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An upper limit to the velocity dispersion of relaxed stellar systems without massive black holes

Friday, June 29th, 2012

arXiv:1206.6167

by Miller, M. Coleman and Davies, Melvyn B.
8 pages, 2 figures, accepted to the Astrophysical Journal

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On the mass radiated by coalescing black-hole binaries

Tuesday, June 19th, 2012

arXiv:1206.3803

by Barausse, Enrico and Morozova, Viktoriya and Rezzolla, Luciano
9 pages (emulateapj), 4 figures

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Modeling a circular equatorial test-particle in a Kerr spacetime

Wednesday, June 13th, 2012

arXiv:1206.2509

by Carré, Jérôme and Porter, Edward K.
18 pages, 11 figures

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Stellar dynamics and extreme-mass ratio inspirals

Tuesday, June 12th, 2012

arXiv:1205.5240

by Amaro-Seoane, Pau
160 pages, two columns. Invited review to Living Reviews in Relativity. Some parts profit from arXiv:astro-ph/0703495, although they have been significantly expanded and improved

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The role of the supermassive black hole spin in the estimation of the EMRI event rate

Tuesday, June 12th, 2012

arXiv:1205.4713

by Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Sopuerta, Carlos F. and Freitag, Marc Dewi
Submitted. Abstract abridged

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Self-forced gravitational waveforms for Extreme and Intermediate mass ratio inspirals

Tuesday, June 12th, 2012

arXiv:1206.1452

by Lackeos, Kristen A. and Burko, Lior M.
4 pages, 6 figures

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Search for the PN coefficients for the Energy flux through Gravitational Waves from Black-Hole Binaries using Markov Chain Monte Carlo

Tuesday, June 12th, 2012

arXiv:1206.0915

by Kumar, Prayush
(59 pgs, 25figs). Undergraduate Thesis submitted to Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, India; on 15th December, 2008

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Testing Chern-Simons modified gravity with observations of extreme-mass-ratio binaries

Tuesday, June 12th, 2012

arXiv:1206.0322

by Canizares, Priscilla and Gair, Jonathan R. and Sopuerta, Carlos F.
10 pages, JPCS of the Amaldi 9 and NRDA 2011

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Accurate modeling of intermediate-mass-ratio inspirals: exploring the form of the self-force in the intermediate-mass-ratio regime

Tuesday, June 12th, 2012

arXiv:1205.5562

by Huerta, E. A. and Kumar, Prayush and Brown, Duncan A.
21 pages, 8 figures. Submitted to PRD

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The gap closes: a new scenario for the evolution of supermassive black hole binaries with gaseous disks

Tuesday, June 12th, 2012

arXiv:1205.5268

by Kocsis, Bence and Haiman, Zoltan and Loeb, Abraham
22 pages, 10 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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Gas pile up and overflow in circumbinary accretion disks: Type-I.5 migration

Tuesday, June 12th, 2012

arXiv:1205.4714

by Kocsis, Bence and Haiman, Zoltan and Loeb, Abraham
20 pages, 3 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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Collisions of charged black holes

Tuesday, June 12th, 2012

arXiv:1205.1063

by Zilhão, Miguel and Cardoso, Vitor and Herdeiro, Carlos and Lehner, Luis and Sperhake, Ulrich
15 pages, 8 figures

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Accretion, Growth of Supermassive Black Holes, and Feedback in Galaxy Mergers

Tuesday, June 12th, 2012

arXiv:1205.0363

by Li, Li-Xin
11 pages, 4 figures. Submitted to MNRAS

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Spacetime Metrology with LISA Pathfinder

Saturday, April 21st, 2012

arXiv:1204.4299

by Congedo, Giuseppe
PhD thesis defended at University of Trento on 26th March 2012. Advisors: Stefano Vitale, Mauro Hueller. Committee: Eugenio Coccia (Univ. of Rome, Tor Vergata), Philippe Jetzer (Univ. of Z\”urich), Eric Plagnol (APC-CNRS, Paris), Rita Dolesi (Univ. Of Trento)

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Light scalar field constraints from gravitational-wave observations of compact binaries

Saturday, April 21st, 2012

arXiv:1204.4340

by Berti, Emanuele and Gualtieri, Leonardo and Horbatsch, Michael and Alsing, Justin
9 pages, 4 figures

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General Relativistic Simulations of Magnetized Plasmas around Merging Supermassive Black Holes

Tuesday, April 10th, 2012

arXiv:1203.6108

by Giacomazzo, Bruno and Baker, John G. and Miller, M. Coleman and Reynolds, Christopher S. and van Meter, James R.
6 pages, 5 figures

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The Formation of the First Massive Black Holes

Tuesday, April 10th, 2012

arXiv:1203.6075

by Haiman, Zoltán
47 pages with 306 references; this review is a chapter in “The First Galaxies – Theoretical Predictions and Observational Clues”, Springer Astrophysics and Space Science Library, Eds. T. Wiklind, V. Bromm & B. Mobasher, in press

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The end-to-end testbed of the Optical Metrology System on-board LISA Pathfinder

Tuesday, April 10th, 2012

arXiv:1203.4842

by Steier, Frank and Cervantes, Felipe Guzmán and Marín, Antonio F. García and Gerardi, Domenico and Heinzel, Gerhard and Danzmann, Karsten

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Subtraction of test mass angular noise in the LISA Technology Package interferometer

Tuesday, April 10th, 2012

arXiv:1203.4476

by Cervantes, Felipe Guzmán and Steier, Frank and Wanner, Gudrun and Heinzel, Gerhard and Danzmann, Karsten
Applied Physics B – Lasers and Optics (2008)

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Effects of post-Newtonian Spin Alignment on the Distribution of Black-Hole Recoils

Tuesday, April 10th, 2012

arXiv:1203.2920

by Berti, Emanuele and Kesden, Michael and Sperhake, Ulrich
12 pages, 4 figures, 1 table

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Characterization of photoreceivers for LISA

Tuesday, April 10th, 2012

arXiv:1203.2862

by Cervantes, Felipe Guzmán and Livas, Jeffrey and Silverberg, Robert and Buchanan, Ernest and Stebbins, Robin

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Modelling the black hole silhouette in Sgr A* with ion tori

Tuesday, April 10th, 2012

arXiv:1203.2618

by Straub, Odele and Vincent, Frederic H. and Abramowicz, Marek A. and Gourgoulhon, Eric and Paumard, Thibaut
11 pages, 10 figures, submitted to A & A

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Radial infall of two compact objects: 2.5PN linear momentum flux and associated recoil

Wednesday, February 29th, 2012

arXiv:1202.6213

by Mishra, Chandra Kant
17 pages, 2 figures

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Evolution of binary black holes in self gravitating discs: dissecting the torques

Wednesday, February 29th, 2012

arXiv:1202.6063

by Roedig, Constanze and Sesana, Alberto and Dotti, Massimo and Cuadra, Jorge and Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Haardt, Francesco
14 pages, 12 Figures, submitted to MNRAS

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Pseudo-Newtonian Potentials for Nearly Parabolic Orbits

Monday, February 27th, 2012

arXiv:1202.5336

by Wegg, Christopher
4 pages, 1 figure. Accepted by ApJ

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Gravitational wave observations of galactic intermediate-mass black hole binaries with DECIGO Path Finder

Friday, February 17th, 2012

arXiv:1202.3512

by Yagi, Kent
32 pages, 13 figures, accepted to CQG

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Detecting Cosmic Gravitational-wave Background from Super-heavy Cosmic Strings with LISA

Friday, February 17th, 2012

arXiv:1202.3595

by Tang, Alf and Sumner, Timothy J.
10 pages, 7 figures

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Removing the trend of drift induced from acceleration noise for LISA

Thursday, February 16th, 2012

arXiv:1202.2976

by Tang, Alf and Sumner, Timothy J.
12 pages, 6 figures

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Gravitational Wave Recoil and Kick Processes in the Merger of Two Colliding Black Holes: The Non Head-on Case

Tuesday, February 7th, 2012

arXiv:1202.1271

by Aranha, R. F. and Soares, I. Damião and Tonini, E. V.
11 pages, 7 figures

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A prototype effective-one-body model for non-precessing spinning inspiral-merger-ringdown waveforms

Monday, February 6th, 2012

arXiv:1202.0790

by Taracchini, Andrea and Pan, Yi and Buonanno, Alessandra and Barausse, Enrico and Boyle, Michael and Chu, Tony and Lovelace, Geoffrey and Pfeiffer, Harald P. and Scheel, Mark A.
19 pages, 8 figures

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