High accuracy simulations of black hole binaries:spins anti-aligned with the orbital angular momentum
Thursday, September 24th, 2009by Chu, Tony and Pfeiffer, Harald P. and Scheel, Mark A.
14 pages, 15 figures
The last GW Note is by Miguel Preto
Archive for the ‘spin’ Category
Renormalized spin coefficients in the accumulated orbital phase for unequal mass black hole binaries
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009by Gergely, László Á. and Biermann, Peter L. and Mikóczi, Balázs and Keresztes, Zoltán
10 pages, to appear in Class. Quantum Grav. GWDAW13 Proceedings Special Issue, v2: no typos conjecture
Tidal interaction of a small black hole in the field of a large Kerr black hole
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009Role of emission angular directionality in spin determination of accreting black holes with broad iron line
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009by Svoboda, J. and Dovciak, M. and Goosmann, R. W. and Karas, V.
18 pages, 18 figures, accepted to Astronomy and Astrophysics
Constraining the Spin of the Black Hole in Fairall 9 with Suzaku
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009by Schmoll, S. and Miller, J. M. and Volonteri, M. and Cackett, E. and Reynolds, C. S. and Fabian, A. C. and Brenneman, L. W. and Miniutti, G. and Gallo, L. C.
Accepted for publication in ApJ
The Shape of an Accretion Disc in a Misaligned Black Hole Binary
Thursday, July 30th, 2009by Martin, Rebecca G. and Pringle, J. E. and Tout, Christopher A.
Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Mass and spin coevolution during the alignment of a black hole in a warped accretion disc
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009by Perego, A. and Dotti, M. and Colpi, M. and Volonteri, M.
20 pages, 15 figures (jpg or png format), 3 tables; to be published in MNRAS
Parameter estimation for coalescing massive binary black holes with LISA using the full 2PN gravitational waveform and spin-orbit precession
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009by Klein, Antoine and Jetzer, Philippe and Sereno, Mauro
20 pages, 20 figures. Submitted to Phys. Rev. D
Measuring Black Hole Spin via the X-ray Continuum Fitting Method: Beyond the Thermal Dominant State
Monday, July 20th, 2009by Steiner, James F. and McClintock, Jeffrey E. and Remillard, Ronald A. and Narayan, Ramesh and Gou, Lijun
5 pages, 3 figs, 1 table. Submitted to ApJL
Cross section, final spin and zoom-whirl behavior in high-energy black hole collisions
Thursday, July 9th, 2009by Sperhake, U. and Cardoso, V. and Pretorius, F. and Berti, E. and Hinderer, T. and Yunes, N.
4 pages, 4 pages, revtex
Momentum flow in black-hole binaries: II. Numerical simulations of equal-mass, head-on mergers with antiparallel spins
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009by Lovelace, Geoffrey and Chen, Yanbei and Cohen, Michael and Kaplan, Jeffrey D. and Keppel, Drew and Matthews, Keith D. and Nichols, David A. and Scheel, Mark A. and Sperhake, Ulrich
Submitted to Phys. Rev. D
Measuring spin of a supermassive black hole at the Galactic centre — Implications for a unique spin
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009by Kato, Y. and Miyoshi, M. and Takahashi, R. and Negoro, H. and Matsumoto, R.
5 pages, 3 figures, submitted to MNRAS LETTER
On the Prospect of Constraining Black-Hole Spin Through X-ray Spectroscopy of Hotspots
Friday, June 26th, 2009by Murphy, K. D. and Yaqoob, T. and Dovčiak, M. and Karas, V.
7 pages, 7 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ
Bounding the mass of the graviton with gravitational waves: Effect of spin precessions in massive black hole binaries
Monday, June 22nd, 2009Spacetime constraints on accreting black holes
Monday, June 15th, 2009Signatures of black hole spin in galaxy evolution
Monday, June 1st, 2009The search for spinning black hole binaries using a genetic algorithm
Friday, May 15th, 2009by Petiteau, Antoine and Yu, Shang and Babak, Stanislav
10 pages, 4 figures, proceeding for GWDAW13 (Puerto Rico)
Predicting the direction of the final spin from the coalescence of two black holes
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009Probing Stellar Dynamics in Galactic Nuclei
Sunday, April 19th, 2009by Miller, M. Coleman and Alexander, Tal and Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Barth, Aaron J. and Cutler, Curt and Gair, Jonathan R. and Hopman, Clovis and Merritt, David and Phinney, E. Sterl and Richstone, Douglas O.
8 pages, Science white paper for the Astro2010 Decadal Survey
Massive Black Holes Across Cosmic Time
Sunday, April 19th, 2009by Madau, P. and Abel, T. and Bender, P. and Di Matteo, T. and Haiman, Z. and Hughes, S. and Loeb, A. and Phinney, E. and Primack, J. and Prince, T. and Rees, M. and Richstone, D. and Schutz, B. and Thorne, K. and Volonteri, M.
Science White Paper submitted to the Astro2010 Decadal Survey
Numerical black hole initial data with low eccentricity based on post-Newtonian orbital parameters
Sunday, April 19th, 2009by Walther, Benny and Bruegmann, Bernd and Mueller, Doreen
20 pages, 11 figures, pdflatex
