The last GW Note is by Miguel Preto
Archive for the ‘gr-qc’ Category
Constraining scalar fields with stellar kinematics and collisional dark matter
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010by Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Barranco, Juan and Bernal, Argelia and Rezzolla, Luciano
22 pages, 8 figures; submitted to JCAP
Radiatively inefficient accretion flows induced by gravitational-wave emission before massive black hole coalescence
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010Bayesian parameter estimation in the second LISA Pathfinder Mock Data Challenge
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010by 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
Conservative self-force correction to the innermost stable circular orbit: comparison with multiple post-Newtonian-based methods
Monday, August 30th, 2010Croatian Black Hole School 2010 lecture notes on IMBHs in GCs
Friday, August 27th, 2010by 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 )
Is a Circular Orbit Possible According to General Relativity?
Friday, August 27th, 2010Intermediate-mass-ratio black hole binaries: intertwining numerical and perturbative techniques
Friday, August 27th, 2010by Lousto, Carlos O. and Nakano, Hiroyuki and Zlochower, Yosef and Campanelli, Manuela
31 pages, 33 figures revtex 4
Gravitational Radiations from a Spinning Compact Object circling a Supermassive Kerr Black Hole
Friday, August 20th, 2010Length requirements for numerical-relativity waveforms
Thursday, August 19th, 2010by Hannam, Mark and Husa, Sascha and Ohme, Frank and Ajith, P.
13 pages, 11 figures, 2 tables
Dynamical damping terms for symmetry-seeking shift conditions
Monday, August 16th, 2010by Alic, Daniela and Rezzolla, Luciano and Hinder, Ian and Mösta, Philipp
11 pages, 8 figures
Study of multi black hole and ring singularity apparent horizons
Friday, August 13th, 2010Precession effect of the gravitational self-force in a Schwarzschild spacetime and the effective one-body formalism
Monday, August 9th, 2010by Barack, Leor and Damour, Thibault and Sago, Norichika
25 pages, 5 eps figures
Event Horizon Deformations in Extreme Mass-Ratio Black Hole Mergers
Monday, August 9th, 2010by Hamerly, Ryan and Chen, Yanbei
23 pages, 14 figures. Submitted to Physical Review D
Testing GR with Galactic-centre Stars
Monday, August 9th, 2010by 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)
Fast Fisher Matrices and Lazy Likelihoods
Thursday, July 29th, 2010Black-hole binaries with non-precessing spins
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010by Hannam, Mark and Husa, Sascha and Ohme, Frank and Mueller, Doreen and Bruegmann, Bernd
20 pages, 9 figures, 6 tables
On the falloff of radiated energy in black hole spacetimes
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010by Burko, Lior M. and Hughes, Scott A.
5 pages, no figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D
The Carter Constant for Inclined Orbits About a Massive Kerr Black Hole: I. circular orbits
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010by Komorowski, P. G. and Valluri, S. R. and Houde, M.
48 pages, 7 figures, submitted to Classical and Quantum Gravity on March 2nd, 2010
High-Accuracy Comparison between the Post-Newtonian and Self-Force Dynamics of Black-Hole Binaries
Friday, July 16th, 2010by 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
Linear Stability Analysis and the Speed of Gravitational Waves in Dynamical Chern-Simons Modified Gravity
Friday, July 16th, 2010by Garfinkle, David and Pretorius, Frans and Yunes, Nicolas
4 pages, no figures, submitted to Rapid Communications
A hybrid method for understanding black-hole mergers: head-on case
Thursday, July 15th, 2010by Nichols, David A. and Chen, Yanbei
13 pages, 6 figures, 1 table, revtex4 format
Characterizing Spinning Black Hole Binaries in Eccentric Orbits with LISA
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010Highly accurate and efficient self-force computations using time-domain methods: Error estimates, validation, and optimization
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010by Thornburg, Jonathan
27 pages, 12 eps figures (10 of them color, but all are viewable ok in black-and-white), uses RevTeX 4.1
Full-analytic frequency-domain 1pN-accurate gravitational wave forms from eccentric compact binaries
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010Higher order moment models of dense stellar systems: Applications to the modeling of the stellar velocity distribution function
Friday, June 18th, 2010by Schneider, Justus and Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Spurzem, Rainer
Submitted to MNRAS, comments welcome
Self consistent model for the evolution of eccentric massive black hole binaries in stellar environments: implications for gravitational wave observations
Friday, June 18th, 2010by Sesana, A.
15 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
Statistical constraints on binary black hole inspiral dynamics
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010by Galley, Chad R. and Herrmann, Frank and Silberholz, John and Tiglio, Manuel and Guerberoff, Gustavo
The Lagrange Equilibrium Points L_4 and L_5 in a Black Hole Binary System
Friday, June 4th, 2010by Schnittman, Jeremy D.
10 pages, 4 figures, submitted to ApJ; comments welcome