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Intermediate-mass-ratio black hole binaries: intertwining numerical and perturbative techniques

Friday, August 27th, 2010

arXiv:1008.4360

by Lousto, Carlos O. and Nakano, Hiroyuki and Zlochower, Yosef and Campanelli, Manuela
31 pages, 33 figures revtex 4

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Length requirements for numerical-relativity waveforms

Thursday, August 19th, 2010

arXiv:1008.2961

by Hannam, Mark and Husa, Sascha and Ohme, Frank and Ajith, P.
13 pages, 11 figures, 2 tables

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Dynamical damping terms for symmetry-seeking shift conditions

Monday, August 16th, 2010

arXiv:1008.2212

by Alic, Daniela and Rezzolla, Luciano and Hinder, Ian and Mösta, Philipp
11 pages, 8 figures

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Study of multi black hole and ring singularity apparent horizons

Friday, August 13th, 2010

arXiv:1008.2001

by Jaramillo, Gabriela and Lousto, Carlos O.
31 pages, 21 figures

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Black-hole binaries with non-precessing spins

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

arXiv:1007.4789

by Hannam, Mark and Husa, Sascha and Ohme, Frank and Mueller, Doreen and Bruegmann, Bernd
20 pages, 9 figures, 6 tables

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Statistical constraints on binary black hole inspiral dynamics

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

arXiv:1005.5560

by Galley, Chad R. and Herrmann, Frank and Silberholz, John and Tiglio, Manuel and Guerberoff, Gustavo

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Relativistic Suppression of Black Hole Recoils

Monday, March 29th, 2010

arXiv:1003.4993

by Kesden, Michael and Sperhake, Ulrich and Berti, Emanuele
7 pages, 4 figures, submitted to ApJL

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Symplectic Integration of Post-Newtonian Equations of Motion with Spin

Monday, March 29th, 2010

arXiv:1003.5122

by Lubich, Christian and Walther, Benny and Bruegmann, Bernd
9 pages, 6 figures

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Dynamical shift condition for unequal mass black hole binaries

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

arXiv:1003.4681

by Mueller, Doreen and Grigsby, Jason and Bruegmann, Bernd
10 pages, 14 figures

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A General Formula for Black Hole Gravitational Wave Kicks

Monday, March 22nd, 2010

arXiv:1003.3865

by van Meter, James R. and Miller, M. Coleman and Baker, John G. and Boggs, William D. and Kelly, Bernard J.
14 pages.

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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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