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Tidal Disruptions of White Dwarfs from Ultra-Close Encounters with Intermediate Mass Spinning Black Holes

Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

arXiv:1201.4389

by Haas, Roland and Shcherbakov, Roman V. and Bode, Tanja and Laguna, Pablo
15 pages, 17 figures, submitted to Astrophysical Journal

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Stochastic oscillations of general relativistic disks

Thursday, January 12th, 2012

arXiv:1201.2218

by Harko, Tiberiu and Mocanu, Gabriela
10 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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Gravitational Recoil From Accretion-Aligned Black-Hole Binaries

Wednesday, January 11th, 2012

arXiv:1201.1923

by Lousto, Carlos O. and Zlochower, Yosef and Dotti, Massimo and Volonteri, Marta
17 pages, 10 tables, 14 figures, revtex 4

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Late Inspiral and Merger of Binary Black Holes in Scalar-Tensor Theories of Gravity

Monday, December 19th, 2011

arXiv:1112.3928

by Healy, James and Bode, Tanja and Haas, Roland and Pazos, Enrique and Laguna, Pablo and Shoemaker, Deirdre M. and Yunes, Nicolás
4 pages, 5 figures, 1 table

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The Gravitational Wave International Committee Roadmap: The future of gravitational wave astronomy

Monday, November 28th, 2011

arXiv:1111.5825

by Marx, Jay and Danzmann, Karsten and Hough, James and Kuroda, Kazuaki and McClelland, David and Mours, Benoit and Phinney, Sterl and Rowan, Sheila and Sathyaprakash, B. and Vetrano, Flavio and Vitale, Stefano and Whitcomb, Stan and Will, Clifford
116 pages. Original document in higher resolution can be found at https://gwic.ligo.org/roadmap/

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Analytical meets numerical relativity – status of complete gravitational waveform models

Thursday, November 17th, 2011

arXiv:1111.3737

by Ohme, Frank
12 pages, 2 figures, 1 table, NRDA2011/Amaldi 9 proceedings

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Mass-Energy and Momentum Extraction by Gravitational Wave Emission in the Merger of Two Colliding Black Holes: The Non-Head-On Case

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

arXiv:1111.1223

by Aranha, R. F. and Soares, I. Damião and Tonini, E. V.
18 pages, 12 Figures

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Energy versus Angular Momentum in Black Hole Binaries

Friday, October 14th, 2011

arXiv:1110.2938

by Damour, Thibault and Nagar, Alessandro and Pollney, Denis and Reisswig, Christian
4 pages, 2 figures

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On the detectability of dual jets from binary black holes

Monday, September 12th, 2011

arXiv:1109.1177

by Moesta, Philipp and Alic, Daniela and Rezzolla, Luciano and Zanotti, Olindo and Palenzuela, Carlos
4 pages, 3 figures

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Intermediate-mass-ratio black hole binaries II: Modeling Trajectories and Gravitational Waveforms

Wednesday, August 24th, 2011

arXiv:1108.4421

by Nakano, Hiroyuki and Zlochower, Yosef and Lousto, Carlos O. and Campanelli, Manuela
23 pages, 35 figures, revtex4

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Electromagnetic counterparts from counter-rotating relativistic kicked discs

Friday, August 19th, 2011

arXiv:1108.3654

by Zanotti, Olindo
6 pages, 4 figures. Accepted by New Astronomy

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Efficient Generation of Jets from Magnetically Arrested Accretion on a Rapidly Spinning Black Hole

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

arXiv:1108.0412

by Tchekhovskoy, Alexander and Narayan, Ramesh and McKinney, Jonathan C.
5 pages, 2 figures, MNRAS, submitted

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Status of Black-Hole Binary Merger Simulations with Numerical Relativity

Monday, January 10th, 2011

arXiv:1012.2872

by McWilliams, Sean T.
Invited review for NRDA/CAPRA 2010, CQG special issue – 7 pages, 1 figure, 1 table

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Binary black hole coalescence in the extreme-mass-ratio limit: testing and improving the effective-one-body multipolar waveform

Monday, January 10th, 2011

arXiv:1012.2456

by Bernuzzi, Sebastiano and Nagar, Alessandro and Zenginoglu, Anil

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Perturbative effects of spinning black holes with applications to recoil velocities

Monday, November 15th, 2010

arXiv:1011.2767

by 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

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Modeling maximum astrophysical gravitational recoil velocities

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010

arXiv:1011.0593

by Lousto, Carlos O. and Zlochower, Yosef
8 pages, 7 figures, revtex4

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Black-hole binaries, gravitational waves, and numerical relativity

Wednesday, October 27th, 2010

arXiv:1010.5260

by Centrella, Joan M. and Baker, John G. and Kelly, Bernard J. and van Meter, James R.
53 pages, 42 figures. Review article submitted to Reviews of Modern Physics

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Simulating merging binary black holes with nearly extremal spins

Friday, October 15th, 2010

arXiv:1010.2777

by Lovelace, Geoffrey and Scheel, Mark. A. and Szilagyi, Bela
4 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett

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Properties of Accretion Flows Around Coalescing Supermassive Black Holes

Thursday, October 14th, 2010

arXiv:1010.2496

by Bogdanovic, Tamara and Bode, Tanja and Haas, Roland and Laguna, Pablo and Shoemaker, Deirdre
15 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Class. Quantum Grav. for proceedings of 8th LISA Symposium

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The Final Merger of Black-Hole Binaries

Wednesday, October 13th, 2010

arXiv:1010.2165

by Centrella, Joan M. and Baker, John G. and Kelly, Bernard J. and van Meter, James R.
56 pages; 9 figures. Review article in press with Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Physics, vol. 60

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Extreme-Mass-Ratio-Black-Hole-Binary Evolutions with Numerical Relativity

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

arXiv:1009.0292

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

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