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Archive for the ‘spin’ Category

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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The importance of precession in modelling the direction of the final spin from a black-hole merger

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

arXiv:0911.1274

by Barausse, Enrico
5 pages, 3 figures. Submitted as proceeding of the 8th Amaldi International Conference on Gravitational Waves, NYC, 21-26 June 2009

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Gravitational waveforms from unequal-mass binaries with arbitrary spins under leading order spin-orbit coupling

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

arXiv:0910.5931

by Tessmer, Manuel
13 pages, 2 figures, submitted to PRD on 11 Sep. 2009

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Dual black holes in merger remnants. II: spin evolution and gravitational recoil

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

arXiv:0910.5729

by Dotti, M. and Volonteri, M. and Perego, A. and Colpi, M. and Ruszkowski, M. and Haardt, F.
11 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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Effective Inner Radius of Tilted Black Hole Accretion Disks

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

arXiv:0910.5721

by Fragile, P. Chris
5 pages, 4 figures, accepted to ApJ Letters

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Emergent Spectra From Disks Surrounding Kerr Black Holes: Effect of Photon Trapping and Disk Self-Shadowing

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

arXiv:0910.3530

by Li, Guang-Xing and Yuan, Ye-Fei and Cao, Xinwu
15 pages, 13 figures

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Statistical studies of Spinning Black-Hole Binaries

Monday, October 19th, 2009

arXiv:0910.3197

by Lousto, Carlos O. and Nakano, Hiroyuki and Zlochower, Yosef and Campanelli, Manuela
20 pages, 24 figures, abridged abstract

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Post-Newtonian methods: Analytic results on the binary problem

Friday, October 16th, 2009

arXiv:0910.2857

by Schaefer, Gerhard
44 pages, to appear in the book “Mass and Motion in General Relativity”, proceedings of the CNRS School in Orleans/France, eds. L. Blanchet, A. Spallicci, and B. Whiting

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Measuring the Spin of GRS 1915+105 with Relativistic Disk Reflection

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

arXiv:0909.5383

by Blum, J. L. and Miller, J. M. and Fabian, A. C. and Miller, M. C. and Homan, J. and van der Klis, M. and Cackett, E. M. and Reis, R. C.
Accepted for publication in ApJ

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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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Renormalized spin coefficients in the accumulated orbital phase for unequal mass black hole binaries

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

arXiv:0909.0487

by 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

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Tidal interaction of a small black hole in the field of a large Kerr black hole

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

arXiv:0908.4518

by Comeau, Simon and Poisson, Eric
4 pages, 2 figures

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Role of emission angular directionality in spin determination of accreting black holes with broad iron line

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

arXiv:0908.2387

by Svoboda, J. and Dovciak, M. and Goosmann, R. W. and Karas, V.
18 pages, 18 figures, accepted to Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Constraining the Spin of the Black Hole in Fairall 9 with Suzaku

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

arXiv:0908.0013

by 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

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The Shape of an Accretion Disc in a Misaligned Black Hole Binary

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

arXiv:0907.5142

by Martin, Rebecca G. and Pringle, J. E. and Tout, Christopher A.
Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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Mass and spin coevolution during the alignment of a black hole in a warped accretion disc

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

arXiv:0907.3742

by 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

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Parameter estimation for coalescing massive binary black holes with LISA using the full 2PN gravitational waveform and spin-orbit precession

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

arXiv:0907.3318

by Klein, Antoine and Jetzer, Philippe and Sereno, Mauro
20 pages, 20 figures. Submitted to Phys. Rev. D

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Measuring Black Hole Spin via the X-ray Continuum Fitting Method: Beyond the Thermal Dominant State

Monday, July 20th, 2009

arXiv:0907.2920

by 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

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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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Momentum flow in black-hole binaries: II. Numerical simulations of equal-mass, head-on mergers with antiparallel spins

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

arXiv:0907.0869

by 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

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Measuring spin of a supermassive black hole at the Galactic centre — Implications for a unique spin

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

arXiv:0906.5423

by Kato, Y. and Miyoshi, M. and Takahashi, R. and Negoro, H. and Matsumoto, R.
5 pages, 3 figures, submitted to MNRAS LETTER

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On the Prospect of Constraining Black-Hole Spin Through X-ray Spectroscopy of Hotspots

Friday, June 26th, 2009

arXiv:0906.4713

by Murphy, K. D. and Yaqoob, T. and Dovčiak, M. and Karas, V.
7 pages, 7 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ

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Bounding the mass of the graviton with gravitational waves: Effect of spin precessions in massive black hole binaries

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

arXiv:0906.3602

by Stavridis, Adamantios and Will, Clifford M.
10 pages, 5 figures

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Spacetime constraints on accreting black holes

Monday, June 15th, 2009

arXiv:0906.2398

by Garofalo, David
Phys.RevD accepted

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