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Archive for the ‘waveforms’ Category

The Final Merger of Black-Hole Binaries

Wednesday, October 13th, 2010

arXiv:1010.2165

by Centrella, Joan M. and Baker, John G. and Kelly, Bernard J. and van Meter, James R.
56 pages; 9 figures. Review article in press with Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Physics, vol. 60

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The Effect of Data Gaps on LISA Galactic Binary Parameter Estimation

Wednesday, October 13th, 2010

arXiv:1010.1641

by Carré, Jérôme and Porter, Edward K.
Submitted to Classical Quantum Gravity, 11 pages, four figures

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LISA Sensitivities to Gravitational Waves from Relativistic Metric Theories of Gravity

Wednesday, October 13th, 2010

arXiv:1010.1302

by Tinto, Massimo and Alves, Márcio Eduardo da Silva
Paper submitted to Physical Review D. It is 20 pages long and contains 14 figures

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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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Accuracy and effectualness of closed-form, frequency-domain waveforms for non-spinning black hole binaries

Friday, October 1st, 2010

arXiv:1009.5998

by Damour, T. and Trias, M. and Nagar, A.
29 pages, 7 figures, 1 table

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On the relevance of gravitational self-force corrections on parameter estimation errors for extreme-mass-ratio inspirals

Thursday, September 30th, 2010

arXiv:1009.5882

by Huerta, E. A. and Gair, Jonathan R
6 pages, 1 figure, submitted to proceedings of the 8th International LISA Symposium, Stanford, June 28 – July 2, 2010

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Relativistic encounters of more than two black holes

Saturday, September 18th, 2010

arXiv:1009.1870

by Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Freitag, Marc Dewi
A small note of 5 pages, submitted to MNRAS letts

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Inspiral of Generic Black Hole Binaries: Spin, Precession, and Eccentricity

Saturday, September 18th, 2010

arXiv:1009.2533

by Levin, Janna and Contreras, Hugo

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Conservative self-force correction to the innermost stable circular orbit: comparison with multiple post-Newtonian-based methods

Monday, August 30th, 2010

arXiv:1008.4622

by Favata, Marc
26 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables

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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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Fast Fisher Matrices and Lazy Likelihoods

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

arXiv:1007.4820

by Cornish, Neil J.
4 pages, no 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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A hybrid method for understanding black-hole mergers: head-on case

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

arXiv:1007.2024

by Nichols, David A. and Chen, Yanbei
13 pages, 6 figures, 1 table, revtex4 format

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Full-analytic frequency-domain 1pN-accurate gravitational wave forms from eccentric compact binaries

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

arXiv:1006.3714

by Tessmer, Manuel and Schaefer, Gerhard
28 pages

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Spin effects in the phasing of gravitational waves from binaries on eccentric orbits

Monday, May 17th, 2010

arXiv:1005.2046

by Klein, Antoine and Jetzer, Philippe
7 pages, 1 figure; Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D

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Detection, Localization and Characterization of Gravitational Wave Bursts in a Pulsar Timing Array

Sunday, May 9th, 2010

arXiv:1004.3499

by Finn, Lee Samuel and Lommen, Andrea N.
43 pages, 13 figures, submitted to ApJ.

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Computing waveforms for spinning compact binaries in quasi-eccentric orbits

Friday, April 30th, 2010

arXiv:1004.5322

by Cornish, Neil J. and Key, Joey Shapiro
9 pages

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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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The gravitational-wave memory effect

Friday, March 19th, 2010

arXiv:1003.3486

by Favata, Marc
11 pages, 2 figures; proceedings of the 8th Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves (New York, June 2009); accepted for publication in special issue of Classical and Quantum Gravity

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Eccentric orbital motion of compact binaries with aligned spins and angular momentum under higher order spin coupling

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

arXiv:1003.2735

by Tessmer, Manuel and Hartung, Johannes and Schaefer, Gerhard
26 pages, 1 figure

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Modelling Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals using Pseudospectral Methods

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

arXiv:1001.4697

by Canizares, Priscilla and Sopuerta, Carlos F.
3 pages. To appear in Proceedings of the Twelfth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, edited by Thibault Damour, Robert T Jantzen and Remo Ruffini, World Scientific, Singapore, 2010

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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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Post-ISCO Ringdown Amplitudes in Extreme Mass Ratio Inspiral

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0911.3899

by Hadar, Shahar and Kol, Barak
17 pages, 2 figures. v3: minor changes

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Effective One Body description of tidal effects in inspiralling compact binaries

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0911.5041

by Damour, Thibault and Nagar, Alessandro
21 pages, 5 figures. Submitted to Phys. Rev. D

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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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The Close-limit Approximation for Black Hole Binaries with Post-Newtonian Initial Conditions

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

arXiv:0910.4593

by Tiec, Alexandre Le and Blanchet, Luc
34 pages, 6 figures

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Detection of IMBHs with ground-based gravitational wave observatories: A biography of a binary of black holes, from birth to death

Monday, October 5th, 2009

arXiv:0910.0254

by Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Santamaria, Lucia
Submitted to ApJ; abstract abridged, figure 1 has a lower resolution

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Modeling Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals within the Effective-One-Body Approach

Friday, September 25th, 2009

arXiv:0909.4263

by Yunes, Nicolas and Buonanno, Alessandra and Hughes, Scott A. and Miller, M. Coleman and Pan, Yi
4 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. Letters

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