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Archive for the ‘gr-qc’ Category

Analytical meets numerical relativity – status of complete gravitational waveform models

Thursday, November 17th, 2011

arXiv:1111.3737

by Ohme, Frank
12 pages, 2 figures, 1 table, NRDA2011/Amaldi 9 proceedings

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Resonances in Extreme Mass-Ratio Inspirals: Asymptotic and Hyperasymptotic Analysis

Thursday, November 17th, 2011

arXiv:1111.3605

by Gair, Jonathan R and Yunes, Nicolas and Bender, Carl M
12 pages, 3 figures, submitted to JMP

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Quantitative Analysis of LISA Pathfinder Test Mass Noise

Tuesday, November 15th, 2011

arXiv:1111.3320

by Ferraioli, Luigi and Hewitson, Martin and Congedo, Giuseppe and Nofrarias, Miquel and Hueller, Mauro and Armano, Michele and Vitale, Stefano
Accepted for publication in Phys Rev D

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Importance of including small body spin effects in the modelling of intermediate mass-ratio inspirals. II Accurate parameter extraction of strong sources using higher-order spin effects

Tuesday, November 15th, 2011

arXiv:1111.3243

by Huerta, E. A. and Gair, Jonathan R. and Brown, Duncan A.
22 pages, 3 figures. Submitted to Phys. Rev. D. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1105.3567

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Jets from Tidal Disruptions of Stars by Black Holes

Monday, November 14th, 2011

arXiv:1111.2802

by Krolik, Julian H. and Piran, Tsvi

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Modeling multipolar gravitational-wave emission from small mass-ratio mergers

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

arXiv:1110.3081

by Barausse, Enrico and Buonanno, Alessandra and Hughes, Scott A. and Khanna, Gaurav and O’Sullivan, Stephen and Pan, Yi
19 pages, 14 figures, 6 tables

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Mass-Energy and Momentum Extraction by Gravitational Wave Emission in the Merger of Two Colliding Black Holes: The Non-Head-On Case

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

arXiv:1111.1223

by Aranha, R. F. and Soares, I. Damião and Tonini, E. V.
18 pages, 12 Figures

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Properties of a thin accretion disk around a rotating non-Kerr black hole

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

arXiv:1110.3462

by Chen, Songbai and Jing, Jiliang
13 pages, 5 figures. References added, Expanded discussion of the marginally stable orbit and its consequence. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1106.5183

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Relativistic Binaries in Globular Clusters

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

arXiv:1110.4423

by Benacquista, Matthew J. and Downing, Jonathan M. B.
88 pages, 13 figures. Submitted update of Living Reviews article

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Post-Newtonian, Quasi-Circular Binary Inspirals in Quadratic Modified Gravity

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

arXiv:1110.5950

by Yagi, Kent and Stein, Leo C. and Yunes, Nicolas and Tanaka, Takahiro
26 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables; submitted to PRD

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Slowly-rotating stars and black holes in dynamical Chern-Simons gravity

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

arXiv:1110.5329

by Ali-Haïmoud, Yacine and Chen, Yanbei
14 pages, 11 figures. Comments are welcome

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Constraining Generic Lorentz Violation and the Speed of the Graviton with Gravitational Waves

Friday, October 14th, 2011

arXiv:1110.2720

by Mirshekari, Saeed and Yunes, Nicolas and Will, Clifford M.
11 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables. Submitted to Phys. Rev. D

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The LTP Experiment on LISA Pathfinder: Operational Definition of TT Gauge in Space

Friday, October 14th, 2011

arXiv:1110.3031

by Armano, Michele
PhD thesis. About 240 pages

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Energy versus Angular Momentum in Black Hole Binaries

Friday, October 14th, 2011

arXiv:1110.2938

by Damour, Thibault and Nagar, Alessandro and Pollney, Denis and Reisswig, Christian
4 pages, 2 figures

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Polarimetric Imaging of Sgr A* in its Flaring State

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

arXiv:1109.6736

by Melia, Fulvio and Falanga, Maurizio and Goldwurm, Andrea
Accepted for Publication in MNRAS, September 26, 2011

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Collision of an object in the transition from adiabatic inspiral to plunge around a Kerr black hole

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

arXiv:1109.6722

by Harada, Tomohiro and Kimura, Masashi
17 pages, no figure

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Observing Lense-Thirring Precession in Tidal Disruption Flares

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

arXiv:1109.6660

by Stone, Nicholas and Loeb, Abraham
4 pages, 4 figures

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Elimination of the spin supplementary condition in the effective field theory approach to the post-Newtonian approximation

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

arXiv:1110.2094

by Hergt, Steven and Steinhoff, Jan and Schaefer, Gerhard
37 pages, submitted

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Accurate gravitational waveforms for binary-black-hole mergers with nearly extremal spins

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

arXiv:1110.2229

by Lovelace, Geoffrey and Boyle, Michael and Scheel, Mark A. and Szilagyi, Bela
17 pages, 7 figures, submitted to Classical and Quantum Gravity

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Repeated Bursts from Relativistic Scattering of Compact Objects in Galactic Nuclei

Friday, September 23rd, 2011

arXiv:1109.4170

by Kocsis, Bence and Levin, Janna
14 pages, 10 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D

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Tidal Perturbations to the Gravitational Inspiral of J0651+2844

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

arXiv:1109.2744

by Benacquista, Matthew
5 pages, submitted to ApJL

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On the detectability of dual jets from binary black holes

Monday, September 12th, 2011

arXiv:1109.1177

by Moesta, Philipp and Alic, Daniela and Rezzolla, Luciano and Zanotti, Olindo and Palenzuela, Carlos
4 pages, 3 figures

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Blindly detecting orbital modulations of jets from merging supermassive black holes

Monday, September 12th, 2011

arXiv:1109.1050

by O’Shaughnessy, R. and Kaplan, D. L. and Sesana, A. and Kamble, A.
Submitted to ApJ. v1 original submission; v2 minor changes in response to referee

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

Tuesday, September 6th, 2011

arXiv:1109.0572

by Sopuerta, Carlos F. and Yunes, Nicolás
RevTeX 4.1. 35 pages, 10 Figures, 3 Tables

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Stability and chaos of hierarchical three black hole configurations

Wednesday, August 24th, 2011

arXiv:1108.4485

by Galaviz, Pablo
15 pages, 15 figures and 4 tables

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Intermediate-mass-ratio black hole binaries II: Modeling Trajectories and Gravitational Waveforms

Wednesday, August 24th, 2011

arXiv:1108.4421

by Nakano, Hiroyuki and Zlochower, Yosef and Lousto, Carlos O. and Campanelli, Manuela
23 pages, 35 figures, revtex4

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Null infinity waveforms from extreme-mass-ratio inspirals in Kerr spacetime

Friday, August 19th, 2011

arXiv:1108.1816

by Zenginoğlu, Anıl and Khanna, Gaurav
12 pages, 7 figures

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Faster computation of adiabatic EMRIs using resonances

Friday, August 19th, 2011

arXiv:1108.1819

by Grossman, Rebecca and Levin, Janna and Perez-Giz, Gabe
30 pages, 7 figures. Submitted to Phys. Rev. D

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Testing General Relativity with LISA including Spin Precession and Higher Harmonics in the Waveform

Friday, August 19th, 2011

arXiv:1108.1826

by Huwyler, Cédric and Klein, Antoine and Jetzer, Philippe
26 pages, 28 figures

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Electromagnetic counterparts from counter-rotating relativistic kicked discs

Friday, August 19th, 2011

arXiv:1108.3654

by Zanotti, Olindo
6 pages, 4 figures. Accepted by New Astronomy

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