Fri, 22 Dec 2006

astro-ph/0612607 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: A direct measurement of the relativistic expansion velocity of gamma-ray burst fireballs
Authors: E. Molinari, S.D. Vergani, D. Malesani, S. Covino, P. D'Avanzo, G. Chincarini, F.M. Zerbi, L.A. Antonelli, P. Conconi, V. Testa, G. Tosti, F. Vitali, F. D'Alessio, G. Malaspina, L. Nicastro, E. Palazzi, D. Guetta, S. Campana, P. Goldoni, N. Masetti, E.J.A. Meurs, A. Monfardini, L. Norci, E. Pian, S. Piranomonte, D. Rizzuto, M. Stefanon, L. Stella, G. Tagliaferri, P.A. Ward, G. Ihle, L. Gonzalez, A. Pizarro, P. Sinclair, J. Valenzuela
Comments: 14 pages, 2 color figures

astro-ph/0612611 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Constraints on Braneworld Gravity Models from a Kinematic Limit on the Age of the Black Hole XTE J1118+480
Authors: Dimitrios Psaltis (University of Arizona)
Comments: 4 pages, to appear in the Physical Review Letters

[*]astro-ph/0612617 [abs, pdf] :
Title: The brightest supernova ever recorded, powered by the death of an extremely massive star
Authors: Nathan Smith, Weidong Li, Ryan J. Foley, Ryan Chornock, Alexei V. Filippenko, David Pooley, Robert Quimby, J. Craig Wheeler, Joshua S. Bloom, Charles Hansen
Comments: 10 pages, 3 color figures

astro-ph/0612638 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Rotating Collapse of Stellar Iron Cores in General Relativity
Authors: Christian D. Ott, Harald Dimmelmeier, Andreas Marek, Hans-Thomas Janka, Burkhard Zink, Ian Hawke, Erik Schnetter
Comments: 19 pages, 6 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of the New Frontiers in Numerical Relativity Conference, AEI Golm, Germany, 2006

[**]astro-ph/0612640 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Massive perturbers in the galactic center
Authors: Hagai B. Perets, Clovis Hopman, Tal Alexander
Comments: To appear in the Proceeding of the Galactic Cenetr Workshop 2006, see astro-ph/0606443 for the full and extended paper
Journal-ref: Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2006, 54, 293
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Thu, 21 Dec 2006

[***]gr-qc/0612123 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Gravitational waves from Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals in non-pure Kerr spacetimes
Authors: Enrico Barausse, Luciano Rezzolla, David Petroff, Marcus Ansorg
Comments: 20 pages, 12 figures
astro-ph/0612569 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Constraining f(R) Gravity as a Scalar Tensor Theory
Authors: Thomas Faulkner (MIT), Max Tegmark (MIT), Emory F. Bunn (Richmond), Yi Mao (MIT)
Comments: 15 pages, 5 figures

astro-ph/0612572 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Last moments in the life of a compact binary system: gravitational waves, gamma-ray bursts and magnetar formation
Authors: S. Rosswog
Comments: 24 pages, 18 figures, Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica in press higher resolution figures can be found at this http URL
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Wed, 20 Dec 2006

[***]gr-qc/0612117 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Binary black hole late inspiral: Simulations for gravitational wave observations
Authors: John G. Baker, Sean T. McWilliams, James R. van Meter, Joan Centrella, Dae-Il Choi, Bernard J. Kelly, Michael Koppitz
Comments: 16 pages, 20 figures
gr-qc/0612121 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: A general variational principle for spherically symmetric perturbations in diffeomorphism covariant theories
Authors: Michael D. Seifert, Robert M. Wald
Comments: 26 pages; submitted to Phys. Rev. D

astro-ph/0609377 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: The Effect of Orbital Eccentricity on Gravitational Wave Background Radiation from Supermassive Black Hole Binaries
Authors: Motohiro Enoki, Masahiro Nagashima
Comments: 15 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in Progress of Theoretical Physics

astro-ph/0612508 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Equipotential Surfaces and Lagrangian points in Non-synchronous, Eccentric Binary and Planetary Systems
Authors: J. F. Sepinsky, B. Willems, V. Kalogera
Comments: 12 pages, 10 figures, 2 Tables, Submitted to the Astrophysical Journal

[***]astro-ph/0612517 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Dynamics of triple black hole systems in hierarchically merging massive galaxies
Authors: Loren Hoffman, Abraham Loeb
Comments: 27 pages, 19 figures, submitted to MNRAS
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Tue, 19 Dec 2006

[***]gr-qc/0612100 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Learning about compact binary merger: the interplay between numerical relativity and gravitational-wave astronomy
Authors: Thomas Baumgarte, Patrick Brady, Jolien D E Creighton, Luis Lehner, Frans Pretorius, Ricky DeVoe
Comments: 19 pages, 12 figures
gr-qc/0612104 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Loop quantum cosmology of k=1 FRW models
Authors: Abhay Ashtekar, Tomasz Pawlowski, Parampreet Singh, Kevin Vandersloot
Comments: 43 pages, 11 figures

astro-ph/0612452 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Dark Energy versus Modified Gravity
Authors: Martin Kunz, Domenico Sapone (University of Geneva)
Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures

astro-ph/0612460 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Multi-Dimensional Explorations in Supernova Theory
Authors: Adam Burrows, Luc Dessart, Christian D. Ott, Eli Livne
Comments: To be published in the "Centennial Festschrift for Hans Bethe," Physics Reports (Elsevier: Holland), ed. G.E. Brown, E. van den Heuvel, and V. Kalogera, 2006
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Mon, 18 Dec 2006

[**]gr-qc/0612096 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Binary black hole merger in the extreme mass ratio limit
Authors: Alessandro Nagar, Thibault Damour, Angelo Tartaglia
Comments: 14 pages, six figures. Submitted to the CQG special issue based on New Frontiers in Numerical Relativity conference, Golm (Germany), July 17-21 2006

gr-qc/0609117 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Generation of Closed Timelike Curves with Rotating Superconductors
Authors: Clovis Jacinto de Matos
Comments: 8 pages. Submitted to Classical and Quantum Gravity

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
Journal-ref: Phys.Rev. D74 (2006) 123512

astro-ph/0612404 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: The fundamental difference between alpha viscosity and turbulent magnetorotational stresses
Authors: Martin E. Pessah, Chi-kwan Chan, Dimitrios Psaltis (University of Arizona)
Comments: Submitted to MNRAS, 8 pages, 1 figure

astro-ph/0612435 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Strong gravity effects: X-ray spectra, variability and polarimetry
Authors: A.C. Fabian (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK)
Comments: 8 pages, 16 figures, For proceedings of IAU Symposium No. 238 "Black Holes - From Stars to Galaxies" edited by Vladimir Karas & Giorgio Matt

[***]astro-ph/0612440 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Neutron Star Observations: Prognosis for Equation of State Constraints
Authors: James M. Lattimer, Maddapa Prakash
Comments: 70 pages, 19 figures, submitted to Hans Bethe Centennial Physics Reports
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Fri, 15 Dec 2006

[**]astro-ph/0610657 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Black-Hole Phenomenology
Authors: Neven Bilic
Comments: 58 pages, 4 figures, notes to the lectures given at the School on Particle Physics, Gravity and Cosmology, Dubrovnik, 21 Aug - 2 Sept 2006, references added, typos corrected, to appear in the proceedings of the school, comments welcome



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Thu, 14 Dec 2006

gr-qc/0612075 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: The (pseudo)issue of the conformal frame revisited
Authors: Valerio Faraoni, Shahn Nadeau (Bishop's University)
Comments: 29 pages, latex, to appear in Phys. Rev. D

[***]gr-qc/0612076 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Spin Flips and Precession in Black-Hole-Binary Mergers
Authors: Manuela Campanelli, Carlos O. Lousto, Yosef Zlochower, Badri Krishnan, David Merritt
Comments: Revtex4, 17 figures, 14 pages. Minor fixes

gr-qc/0612077 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: The modification of the Einstein and Landau-Lifshitz pseudotensrs
Authors: Lau Loi So
Comments: 10 pages
gr-qc/0612081 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Multi-Domain Spectral Method for Initial Data of Arbitrary Binaries in General Relativity
Authors: Marcus Ansorg
Comments: 16 pages, 10 figures

gr-qc/0612086 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: The second post-Newtonian order generalized Kepler equation
Authors: László Á. Gergely, Zoltán Keresztes, Balázs Mikóczi
Comments: to appear in the Proceedings of the Eleventh Marcel Grossmann Meeting 2006, World Scientific, Singapore (2007)

[*]astro-ph/0612330 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Evolution of the Obliquities of the Giant Planets in Encounters during Migration
Authors: Man Hoi Lee (UCSB), S. J. Peale (UCSB), Eric Pfahl (KITP), William R. Ward (SwRI)
Comments: 13 pages, including 2 figures; uses AASTeX; submitted to Icarus

[***]astro-ph/0612337 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Gravitational wave bursts from the Galactic massive black hole
Authors: Clovis Hopman (Leiden University), Marc Freitag (Cambridge), Shane L. Larson (Weber State University)
Comments: Submitted to MNRAS

astro-ph/0612354 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Models for jet power in elliptical galaxies: support for rapidly spinning black holes
Authors: Rodrigo S. Nemmen, Richard G. Bower, Arif Babul, Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann
Comments: Submitted for publication in MNRAS (Aug 2006). 10 pages, 4 figures

astro-ph/0603522 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Low surface brightness galaxies rotation curves in the low energy limit of $R^n$ gravity : no need for dark matter?
Authors: S. Capozziello, V.F. Cardone, A.- Troisi
Comments: 20, 5 figures
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Wed, 13 Dec 2006

[*]astro-ph/0612312 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Observational evidence for stellar-mass black holes
Authors: Jorge Casares
Comments: 9 pages, invited review to appear in Proceedings of IAU Symposium 238: "Black Holes: From Stars to Galaxies -Across the Range of Masses". Prague 14-18 August 2006
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Tue, 12 Dec 2006

gr-qc/0612065 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Post-Newtonian expansion for Gauss-Bonnet Gravity
Authors: Thomas P. Sotiriou, Enrico Barausse
Comments: 4 pages
[***]gr-qc/0612060 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Gravitational waves from intermediate-mass-ratio inspirals for ground-based detectors
Authors: Duncan A. Brown, Hua Fang, Jonathan R. Gair, Chao Li, Geoffrey Lovelace, Ilya Mandel, Kip S. Thorne
Comments: Submitted to Physical Review Letters

[**]astro-ph/0612265 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Interaction of massive black hole binaries with their stellar environment: II. Loss-cone depletion and binary orbital decay
Authors: A. Sesana, F. Haardt, P. Madau
Comments: 10 pages, 7 figures, submitted to ApJ
astro-ph/0612253 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: New Constraints on Macroscopic Compact Objects as a Dark Matter Candidate from Gravitational Lensing of Type Ia Supernovae
Authors: R. Benton Metcalf, Joseph Silk
Comments: 4 pages, 1 figure
astro-ph/0612252 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Neutron star oscillations and QPOs during magnetar flares
Authors: Anna L. Watts (MPA), Tod E. Strohmayer (NASA GSFC)
Comments: Proceedings of the 2006 Beijing COSPAR assembly, to appear in Advances in Space Research
astro-ph/0612238 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Making a Short Gamma-Ray Burst from a Long one: Implications for the Nature of GRB 060614
Authors: Bing Zhang, Bin-Bin Zhang, En-Wei Liang, Neil Gehrels, David N. Burrows, Peter Meszaros
Comments: 7 pages, 3 figures, to appear in ApJ Letters
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Mon, 11 Dec 2006

gr-qc/0612049 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: MHD of rotating compact stars with spectral methods: description of the algorithm and tests
Authors: S. Bonazzola, L. Villain, M. Bejger
Comments: 14 pages, 3 figures, submitted to a special issue of Classical and Quantum Gravity "New Frontiers in Numerical Relativity"
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Fri, 8 Dec 2006

gr-qc/0612047 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: The limit to General Relativity in f(R) theories of gravity
Authors: Gonzalo J. Olmo
Comments: 8 pages, no figures

gr-qc/0612043 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Axisymmetric stationary solutions with arbitrary multipole moments
Authors: Thomas Bäckdahl
Comments: 12 pages
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Thu, 7 Dec 2006

[**]gr-qc/0612037 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Extracting Information about EMRIs using Time-Frequency Methods
Authors: Linqing Wen (MPI/AEI), Yanbei Chen (MPI/AEI), Jonathan Gair (University of Cambridge)
Comments: Submitted to the proceedings of the LISA6 Symposium, 2006, GSFC, Maryland
hep-th/0612029 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Killing-Yano Tensors, Rank-2 Killing Tensors, and Conserved Quantities in Higher Dimensions
Authors: Pavel Krtous, David Kubiznak, Don N. Page, Valeri P. Frolov
Comments: 7 pages

astro-ph/0612155 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Eppur si espande
Authors: Marek A. Abramowicz, Stanislaw Bajtlik, Jean-Pierre Lasota, Audrey Moudens
Comments: 11 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Acta Astronomica
astro-ph/0612145 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Magnetic Hydrogen Atmosphere Models and the Neutron Star RX J1856.5-3754
Authors: Wynn C. G. Ho, David L. Kaplan, Philip Chang, Matthew van Adelsberg, Alexander Y. Potekhin
Comments: 11 pages, 8 figures; MNRAS, accepted
[**]astro-ph/0612144 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Formation of Double Compact Objects
Authors: V. Kalogera (1), K. Belczynski (2), C. Kim (3), R. O'Shaughnessy (1), B. Willems (1) ((1) Northwestern U., (2) New Mexico State U., (3) Cornell U.)
Comments: 55 pages, 16 figures, to appear in the Bethe Centennial Volume of Physics Reports, eds. G. E. Brown, V. Kalogera, E.P.J. van den Heuvel
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Wed, 6 Dec 2006

[**]astro-ph/0612102 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Dark Energy with a Fine-toothed Comb
Authors: Eric V. Linder
Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures
gr-qc/0612032 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: No realistic wormholes from ghost-free scalar-tensor phantom dark energy
Authors: Kirill A. Bronnikov, Alexei A. Starobinsky
Comments: 8 pages, latex
[***]gr-qc/0612029 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Using LISA EMRI sources to test off-Kerr deviations in the geometry of massive black holes
Authors: Leor Barack, Curt Cutler
Comments: 12 pages, 5 figures
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Tue, 5 Dec 2006

[***]gr-qc/0612024 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Consistency of post-Newtonian waveforms with numerical relativityAuthors: John G. Baker, James R. van Meter, Sean T. McWilliams, Joan Centrella, Bernard J. Kelly
Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures
  • gr-qc/0612022 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
  • Title: Dynamical determination of the quadrupole mass moment of the double pulsar PSR J0737-3039 system
    Authors: Lorenzo Iorio
    Comments: LaTex2e, 11 pages, 1 figure, 2 tables, 21 references

  • gr-qc/0612017 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
  • Title: The Effacing Principle in the Post-Newtonian Celestial Mechanics
    Authors: Sergei Kopeikin (University of Missouri-Columbia, USA), Igor Vlasov (University of Guelph, Canada)
    Comments: 3 pages, to apper in Proc. of 11th Marcel Grssmann Meeting (Berlin, July 23-30, 2006)

  • [***]astro-ph/0612073 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
  • Title: Consequences of Triaxiality for Gravitational Wave Recoil of black holes
    Authors: Alessandro Vicari (1), Roberto Capuzzo-Dolcetta (1), David Merritt (2) ((1) Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita' di Roma La Sapienza, Roma, Italy, (2) Department of Physics, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY USA)
    Comments: 28 pages, including 13 eps figures. Submitted to ApJ
    • astro-ph/0612069 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
    Title: Ultraviolet Detection of the Tidal Disruption of a Star by a Supermassive Black Hole
    Authors: S. Gezari, D. C. Martin, B. Milliard, S. Basa, J. P. Halpern, K. Forster, P. G. Friedman, P. Morrissey, S. G. Neff, D. Schiminovich, M. Seibert, T. Small, T. K. Wyder
    Comments: To appear in Dec. 10, 2006 issue of ApJ Letters
    Journal-ref: ApJ, 653, L25 (2006)

    [***]astro-ph/0612061 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
    Title: Constraints to the EOS of ultradense matter with model-independent astrophysical observations
    Authors: G. Lavagetto, I. Bombaci, A. D'Ai', I. Vidana, N.R. Robba
    Comments: 4 pages, 1 colour figure, uses emulateapj class, submitted to ApJ Letters

    [**]astro-ph/0612055 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
    Title: Compact Binaries as Sources of Gravitational Radiation
    Authors: M. Coleman Miller (University of Maryland)
    Comments: To appear in the proceedings of the meeting "The Multicoloured Landscape of Compact Objects and their Explosive Origins", Cefalu, Italy, June 2006, to be published by AIP, Eds. L. Burderi et al

    astro-ph/0612054 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
    Title: Pulsars as Astrophysical Laboratories for Nuclear and Particle Physics
    Authors: F. Weber (San Diego State University), R. Negreiros (San Diego State University), P. Rosenfield (San Diego State University), M. Stejner (University of Aarhus & San Diego State University)
    Comments: 10 pages, 13 figures; Paper presented at the International School Of Nuclear Physics, 28th Course: Radioactive Beams, Nuclear Dynamics and Astrophysics, Erice-Sicily, 16-24 September 2006; to be published in Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys


    astro-ph/0612041 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
    Title: The instability of planetary systems in binaries: how the Kozai mechanism leads to strong planet-planet interactions
    Authors: D. Malmberg, M. B. Davies, John E. Chambers
    Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures, submitted to MNRAS

    astro-ph/0612040 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
    Title: Dynamical evidence for intermediate mass black holes in old globular clusters
    Authors: Michele Trenti (STScI)
    Comments: 5 pages, 2 figures, submitted to MNRAS Letters on Oct. 12 2006
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    Mon, 4 Dec 2006

    [***]astro-ph/0612032 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
    Title: On the rarity of double black hole binaries: consequences for gravitational-wave detection
    Authors: Krzysztof Belczynski, Vassiliki Kalogera, Frederic A. Rasio, Ronald E. Taam, Tomasz Bulik
    Comments: 5 pages, submitted to ApJ Letters

    [**]gr-qc/0612003 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
    Title: Chaos and Order in Models of Black Hole Pairs
    Authors: Janna Levin

    [**]gr-qc/0612002 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
    Title: Violation of the Equivalence Principle in Modified Theories of Gravity
    Authors: Gonzalo J. Olmo
    Comments: 4 pages, no comments

    gr-qc/0612001 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
    Title: Beyond the Bowen-York extrinsic curvature for spinning black holes
    Authors: Mark Hannam, Sascha Husa, Bernd Bruegmann, Jose A. Gonzalez, Ulrich Sperhake
    Comments: 10 pages, 2 figures, submitted to special "New Frontiers in Numerical Relativity" issue of Classical and Quantum Gravity
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    Fri, 1 Dec 2006

    gr-qc/0611158 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
    Title: The significance of matter coupling in f(R) gravity
    Authors: Thomas P. Sotiriou
    Comments: Talk given at the 11th Marcel Grossman Meeting, Berlin, Germany, 23-29 Jul 2006

    gr-qc/0611155 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
    Title: On thermodynamical properties of dark energy
    Authors: Yungui Gong, Bin Wang, Anzhong Wang
    Comments: 5 two column pages, 2 figures

    astro-ph/0611950 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
    Title: The core radius of a star cluster containing a massive black hole
    Authors: Douglas C. Heggie, Piet Hut, Shin Mineshige, Jun Makino, Holger Baumgardt
    Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures, submitted to PASJ Letters
    astro-ph/0611939 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
    Title: Accretion Disk Spectra of the Brightest Ultra-luminous X-ray Source in M82
    Authors: Feng Yuan, Ronald E. Taam R. Misra, Xue-Bing Wu, Yongquan Xue
    Comments: 17 pages, 2 figures; accepted by ApJ
    astro-ph/0611938 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
    Title: General Relativistic Radiative Transfer
    Authors: S. Knop, P. H. Hauschildt, E. Baron
    astro-ph/0611924 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
    Title: Wave Modes in the Magnetospheres of Pulsars and Magnetars
    Authors: Chen Wang, Dong Lai
    Comments: 18 pages, 9 figures. Submitted to MNRAS

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