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Archive for the ‘spin’ Category

Measuring parameters of massive black hole binaries with partially aligned spins

Thursday, January 20th, 2011

arXiv:1101.3591

by Lang, Ryan N. and Hughes, Scott A. and Cornish, Neil J.
19 pages, 16 figures, submitted to PRD

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Spinning super-massive objects in galactic nuclei up to $a_* > 1$

Monday, January 10th, 2011

arXiv:1101.1364

by Bambi, Cosimo
4 pages, 2 figures

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Phenomenological gravitational waveforms from spinning coalescing binaries

Monday, January 10th, 2011

arXiv:1012.5172

by Sturani, R. and Fischetti, S. and Cadonati, L. and Guidi, G. M. and Healy, J. and Shoemaker, D. and Vicere’, A.
8 pages, 2 figures. Proceeding of the NRDA-CAPRA 2010 conference

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Evidence for Low Black Hole Spin and Physically Motivated Accretion Models from Millimeter VLBI Observations of Sagittarius A*

Monday, November 15th, 2010

arXiv:1011.2770

by Broderick, Avery E. and Fish, Vincent L. and Doeleman, Sheperd S. and Loeb, Abraham
15 pages, 10 figures, submitted to ApJ

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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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Extreme Mass-Ratio Inspirals in the Effective-One-Body Approach: Quasi-Circular, Equatorial Orbits around a Spinning Black Hole

Friday, October 1st, 2010

arXiv:1009.6013

by Yunes, Nicolas and Buonanno, Alessandra and Hughes, Scott A. and Pan, Yi and Barausse, Enrico and Miller, M. Coleman and Throwe, William
21 pages, 8 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D

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Transient resonances in the inspirals of point particles into black holes

Monday, September 27th, 2010

arXiv:1009.4923

by Flanagan, Eanna E. and Hinderer, Tanja
5 pages, 1 figure

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Gravitational Radiations from a Spinning Compact Object circling a Supermassive Kerr Black Hole

Friday, August 20th, 2010

arXiv:1008.3324

by Han, Wen-Biao
16 pages, 17 figures. Submitted to Phys. Rev. D

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Precession effect of the gravitational self-force in a Schwarzschild spacetime and the effective one-body formalism

Monday, August 9th, 2010

arXiv:1008.0935

by Barack, Leor and Damour, Thibault and Sago, Norichika
25 pages, 5 eps figures

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Constraining the Accretion Flow in Sgr A* by General Relativistic Dynamical and Polarized Radiative Modeling

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

arXiv:1007.4832

by Shcherbakov, Roman V. and Penna, Robert F. and McKinney, Jonathan C.
17 pages, 13 figures, submitted to ApJ

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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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Next to leading order spin-orbit effects in the motion of inspiralling compact binaries

Friday, June 4th, 2010

arXiv:1005.5730

by Porto, Rafael A.
25 pages, 4 figures, revtex4

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Reduced Hamiltonian for next-to-leading order Spin-Squared Dynamics of General Compact Binaries

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

arXiv:1002.2093

by Hergt, Steven and Steinhoff, Jan and Schaefer, Gerhard
11 pages, submitted to CQG

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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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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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Evolution of massive black hole spins

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

arXiv:1002.3827

by Volonteri, Marta
10 pages. To appear in the proceedings of the conference “Accretion and ejection in AGN: a global view” (Como, 22-26 June 2009)

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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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Accretion and Outflow in Active Galaxies

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

arXiv:1002.1808

by King, Andrew
invited review, IAU Symposium 267, Co-Evolution of Central Black Holes and Galaxies, B.M. Peterson, R.S. Somerville, and T. Storchi-Bergmann, eds typos in eq (2.2) corrected

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Numerical Models of Sgr A*

Monday, February 8th, 2010

arXiv:1002.1261

by Moscibrodzka, M. and Gammie, C. F. and Dolence, J. and Shiokawa, H. and Leung, P. K.
To appear in “The Galactic Center: A Window on the Nuclear Environment of Disk Galaxies”, ed. Mark Morris, Daniel Q. Wang and Feng Yuan

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Magnetic Connection Model for Launching Relativistic Jets from a Kerr Black Hole

Monday, February 1st, 2010

arXiv:1001.5434

by Dutan, Ioana
12 pages, 10 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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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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Two-dimensional hydrodynamical simulation of hot accretion flows with radiative cooling

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

arXiv:1001.3571

by Yuan, Feng and Bu, Defu
9 pages, 9 figures; 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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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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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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Disk-outflow coupling: Energetics around spinning black holes

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

arXiv:0911.3049

by Bhattacharya, Debbijoy and Ghosh, Shubhrangshu and Mukhopadhyay, Banibrata
26 pages including 7 figures; submitted in ApJ

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Black Hole Spin and the Radio Loud/Quiet Dichotomy of Active Galactic Nuclei

Friday, November 13th, 2009

arXiv:0911.2228

by Tchekhovskoy, Alexander and Narayan, Ramesh and McKinney, Jonathan C.
15 pages, 7 figures, submitted to ApJ. Uses emulateapj format

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