On the unreasonable effectiveness of the post-Newtonian approximation in gravitational physics
Monday, February 28th, 2011by 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, 2011Stellar Dynamics of Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals
Friday, February 25th, 2011by Merritt, David and Alexander, Tal and Mikkola, Seppo and Will, Clifford
28 pages, 16 figures
Fast coalescence of massive black hole binaries from mergers of galactic nuclei: implications for low-frequency gravitational-wave astrophysics
Friday, February 25th, 2011by Preto, Miguel and Berentzen, Ingo and Berczik, Peter and Spurzem, Rainer
6 pages, 4 figures, 1 table. Submitted to ApJL
A source-free integration method for black hole perturbations and self-force computation: Radial fall
Thursday, February 17th, 2011by Aoudia, Sofiane and Spallicci, Alessandro D. A. M.
12 pages, 13 figures (additional figures and text revised in v2 arXiv)
Collision of two general geodesic particles around a Kerr black hole
Thursday, February 17th, 2011by Harada, Tomohiro and Kimura, Masashi
21 pages, 3 figures, submitted to PRD
Gravitational Wave Detection by Interferometry (Ground and Space)
Thursday, February 17th, 2011by Pitkin, Matthew and Reid, Stuart and Rowan, Sheila and Hough, Jim
Submitted as a major update to Living Rev. Relativity 3, (2000), 3
Penrose At Work
Thursday, February 10th, 2011by Cen, Renyue
6 pages, no figure, submitted to the Astrophysical Journal Letters
Constraint on the quadrupole moment of super-massive black hole candidates from the estimate of the mean radiative efficiency of AGN
Monday, February 7th, 2011Initial data transients in binary black hole evolutions
Monday, February 7th, 2011by Bishop, Nigel and Pollney, Denis and Reisswig, Christian
18 pages, 4 figures
Near-infrared polarimetry as a tool for testing properties of accreting super-massive black holes
Monday, February 7th, 2011by 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
Probing the size of extra dimension with gravitational wave astronomy
Thursday, January 27th, 2011by Yagi, Kent and Tanahashi, Norihiro and Tanaka, Takahiro
19 pages, 10 figures; submitted to PRD
Mergers of Supermassive Black Holes in Astrophysical Environments
Wednesday, January 26th, 2011by Bode, Tanja and Bogdanovic, Tamara and Haas, Roland and Healy, James and Laguna, Pablo and Shoemaker, Deirdre
5 pages, 4 figures, 1 table
Neural network interpolation of the magnetic field for the LISA Pathfinder Diagnostics Subsystem
Friday, January 21st, 2011Transition from adiabatic inspiral to plunge into a spinning black hole
Thursday, January 20th, 2011Measuring parameters of massive black hole binaries with partially aligned spins
Thursday, January 20th, 2011by Lang, Ryan N. and Hughes, Scott A. and Cornish, Neil J.
19 pages, 16 figures, submitted to PRD
Beyond the geodesic approximation: conservative effects of the gravitational self-force in eccentric orbits around a Schwarzschild black hole
Wednesday, January 19th, 2011Tuning Time-Domain Pseudospectral Computations of the Self-Force on a Charged Scalar Particle
Friday, January 14th, 2011by Canizares, Priscilla and Sopuerta, Carlos F.
IOP LaTeX style. 11 pages, 4 pages. Contribution to the NRDA/CAPRA 2010 Conference
Black-hole binaries go to eleven orbits
Monday, January 10th, 2011by Sperhake, Ulrich and Bruegmann, Bernd and Mueller, Doreen and Sopuerta, Carlos F.
Submitted to CQG, Special Edition for NRDA/CAPRA 2010, 13 pages, 7 figures
The Status of Black-Hole Binary Merger Simulations with Numerical Relativity
Monday, January 10th, 2011by McWilliams, Sean T.
Invited review for NRDA/CAPRA 2010, CQG special issue – 7 pages, 1 figure, 1 table
Binary black hole coalescence in the extreme-mass-ratio limit: testing and improving the effective-one-body multipolar waveform
Monday, January 10th, 2011Gravitational radiation from radial infall of a particle into a Schwarzschild black hole. A numerical study of the spectra, quasi-normal modes and power-law tails
Monday, January 10th, 2011Sgr A*: The Optimal Testbed of Strong-Field Gravity
Monday, January 10th, 2011by Psaltis, Dimitrios and Johannsen, Tim
11 pages, 11 figures, Invited Talk in Recent Developments in Gravity XIV, June 2010
Reducing orbital eccentricity in quasi-circular binary black-hole evolutions in presence of spins
Monday, January 10th, 2011by Buonanno, Alessandra and Kidder, Lawrence E. and Mroué, Abdul H. and Pfeiffer, Harald P. and Taracchini, Andrea
17 pages, 11 figures
Spinning super-massive objects in galactic nuclei up to $a_* > 1$
Monday, January 10th, 2011From laboratory experiments to LISA Pathfinder: achieving LISA geodesic motion
Monday, January 10th, 2011by Antonucci, F and Armano, M and Audley, H and Auger, G and Benedetti, M and Binetruy, P and Boatella, C and Bogenstahl, J and Bortoluzzi, D and Bosetti, P and Brandt, N and Caleno, M and Cavalleri, A and Cesa, M and Chmeissani, M and Ciani, G and Conchillo, A and Congedo, G and Cristofolini, I and Cruise, M and Danzmann, K and De Marchi, F and Diaz-Aguilo, M and Diepholz, I and Dixon, G and Dolesi, R and Dunbar, N and Fauste, J and Ferraioli, L and Fertin, D and Fichter, W and Fitzsimons, E and Freschi, M and Marin, A García and Marirrodriga, C García and Gerndt, R and Gesa, L and Giardini, D and Gibert, F and Grimani, C and Grynagier, A and Guillaume, B and Guzmán, F and Harrison, I and Heinzel, G and Hewitson, M and Hollington, D and Hough, J and Hoyland, D and Hueller, M and Huesler, J and Jeannin, O and Jennrich, O and Jetzer, P and Johlander, B and Killow, C and Llamas, X and Lloro, I and Lobo, A and Maarschalkerweerd, R and Madden, S and Mance, D and Mateos, I and McNamara, P W and Mendestì, J and Mitchell, E and Monsky, A and Nicolini, D and Nicolodi, D and Nofrarias, M and Pedersen, F and Perreur-Lloyd, M and Perreca, A and Plagnol, E and Prat, P and Racca, G D and Rais, B and Ramos-Castro, J and Reiche, J and Perez, J A Romera and Robertson, D and Rozemeijer, H and Sanjuan, J and Schleicher, A and Schulte, M and Shaul, D and Stagnaro, L and Strandmoe, S and Steier, F and Sumner, T J and Taylor, A and Texier, D and Trenkel, C and Tombolato, D and Vitale, S and Wanner, G and Ward, H and Waschke, S and Wass, P and Weber, W J and Zweifel, P
Proceedings of the 8th LISA Symposium. Submitted to Classical and Quantum Gravity
Phenomenological gravitational waveforms from spinning coalescing binaries
Monday, January 10th, 2011by Sturani, R. and Fischetti, S. and Cadonati, L. and Guidi, G. M. and Healy, J. and Shoemaker, D. and Vicere’, A.
8 pages, 2 figures. Proceeding of the NRDA-CAPRA 2010 conference
Forced motion near black holes
Monday, January 10th, 2011by Gair, Jonathan R. and Flanagan, Eanna E. and Drasco, Steve and Hinderer, Tanja and Babak, Stanislav
27 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D
Strong lensing of gravitational waves as seen by LISA
Thursday, November 25th, 2010by Sereno, M. and Sesana, A. and Bleuler, A. and Jetzer, Ph. and Volonteri, M. and Begelman, M. C.
4 pages, 6 figures, in press on Phys. Rev. Lett
Perturbative effects of spinning black holes with applications to recoil velocities
Monday, November 15th, 2010by Nakano, Hiroyuki and Campanelli, Manuela and Lousto, Carlos O. and Zlochower, Yosef
Proceedings of Theory Meets Data Analysis at Comparable and Extreme Mass Ratios (NRDA/Capra 2010), Perimeter Institute, June 2010 – 12 pages