Final spins from the merger of precessing binary black holes
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010by Kesden, Michael and Sperhake, Ulrich and Berti, Emanuele
20 pages, 16 figures, revtex
The last GW Note is by Miguel Preto
Archive for the ‘massive binaries of black holes’ Category
Growing Massive Black Hole Pairs in Minor Mergers of Disk Galaxies
Thursday, February 11th, 2010by 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
Massive black holes lurking in Milky Way satellites
Monday, February 1st, 2010by Van Wassenhove, S. and Volonteri, M. and Walker, M. G. and Gair, J. R.
Submitted to MNRAS on November 30, 2009
The search for spinning black hole binaries in mock LISA data using a genetic algorithm
Monday, February 1st, 2010by Petiteau, Antoine and Shang, Yu and Babak, Stanislav and Feroz, Farhan
25 pages, 9 figures
The Current Status of Binary Black Hole Simulations in Numerical Relativity
Friday, January 29th, 2010by Hinder, Ian
14 pages; submitted to the Classical and Quantum Gravity special issue for NRDA2009
Advances in Simulations of Generic Black-Hole Binaries
Sunday, January 24th, 2010by 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)
Mass function of binary massive black holes in Active Galactic Nuclei
Thursday, January 21st, 2010by Hayasaki, Kimitake and Ueda, Yoshihiro and Isobe, Naoki
9 pages, 11 figures, submitted to Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
Measuring the dark energy equation of state with LISA
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010by Broeck, Chris Van Den and Trias, M. and Sathyaprakash, B. S. and Sintes, A. M.
14 pages, many eps figures
Intermediate Mass Ratio Black Hole Binaries: Numerical Relativity meets Perturbation Theory
Friday, January 15th, 2010by Lousto, Carlos O. and Nakano, Hiroyuki and Zlochower, Yosef and Campanelli, Manuela
4 pages, 5 figures, revtex4
Gravitational recoil: effects on massive black hole occupation fraction over cosmic time
Friday, January 15th, 2010by Volonteri, Marta and Gultekin, Kayhan and Dotti, Massimo
Submitted to MNRAS
Measuring Black Hole Spin in OJ287
Monday, January 11th, 2010by 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
An improved effective-one-body Hamiltonian for spinning black-hole binaries
Friday, December 18th, 2009Effective-one-body waveforms calibrated to numerical relativity simulations: coalescence of non-precessing, spinning, equal-mass black holes
Friday, December 18th, 2009by 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
Toward a dynamical shift condition for unequal mass black hole binary simulations
Thursday, December 17th, 2009by Mueller, Doreen and Bruegmann, Bernd
15 pages, submitted to CQG for NRDA 2009 conference proceedings
Radiation from low-momentum zoom-whirl orbits
Thursday, December 17th, 2009by Gold, Roman and Bruegmann, Bernd
8 pages, 5 figures, Amaldi8 conference proceedings
Understanding possible electromagnetic counterparts to loud gravitational wave events: Binary black hole effects on electromagnetic fields
Thursday, December 17th, 2009Third-and-a-half order post-Newtonian equations of motion for relativistic compact binaries using the strong field point particle limit
Thursday, December 17th, 2009by Itoh, Yousuke
38 pages, no figures. Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D
Effective One Body description of tidal effects in inspiralling compact binaries
Thursday, December 17th, 2009by Damour, Thibault and Nagar, Alessandro
21 pages, 5 figures. Submitted to Phys. Rev. D
Variability and stability in blazar jets on time scales of years: Optical polarization monitoring of OJ287 in 2005-2009
Thursday, December 17th, 2009by 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)
Asymptotic expansions of Maximum Likelihood estimators errors, with an application to gravitational waves generated in the inspiral phase of binary mergers
Thursday, December 17th, 2009Relativistic Mergers of Supermassive Black Holes and their Electromagnetic Signatures
Thursday, December 17th, 2009by Bode, Tanja and Haas, Roland and Bogdanovic, Tamara and Laguna, Pablo and Shoemaker, Deirdre
19 pages, 14 figures
Spinning compact binary inspiral: Independent variables and dynamically preserved spin configurations
Thursday, December 17th, 2009Identifying Supermassive Black Hole Binaries With Broad Emission Line Diagnosis
Thursday, December 17th, 2009Impact of mergers on LISA parameter estimation for nonspinning black hole binaries
Thursday, December 17th, 2009by McWilliams, Sean T. and Thorpe, James Ira and Baker, John G. and Kelly, Bernard J.
16 pages, 9 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D
Measuring the spin of the primary black hole in OJ287
Thursday, December 17th, 2009by 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
Time-Dependent Models for the Afterglows of Massive Black Hole Mergers
Thursday, December 17th, 2009by Tanaka, Takamitsu and Menou, Kristen
46 pages, 8 figures. Submitted to ApJ
Binary Black Hole Mergers in Gaseous Environments: “Binary Bondi” and “Binary Bondi-Hoyle-Lyttleton” Accretion
Thursday, December 17th, 2009by Farris, Brian D. and Liu, Yuk Tung and Shapiro, Stuart L.
33 pages, 24 Figures, two tables. Submitted to PRD
Filling the disk hollow following binary black hole merger: The transient accretion afterglow
Thursday, December 17th, 2009Asymptotic expansions of Maximum Likelihood estimators errors, with an application to gravitational waves generated in the inspiral phase of binary mergers
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009The importance of precession in modelling the direction of the final spin from a black-hole merger
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009by Barausse, Enrico
5 pages, 3 figures. Submitted as proceeding of the 8th Amaldi International Conference on Gravitational Waves, NYC, 21-26 June 2009
