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Archive for the ‘numerical relativity’ 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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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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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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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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Persistent junk solutions in time-domain modeling of extreme mass ratio binaries

Monday, January 18th, 2010

arXiv:1001.2578

by Field, Scott E. and Hesthaven, Jan S. and Lau, Stephen R.
Uses revtex4, 23 pages, 9 figures, 3 tables

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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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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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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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Constraining the evolutionary history of Newton’s constant with gravitational wave observations

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0912.2724

by Yunes, Nicolas and Pretorius, Frans and Spergel, David
11 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D

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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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Asymptotics of black hole perturbations

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0911.2450

by Zenginoglu, Anil
9 pages, 8 figures

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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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Binary Black Hole Mergers in Gaseous Environments: “Binary Bondi” and “Binary Bondi-Hoyle-Lyttleton” Accretion

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0912.2096

by Farris, Brian D. and Liu, Yuk Tung and Shapiro, Stuart L.
33 pages, 24 Figures, two tables. Submitted to PRD

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High accuracy binary black hole simulations with an extended wave zone

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

arXiv:0910.3803

by Pollney, Denis and Reisswig, Christian and Schnetter, Erik and Dorband, Nils and Diener, Peter

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An exploration of CUDA and CBEA for a gravitational wave source-modelling application

Friday, September 25th, 2009

arXiv:0909.4039

by Khanna, Gaurav and McKennon, Justin
8 pages, 4 figures, Accepted for publication in Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS 2009)

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“Complete” gravitational waveforms for black-hole binaries with non-precessing spins

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

arXiv:0909.2867

by Ajith, P. and Hannam, M. and Husa, S. and Chen, Y. and Bruegmann, B. and Dorband, N. and Mueller, D. and Ohme, F. and Pollney, D. and Reisswig, C. and Santamaria, L. and Seiler, J.
4 pages, 5 figures

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High accuracy simulations of black hole binaries:spins anti-aligned with the orbital angular momentum

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

arXiv:0909.1313

by Chu, Tony and Pfeiffer, Harald P. and Scheel, Mark A.
14 pages, 15 figures

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Integrating Post-Newtonian Equations on Graphics Processing Units

Friday, August 28th, 2009

arXiv:0908.3889

by Herrmann, Frank and Silberholz, John and Bellone, Matias and Guerberoff, Gustavo and Tiglio, Manuel
Added one reference

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Self-force with (3+1) codes: a primer for numerical relativists

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

arXiv:0908.2138

by Vega, Ian and Diener, Peter and Tichy, Wolfgang and Detweiler, Steven
23 pages, 13 figures

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Bowen-York trumpet data and black-hole simulations

Monday, August 10th, 2009

arXiv:0908.1063

by Hannam, Mark and Husa, Sascha and Murchadha, Niall Ó
15 pages, 14 figures

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Modeling Flows Around Merging Black Hole Binaries

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

arXiv:0908.0023

by van Meter, James R. and Wise, John H. and Miller, M. Coleman and Reynolds, Christopher S. and Centrella, Joan M. and Baker, John G. and Boggs, William D. and Kelly, Bernard J. and McWilliams, Sean T.
5 pages, 4 figures

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Unambiguous determination of gravitational waveforms from binary black hole mergers

Saturday, July 18th, 2009

arXiv:0907.2637

by Reisswig, C. and Bishop, N. T. and Pollney, D. and Szilagyi, B.
4 pages, 3 figures

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Cross section, final spin and zoom-whirl behavior in high-energy black hole collisions

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

arXiv:0907.1252

by Sperhake, U. and Cardoso, V. and Pretorius, F. and Berti, E. and Hinderer, T. and Yunes, N.
4 pages, 4 pages, revtex

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Zoom-Whirl Orbits in Black Hole Binaries

Monday, July 6th, 2009

arXiv:0907.0671

by Healy, James and Levin, Janna and Shoemaker, Deirdre

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The Final Remnant of Binary Black Hole Mergers: Multipolar Analysis

Saturday, July 4th, 2009

arXiv:0907.0280

by Owen, Robert
12 pages, 13 figures

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Quasinormal modes of black holes and black branes

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

arXiv:0905.2975

by Berti, Emanuele and Cardoso, Vitor and Starinets, Andrei O.
112 pages, 20 figures, 4 tables. Invited Topical Review for CQG. Comments and suggestions are welcome. QNM data and Mathematica notebooks are available at http://www.phy.olemiss.edu/~berti/qnms.html and http://gamow.ist.utl.pt/~vitor/ringdown

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Stirring, not shaking: binary black holes’ effects on electromagnetic fields

Friday, May 15th, 2009

arXiv:0905.1121

by Palenzuela, Carlos and Anderson, Matthew and Lehner, Luis and Liebling, Steven L. and Neilsen, David
4 pages, 4 figures

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