Thu, 30 Nov 2006

gr-qc/0611150 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Traversable wormholes supported by cosmic accelerated expanding equations of state
Authors: Francisco S. N. Lobo
Comments: 3 pages, contribution to the proceedings of MG11, Berlin, 23-29 July, 2006; based on an invited talk in the parallel session GT5, Wormholes, Energy Conditions and Time Machines
[*]astro-ph/0611867 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Solar System constraints to general f(R) gravity
Authors: Takeshi Chiba (Nihon University), Tristan L. Smith (Caltech), Adrienne L. Erickcek (Caltech)
Comments: 7 pages, no figures

astro-ph/0611864 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Dark Matter on the Smallest Scales
Authors: E. R. Siegel, G. D'Amico, E. Di Napoli, L. Fu, M. P. Hertzberg, N. T. T. Huong, F. Palorini, A. Sellerholm
Comments: 10 Pages, Proceedings from the Dark Matter working group at the 86th Les Houches Summer School: Particle Physics and Cosmology
[**] astro-ph/0611861 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Relativistic Effects in Extrasolar Planetary Systems
Authors: Fred C. Adams, Gregory Laughlin
Comments: Accepted for publication in International Journal of Modern Physics D; this paper received ``Honorable Mention'' in the 2006 Essay Competition of the Gravity Research Foundation; 9 pages including 1 figure


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Wed, 29 Nov 2006

gr-qc/0611148 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Fundamental spatiotemporal decoherence: a key to solving the conceptual problems of black holes, cosmology and quantum mechanics
Authors: Rodolfo Gambini, Rafael Porto, Jorge Pullin
Comments: 6 pages, Honorable Mention GRF 2006, to appear in IJMPD

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Tue, 28 Nov 2006

[***]gr-qc/0611142 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: General Relativistic Dynamics of Compact Binary Systems
Authors: Luc Blanchet
Comments: 13 pages, to appear in the special issue of the Comptes rendus de l'Academie des Sciences de Paris on "Observations of black holes and extreme gravitational events", edited by Daniel Rouan
gr-qc/0611132 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: The interior spacetimes of stars in Palatini f(R) gravity
Authors: Kimmo Kainulainen, Vappu Reijonen, Daniel Sunhede
Comments: 5 pages, 1 figure

[*]astro-ph/0611816 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: An Introduction to Chameleon Gravity
Authors: T. P. Waterhouse
Comments: 33 pages, 11 figures; a pedagogical review of chameleon gravity

[*]astro-ph/0611777 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: An introduction to Gravitational Lensing in TeVeS gravity
Authors: HongSheng Zhao
Comments: 7p, Lecture notes for Sicily Gravitational Lensing School, Oct 29-Nov 3. Comments Welcome

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Mon, 27 Nov 2006

gr-qc/0611129 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: An introduction to the mechanics of black holes
Authors: Geoffrey Compere
Comments: Lecture notes prepared for the Second Modave Summer School in Mathematical Physics, latex report format, 35p, 4 fig

gr-qc/0611128 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Frankenstein's Glue: Transition functions for approximate solutions
Authors: Nicolas Yunes (Penn State)
Comments: 23 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Classical and Quantum Gravity

gr-qc/0611127 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: f(R) actions, cosmic acceleration and local tests of gravity
Authors: I. Navarro, K. Van Acoleyen
Comments: 26 pages

[**]gr-qc/0611126 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Dynamical determination of the quadrupole mass moment of a white dwarf
Authors: Lorenzo Iorio

gr-qc/0611123 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: The Raychaudhuri equations: a brief review
Authors: Sayan Kar (IIT Kharagpur, India), Soumitra SenGupta (IACS, Kolkata, India)
Comments: 35 pages, two figures, to appear in the special issue of Pramana dedicated to the memory of A. K. Raychaudhuri
Comments: LaTex2e, 6 pages, no figures, 1 table, 18 references

astro-ph/0611737 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: A polarised infrared flare from Sagittarius A* and the signatures of orbiting plasma hotspots
Authors: S. Trippe (1), T. Paumard (1), T. Ott (1), S. Gillessen (1), F. Eisenhauer (1), F. Martins (1), R. Genzel (1 and 2) ((1) MPE Garching, Germany (2) UC Berkeley, USA)
Comments: 9 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

astro-ph/0611736 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Gravitational lensing as a probe of compact object population in the Galaxy
Authors: S. Oslowski, R. Moderski, T. Bulik, K. Belczynski
Comments: Submitted to Astronomy and Astrophysics
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Thu, 23 Nov 2006

[**]astro-ph/0611716 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Discovery of 1122 Hz X-Ray Burst Oscillations from the Neutron-Star X-Ray Transient XTE J1739-285
Authors: P. Kaaret, Z. Prieskorn, J.J.M. in 't Zand, S. Brandt, N. Lund, S. Mereghetti, D. Gotz, E. Kuulkers, J.A. Tomsick
Comments: Submitted to ApJL, 4 pages
astro-ph/0611695 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Holography and the scale-invariance of density fluctuations
Authors: Joao Magueijo, Lee Smolin, Carlo R. Contaldi

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Initial postings of articles

Here is the first batch of articles using this blog. I'm still trying to figure out what's the best way to update and organize these posts. These span the week prior to Wednesday, Nov. 22.

[*]astro-ph/0611685 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Formation and Evolution of Structure in Loop Cosmology
Authors: Martin Bojowald, Hector Hernandez, Mikhail Kagan, Parampreet Singh, Aureliano Skirzewski
Comments: 4 pages

[*]astro-ph/0611680 [abs, pdf] :
Title: Pulsar spins from an instability in the accretion shock of supernovae
Authors: John M. Blondin, Anthony Mezzacappa
Comments: To be published in Nature
astro-ph/0611675 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
  • Title: Observational links between AGN evolution and galaxy growth
    Authors: L. Miller
    Comments: 8 pages, 1 figure, to appear in ASP Conference Series (Proceedings of the "Cosmic Frontiers" conference held in Durham, 31st July - 4th August 2006)

  • [*]astro-ph/0611666 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
  • Title: Torsional Oscillations of Relativistic Stars with Dipole Magnetic Fields II. Global Alfv\'en Modes
    Authors: H. Sotani, K. D. Kokkotas, N. Stergioulas, M. Vavoulidis
    Comments: 13 pages, 8 figures

  • [*]astro-ph/0611659 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
  • Title: Measuring Neutron Star Mass and Radius with Three Mass-Radius Relations
    Authors: C. M. Zhang, H.X. Yin, Y. Kojima, H. K. Chang, R. X. Xu, X. D. Li, B. Zhang, B. Kiziltan
    Comments: 8 pages, 3 figures, accepted by MNRAS

  • [*]astro-ph/0611615 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
  • Title: Neutron Stars and Black Holes in Star Clusters
    Authors: F. A. Rasio, H. Baumgardt, A. Corongiu, F. D'Antona, G. Fabbiano, J. M. Fregeau, K. Gebhardt, C. O. Heinke, P. Hut, N. Ivanova, T. J. Maccarone, S. M. Ransom, N. A. Webb
    Comments: 29 pages, proceedings of IAU JD06, to appear in Highlights of Astronomy, Volume 14, ed. K. A. van der Hucht

  • astro-ph/0611589 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
    Title: Which Stars Form Black Holes and Neutron Stars?
    Authors: Michael P. Muno
    Comments: 8 pages, 3 figures. Uses aipproc.cls. To appear in the proceedings of the conference``The Multicoloured Landscape of Compact Objects and their Explosive Origins'', 2006 June 11--24, Cefalu, Sicily, to be published by AIP

  • [*]astro-ph/0611572 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
  • Title: New Hubble Space Telescope Discoveries of Type Ia Supernovae at z > 1: Narrowing Constraints on the Early Behavior of Dark Energy
    Authors: Adam G. Riess (JHU, STScI), Louis-Gregory Strolger (UWK), Stefano Casertano (STScI), Henry C. Ferguson (STScI), Bahram Mobasher (STScI), Ben Gold (JHU), Peter J. Challis (CfA), Alexei V. Filippenko (UCB), Saurabh Jha (UCB), Weidong Li (UCB), John Tonry (IfA), Ryan Foley (UCB), Robert P. Kirshner (CfA), Mark Dickinson (NOAO), Emily MacDonald (NOAO), Daniel Eisenstein (UofA), Mario Livio (STScI), Josh Younger (CfA), Chun Xu (STScI), Tomas Dahlen (STScI), Daniel Stern (JPL)
    Comments: 82 pages, 17 figures, 6 tables. Data also available at: this http URL Accepted, Astrophysical Journal vol. 656 for Feb 10, 2007

  • astro-ph/0611546 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
  • Title: A Solution to the Galactic Foreground Problem for LISA
    Authors: Jeff Crowder, Neil Cornish
    Comments: 19 pages, 27 figures

  • [**]astro-ph/0611541 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
  • Title: The Physics and Early History of the Intergalactic Medium
    Authors: Rennan Barkana (Tel Aviv U.), Abraham Loeb (Harvard U.)
    Comments: 36 pages, 17 figures, submitted to Reports on Progress in Physics (Invited Review)

  • [***]astro-ph/0611524 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
  • Title: Constraining the number of compact remnants near Sgr A*
    Authors: Patrick Deegan, Sergei Nayakshin
    Comments: 9 pages, 3 Postscript figures

  • astro-ph/0611518 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
  • Title: The Axis of Evil revisited
    Authors: Kate Land, Joao Magueijo
    Comments: 5 pages, submitted to MNRAS

  • [*]astro-ph/0611504 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
  • Title: Using globular clusters to test gravity in the weak acceleration regime: NGC 7099
    Authors: Riccardo Scarpa, Gianni Marconi, Roberto Gilmozzi, Giovanni Carraro
    Comments: Accepted for publication in A&A Letters. Four pages in total

  • [**]astro-ph/0611496 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
  • Title: Catching a bullet: direct evidence for the existence of dark matter
    Authors: D. Clowe (Ohio University), S. W. Randall, M. Markevitch (CFA)
    Comments: 4 pages, 1 figure, to appear in the proceedings of the 2006 UCLA Dark Matter Symposium. Accompanying the paper is a partial data release at this http URL

  • [*]astro-ph/0611494 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
  • Title: MOND rotation curves of very low mass spiral galaxies
    Authors: Mordehai Milgrom, Robert H. Sanders
    Comments: 8 pages, 1 figure

  • [**]astro-ph/0611454 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
  • Title: The Excursion Set Theory of Halo Mass Functions, Halo Clustering, and Halo Growth
    Authors: Andrew R. Zentner (KICP, The University of Chicago)
    Comments: 62 pages, 19 figures. Review article based on lectures given at the Sixth Summer School of the Helmholtz Institute for Supercomputational Physics. Accepted for Publication in IJMPD. Comments Welcome

  • gr-qc/0611107 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
  • Title: Curvature scalar instability in f(R) gravity
    Authors: Thomas P. Sotiriou
    • astro-ph/0611537 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
    Title: Cosmology with inhomogeneous magnetic fields
    Authors: J.D. Barrow, R. Maartens, C.G. Tsagas
    Comments: 38 pages, no figures
    [**]astro-ph/0611522 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
    Title: Merger of black hole-neutron star binaries in full general relativity
    Authors: Masaru Shibata, Koji Uryu
    Comments: 14 pages. To appear in a special issue of Classical and Quantum Gravity: New Frontiers in Numerical Relativity

    hep-ph/0611184     [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
    Title: Tests of the Gravitational Inverse-Square Law below the Dark-Energy Length Scale
    Authors: D.J. Kapner, T.S. Cook, E.G. Adelberger, J.H. Gundlach, B.R. Heckel, C.D. Hoyle, H.E. Swanson
     Comments: 4 pages, 6 figures
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    Greetings fellow unproductive netizens. This is a test of a blog based on my former website, Favata's Best of the arXiv.
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