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Archive for the ‘massive binaries of black holes’ Category

Understanding the “anti-kick” in the merger of binary black holes

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

arXiv:1003.0873

by Rezzolla, Luciano and Macedo, Rodrigo P. and Jaramillo, José Luis
4 pages

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Semianalytical estimates of scattering thresholds and gravitational radiation in ultrarelativistic black hole encounters

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

arXiv:1003.0812

by Berti, Emanuele and Cardoso, Vitor and Hinderer, Tanja and Lemos, Madalena and Pretorius, Frans and Sperhake, Ulrich and Yunes, Nicolas
29 pages, 19 figure, 6 tables

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Binary spinning black hole Hamiltonian in canonical center-of-mass and rest-frame coordinates through higher post-Newtonian order

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

arXiv:1003.0390

by Rothe, Tilman J. and Schäfer, Gerhard
18 pages, no figures

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EM counterparts of recoiling black holes: general relativistic simulations of non-Keplerian discs

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

arXiv:1002.4185

by Zanotti, Olindo and Rezzolla, Luciano and Del Zanna, Luca and Palenzuela, Carlos
17 pages, 11 figures, submitted to MNRAS, movies available at http://numrel.aei.mpg.de/Visualisations/Archive/BinaryBlackHoles/EMCounterparts/EMCounterparts.html

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Gravitational Wave Signal from Assembling the Lightest Supermassive Black Holes

Friday, February 19th, 2010

arXiv:1002.3378

by Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly and Micic, Miroslav and Sigurdsson, Steinn and Rubbo, Louis
18 pages, 10 figures, accepted in the Astrophysical Journal

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Final spins from the merger of precessing binary black holes

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

arXiv:1002.2643

by Kesden, Michael and Sperhake, Ulrich and Berti, Emanuele
20 pages, 16 figures, revtex

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Growing Massive Black Hole Pairs in Minor Mergers of Disk Galaxies

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

arXiv:1002.1712

by Callegari, S. and Kazantzidis, S. and Mayer, L. and Colpi, M. and Bellovary, J. M. and Quinn, T. and Wadsley, J.
5 pages, 4 figures, submitted to ApJ

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Massive black holes lurking in Milky Way satellites

Monday, February 1st, 2010

arXiv:1001.5451

by Van Wassenhove, S. and Volonteri, M. and Walker, M. G. and Gair, J. R.
Submitted to MNRAS on November 30, 2009

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The search for spinning black hole binaries in mock LISA data using a genetic algorithm

Monday, February 1st, 2010

arXiv:1001.5380

by Petiteau, Antoine and Shang, Yu and Babak, Stanislav and Feroz, Farhan
25 pages, 9 figures

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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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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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Mass function of binary massive black holes in Active Galactic Nuclei

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

arXiv:1001.3612

by Hayasaki, Kimitake and Ueda, Yoshihiro and Isobe, Naoki
9 pages, 11 figures, submitted to Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan

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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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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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Gravitational recoil: effects on massive black hole occupation fraction over cosmic time

Friday, January 15th, 2010

arXiv:1001.1743

by Volonteri, Marta and Gultekin, Kayhan and Dotti, Massimo
Submitted to MNRAS

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Measuring Black Hole Spin in OJ287

Monday, January 11th, 2010

arXiv:1001.1284

by Valtonen, M. and Mikkola, S. and Lehto, H. J. and Hyvönen, T. and Nilsson, K. and Merritt, D. and Gopakumar, A. and Rampadarath, H. and Hudec, R. and Basta, M. and Saunders, R.
12 pages, 4 figures, IAU261

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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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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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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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Variability and stability in blazar jets on time scales of years: Optical polarization monitoring of OJ287 in 2005-2009

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0912.0005

by Villforth, C. and Nilsson, K. and Heidt, J. and Takalo, L. O. and Pursimo, T. and Berdyugin, A. and Lindfors, E. and Pasanen, M. and Winiarski, M. and Drozdz, M. and Ogloza, W. and Kurpinska-Winiarska, M. and Siwak, M. and Koziel-Wierzbowska, D. and Porowski, C. and Kuzmicz, A. and Krzesinski, J. and Kundera, T. and Wu, J. -H. and Zhou, X. and Efimov, Y. and Sadakane, K. and Kamada, M. and Ohlert, J. and Hentunen, V. -P. and Nissinen, M. and Dietrich, M. and Assef, R. J. and Atlee, D. W. and Bird, J. and DePoy, D. L. and Eastman, J. and Peeples, M. S. and Prieto, J. and Watson, L. and Yee, J. C. and Liakos, A. and Niarchos, P. and Gazeas, K. and Dogru, S. and Donmez, A. and Marchev, D. and Coggins-Hill, S. A. and Mattingly, A. and Keel, W. C. and Haque, S. and Aungwerojwit, A. and Bergvall, N.
Accepted for publication in MNRAS (26 pages, 24 figures, 4 tables)

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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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Identifying Supermassive Black Hole Binaries With Broad Emission Line Diagnosis

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0912.0541

by Shen, Yue and Loeb, Abraham
11 pages. Submitted to MNRAS

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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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Measuring the spin of the primary black hole in OJ287

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0912.1209

by Valtonen, M. J. and Mikkola, S. and Merritt, D. and Gopakumar, A. and Lehto, H. J. and Hyvönen, T. and Rampadarath, H. and Saunders, R. and Basta, M. and Hudec, R.
12 pages, 6 figures

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