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Archive for the ‘spin’ Category
Effective-one-body waveforms calibrated to numerical relativity simulations: coalescence of non-precessing, spinning, equal-mass black holes
Friday, December 18th, 2009by 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
Spinning compact binary inspiral: Independent variables and dynamically preserved spin configurations
Thursday, December 17th, 2009Measuring the spin of the primary black hole in OJ287
Thursday, December 17th, 2009by 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
Disk-outflow coupling: Energetics around spinning black holes
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009by Bhattacharya, Debbijoy and Ghosh, Shubhrangshu and Mukhopadhyay, Banibrata
26 pages including 7 figures; submitted in ApJ
Black Hole Spin and the Radio Loud/Quiet Dichotomy of Active Galactic Nuclei
Friday, November 13th, 2009by Tchekhovskoy, Alexander and Narayan, Ramesh and McKinney, Jonathan C.
15 pages, 7 figures, submitted to ApJ. Uses emulateapj format
The importance of precession in modelling the direction of the final spin from a black-hole merger
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009by Barausse, Enrico
5 pages, 3 figures. Submitted as proceeding of the 8th Amaldi International Conference on Gravitational Waves, NYC, 21-26 June 2009
Gravitational waveforms from unequal-mass binaries with arbitrary spins under leading order spin-orbit coupling
Monday, November 2nd, 2009Dual black holes in merger remnants. II: spin evolution and gravitational recoil
Monday, November 2nd, 2009by 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
Effective Inner Radius of Tilted Black Hole Accretion Disks
Monday, November 2nd, 2009Emergent Spectra From Disks Surrounding Kerr Black Holes: Effect of Photon Trapping and Disk Self-Shadowing
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009Statistical studies of Spinning Black-Hole Binaries
Monday, October 19th, 2009by Lousto, Carlos O. and Nakano, Hiroyuki and Zlochower, Yosef and Campanelli, Manuela
20 pages, 24 figures, abridged abstract
Post-Newtonian methods: Analytic results on the binary problem
Friday, October 16th, 2009by 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
Measuring the Spin of GRS 1915+105 with Relativistic Disk Reflection
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009by 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
“Complete” gravitational waveforms for black-hole binaries with non-precessing spins
Thursday, September 24th, 2009by 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
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
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