzi, Sebastiano and Nagar, Alessandro and Zenginoglu, Anil

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Gravitational radiation from radial infall of a particle into a Schwarzschild black hole. A numerical study of the spectra, quasi-normal modes and power-law tails

Monday, January 10th, 2011

arXiv:1012.2028

by Mitsou, Ermis
15 pages, 7 figures

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Forced motion near black holes

Monday, January 10th, 2011

arXiv:1012.5111

by Gair, Jonathan R. and Flanagan, Eanna E. and Drasco, Steve and Hinderer, Tanja and Babak, Stanislav
27 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D

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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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Star Formation in Quasar Disk

Thursday, November 18th, 2010

arXiv:1011.3541

by Jiang, Yanfei and Goodman, Jeremy
34 pages, 8 figures. Submitted to ApJ

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The coupling of a young stellar disc with the molecular torus in the Galactic centre

Thursday, November 18th, 2010

arXiv:1011.3815

by Haas, Jaroslav and Subr, Ladislav and Kroupa, Pavel
Accepted for publication in MNRAS; 9 pages, 4 figures, 1 table

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The impact of realistic models of mass segregation on the event rate of extreme-mass ratio inspirals and cusp re-growth

Friday, October 29th, 2010

arXiv:1010.5781

by Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Preto, Miguel
Submitted to Class. Quantum Grav.; based on the invited plenary talk of P. Amaro-Seoane at the LISA Symposium 2010

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Conservative corrections to the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) of a Kerr black hole: a new gauge-invariant post-Newtonian ISCO condition, and the ISCO shift due to test-particle spin and the gravitational self-force

Thursday, October 14th, 2010

arXiv:1010.2553

by Favata, Marc
17 pages, 2 figures, 1 table

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Testing Modified Gravity with Gravitational Wave Astronomy

Wednesday, October 13th, 2010

arXiv:1010.0062

by Sopuerta, Carlos F. and Yunes, Nicolas
10 pages, 2 figures, Springer Verlag LaTeX style. To appear in the proceedings of Cosmology, the Quantum Vacuum, and Zeta Functions: A workshop with a celebration of Emilio Elizalde’s sixtieth birthday, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain, 8-10 Mar 2010. Eds. S. D. Odintsov, D. Saez-Gomez, and S. Xambo

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The Effect of Massive Perturbers on Extreme Mass-Ratio Inspiral Waveforms

Wednesday, October 13th, 2010

arXiv:1010.1721

by Yunes, Nicolas and Miller, M. Coleman and Thornburg, Jonathan
9 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D

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Secular Stellar Dynamics near a Massive Black Hole

Wednesday, October 13th, 2010

arXiv:1010.1535

by Madigan, Ann-Marie and Hopman, Clovis and Levin, Yuri
22 pages, 27 figures, submitted to ApJ

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Constraining properties of the black hole population using LISA

Friday, October 1st, 2010

arXiv:1009.6172

by Gair, Jonathan R and Sesana, Alberto and Berti, Emanuele and Volonteri, Marta
11 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Class. Quantum Grav. for proceedings of 8th LISA Symposium

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An Efficient Time-Domain Method to Model Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals

Friday, October 1st, 2010

arXiv:1009.6073

by Canizares, Priscilla and Sopuerta, Carlos F.
6 pages, 7 figures, submitted to proceedings of the 8th International LISA Symposium, Stanford, June 28 – July 2, 2010

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Extreme Mass-Ratio Inspirals in the Effective-One-Body Approach: Quasi-Circular, Equatorial Orbits around a Spinning Black Hole

Friday, October 1st, 2010

arXiv:1009.6013

by Yunes, Nicolas and Buonanno, Alessandra and Hughes, Scott A. and Pan, Yi and Barausse, Enrico and Miller, M. Coleman and Throwe, William
21 pages, 8 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D

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On the relevance of gravitational self-force corrections on parameter estimation errors for extreme-mass-ratio inspirals

Thursday, September 30th, 2010

arXiv:1009.5882

by Huerta, E. A. and Gair, Jonathan R
6 pages, 1 figure, submitted to proceedings of the 8th International LISA Symposium, Stanford, June 28 – July 2, 2010

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Transient resonances in the inspirals of point particles into black holes

Monday, September 27th, 2010

arXiv:1009.4923

by Flanagan, Eanna E. and Hinderer, Tanja
5 pages, 1 figure

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Extreme-Mass-Ratio-Black-Hole-Binary Evolutions with Numerical Relativity

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

arXiv:1009.0292

by Lousto, Carlos O. and Zlochower, Yosef
4 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables

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Constraining scalar fields with stellar kinematics and collisional dark matter

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

arXiv:1009.0019

by Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Barranco, Juan and Bernal, Argelia and Rezzolla, Luciano
22 pages, 8 figures; submitted to JCAP

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Tidal breakup of binary stars at the Galactic Center. II. Hydrodynamic simulations

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

arXiv:1008.5369

by Antonini, Fabio and Lombardi, James C. and Merritt, David
20 pages, 16 figures

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Conservative self-force correction to the innermost stable circular orbit: comparison with multiple post-Newtonian-based methods

Monday, August 30th, 2010

arXiv:1008.4622

by Favata, Marc
26 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables

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Is a Circular Orbit Possible According to General Relativity?

Friday, August 27th, 2010

arXiv:1008.3553

by Hioe, F. T. and Kuebel, David
13 pages, no figures, no tables

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Gravitational Radiations from a Spinning Compact Object circling a Supermassive Kerr Black Hole

Friday, August 20th, 2010

arXiv:1008.3324

by Han, Wen-Biao
16 pages, 17 figures. Submitted to Phys. Rev. D

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The Orbital Structure of Triaxial Galaxies with Figure Rotation

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

arXiv:1008.2753

by Deibel, Alex T. and Valluri, Monica and Merritt, David
22 pages, 17 figures. Submitted to ApJ August 2010. High resolution version available at http://astro.lsa.umich.edu/~mvalluri/preprints.html

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Precession effect of the gravitational self-force in a Schwarzschild spacetime and the effective one-body formalism

Monday, August 9th, 2010

arXiv:1008.0935

by Barack, Leor and Damour, Thibault and Sago, Norichika
25 pages, 5 eps figures

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Event Horizon Deformations in Extreme Mass-Ratio Black Hole Mergers

Monday, August 9th, 2010

arXiv:1007.5387

by Hamerly, Ryan and Chen, Yanbei
23 pages, 14 figures. Submitted to Physical Review D

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Testing GR with Galactic-centre Stars

Monday, August 9th, 2010

arXiv:1008.1061

by Angelil, Raymond and Saha, Prasenjit
Contributed talk in “The Galactic Center, a window to the nuclear environment of disk galaxies”, Shanghai 19-23/10/2009. To appear in ASP Conf. Proc. Ser. “Galactic center workshop 2009″ ed. Mark Morris, Daniel Q. Wang and Feng Yuan (4 pages, 2 figures)

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Key questions about Galactic Center dynamics

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

arXiv:1007.4991

by Alexander, Tal
Invited overview lecture in “The Galactic Center, a window to the nuclear environment of disk galaxies” (Shanghai 19-23/10/2009). To appear in ASP Conf. Proc. Ser. “Galactic center workshop 2009″ ed. Mark Morris (12 pp 5 fig)

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