The last GW Note is by Nicolás Yunes

Archive for the ‘gr-qc’ Category

Understanding the “anti-kick” in the merger of binary black holes

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

arXiv:1003.0873

by Rezzolla, Luciano and Macedo, Rodrigo P. and Jaramillo, José Luis
4 pages

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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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Binary spinning black hole Hamiltonian in canonical center-of-mass and rest-frame coordinates through higher post-Newtonian order

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

arXiv:1003.0390

by Rothe, Tilman J. and Schäfer, Gerhard
18 pages, no figures

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EM counterparts of recoiling black holes: general relativistic simulations of non-Keplerian discs

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

arXiv:1002.4185

by Zanotti, Olindo and Rezzolla, Luciano and Del Zanna, Luca and Palenzuela, Carlos
17 pages, 11 figures, submitted to MNRAS, movies available at http://numrel.aei.mpg.de/Visualisations/Archive/BinaryBlackHoles/EMCounterparts/EMCounterparts.html

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Final spins from the merger of precessing binary black holes

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

arXiv:1002.2643

by Kesden, Michael and Sperhake, Ulrich and Berti, Emanuele
20 pages, 16 figures, revtex

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Cover art: issues in the metric-guided and metric-less placement of random and stochastic template banks

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

arXiv:0909.0563

by Manca, Gian Mario and Vallisneri, Michele
RevTeX4, 21 pages, 9 PDF figures

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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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Discriminating between a Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background and Instrument Noise

Monday, February 8th, 2010

arXiv:1002.1291

by Adams, Matthew R. and Cornish, Neil J.
10 Pages, 10 Figures

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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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Effects of Interplanetary Dust on the LISA drag-free Constellation

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

arXiv:1002.0489

by Cerdonio, Massimo and De Marchi, Fabrizio and De Pietri, Roberto and Jetzer, Philippe and Marzari, Francesco and Mazzolo, Giulio and Ortolan, Antonello and Sereno, Mauro
11 pages, 6 figures, to be published on the special issue of “Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy” on the CELMEC V conference

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The search for spinning black hole binaries in mock LISA data using a genetic algorithm

Monday, February 1st, 2010

arXiv:1001.5380

by Petiteau, Antoine and Shang, Yu and Babak, Stanislav and Feroz, Farhan
25 pages, 9 figures

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The Current Status of Binary Black Hole Simulations in Numerical Relativity

Friday, January 29th, 2010

arXiv:1001.5161

by Hinder, Ian
14 pages; submitted to the Classical and Quantum Gravity special issue for NRDA2009

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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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Advances in Simulations of Generic Black-Hole Binaries

Sunday, January 24th, 2010

arXiv:1001.3834

by Campanelli, Manuela and Lousto, Carlos O. and Mundim, Bruno C. and Nakano, Hiroyuki and Zlochower, Yosef and Bischof, Hans-Peter
12 pages, 5 figures, Prepared for 8th Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves (Amaldi8)

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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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Measuring the dark energy equation of state with LISA

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

arXiv:1001.3099

by Broeck, Chris Van Den and Trias, M. and Sathyaprakash, B. S. and Sintes, A. M.
14 pages, many eps 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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Intermediate Mass Ratio Black Hole Binaries: Numerical Relativity meets Perturbation Theory

Friday, January 15th, 2010

arXiv:1001.2316

by Lousto, Carlos O. and Nakano, Hiroyuki and Zlochower, Yosef and Campanelli, Manuela
4 pages, 5 figures, revtex4

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An improved effective-one-body Hamiltonian for spinning black-hole binaries

Friday, December 18th, 2009

arXiv:0912.3517

by Barausse, Enrico and Buonanno, Alessandra
22 pages, 9 figures

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Effective-one-body waveforms calibrated to numerical relativity simulations: coalescence of non-precessing, spinning, equal-mass black holes

Friday, December 18th, 2009

arXiv:0912.3466

by Pan, Yi and Buonanno, Alessandra and Buchman, Luisa T. and Chu, Tony and Kidder, Lawrence E. and Pfeiffer, Harald P. and Scheel, Mark A.
15 pages, 8 figures

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Toward a dynamical shift condition for unequal mass black hole binary simulations

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0912.3125

by Mueller, Doreen and Bruegmann, Bernd
15 pages, submitted to CQG for NRDA 2009 conference proceedings

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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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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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LISA long-arm interferometry

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0911.3175

by Thorpe, James Ira
13 pages, 5 figures, Submitted to C&QG for proceedings of 8th Eduardo Amaldi Conference

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Radiation from low-momentum zoom-whirl orbits

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0911.3862

by Gold, Roman and Bruegmann, Bernd
8 pages, 5 figures, Amaldi8 conference proceedings

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Understanding possible electromagnetic counterparts to loud gravitational wave events: Binary black hole effects on electromagnetic fields

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0911.3889

by Palenzuela, Carlos and Lehner, Luis and Yoshida, Shin
12 pages

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Third-and-a-half order post-Newtonian equations of motion for relativistic compact binaries using the strong field point particle limit

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0911.4232

by Itoh, Yousuke
38 pages, no figures. Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D

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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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Effective One Body description of tidal effects in inspiralling compact binaries

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0911.5041

by Damour, Thibault and Nagar, Alessandro
21 pages, 5 figures. Submitted to Phys. Rev. D

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