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Archive for the ‘general relativity’ Category

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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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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Constraining the evolutionary history of Newton’s constant with gravitational wave observations

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0912.2724

by Yunes, Nicolas and Pretorius, Frans and Spergel, David
11 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D

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Relativistic Mergers of Supermassive Black Holes and their Electromagnetic Signatures

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0912.0087

by Bode, Tanja and Haas, Roland and Bogdanovic, Tamara and Laguna, Pablo and Shoemaker, Deirdre
19 pages, 14 figures

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Impact of mergers on LISA parameter estimation for nonspinning black hole binaries

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0911.1078

by McWilliams, Sean T. and Thorpe, James Ira and Baker, John G. and Kelly, Bernard J.
16 pages, 9 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D

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Statistical studies of Spinning Black-Hole Binaries

Monday, October 19th, 2009

arXiv:0910.3197

by Lousto, Carlos O. and Nakano, Hiroyuki and Zlochower, Yosef and Campanelli, Manuela
20 pages, 24 figures, abridged abstract

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Post-Newtonian and Numerical Calculations of the Gravitational Self-Force for Circular Orbits in the Schwarzschild Geometry

Friday, October 2nd, 2009

arXiv:0910.0207

by Blanchet, Luc and Detweiler, Steven and Tiec, Alexandre Le and Whiting, Bernard F.
36 pages, 3 figures

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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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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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Simulations of Binary Black Hole Mergers Using Spectral Methods

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

arXiv:0909.3557

by Szilágyi, Béla and Lindblom, Lee and Scheel, Mark A.
16 pages, 16 figures

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Fundamental Theoretical Bias in Gravitational Wave Astrophysics and the Parameterized Post-Einsteinian Framework

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

arXiv:0909.3328

by Yunes, Nicolas and Pretorius, Frans
25 pages, submitted to Phys. Rev. D

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Gravitomagnetic corrections on gravitational waves

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

arXiv:0909.0895

by Capozziello, S. and De Laurentis, M. and Forte, L. and Garufi, F. and Milano, L.
14 pages, 7 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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Elementary development of the gravitational self-force

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

arXiv:0908.4363

by Detweiler, Steven
38 pages, 4 figures, Lecture given at the “School on Mass” (Orleans, France, June 2008), uses Springer’s “svmult.cls”

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Third post-Newtonian angular momentum flux and the secular evolution of orbital elements for inspiralling compact binaries in quasi-elliptical orbits

Friday, August 28th, 2009

arXiv:0908.3854

by Arun, K. G. and Blanchet, Luc and Iyer, Bala R. and Sinha, Siddhartha
62 pages, 23 figures, article submitted

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Gravitational Waves and Light Cosmic Strings

Friday, August 28th, 2009

arXiv:0908.3680

by Depies, Matthew R
129 pages, 18 figures, PhD dissertation

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Black Holes in Active Galactic Nuclei

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

arXiv:0908.2706

by Valtonen, M. J. and Mikkola, S. and Merritt, D. and Gopakumar, A. and Lehto, H. J. and Hyvönen, T. and Rampadarath, H. and Saunders, R. and Basta, M. and Hudec, R.
9 pages, 6 figures, IAU261: Relativity in Fundamental Astronomy

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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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Coalescing binaries as possible standard candles

Monday, August 10th, 2009

arXiv:0908.0961

by Capozziello, S. and De Laurentis, M. and Formisano, M.
7 page, 5 figures

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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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Gravitational wave forms for a three-body system in Lagrange’s orbit: parameter determinations and a binary source test

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

arXiv:0907.5091

by Asada, Hideki
21 pages, 3 figures, 1 table

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Post-Newtonian theory and the two-body problem

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

arXiv:0907.3596

by Blanchet, Luc
42 pages, to appear in the book “Mass and Motion in General Relativity”, proceedings of the C.N.R.S. School in Orleans, France, eds. L. Blanchet, A. Spallicci and B. Whiting

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Zoom-Whirl Orbits in Black Hole Binaries

Monday, July 6th, 2009

arXiv:0907.0671

by Healy, James and Levin, Janna and Shoemaker, Deirdre

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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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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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