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Black Holes in Pseudobulges: demography and models

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

arXiv:1201.6393

by Shankar, F. and Marulli, F. and Mathur, S. and Bernardi, M. and Bournaud, F.
9 pages, 4 Figures. Accepted by A&A

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Approximate Waveforms for Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals: The Chimera Scheme

Monday, January 30th, 2012

arXiv:1201.5715

by Sopuerta, Carlos F. and Yunes, Nicolas
10 pages, 3 figures. LaTeX, JPCS style. Submitted to the proceedings of the 9th Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves, and the 2011 Numerical Relativity – Data Analysis (NRDA) meeting, held 10-15 July 2011 in Cardiff, Wales, UK, July 10-15 2011

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Comparison of Atom Interferometers and Light Interferometers as Space-Based Gravitational Wave Detectors

Monday, January 30th, 2012

arXiv:1201.5656

by Baker, John G. and Thorpe, James Ira
to be submitted to Physical Review Letters

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The evolution of massive black holes and their spins in their galactic hosts

Monday, January 30th, 2012

arXiv:1201.5888

by Barausse, Enrico
25 pages, 15 figures

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Tidal Disruptions of White Dwarfs from Ultra-Close Encounters with Intermediate Mass Spinning Black Holes

Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

arXiv:1201.4389

by Haas, Roland and Shcherbakov, Roman V. and Bode, Tanja and Laguna, Pablo
15 pages, 17 figures, submitted to Astrophysical Journal

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Gravitational-wave emission from compact Galactic binaries

Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

arXiv:1201.4613

by Nissanke, Samaya and Vallisneri, Michele and Nelemans, Gijs and Prince, Thomas A.
17 pages, 3 figures, 5 tables, to be submitted to the Astrophysical Journal

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Non-sky-averaged sensitivity curves for space-based gravitational-wave observatories

Friday, January 20th, 2012

arXiv:1201.3684

by Vallisneri, Michele and Galley, Chad R.
24 pages, 7 PDF figures. Mathematica code at http://www.vallis.org/publications/sensitivity

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Interaction of Recoiling Supermassive Black Holes with Stars in Galactic Nuclei

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

arXiv:1201.3407

by Li, Shuo and Liu, F. K. and Berczik, Peter and Chen, Xian and Spurzem, Rainer
38 pages, 10 figues; accepted for publication in ApJ

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Gravitational wave diagnosis of a circumbinary disk

Monday, January 16th, 2012

arXiv:1201.2858

by Hayasaki, Kimitake and Yagi, Kent and Tanaka, Takahiro and Mineshige, Shin
10 pages, 2 figures, submitted to ApJ

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Stochastic oscillations of general relativistic disks

Thursday, January 12th, 2012

arXiv:1201.2218

by Harko, Tiberiu and Mocanu, Gabriela
10 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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Is J enough? Comparison of gravitational waves emitted along the total angular momentum direction with other preferred orientations

Wednesday, January 11th, 2012

arXiv:1201.2113

by O’Shaughnessy, R. and Healy, J. and London, L. and Meeks, Z. and Shoemaker, D.
Submitted to PRD

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Gravitational Recoil From Accretion-Aligned Black-Hole Binaries

Wednesday, January 11th, 2012

arXiv:1201.1923

by Lousto, Carlos O. and Zlochower, Yosef and Dotti, Massimo and Volonteri, Marta
17 pages, 10 tables, 14 figures, revtex 4

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Cosmological Backgrounds of Gravitational Waves and eLISA/NGO: Phase Transitions, Cosmic Strings and Other Sources

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

arXiv:1201.0983

by Binétruy, Pierre and Bohé, Alejandro and Caprini, Chiara and Dufaux, Jean-François
46 pages, 12 figures

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Tuning the stochastic background of gravitational waves using the WMAP data

Monday, January 2nd, 2012

arXiv:1112.5776

by Corda, Christian
9 pages, 2 figures, published in Modern Physics Letters A. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:0901.1193

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Testing Other MONDian Theories Using LISA Pathfinder

Saturday, December 24th, 2011

arXiv:1112.5443

by Mozaffari, Ali
9 Pages, 5 Figures

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Towards the use of the most massive black hole candidates in AGN to test the Kerr paradigm

Saturday, December 24th, 2011

arXiv:1112.4663

by Bambi, Cosimo
12 pages, 6 figures. To appear in PRD

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Gravitational radiation from compact binary systems in the massive Brans-Dicke theory of gravity

Saturday, December 24th, 2011

arXiv:1112.4903

by Alsing, Justin and Berti, Emanuele and Will, Clifford and Zaglauer, Helmut
19 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables

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Late Inspiral and Merger of Binary Black Holes in Scalar-Tensor Theories of Gravity

Monday, December 19th, 2011

arXiv:1112.3928

by Healy, James and Bode, Tanja and Haas, Roland and Pazos, Enrique and Laguna, Pablo and Shoemaker, Deirdre M. and Yunes, Nicolás
4 pages, 5 figures, 1 table

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Verifying the no-hair property of massive compact objects with intermediate-mass-ratio inspirals in advanced gravitational-wave detectors

Thursday, December 8th, 2011

arXiv:1112.1404

by Rodriguez, Carl L. and Mandel, Ilya and Gair, Jonathan R.
12 pages, 5 figures, submitted to PRD

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Searching for Gravitational Waves with a Geostationary Gravitational Wave Interferometer

Thursday, December 8th, 2011

arXiv:1112.1565

by de Araujo, J. C. N. and Aguiar, O. D. and Alves, M. E. S. and Tinto, M.
21 pages, 9 eps figures

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Recoiling Supermassive Black Holes in Spin-flip Radio Galaxies

Wednesday, December 7th, 2011

arXiv:1112.1081

by Liu, F. K. and Wang, Dong and Chen, Xian
47 pages, 9 figures, 1 table; accepted for publication in ApJ

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Observational Evidence for a Correlation Between Jet Power and Black Hole Spin

Wednesday, December 7th, 2011

arXiv:1112.0569

by Narayan, Ramesh and McClintock, Jeffrey E.
Published online in MNRAS, November 21, 2011

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The stochastic background from cosmic (super)strings: popcorn and (Gaussian) continuous regimes

Thursday, December 1st, 2011

arXiv:1111.6638

by Regimbau, Tania and Giampanis, Stefanos and Siemens, Xavier and Mandic, Vuk
21 pages, 11 figures, submitted to PRD

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Evolution of inspiral orbits around a Schwarzschild black hole

Thursday, December 1st, 2011

arXiv:1111.6908

by Warburton, Niels and Akcay, Sarp and Barack, Leor and Gair, Jonathan R. and Sago, Norichika
4.3 pages, 3 figures

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The Gravitational Wave International Committee Roadmap: The future of gravitational wave astronomy

Monday, November 28th, 2011

arXiv:1111.5825

by Marx, Jay and Danzmann, Karsten and Hough, James and Kuroda, Kazuaki and McClelland, David and Mours, Benoit and Phinney, Sterl and Rowan, Sheila and Sathyaprakash, B. and Vetrano, Flavio and Vitale, Stefano and Whitcomb, Stan and Will, Clifford
116 pages. Original document in higher resolution can be found at https://gwic.ligo.org/roadmap/

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The complete non-spinning effective-one-body metric at linear order in the mass ratio

Thursday, November 24th, 2011

arXiv:1111.5610

by Barausse, Enrico and Buonanno, Alessandra and Tiec, Alexandre Le
11 pages, 2 figures

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Gravitational Self-Force Correction to the Binding Energy of Compact Binary Systems

Thursday, November 24th, 2011

arXiv:1111.5609

by Tiec, Alexandre Le and Barausse, Enrico and Buonanno, Alessandra
5 pages, 1 figure

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The First Law of Binary Black Hole Mechanics in General Relativity and Post-Newtonian Theory

Thursday, November 24th, 2011

arXiv:1111.5378

by Tiec, Alexandre Le and Blanchet, Luc and Whiting, Bernard F.
43 pages, 3 figures

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LAGRANGE: LAser GRavitational-wave ANtenna at GEo-lunar Lagrange points

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011

arXiv:1111.5264

by Conklin, J. W. and Buchman, S. and Aguero, V. and Alfauwaz, A. and Aljadaan, A. and Almajed, M. and Altwaijry, H. and Al-Saud, T. and Balakrishnan, K. and Byer, R. L. and Bower, K. and Costello, B. and Cutler, G. D. and DeBra, D. B. and Faied, D. M. and Foster, C. and Genova, A. L. and Hanson, J. and Hooper, K. and Hultgren, E. and Jaroux, B. and Klavins, A. and Lantz, B. and Lipa, J. A. and Palmer, A. and Plante, B. and Sanchez, H. S. and Saraf, S. and Schaechter, D. and Sherrill, T. and Smith, E. and Shu, K. -L. and Tenerelli, D. and Vanbezooijen, R. and Vasudevan, G. and Williams, S. D. and Worden, S. P. and Zhou, J. and Zoellner, A.
Comments: 24 pages, to be submitted to Classical and Quantum Gravity

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Analysis of the residual force noise for the LISA Technology Package

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011

arXiv:1111.4816

by Ferraioli, Luigi and Armano, Michele and Congedo, Giuseppe and Diaz-Aguilo, Marc and De Marchi, Fabrizio and Grynagier, Adrien and Hewitson, Martin and Hueller, Mauro and Monsky, Anneke and Nofrarias, Miquel and Plagnol, Eric and Rais, Boutheina and Vitale, Stefano
To be published in Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Proceedings of the 8th International LISA Symposium

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