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Archive for the ‘EMRI’ Category

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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The Carter Constant for Inclined Orbits About a Massive Kerr Black Hole: I. circular orbits

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

arXiv:1007.4189

by Komorowski, P. G. and Valluri, S. R. and Houde, M.
48 pages, 7 figures, submitted to Classical and Quantum Gravity on March 2nd, 2010

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Highly accurate and efficient self-force computations using time-domain methods: Error estimates, validation, and optimization

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

arXiv:1006.3788

by Thornburg, Jonathan
27 pages, 12 eps figures (10 of them color, but all are viewable ok in black-and-white), uses RevTeX 4.1

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Gravitational self-force on a particle in eccentric orbit around a Schwarzschild black hole

Friday, February 12th, 2010

arXiv:1002.2386

by Barack, Leor and Sago, Norichika
42 pages

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Towards Tests of Alternative Theories of Gravity with LISA

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

arXiv:1001.4899

by Sopuerta, Carlos F. and Yunes, Nicolas
3 pages. To appear in Proceedings of the Twelfth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, edited by Thibault Damour, Robert T Jantzen and Remo Ruffini, World Scientific, Singapore, 2010

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Modelling Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals using Pseudospectral Methods

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

arXiv:1001.4697

by Canizares, Priscilla and Sopuerta, Carlos F.
3 pages. To appear in Proceedings of the Twelfth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, edited by Thibault Damour, Robert T Jantzen and Remo Ruffini, World Scientific, Singapore, 2010

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Numerical modeling of gravitational wave sources accelerated by OpenCL

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

arXiv:1001.3631

by Khanna, Gaurav and McKennon, Justin
14 pages, 4 figures

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Persistent junk solutions in time-domain modeling of extreme mass ratio binaries

Monday, January 18th, 2010

arXiv:1001.2578

by Field, Scott E. and Hesthaven, Jan S. and Lau, Stephen R.
Uses revtex4, 23 pages, 9 figures, 3 tables

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Post-ISCO Ringdown Amplitudes in Extreme Mass Ratio Inspiral

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0911.3899

by Hadar, Shahar and Kol, Barak
17 pages, 2 figures. v3: minor changes

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Testing Properties of the Galactic Center Black Hole Using Stellar Orbits

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0911.4718

by Merritt, David and Alexander, Tal and Mikkola, Seppo and Will, Clifford M.
18 pages, 9 figures

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Hyper Velocity Stars and the Restricted Parabolic 3-body Problem

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

arXiv:0911.1136

by Sari, Re’em and Kobayashi, Shiho and Rossi, Elena M.
10 pages, 10 Figures, Apj submitted

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Gravitational Self Force in a Schwarzschild Background and the Effective One Body Formalism

Friday, October 30th, 2009

arXiv:0910.5533

by Damour, Thibault
44 pages

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On the spatial distribution and the origin of hypervelocity stars

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

arXiv:0910.3260

by Lu, Youjun and Zhang, Fupeng and Yu, Qingjuan
7 pages, 5 figures

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On strong mass segregation around a massive black hole: Implications for lower-frequency gravitational-wave astrophysics

Monday, October 19th, 2009

arXiv:0910.3206

by Preto, Miguel and Amaro-Seoane, Pau
5 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, submitted to ApJL

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Self-force and motion of stars around black holes

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

arXiv:0909.5558

by Spallicci, A. and Aoudia, S.
To be published on 21 Rencontres de Blois: Windows on the Universe, http://confs.obspm.fr/Blois2009/, 4 pages 1 figure

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High-velocity runaway stars from three-body encounters

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

arXiv:0909.4929

by Gvaramadze, V. V. and Gualandris, A. and Zwart, S. Portegies
4 pages, 2 figure, to appear in Star Clusters — Basic Galactic Building Blocks throughout Time and Space, Proceed. of the IAU Symp. 266, eds. R. de Grijs and J. Lepine

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Modeling Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals within the Effective-One-Body Approach

Friday, September 25th, 2009

arXiv:0909.4263

by Yunes, Nicolas and Buonanno, Alessandra and Hughes, Scott A. and Miller, M. Coleman and Pan, Yi
4 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. Letters

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An exploration of CUDA and CBEA for a gravitational wave source-modelling application

Friday, September 25th, 2009

arXiv:0909.4039

by Khanna, Gaurav and McKennon, Justin
8 pages, 4 figures, Accepted for publication in Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS 2009)

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Tidal break-up of binary stars at the Galactic center and its consequences

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

arXiv:0909.1959

by Antonini, Fabio and Faber, Joshua and Gualandris, Alessia and Merritt, David
15 pages, 10 figures

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The Distribution of Stars and Stellar Remnants at the Galactic Center

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

arXiv:0909.1318

by Merritt, David
22 pages, 18 figures

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Tidal interaction of a small black hole in the field of a large Kerr black hole

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

arXiv:0908.4518

by Comeau, Simon and Poisson, Eric
4 pages, 2 figures

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Self-force with (3+1) codes: a primer for numerical relativists

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

arXiv:0908.2138

by Vega, Ian and Diener, Peter and Tichy, Wolfgang and Detweiler, Steven
23 pages, 13 figures

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Gravitational self force in extreme mass-ratio inspirals

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

arXiv:0908.1664

by Barack, Leor
Invited topical review for CQG; 61 pages, 4 eps figures; uses iopart.cls, iopart10.clo

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Hamiltonian of a spinning test-particle in curved spacetime

Friday, July 31st, 2009

arXiv:0907.4745

by Barausse, E. and Racine, E. and Buonanno, A.
17 pages

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Energy Level Diagrams for Black Hole Orbits

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

arXiv:0907.5195

by Levin, Janna
7 pages

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Relativistic orbits and Gravitational Waves from gravitomagnetic corrections

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

arXiv:0906.5530

by Capozziello, Salvatore and De Laurentis, Mariafelicia and Forte, Luca and Garufi, Fabio and Milano, Leopoldo
6 pages, 10 figures; Multifrequency Behaviour of High-Energy Cosmic Sources, Vulcano Workshop 2009

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Gravitational waves production from stellar encounters around massive black holes

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

arXiv:0906.4923

by De Laurentis, M. and Capozziello, S.
6 pages, 3 figures; Multifrequency Behaviour of High-Energy Cosmic Sources, Vulcano Workshop 2009

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On the dissolution of star clusters in the Galactic centre. I. Circular orbits

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

arXiv:0906.4459

by Ernst, Andreas and Just, Andreas and Spurzem, Rainer
18 pages, 20 figures; accepted by MNRAS

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Constraining alternative theories of gravity by gravitational waves from precessing eccentric compact binaries with LISA

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

arXiv:0906.4269

by Yagi, Kent and Tanaka, Takahiro
37 pages, 16 figures

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