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Archive for the ‘gr-qc’ Category

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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Tail-induced spin-orbit effect in the gravitational radiation of compact binaries

Monday, May 2nd, 2011

arXiv:1104.5659

by Blanchet, Luc and Buonanno, Alessandra and Faye, Guillaume
Submitted to Physical Review D

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Sky localization of complete inspiral-merger-ringdown signals for nonspinning massive black hole binaries

Monday, May 2nd, 2011

arXiv:1104.5650

by McWilliams, Sean T. and Lang, Ryan N. and Baker, John G. and Thorpe, James Ira
9 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D

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Gauge and Averaging in Gravitational Self-force

Monday, May 2nd, 2011

arXiv:1104.5635

by Gralla, Samuel E.

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Gravitational radiation for extreme mass ratio inspirals to the 14th post-Newtonian order

Monday, May 2nd, 2011

arXiv:1104.5615

by Fujita, Ryuichi
4 pages, 2 figures

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Observable Signatures of EMRI Black Hole Binaries Embedded in Thin Accretion Disks

Thursday, April 14th, 2011

arXiv:1104.2322

by Kocsis, Bence and Yunes, Nicolas and Loeb, Abraham
42 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables, submitted to Phys. Rev. D

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Cosmography with strong lensing of LISA gravitational wave sources

Tuesday, April 12th, 2011

arXiv:1104.1977

by Sereno, M. and Jetzer, Ph. and Sesana, A. and Volonteri, M.
10 pages, 10 figures, in press on MNRAS

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Gravitational waves from extreme mass-ratio inspirals in Dynamical Chern-Simons gravity

Monday, April 11th, 2011

arXiv:1104.1183

by Pani, Paolo and Cardoso, Vitor and Gualtieri, Leonardo
RevTex4, 18 pages, 7 figures, 1 table

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Accuracy of the post-Newtonian approximation. II. Optimal asymptotic expansion of the energy flux for quasicircular, extreme mass-ratio inspirals into a Kerr black hole

Saturday, April 2nd, 2011

arXiv:1103.6041

by Zhang, Zhongyang and Yunes, Nicolas and Berti, Emanuele
9 pages, 8 figures

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Geodesic deviations: modeling extreme mass-ratio systems and their gravitational waves

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

arXiv:1103.5612

by Koekoek, G. and van Holten, J. W.

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A fully relativistic twisted disk around a slowly rotating Kerr black hole: derivation of dynamical equations and the shape of stationary configurations

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

arXiv:1103.5739

by Zhuravlev, V. and Ivanov, P.
accepted for publication in MNRAS

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Evolution of the spin parameter of accreting compact objects with non-Kerr quadrupole moment

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011

arXiv:1103.5135

by Bambi, Cosimo
20 pages, 16 figures

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Time-domain modelling of Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna

Monday, March 14th, 2011

arXiv:1103.2149

by Canizares, Priscilla and Sopuerta, Carlos F.
4 pages, 2 figures, JPCS latex style. Submitted to JPCS (special issue for the proceedings of the Spanish Relativity Meeting (ERE2010))

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Time Domain Simulations of Arm Locking in LISA

Tuesday, March 1st, 2011

arXiv:1102.5423

by Thorpe, James Ira and Maghami, Peiman and Livas, Jeffrey
Submitted to Phys. Rev. D

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On the unreasonable effectiveness of the post-Newtonian approximation in gravitational physics

Monday, February 28th, 2011

arXiv:1102.5192

by Will, Clifford M.
9 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (US)

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Numerical simulation of time delay interferometry for LISA with one arm dysfunctional

Friday, February 25th, 2011

arXiv:1102.4965

by Dhurandhar, S. V. and Ni, W. -T. and Wang, G.
16 pages, 5 figures

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Stellar Dynamics of Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals

Friday, February 25th, 2011

arXiv:1102.3180

by Merritt, David and Alexander, Tal and Mikkola, Seppo and Will, Clifford
28 pages, 16 figures

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Fast coalescence of massive black hole binaries from mergers of galactic nuclei: implications for low-frequency gravitational-wave astrophysics

Friday, February 25th, 2011

arXiv:1102.4855

by Preto, Miguel and Berentzen, Ingo and Berczik, Peter and Spurzem, Rainer
6 pages, 4 figures, 1 table. Submitted to ApJL

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A source-free integration method for black hole perturbations and self-force computation: Radial fall

Thursday, February 17th, 2011

arXiv:1008.2507

by Aoudia, Sofiane and Spallicci, Alessandro D. A. M.
12 pages, 13 figures (additional figures and text revised in v2 arXiv)

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Collision of two general geodesic particles around a Kerr black hole

Thursday, February 17th, 2011

arXiv:1102.3316

by Harada, Tomohiro and Kimura, Masashi
21 pages, 3 figures, submitted to PRD

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Gravitational Wave Detection by Interferometry (Ground and Space)

Thursday, February 17th, 2011

arXiv:1102.3355

by Pitkin, Matthew and Reid, Stuart and Rowan, Sheila and Hough, Jim
Submitted as a major update to Living Rev. Relativity 3, (2000), 3

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Penrose At Work

Thursday, February 10th, 2011

arXiv:1102.1937

by Cen, Renyue
6 pages, no figure, submitted to the Astrophysical Journal Letters

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Constraint on the quadrupole moment of super-massive black hole candidates from the estimate of the mean radiative efficiency of AGN

Monday, February 7th, 2011

arXiv:1102.0616

by Bambi, Cosimo
4 pages, 2 figures

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Initial data transients in binary black hole evolutions

Monday, February 7th, 2011

arXiv:1101.5492

by Bishop, Nigel and Pollney, Denis and Reisswig, Christian
18 pages, 4 figures

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Near-infrared polarimetry as a tool for testing properties of accreting super-massive black holes

Monday, February 7th, 2011

arXiv:1102.0775

by Zamaninasab, M. and Eckart, A. and Dovciak, M. and Karas, V. and Schoedel, R. and Witzel, G. and Sabha, N. and Garcia-Marin, M. and Kunneriath, D. and Muzic, K. and Straubmeier, C. and Valencia-S, M. and Zensus, J. A.
12 pages, 13 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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Probing the size of extra dimension with gravitational wave astronomy

Thursday, January 27th, 2011

arXiv:1101.4997

by Yagi, Kent and Tanahashi, Norihiro and Tanaka, Takahiro
19 pages, 10 figures; submitted to PRD

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Mergers of Supermassive Black Holes in Astrophysical Environments

Wednesday, January 26th, 2011

arXiv:1101.4684

by Bode, Tanja and Bogdanovic, Tamara and Haas, Roland and Healy, James and Laguna, Pablo and Shoemaker, Deirdre
5 pages, 4 figures, 1 table

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Neural network interpolation of the magnetic field for the LISA Pathfinder Diagnostics Subsystem

Friday, January 21st, 2011

arXiv:1101.3955

by Diaz-Aguilo, Marc and Lobo, Alberto and GarcĂ­a-Berro, Enrique

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Transition from adiabatic inspiral to plunge into a spinning black hole

Thursday, January 20th, 2011

arXiv:1101.3749

by Kesden, Michael
9 pages, 6 figures, submitted to PRD

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