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Archive for the ‘gr-qc’ Category

Constructing EOB dynamics with numerical energy flux for intermediate-mass-ratio inspirals

Friday, August 19th, 2011

arXiv:1108.0995

by Han, Wen-Biao and Cao, Zhoujian
11 pages, 7 figures and 2 tables

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Gravitational waves in dynamical spacetimes with matter content in the Fully Constrained Formulation

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

arXiv:1108.0571

by Cordero-Carrión, Isabel and Cerdá-Durán, Pablo and Ibáñez, José María
18 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables

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Hangup Kicks: Still Larger Recoils by Partial Spin/Orbit Alignment of Black-Hole Binaries

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

arXiv:1108.2009

by Lousto, Carlos O. and Zlochower, Yosef
4 pages, 3 figures, revtex 4

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Model for common growth of supermassive black holes, bulges and globular star clusters: ripping off Jeans clusters

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

arXiv:1108.1697

by Nieuwenhuizen, Theo M.
5 pages latex

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The gravitational-wave memory from eccentric binaries

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

arXiv:1108.3121

by Favata, Marc
25 pages, 8 figures

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Relativistic collapse and explosion of rotating supermassive stars with thermonuclear effects

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

arXiv:1108.3090

by Montero, Pedro J. and Janka, Hans-Thomas and Mueller, Ewald
12 pages, 8 figures, submitted to the Astrophysical Journal

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Coalescence Rate of Supermassive Black Hole Binaries Derived from Cosmological Simulations: Detection Rates for LISA and ET

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

arXiv:1108.2638

by Filloux, Ch. and Pacheco, J. A. de Freitas and Durier, F. and de Araujo, J. C. N.
18 pages, 7 figures, to appear in the IJMPD

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Distributional sources for black hole initial data

Wednesday, July 27th, 2011

arXiv:1107.4691

by Tonita, Aaryn
Code available at https://github.com/SwampWalker/LeapingMonkey

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Binary dynamics from spin1-spin2 coupling at fourth post-Newtonian order

Friday, July 22nd, 2011

arXiv:1107.4322

by Levi, Michele
24 pages, revtex4-1, 5 figures

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Next-to-next-to-leading order post-Newtonian spin(1)-spin(2) Hamiltonian for self-gravitating binaries

Friday, July 22nd, 2011

arXiv:1107.4294

by Hartung, Johannes and Steinhoff, Jan
7 pages, submitted to AdP

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Graviton mass bounds from space-based gravitational-wave observations of massive black hole populations

Thursday, July 21st, 2011

arXiv:1107.3528

by Berti, Emanuele and Gair, Jonathan and Sesana, Alberto
5 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables

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Perturbed stellar motions around the rotating black hole in Sgr A* for a generic orientation of its spin axis

Monday, July 18th, 2011

arXiv:1107.2916

by Iorio, Lorenzo
LaTex2e, 21 pages, 4 tables, no figures

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Accretion disks around kicked black holes: Post-kick Dynamics

Monday, July 11th, 2011

arXiv:1107.1711

by Ponce, Marcelo and Faber, Joshua A. and Lombardi, James C.
Submitted to ApJ. Movies available as ‘ancillary files’

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Mergers of black-hole binaries with aligned spins: Waveform characteristics

Thursday, July 7th, 2011

arXiv:1107.1181

by Kelly, Bernard J. and Baker, John G. and Boggs, William D. and McWilliams, Sean T. and Centrella, Joan
19 pages, 17 figures

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Reliability of complete gravitational waveform models for compact binary coalescences

Thursday, July 7th, 2011

arXiv:1107.0996

by Ohme, Frank and Hannam, Mark and Husa, Sascha
15 pages, 9 figures, PDFLaTeX

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The case for testing MOND using LISA Pathfinder

Thursday, July 7th, 2011

arXiv:1107.1075

by Magueijo, Joao and Mozaffari, Ali

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A nonlinear scalar model of extreme mass ratio inspirals in effective field theory II. Scalar perturbations and a master source

Wednesday, July 6th, 2011

arXiv:1107.0766

by Galley, Chad R.
For Part 1 of this series, see arXiv:1012.4488. 20 pages, 7 figures

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Self force via $m$-mode regularization and 2+1D evolution: II. Scalar-field implementation on Kerr spacetime

Monday, July 4th, 2011

arXiv:1107.0012

by Dolan, Sam R. and Wardell, Barry and Barack, Leor
30 pages, 5 figures, 3 tables

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Gravitational wave background from binary systems

Thursday, June 30th, 2011

arXiv:1106.5795

by Rosado, Pablo A.

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Testing the black hole no-hair theorem at the galactic center: Perturbing effects of stars in the surrounding cluster

Thursday, June 30th, 2011

arXiv:1106.5056

by Sadeghian, Laleh and Will, Clifford M.
17 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Classical and Quantum Gravity

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Binary Black Hole Waveform Extraction at Null Infinity

Monday, June 27th, 2011

arXiv:1106.4841

by Babiuc, M. C. and Winicour, J. and Zlochower, Y.
11 pages, 7 figures

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Effective one body Hamiltonian of two spinning black-holes with next-to-next-to-leading order spin-orbit coupling

Thursday, June 23rd, 2011

arXiv:1106.4349

by Nagar, Alessandro
11 pages, no figures. Submitted to Phys. Rev. D

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Periastron Advance in Black Hole Binaries

Sunday, June 19th, 2011

arXiv:1106.3278

by Tiec, Alexandre Le and Mroué, Abdul H. and Barack, Leor and Buonanno, Alessandra and Pfeiffer, Harald P. and Sago, Norichika and Taracchini, Andrea
5 pages, 3 figures

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Inspiral-merger-ringdown multipolar waveforms of nonspinning black-hole binaries using the effective-one-body formalism

Thursday, June 9th, 2011

arXiv:1106.1021

by Pan, Yi and Buonanno, Alessandra and Boyle, Michael and Buchman, Luisa T. and Kidder, Lawrence E. and Pfeiffer, Harald P. and Scheel, Mark A.
26 pages, 25 figures

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Testing the No-Hair Theorem with Sgr A*

Tuesday, May 31st, 2011

arXiv:1105.5645

by Johannsen, Tim
8 pages, 7 figures, invited review for Advances in Astronomy, Special Issue: “Seeking for the Leading Actor on the Cosmic Stage: Galaxies versus Supermassive Black Holes”

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Gravitational waves from the Papaloizou-Pringle instability in black hole-torus systems

Thursday, May 26th, 2011

arXiv:1105.5035

by Kiuchi, Kenta and Shibata, Masaru and Montero, Pedro J. and Font, José A.
4 pages, 4 figure, to be published in PRL

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Binary black hole mergers in gaseous disks: Simulations in general relativity

Tuesday, May 17th, 2011

arXiv:1105.2821

by Farris, Brian D. and Liu, Yuk Tung and Shapiro, Stuart L.
submitted to PRD

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Radiative efficiency and thermal spectrum of accretion onto Schwarzschild black holes

Tuesday, May 17th, 2011

arXiv:1105.2825

by Noble, Scott C. and Krolik, Julian H. and Schnittman, Jeremy D. and Hawley, John F.
Submitted to ApJ, 26 pages, 12 figures (some in color), AASTEX

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Gravitational Wave Tests of General Relativity with the Parameterized Post-Einsteinian Framework

Thursday, May 12th, 2011

arXiv:1105.2088

by Cornish, Neil and Sampson, Laura and Yunes, Nico and Pretorius, Frans
17 pages, 17 figures

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Black Hole Accretion Disks

Monday, May 2nd, 2011

arXiv:1104.5499

by Abramowicz, Marek A. and Fragile, P. Chris
58 pages, 22 figures, submitted to Living Reviews in Relativity

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