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Archive for the ‘gr-qc’ Category

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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Radiatively inefficient accretion flows induced by gravitational-wave emission before massive black hole coalescence

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

arXiv:1009.0157

by Hayasaki, Kimitake
12 pages, 2 figures, submitted to ApJL

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Bayesian parameter estimation in the second LISA Pathfinder Mock Data Challenge

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

arXiv:1008.5280

by Nofrarias, M. and Röver, C. and Hewitson, M. and Monsky, A. and Heinzel, G. and Danzmann, K. and Ferraioli, L. and Hueller, M. and Vitale, S.
14 pages, 4 figures, submitted to PRD

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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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Croatian Black Hole School 2010 lecture notes on IMBHs in GCs

Friday, August 27th, 2010

arXiv:1008.4477

by Pasquato, Mario
These lecture notes are based on the series of invited lectures on IMBHs I delivered at the June 2010 Croatian Black Hole School ( organizer: Jarah Evslin, site: http://antimodave.jimdo.com )

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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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Intermediate-mass-ratio black hole binaries: intertwining numerical and perturbative techniques

Friday, August 27th, 2010

arXiv:1008.4360

by Lousto, Carlos O. and Nakano, Hiroyuki and Zlochower, Yosef and Campanelli, Manuela
31 pages, 33 figures revtex 4

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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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Length requirements for numerical-relativity waveforms

Thursday, August 19th, 2010

arXiv:1008.2961

by Hannam, Mark and Husa, Sascha and Ohme, Frank and Ajith, P.
13 pages, 11 figures, 2 tables

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Dynamical damping terms for symmetry-seeking shift conditions

Monday, August 16th, 2010

arXiv:1008.2212

by Alic, Daniela and Rezzolla, Luciano and Hinder, Ian and Mösta, Philipp
11 pages, 8 figures

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Study of multi black hole and ring singularity apparent horizons

Friday, August 13th, 2010

arXiv:1008.2001

by Jaramillo, Gabriela and Lousto, Carlos O.
31 pages, 21 figures

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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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Fast Fisher Matrices and Lazy Likelihoods

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

arXiv:1007.4820

by Cornish, Neil J.
4 pages, no figures

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Black-hole binaries with non-precessing spins

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

arXiv:1007.4789

by Hannam, Mark and Husa, Sascha and Ohme, Frank and Mueller, Doreen and Bruegmann, Bernd
20 pages, 9 figures, 6 tables

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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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High-Accuracy Comparison between the Post-Newtonian and Self-Force Dynamics of Black-Hole Binaries

Friday, July 16th, 2010

arXiv:1007.2614

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

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Linear Stability Analysis and the Speed of Gravitational Waves in Dynamical Chern-Simons Modified Gravity

Friday, July 16th, 2010

arXiv:1007.2429

by Garfinkle, David and Pretorius, Frans and Yunes, Nicolas
4 pages, no figures, submitted to Rapid Communications

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A hybrid method for understanding black-hole mergers: head-on case

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

arXiv:1007.2024

by Nichols, David A. and Chen, Yanbei
13 pages, 6 figures, 1 table, revtex4 format

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Characterizing Spinning Black Hole Binaries in Eccentric Orbits with LISA

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

arXiv:1006.3759

by Key, Joey Shapiro and Cornish, Neil J.
11 pages, 19 figures

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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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Full-analytic frequency-domain 1pN-accurate gravitational wave forms from eccentric compact binaries

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

arXiv:1006.3714

by Tessmer, Manuel and Schaefer, Gerhard
28 pages

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Higher order moment models of dense stellar systems: Applications to the modeling of the stellar velocity distribution function

Friday, June 18th, 2010

arXiv:1006.1365

by Schneider, Justus and Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Spurzem, Rainer
Submitted to MNRAS, comments welcome

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Self consistent model for the evolution of eccentric massive black hole binaries in stellar environments: implications for gravitational wave observations

Friday, June 18th, 2010

arXiv:1006.0730

by Sesana, A.
15 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

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Statistical constraints on binary black hole inspiral dynamics

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

arXiv:1005.5560

by Galley, Chad R. and Herrmann, Frank and Silberholz, John and Tiglio, Manuel and Guerberoff, Gustavo

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The Lagrange Equilibrium Points L_4 and L_5 in a Black Hole Binary System

Friday, June 4th, 2010

arXiv:1006.0182

by Schnittman, Jeremy D.
10 pages, 4 figures, submitted to ApJ; comments welcome

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Next to leading order spin-orbit effects in the motion of inspiralling compact binaries

Friday, June 4th, 2010

arXiv:1005.5730

by Porto, Rafael A.
25 pages, 4 figures, revtex4

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