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Archive for the ‘gr-qc’ Category

The Current Status of Binary Black Hole Simulations in Numerical Relativity

Friday, January 29th, 2010

arXiv:1001.5161

by Hinder, Ian
14 pages; submitted to the Classical and Quantum Gravity special issue for NRDA2009

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Towards Tests of Alternative Theories of Gravity with LISA

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

arXiv:1001.4899

by Sopuerta, Carlos F. and Yunes, Nicolas
3 pages. To appear in Proceedings of the Twelfth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, edited by Thibault Damour, Robert T Jantzen and Remo Ruffini, World Scientific, Singapore, 2010

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Modelling Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals using Pseudospectral Methods

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

arXiv:1001.4697

by Canizares, Priscilla and Sopuerta, Carlos F.
3 pages. To appear in Proceedings of the Twelfth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, edited by Thibault Damour, Robert T Jantzen and Remo Ruffini, World Scientific, Singapore, 2010

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Advances in Simulations of Generic Black-Hole Binaries

Sunday, January 24th, 2010

arXiv:1001.3834

by Campanelli, Manuela and Lousto, Carlos O. and Mundim, Bruno C. and Nakano, Hiroyuki and Zlochower, Yosef and Bischof, Hans-Peter
12 pages, 5 figures, Prepared for 8th Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves (Amaldi8)

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Numerical modeling of gravitational wave sources accelerated by OpenCL

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

arXiv:1001.3631

by Khanna, Gaurav and McKennon, Justin
14 pages, 4 figures

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Measuring the dark energy equation of state with LISA

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

arXiv:1001.3099

by Broeck, Chris Van Den and Trias, M. and Sathyaprakash, B. S. and Sintes, A. M.
14 pages, many eps figures

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Persistent junk solutions in time-domain modeling of extreme mass ratio binaries

Monday, January 18th, 2010

arXiv:1001.2578

by Field, Scott E. and Hesthaven, Jan S. and Lau, Stephen R.
Uses revtex4, 23 pages, 9 figures, 3 tables

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Intermediate Mass Ratio Black Hole Binaries: Numerical Relativity meets Perturbation Theory

Friday, January 15th, 2010

arXiv:1001.2316

by Lousto, Carlos O. and Nakano, Hiroyuki and Zlochower, Yosef and Campanelli, Manuela
4 pages, 5 figures, revtex4

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An improved effective-one-body Hamiltonian for spinning black-hole binaries

Friday, December 18th, 2009

arXiv:0912.3517

by Barausse, Enrico and Buonanno, Alessandra
22 pages, 9 figures

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Effective-one-body waveforms calibrated to numerical relativity simulations: coalescence of non-precessing, spinning, equal-mass black holes

Friday, December 18th, 2009

arXiv:0912.3466

by Pan, Yi and Buonanno, Alessandra and Buchman, Luisa T. and Chu, Tony and Kidder, Lawrence E. and Pfeiffer, Harald P. and Scheel, Mark A.
15 pages, 8 figures

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Toward a dynamical shift condition for unequal mass black hole binary simulations

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0912.3125

by Mueller, Doreen and Bruegmann, Bernd
15 pages, submitted to CQG for NRDA 2009 conference proceedings

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Constraining the evolutionary history of Newton’s constant with gravitational wave observations

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0912.2724

by Yunes, Nicolas and Pretorius, Frans and Spergel, David
11 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D

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Post-ISCO Ringdown Amplitudes in Extreme Mass Ratio Inspiral

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0911.3899

by Hadar, Shahar and Kol, Barak
17 pages, 2 figures. v3: minor changes

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LISA long-arm interferometry

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0911.3175

by Thorpe, James Ira
13 pages, 5 figures, Submitted to C&QG for proceedings of 8th Eduardo Amaldi Conference

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Radiation from low-momentum zoom-whirl orbits

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0911.3862

by Gold, Roman and Bruegmann, Bernd
8 pages, 5 figures, Amaldi8 conference proceedings

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Understanding possible electromagnetic counterparts to loud gravitational wave events: Binary black hole effects on electromagnetic fields

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0911.3889

by Palenzuela, Carlos and Lehner, Luis and Yoshida, Shin
12 pages

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Third-and-a-half order post-Newtonian equations of motion for relativistic compact binaries using the strong field point particle limit

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0911.4232

by Itoh, Yousuke
38 pages, no figures. Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D

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Testing Properties of the Galactic Center Black Hole Using Stellar Orbits

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0911.4718

by Merritt, David and Alexander, Tal and Mikkola, Seppo and Will, Clifford M.
18 pages, 9 figures

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Effective One Body description of tidal effects in inspiralling compact binaries

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0911.5041

by Damour, Thibault and Nagar, Alessandro
21 pages, 5 figures. Submitted to Phys. Rev. D

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Asymptotics of black hole perturbations

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0911.2450

by Zenginoglu, Anil
9 pages, 8 figures

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Asymptotic expansions of Maximum Likelihood estimators errors, with an application to gravitational waves generated in the inspiral phase of binary mergers

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0912.0065

by Zanolin, M. and Vitale, S. and Makris, N.

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Relativistic Mergers of Supermassive Black Holes and their Electromagnetic Signatures

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0912.0087

by Bode, Tanja and Haas, Roland and Bogdanovic, Tamara and Laguna, Pablo and Shoemaker, Deirdre
19 pages, 14 figures

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Spinning compact binary inspiral: Independent variables and dynamically preserved spin configurations

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0912.0459

by Gergely, László Árpád
12 pages, 2 figures

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The Mock LISA Data Challenges: from Challenge 3 to Challenge 4

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0912.0548

by Babak, Stanislav and Baker, John G. and Benacquista, Matthew J. and Cornish, Neil J. and Larson, Shane L. and Mandel, Ilya and Petiteau, Antoine and Porter, Edward K. and Robinson, Emma L. and Vallisneri, Michele and Vecchio, Alberto and Adams, Matt and Arnaud, Keith A. and Błaut, Arkadiusz and Bridges, Michael and Cohen, Michael and Cutler, Curt and Feroz, Farhan and Gair, Jonathan R. and Graff, Philip and Hobson, Mike and Key, Joey Shapiro and Królak, Andrzej and Lasenby, Anthony and Prix, Reinhard and Shang, Yu and Trias, Miquel and Veitch, John and Whelan, John T.
11 pages, 2 figures, proceedings of the 8th Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves, New York, June 21-26, 2009

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Impact of mergers on LISA parameter estimation for nonspinning black hole binaries

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0911.1078

by McWilliams, Sean T. and Thorpe, James Ira and Baker, John G. and Kelly, Bernard J.
16 pages, 9 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D

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Time-Dependent Models for the Afterglows of Massive Black Hole Mergers

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0912.2054

by Tanaka, Takamitsu and Menou, Kristen
46 pages, 8 figures. Submitted to ApJ

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Binary Black Hole Mergers in Gaseous Environments: “Binary Bondi” and “Binary Bondi-Hoyle-Lyttleton” Accretion

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0912.2096

by Farris, Brian D. and Liu, Yuk Tung and Shapiro, Stuart L.
33 pages, 24 Figures, two tables. Submitted to PRD

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Filling the disk hollow following binary black hole merger: The transient accretion afterglow

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0912.2345

by Shapiro, Stuart L.
9 pages, 5 figures; submitted to PRD

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Asymptotic expansions of Maximum Likelihood estimators errors, with an application to gravitational waves generated in the inspiral phase of binary mergers

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

arXiv:0912.0065

by Zanolin, M. and Vitale, S. and Makris, N.

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Mock LISA Data Challenge for the galactic white dwarf binaries

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

arXiv:0911.3020

by Błaut, Arkadiusz and Babak, Stanislav and Królak, Andrzej
36 pages, 13 figures

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