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Archive for the ‘waveforms’ Category

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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An exploration of CUDA and CBEA for a gravitational wave source-modelling application

Friday, September 25th, 2009

arXiv:0909.4039

by Khanna, Gaurav and McKennon, Justin
8 pages, 4 figures, Accepted for publication in Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS 2009)

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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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Gravitomagnetic corrections on gravitational waves

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

arXiv:0909.0895

by Capozziello, S. and De Laurentis, M. and Forte, L. and Garufi, F. and Milano, L.
14 pages, 7 figures

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Searching for Galactic White Dwarf Binaries in the Second Mock LISA Data Challenge using an F-Statistic Template Bank

Friday, August 28th, 2009

arXiv:0908.3766

by Whelan, John T. and Prix, Reinhard and Khurana, Deepak
26 pages, 11 figures

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A stochastic template placement algorithm for gravitational wave data analysis

Monday, August 17th, 2009

arXiv:0908.2090

by Harry, Ian and Allen, Bruce and Sathyaprakash, B. S.
14 pages, 11 figures

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Gravitational wave forms for a three-body system in Lagrange’s orbit: parameter determinations and a binary source test

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

arXiv:0907.5091

by Asada, Hideki
21 pages, 3 figures, 1 table

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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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Unambiguous determination of gravitational waveforms from binary black hole mergers

Saturday, July 18th, 2009

arXiv:0907.2637

by Reisswig, C. and Bishop, N. T. and Pollney, D. and Szilagyi, B.
4 pages, 3 figures

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Conformally curved binary black hole initial data including tidal deformations and outgoing radiation

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

arXiv:0907.0891

by Johnson-McDaniel, Nathan K. and Yunes, Nicolas and Tichy, Wolfgang and Owen, Benjamin J.
48 pages, 23 figures

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Comparison of post-Newtonian templates for compact binary inspiral signals in gravitational-wave detectors

Monday, July 6th, 2009

arXiv:0907.0700

by Buonanno, Alessandra and Iyer, Bala and Ochsner, Evan and Pan, Yi and Sathyaprakash, B. S.
27 pages, 8 figures, 4 tables, submitted to PRD

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Gravitational-wave detectability of equal-mass black-hole binaries with aligned spins

Saturday, July 4th, 2009

arXiv:0907.0462

by Reisswig, Christian and Husa, Sascha and Rezzolla, Luciano and Dorband, Ernst Nils and Pollney, Denis and Seiler, Jennifer
18 pages, 11 figures

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Use and Abuse of the Model Waveform Accuracy Standards

Saturday, July 4th, 2009

arXiv:0907.0457

by Lindblom, Lee
9 pages, 7 figures

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Relativistic orbits and Gravitational Waves from gravitomagnetic corrections

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

arXiv:0906.5530

by Capozziello, Salvatore and De Laurentis, Mariafelicia and Forte, Luca and Garufi, Fabio and Milano, Leopoldo
6 pages, 10 figures; Multifrequency Behaviour of High-Energy Cosmic Sources, Vulcano Workshop 2009

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Application of Graphics Processing Units to Search Pipeline for Gravitational Waves from Coalescing Binaries of Compact Objects

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

arXiv:0906.4175

by Chung, Shin Kee and Wen, Linqing and Blair, David and Cannon, Kipp and Datta, Amitava
12 pages, 4 figures, submitted to CQG

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Constraining alternative theories of gravity by gravitational waves from precessing eccentric compact binaries with LISA

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

arXiv:0906.4269

by Yagi, Kent and Tanaka, Takahiro
37 pages, 16 figures

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Quasinormal modes of black holes and black branes

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

arXiv:0905.2975

by Berti, Emanuele and Cardoso, Vitor and Starinets, Andrei O.
112 pages, 20 figures, 4 tables. Invited Topical Review for CQG. Comments and suggestions are welcome. QNM data and Mathematica notebooks are available at http://www.phy.olemiss.edu/~berti/qnms.html and http://gamow.ist.utl.pt/~vitor/ringdown

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Post-Circular Expansion of Eccentric Binary Inspirals: Fourier-Domain Waveforms in the Stationary Phase Approximation

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

arXiv:0906.0313

by Yunes, Nicolas and Arun, K. G. and Berti, Emanuele and Will, Clifford M.
24 pages, 9 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D

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Bounding the mass of the graviton with gravitational waves: Effect of higher harmonics in gravitational waveform templates

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

arXiv:0904.1190

by Arun, K G and Will, Clifford M
12 pages, 4 figures

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Discontinuous Galerkin method for computing gravitational waveforms from extreme mass ratio binaries

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

arXiv:0902.1287

by Field, Scott E. and Hesthaven, Jan S. and Lau, Stephen R.
27 pages, 7 figures, 3 tables. Uses revtex4

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Effective-one-body waveforms calibrated to numerical relativity simulations: coalescence of non-spinning, equal-mass black holes

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

arXiv:0902.0790

by Buonanno, Alessandra and Pan, Yi and Pfeiffer, Harald P. and Scheel, Mark A. and Buchman, Luisa T. and Kidder, Lawrence E.
19 pages, 19 figures

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An improved analytical description of inspiralling and coalescing black-hole binaries

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

arXiv:0902.0136

by Damour, Thibault and Nagar, Alessandro
5 pages, 5 figures, to apper as a Phys. Rev. D Rapid Communication

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Searching for numerically-simulated signals of black hole binaries with a phenomenological template family

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

arXiv:0901.4696

by Santamaria, Lucia and Krishnan, Badri and Whelan, John T.
13 pages, 4 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the NRDA08 meeting, Syracuse, Aug. 11-14, 2008

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Testing gravitational-wave searches with numerical relativity waveforms: Results from the first Numerical INJection Analysis (NINJA) project

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

arXiv:0901.4399

by Aylott, Benjamin and Baker, John G. and Boggs, William D. and Boyle, Michael and Brady, Patrick R. and Brown, Duncan A. and Brügmann, Bernd and Buchman, Luisa T. and Buonanno, Alessandra and Cadonati, Laura and Camp, Jordan and Campanelli, Manuela and Centrella, Joan and Chatterji, Shourov and Christensen, Nelson and Chu, Tony and Diener, Peter and Dorband, Nils and Etienne, Zachariah B. and Faber, Joshua and Fairhurst, Stephen and Farr, Benjamin and Fischetti, Sebastian and Guidi, Gianluca and Goggin, Lisa M. and Hannam, Mark and Herrmann, Frank and Hinder, Ian and Husa, Sascha and Kalogera, Vicky and Keppel, Drew and Kidder, Lawrence E. and Kelly, Bernard J. and Krishnan, Badri and Laguna, Pablo and Lousto, Carlos O. and Mandel, Ilya and Marronetti, Pedro and Matzner, Richard and McWilliams, Sean T. and Matthews, Keith D. and Mercer, R. Adam and Mohapatra, Satyanarayan R. P. and Mroué, Abdul H. and Nakano, Hiroyuki and Ochsner, Evan and Pan, Yi and Pekowsky, Larne and Pfeiffer, Harald P. and Pollney, Denis and Pretorius, Frans and Raymond, Vivien and Reisswig, Christian and Rezzolla, Luciano and Rinne, Oliver and Robinson, Craig and Röver, Christian and Santamaría, Lucía and Sathyaprakash, Bangalore and Scheel, Mark A. and Schnetter, Erik and Seiler, Jennifer and Shapiro, Stuart L. and Shoemaker, Deirdre and Sperhake, Ulrich and Stroeer, Alexander and Sturani, Riccardo and Tichy, Wolfgang and Liu, Yuk Tung and van der Sluys, Marc and van Meter, James R. and Vaulin, Ruslan and Vecchio, Alberto and Veitch, John and Viceré, Andrea and Whelan, John T. and Zlochower, Yosef
53 pages, 25 figures

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Status of black-hole-binary simulations for gravitational-wave detection

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

arXiv:0901.2931

by Hannam, Mark
22 pages, 6 figures, Version to be published in CQG, NRDA 2008 Special Issue

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