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Archive for the ‘general relativity’ Category

Accuracy of the post-Newtonian approximation. II. Optimal asymptotic expansion of the energy flux for quasicircular, extreme mass-ratio inspirals into a Kerr black hole

Saturday, April 2nd, 2011

arXiv:1103.6041

by Zhang, Zhongyang and Yunes, Nicolas and Berti, Emanuele
9 pages, 8 figures

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Exploring the effects of pressure on the radial accretion of dark matter by a Schwarzschild supermassive black hole

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

arXiv:1103.5497

by Guzman, F. S. and Lora-Clavijo, F. D.
9 pages, 24 eps figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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Geodesic deviations: modeling extreme mass-ratio systems and their gravitational waves

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

arXiv:1103.5612

by Koekoek, G. and van Holten, J. W.

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A fully relativistic twisted disk around a slowly rotating Kerr black hole: derivation of dynamical equations and the shape of stationary configurations

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

arXiv:1103.5739

by Zhuravlev, V. and Ivanov, P.
accepted for publication in MNRAS

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A source-free integration method for black hole perturbations and self-force computation: Radial fall

Thursday, February 17th, 2011

arXiv:1008.2507

by Aoudia, Sofiane and Spallicci, Alessandro D. A. M.
12 pages, 13 figures (additional figures and text revised in v2 arXiv)

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Collision of two general geodesic particles around a Kerr black hole

Thursday, February 17th, 2011

arXiv:1102.3316

by Harada, Tomohiro and Kimura, Masashi
21 pages, 3 figures, submitted to PRD

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Penrose At Work

Thursday, February 10th, 2011

arXiv:1102.1937

by Cen, Renyue
6 pages, no figure, submitted to the Astrophysical Journal Letters

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Constraint on the quadrupole moment of super-massive black hole candidates from the estimate of the mean radiative efficiency of AGN

Monday, February 7th, 2011

arXiv:1102.0616

by Bambi, Cosimo
4 pages, 2 figures

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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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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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Strong lensing of gravitational waves as seen by LISA

Thursday, November 25th, 2010

arXiv:1011.5238

by Sereno, M. and Sesana, A. and Bleuler, A. and Jetzer, Ph. and Volonteri, M. and Begelman, M. C.
4 pages, 6 figures, in press on Phys. Rev. Lett

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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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LISA Sensitivities to Gravitational Waves from Relativistic Metric Theories of Gravity

Wednesday, October 13th, 2010

arXiv:1010.1302

by Tinto, Massimo and Alves, Márcio Eduardo da Silva
Paper submitted to Physical Review D. It is 20 pages long and contains 14 figures

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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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Conservative, gravitational self-force for a particle in circular orbit around a Schwarzschild black hole in a Radiation Gauge

Monday, September 27th, 2010

arXiv:1009.4876

by Shah, Abhay and Keidl, Tobias and Friedman, John and Kim, Dong-Hoon and Price, Larry
21 pages, 2 figures

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Inspiral of Generic Black Hole Binaries: Spin, Precession, and Eccentricity

Saturday, September 18th, 2010

arXiv:1009.2533

by Levin, Janna and Contreras, Hugo

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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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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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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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On the falloff of radiated energy in black hole spacetimes

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

arXiv:1007.4596

by Burko, Lior M. and Hughes, Scott A.
5 pages, no figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D

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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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Relativistic models of magnetars: structure and deformations

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

arXiv:0712.2162

by Colaiuda, A. and Ferrari, V. and Gualtieri, L. and Pons, J. A.
25 pages, 9 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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The gravitational-wave memory effect

Friday, March 19th, 2010

arXiv:1003.3486

by Favata, Marc
11 pages, 2 figures; proceedings of the 8th Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves (New York, June 2009); accepted for publication in special issue of Classical and Quantum Gravity

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Semianalytical estimates of scattering thresholds and gravitational radiation in ultrarelativistic black hole encounters

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

arXiv:1003.0812

by Berti, Emanuele and Cardoso, Vitor and Hinderer, Tanja and Lemos, Madalena and Pretorius, Frans and Sperhake, Ulrich and Yunes, Nicolas
29 pages, 19 figure, 6 tables

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High-Order Post-Newtonian Fit of the Gravitational Self-Force for Circular Orbits in the Schwarzschild Geometry

Monday, February 8th, 2010

arXiv:1002.0726

by Blanchet, Luc and Detweiler, Steven and Tiec, Alexandre Le and Whiting, Bernard F.
32 pages, 2 figures

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