Thu, 19 Apr 2007-Wed, 25 Apr 2007

arXiv:0704.2991 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: Second post-Newtonian approximation of scalar-tensor theory of gravity
Authors: Yi Xie, Wei-Tou Ni, Peng Dong, Tian-Yi Huang
Comments: 20 pages, COSPAR2006 H0.1-1, submitted

arXiv:0704.2881 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: Current status of Japanese detectors
Authors: Daisuke Tatsumi, Ryutaro Takahashi, Koji Arai, Noriyasu Nakagawa, Kazuhiro Agatsuma, Toshitaka Yamazaki, Mitsuhiro Fukushima, Masa-Katsu Fujimoto, Akiteru Takamori, Alessandro Bertolini, Virginio Sannibale, Riccardo DeSalvo, Szabolcs Marka, Masaki Ando, Kimio Tsubono, Tomomi Akutsu, Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Hideki Ishitsuka, Takashi Uchiyama, Shinji Miyoki, Masatake Ohashi, Kazuaki Kuroda, Norichika Awaya, Nobuyuki Kanda, Akito Araya, Souichi Telada, Takayuki Tomaru, Tomiyoshi Haruyama, Akira Yamamoto, Nobuaki Sato, Toshitaka Suzuki, Takakazu Shintomi
Comments: 6 pages, 5 figures, Proceedings of GWDAW-11

[***] arXiv:0704.2612 (cross-list from astro-ph) [ps, pdf, other] : Title: Relativistic Effects in Extreme Mass Ratio Gravitational Wave Bursts
Authors: Nicolas Yunes, Carlos F. Sopuerta, Louis J. Rubbo, Kelly Holley-Bockelmann
Comments: 9 pages, 8 figures. Submitted to Ap. J

arXiv:0704.1746 (cross-list from hep-th) [ps, pdf, other] : Title: Tunnelling from black holes in the Hamilton Jacobi approach
Authors: Bhramar Chatterjee, Amit Ghosh, P. Mitra
Comments: REVTeX, 5 pages

[**]arXiv:0704.2729 [pdf, other] : Title: Spherically symmetric spacetimes in f(R) gravity theories
Authors: Kimmo Kainulainen, Johanna Piilonen, Vappu Reijonen, Daniel Sunhede
Comments: 12 pages, 7 figures

[*]arXiv:0704.2720 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: Application of energy and angular momentum balance to gravitational radiation reaction for binary systems with spin-orbit coupling
Authors: Jing Zeng, Clifford M. Will (Washington University, St. Louis)
Comments: 12 pages, submitted to General Relativity and Gravitation

arXiv:0704.2667 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: Wormholes as Black Hole Foils
Authors: Thibault Damour, Sergey N. Solodukhin
Comments: 13 pages, no figures, Latex

arXiv:0704.2520 (cross-list from hep-th) [ps, pdf, other] : Title: Dark energy from modified F(R)-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity
Authors: Shin'ichi Nojiri, Sergei D. Odintsov, Petr V. Tretyakov
Comments: LaTeX, 8 pages, no figure

arXiv:0704.2499 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: Electromagnetic Dark Energy and Gravitoelectrodynamics of Superconductors
Authors: Clovis Jacinto de Matos
Comments: 7 pages

arXiv:0704.2447 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: A Three-Stage Search for Supermassive Black Hole Binaries in LISA Data
Authors: Duncan A. Brown, Jeff Crowder, Curt Cutler, Ilya Mandel, Michele Vallisneri
Comments: 12 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Proceedings of GWDAW-11 (Berlin, Dec. '06)

arXiv:0704.2291 (cross-list from astro-ph) [ps, pdf, other] : Title: Fundamentalist physics: why Dark Energy is bad for Astronomy
Authors: Simon D.M. White
Comments: Essay commissioned for publication in Reports on Progress in Physics. 19 pages including 3 figures

[**] arXiv:0704.2243 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: Post-Newtonian gravitational radiation and equations of motion via direct integration of the relaxed Einstein equations. V. The strong equivalence principle to second post-Newtonian order
Authors: Thomas Mitchell, Clifford M. Will (Washington University, St. Louis)
Comments: 14 pages, submitted to Phys. Rev. D

arXiv:0704.3236 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: A "diamond-ring" star: the unusual morphologic structure of a young (multiple?) object
Authors: Joao L. Yun, Jose M. Torrelles, Nuno C. Santos
Comments: 7 pages, 6 figures

arXiv:0704.3162 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: Neutrino transport and hydrodynamic stability of rotating proto-neutron stars
Authors: V.Urpin
Comments: 6 pages. Accepted for publication in A&A

arXiv:0704.2896 (cross-list from q-bio.PE) [pdf] : Title: Considering the Case for Biodiversity Cycles: Reexamining the Evidence for Periodicity in the Fossil Record
Authors: Bruce S.Lieberman, Adrian L. Melott (University of Kansas)
Comments: Submitted to PLoS Computational Biology

arXiv:0704.3031 [pdf] : Title: The Cornell Caltech Atacama Telescope
Authors: Simon J. E. Radford, Riccardo Giovanelli, Thomas A. Sebring, Jonas Zmuidzinas
Comments: 18th International Symposium on Space Terahertz Technology

arXiv:0704.3009 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: Gravitational waves from galaxy encounters
Authors: V. Quilis, A.C. González-García, D. Sáez, J. A. Font
Comments: 9 pages with revtex style, 3 ps figures; to be published in Physical Review D

arXiv:0704.2872 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: Hypervelocity stars and the environment of Sgr A*
Authors: A. Sesana, F. Haardt, P. Madau
Comments: 5 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS letters

arXiv:0704.2781 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: Enhanced activity of massive black holes by stellar capture assisted by a self-gravitating accretion disc
Authors: V. Karas, L. Subr
Comments: 10 pages, 5 figures; Astronomy & Astrophysics accepted

arXiv:0704.2709 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: Resonant relaxation near a massive black hole: the dependence on eccentricity
Authors: M. Atakan Gürkan (1), Clovis Hopman (2) ((1) University of Amsterdam (2) Leiden University)
Comments: 6 pages, 5 figures, submitted to MNRAS main journal

arXiv:0704.2643 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: Eclipsing light curves for accretion flows around a rotating black hole and atmospheric effects of the companion star
Authors: Rohta Takahashi, Ken-Ya Watarai
Comments: Takahashi R., Watarai K., 2007, MNRAS, 374, 1515
Journal-ref: Takahashi R., Watarai K., 2007, MNRAS, 374, 1515

arXiv:0704.2608 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: WHAM: A WENO-based general relativistic numerical scheme I: Hydrodynamics
Authors: Alexander Tchekhovskoy, Jonathan C. McKinney, Ramesh Narayan (Harvard-CfA)
Comments: 33 pages, 22 figures, accepted to MNRAS, for a version with high quality figures see this http URL

arXiv:0704.2606 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: Cosmological constraints combining H(z), CMB shift and SNIa observational data
Authors: Ruth Lazkoz (Basque U., Bilbao), Elisabetta Majerotto (ICG, Portsmouth)
Comments: 12 pages, 6 figures

[***] arXiv:0704.2426 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: Testing General Metric Theories of Gravity with Bursting Neutron Stars
Authors: Dimitrios Psaltis (Arizona)
Comments: 7 pages, submitted for publication in Physical Review D

arXiv:0704.2421 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: Measuring the dark side (with weak lensing)
Authors: Luca Amendola (INAF/OAR Italy), Martin Kunz, Domenico Sapone (U. Geneve, Switzerland)
Comments: 19 pages, 11 figures

arXiv:0704.2415 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: Near-Infrared and X-ray Observations of the Enigmatic G70.7+1.2
Authors: P. B. Cameron, S. R. Kulkarni (Caltech)
Comments: 13 pages, 4 figures. Submitted to ApJL, referee's comments incorporated

Wed, 18 Apr 2007

arXiv:0704.2159 [ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Accretion Disk Illumination in Schwarzschild and Kerr Geometries: Fitting Formulae
Authors: Keigo Fukumura, Demosthenes Kazanas
Comments: 26 pages, 21 b/w figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal as of 4/16/2007

[*] arXiv:0704.2157 [ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Maximum Entropy for Gravitational Wave Data Analysis: Inferring the Physical Parameters of Core-Collapse Supernovae
Authors: T. Z. Summerscales, Adam Burrows, Christian D. Ott, Lee Samuel Finn
Comments: 33 pages, 13 figures, submitted to ApJ
arXiv:0704.2086 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: Third-order cosmological perturbations of zero-pressure multi-component fluids: Pure general relativistic nonlinear effects
Authors: J. Hwang, H. Noh
Comments: 20 pages, no figure

[*] arXiv:0704.2064 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: The Dynamics of Quintessence, The Quintessence of Dynamics
Authors: Eric V. Linder
Comments: 15 pages, 6 figures, review article for General Relativity and Gravitation

arXiv:0704.1912 (cross-list from q-bio.PE) [pdf] : Title: Bone Cancer in Dinosaurs
Authors: L.C. Natarajan, A.L. Melott, B.M. Rothschild, L.D. Martin (University of Kansas)

Mon, 16 Apr 2007-Tue, 17 Apr 2007

arXiv:0704.1733 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: Extra force in $f(R)$ modified theories of gravity
Authors: Orfeu Bertolami, Christian G. Boehmer, Tiberiu Harko, Francisco S.N. Lobo
Comments: Revtex4 file, 5 pages
[**] arXiv:0704.1964 [ps, pdf, other] :
Title: A data-analysis driven comparison of analytic and numerical coalescing binary waveforms: nonspinning case
Authors: Yi Pan, Alessandra Buonanno, John G. Baker, Joan Centrella, Bernard J. Kelly, Sean T. McWilliams, Frans Pretorius, James R. van Meter
Comments: 19 pages, 17 figures
arXiv:0704.1968 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: Supermassive black hole binary mergers
Authors: László Á. Gergely, Peter L. Biermann
Comments: 10 pages, 1 figure

arXiv:0704.1945 [ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Magnetorotational Collapse of Population III Stars
Authors: Yudai Suwa, Tomoya Takiwaki, Kei Kotake, Katsuhiko Sato
Comments: 24 pages, 17 figures. Accepted for publication in PASJ. A paper with high-resolution figures available at "this http URL"

[***] arXiv:0704.1932 [ps, pdf, other] :
Title: A discriminating probe of gravity at cosmological scales
Authors: Pengjie Zhang (SHAO), Michele Liguori (Cambridge), Rachel Bean (Cornell), Scott Dodelson (Fermilab/Chicago)
Comments: 4 pages, 1 figure

[*] arXiv:0704.1920 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: Global Disk Oscillation Modes in Cataclysmic Variables and Other Newtonian Accretors
Authors: Manuel Ortega-Rodriguez, Robert V. Wagoner
Comments: 1 figure


[**] arXiv:0704.1910 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: Ellipsoidal Oscillations Induced by Substellar Companions: A Prospect for the Kepler Mission
Authors: Eric Pfahl (KITP), Phil Arras (UVa), Bill Paxton (KITP)
Comments: 13 pages (emulateapj), 9 figures, 3 tables, submitted to ApJ

arXiv:0704.1860 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: How Mergers May Affect The Mass Scaling Relations Between Black Holes, Galaxies, and Other Gravitationally Bound Systems
Authors: Chien Y. Peng
Comments: 9 pages, 8 figures, ApJ Submitted

arXiv:0704.1817 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: Redefining the Missing Satellites Problem
Authors: Louis E. Strigari, James S. Bullock, Manoj Kaplinghat, Juerg Diemand, Michael Kuhlen, Piero Madau
Comments: 8 pages, 5 figures

arXiv:0704.1654 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: The Peculiar Velocities of Local Type Ia Supernovae and their Impact on Cosmology
Authors: James D. Neill (1), Michael J. Hudson (2), Alex Conley (3) ((1) California Institute of Technology, (2) University of Waterloo, (3) University of Toronto)
Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication in ApJ Letters

Fri, 13 Apr 2007

arXiv:0704.1630 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: Exciting the Magnetosphere of the Magnetar CXOU J164710.2-455216 in Westerlund 1
Authors: M. P. Muno, B. M. Gaensler, J. S. Clark, R. de Grijs, D. Pooley, I. R. Stevens, S. F. Portegies Zwart
Comments: 5 pages, three figures, accepted to MNRAS letters

arXiv:0704.1598 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: Radiative transitions of the helium atom in highly magnetized neutron star atmospheres
Authors: Zach Medin, Dong Lai (Cornell), Alexander Y. Potekhin (Ioffe Inst., St. Petersburg)
Comments: 13 pages, 7 figures, submitted to MNRAS

arXiv:0704.1570 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: A method for the direct determination of the surface gravities of transiting extrasolar planets
Authors: John Southworth (1), Peter J. Wheatley (1), Giles Sams (1), ((1) University of Warwick, UK)
Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS Letters (original submission 2007 March 5). Contains 5 pages with 3 figures

[**] arXiv:0704.1510 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: A compact star rotating at 1122 Hz and the r-mode instability
Authors: Alessandro Drago (Univ. Ferrara and INFN sez. Ferrara, Italy) Giuseppe Pagliara (Inst. Theoretische Physik, Goethe Universitaet, Frankfurt am Main, Germany and INFN Italy), Irene Parenti (Univ. Ferrara and INFN sez. Ferrara, Italy)
Comments: 7 pages, 2 figures

Wed, 11 Apr 2007-Thu, 12 Apr 2007

arXiv:0704.1457 [ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Chaos and Symmetry in String Cosmology
Authors: Thibault Damour
Comments: 14 pages, one diagram; invited talk at the 11th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on Recent Developments in General Relativity, Berlin, Germany, 23-29 July 2006

[**] arXiv:0704.1447 [ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Can Gravity Probe B usefully constrain torsion gravity theories?
Authors: Eanna E. Flanagan, Eran Rosenthal
Comments: 13 pages
arXiv:0704.1154 [ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Information, information processing and gravity
Authors: Stephen D.H. Hsu
Comments: 7 pages, 5 figures, revtex

[**] arXiv:0704.1149 [ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Contraction of Gravitational-Wave Packets Due to their Self-Gravity
Authors: Bence Kocsis, Abraham Loeb (Harvard)
Comments: 17 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D
arXiv:0704.1281 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: The Galactic Center
Authors: R. Genzel, V. Karas
Comments: Write up of the talk at IAU Symposium No. 238 (21-25 August 2006, Prague), to appear in Proceedings of "Black Holes: from Stars to Galaxies" (Cambridge University Press), p. 173


arXiv:0704.1278 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: Turbulent Mixing in the Surface Layers of Accreting Neutron Stars
Authors: Anthony L. Piro (KITP, UCB), Lars Bildsten (KITP)
Comments: Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal, 16 pages, 15 figures


arXiv:0704.1258 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: Evidence for a merger of binary white dwarfs: the case of GD 362
Authors: E. Garcia-Berro, P. Loren-Aguilar, A.G. Pedemonte, J. Isern, P. Bergeron, P. Dufour, P. Brassard
Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal Letters

arXiv:0704.1215 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: Double Neutron Stars: Evidence For Two Different Neutron-Star Formation Mechanisms
Authors: E.P.J. van den Heuvel (University of Amsterdam, University of California)
Comments: 9 pages. Invited talk at `The Multicoloured Landscape of Compact Objects and their Explosive Origins', Cefalu', 2006 June 11-24 (AIP Conf. Proc.), eds. L. Burderi et al., in press

[***]arXiv:0704.1204 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: The effect of supernova asymmetry on coalescence rates of binary neutron stars
Authors: K.A. Postnov, A.G. Kuranov (Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow)
Comments: LaTeX, 4 pages, 3 figures; talk given at XLIId Rencontres de Moriond "Gravitaional Waves and Experimental Gravitation", March 11-18, La Thuile; to be published in the Proceedings; references added

Tue, 10 Apr 2007

[***]arXiv:0704.1086 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: Higher harmonics increase LISA's mass reach for supermassive black holes
Authors: K.G. Arun, Bala R. Iyer, B. S. Sathyaprakash, Siddhartha Sinha
Comments: 13 pages, 9 figures

arXiv:0704.0986 [ps, pdf, other] :
Title: On reference frames in spacetime and gravitational energy in freely falling frames
Authors: J. W. Maluf, F. F. Faria, S. C. Ulhoa
Comments: 19 pages, no figures, accepted by Classical and Quantum Gravity

[14] arXiv:0704.0943 [ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Search for gravitational-wave bursts in LIGO data from the fourth science run
Authors: LIGO Scientific Collaboration
Comments: 29 pages, to be submitted to Classical and Quantum Gravity
arXiv:0704.1131 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: Finding (or not) New Gamma-ray Pulsars with GLAST
Authors: Scott M. Ransom (NRAO)
Comments: 3 pages, 2 figures, for the Proceedings of the First GLAST Symposium (5-8 Feb 2007)

arXiv:0704.1114 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: Identification of Absorption Features in an Extrasolar Planet Atmosphere
Authors: T. S. Barman
Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJL., in emulate ApJ format

arXiv:0704.1071 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: Bulk viscosity of superfluid neutron stars
Authors: M.E. Gusakov (Ioffe Institute)
Comments: 10 pages, 1 figure

arXiv:0704.0944 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: GLAST and Dark Matter Substructure in the Milky Way
Authors: Michael Kuhlen (1), Jürg Diemand (2), Piero Madau (2, 3) ((1) Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, (2) UC Santa Cruz, (3) Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Garching, Germany)
Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures, to be published in "The Proceedings of the First International GLAST Symposium", February 5-8, 2007, Stanford University, AIP, Eds. S. Ritz, P.F. Michelson, and C. Meegan

Fri, 6 Apr 2007-Mon, 9 Apr 2007

[**] arXiv:0704.0797 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: Scalar self-force on eccentric geodesics in Schwarzschild spacetime: a time-domain computation
Authors: Roland Haas
Comments: 18 pages, 18 figures, RevTeX4

arXiv:0704.0754 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: General Relativity Today
Authors: Thibault Damour
Comments: 49 pages, 5 figures, talk given at the Poincar\'e Seminar ``Gravitation et Exp\'erience'' (28 October 2006, Paris); to appear in the proceedings to be published by Birkh\"auser

[**]arXiv:0704.0749 [ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Binary Systems as Test-beds of Gravity Theories
Authors: Thibault Damour
Comments: 42 pages, 3 figures, Based on lectures given at the SIGRAV School ``A Century from Einstein Relativity: Probing Gravity Theories in Binary Systems'', Villa Olmo (Como Lake, Italy), 17-21 May 2005. To appear in the Proceedings, edited by M. Colpi et al. (to be published by Springer)

[**] arXiv:0704.0719 [ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Gravitational Wave Signals from Chaotic System: A Point Mass with A Disk
Authors: Kenta Kiuchi, Hiroko Koyama, Kei-ichi Maeda
Comments: 10 pages, 8 figures; submitted to Phys. Rev. D

arXiv:0704.0646 [ps, pdf, other] :
Title: The Mathematical Universe
Authors: Max Tegmark
Comments: 28 pages, 5 figs; more details at this http URL

[*] arXiv:hep-th/0703257 [ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Integrable Cosmological Models From Higher Dimensional Einstein Equations
Authors: Masakazu Sano, Hisao Suzuki
Comments: 10 pages, 2 figures, added reference, Corrected typos

[*] arXiv:0704.0881 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: Constraining Dark Energy Equation of State with Cosmic Voids
Authors: Jounghun Lee, Daeseong Park (Seoul Nat'l Univ.)
Comments: submitted to PRL, 4 pages, 4 figures
arXiv:0704.0832 [pdf] : Title: Terrestrial and Habitable Planet Formation in Binary and Multi-star Systems
Authors: Nader Haghighipour, Steinn Sigurdsson, Jack Lissauer, Sean Raymond
Comments: 7 pages, White Paper Submitted to the NASA/NSF ExoPlanet Task Force

arXiv:0704.0816 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: 3-D Simulations of Ergospheric Disk Driven Poynting Jets
Authors: Brian Punsly
Comments: To appear in ApJ Letters. A version with high res images is at this http URL

[***]arXiv:0704.0799 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: Spin Evolution of Accreting Neutron Stars: Nonlinear Development of the R-mode Instability
Authors: Ruxandra Bondarescu, Saul A. Teukolsky, Ira Wasserman (Cornell University)
Comments: 17 pages, 9 figures

arXiv:0704.0789 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: New Close Binary Systems from the SDSS-I (Data Release Five) and the Search for Magnetic White Dwarfs in Cataclysmic Variable Progenitor Systems
Authors: Nicole M. Silvestri (1), Mara P. Lemagie (1), Suzanne L. Hawley (1), Andrew A. West (2), Gary D. Schmidt (3), James Liebert (3), Paula Szkody (1), Lee Mannikko (1), Michael A. Wolfe (1), J. C. Barentine (4), Howard J. Brewington (4), Michael Harvanek (4), Jurik Krzesinski (5), Dan Long (4), Donald P. Schneider (6), Stephanie A. Snedden (4) ((1) University of Washington; (2) University of California, Berkeley; (3) University of Arizona and Steward Observatory; (4) Apache Point Observatory; (5) Mt. Suhora Observatory, Cracow Pedagogical University; (6) Penn State University)
Comments: 25 pages. 8 full size figures (.eps) and 2 complete tables (.tex) are available at this http URL . Accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal


arXiv:0704.0680 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: An Inverse $f(R)$ Gravitation for Cosmic Speed up, and Dark Energy Equivalent
Authors: Sohrab Rahvar, Yousef Sobouti
Comments: 4 pages, 6 figures, submitted to PRL

arXiv:0704.0675 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: Proto-Neutron Star Winds, Magnetar Birth, and Gamma-Ray Bursts
Authors: B.D. Metzger, T.A. Thompson, E. Quataert
Comments: 5 pages; to appear in the AIP conference proceedings of "Supernova 1987A: 20 Years After - Supernovae and Gamma-Ray Bursters", February 19-23, 2007, Aspen, Colorado

arXiv:0704.0659 [pdf, other] : Title: Long Gamma-Ray Burst Progenitors: Boundary Conditions and Binary Models
Authors: E.P.J. van den Heuvel, S.-C. Yoon
Comments: 8 pp., 2 figs, Proceedings of 5th Stromlo Symposium

Thu, 5 Apr 2007

arXiv:0704.0628 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: Black hole puncture initial data with realistic gravitational wave content
Authors: Bernard J Kelly, Wolfgang Tichy, Manuela Campanelli, Bernard F Whiting
Comments: 13 pages, 7 figures; submitted to Phys. Rev. D

arXiv:0704.0632 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: Detecting and Characterizing Planetary Systems with Transit Timing
Authors: Jason H. Steffen, B. Scott Gaudi, Eric B. Ford, Eric Agol, Mathew J. Holman
Comments: 7 pages, 2 figures, white paper submitted to the Exoplanet Task Force

Wed, 4 Apr 2007

arXiv:0704.0431 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: Fragmentation of general relativistic quasi-toroidal polytropes
Authors: Burkhard Zink, Nikolaos Stergioulas, Ian Hawke, Christian D. Ott, Erik Schnetter, Ewald Mueller
Comments: 2 pages, 1 figure. Submitted to the Proceedings of the 11th Marcel Grossmann Meeting (MG11) in Berlin, Germany, July 23-29, 2006

[***]arXiv:0704.0389 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: Evolution of the Carter constant for inspirals into a black hole: effect of the black hole quadrupole
Authors: Eanna E. Flanagan, Tanja Hinderer
Comments: 21 pages

[*]arXiv:0704.0381 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: The collision velocity of the bullet cluster in conventional and modified dynamics
Authors: Garry W. Angus (St. Andrews), Stacy S. McGaugh (Maryland)
Comments: 8 pages, 6 figures, submitted to MNRAS, high res version at this http URL

arXiv:0704.0356 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: AMR simulations of the low T/|W| bar-mode instability of neutron stars
Authors: Pablo Cerdá-Durán, Vicent Quilis, José A. Font
Comments: 20 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in Computer Physics Communications.

[***]arXiv:0704.0297 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: Remnant evolution after a carbon-oxygen white dwarf merger
Authors: Sung-Chul Yoon, Philipp Podsiadlowski, Stephan Rosswog
Comments: 15 pages, 15 figures, 3 tables, submitted to MNRAS (Low resolution version; a high resolution version can be found at: this http URL)

[**]arXiv:0704.0280 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: Common Envelope Evolution Redux
Authors: Ronald F. Webbink (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Comments: 25 pages, 6 figures. To appear in "Short Period Binary Stars", ed. E.F. Milone, D.A. Leahy, & D.W. Hobill (Springer)

Tue, 3 Apr 2007-Mon, 2 Apr 2007


[***]arXiv:0704.0149 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: Construction of initial data for 3+1 numerical relativity
Authors: Eric Gourgoulhon (LUTH, CNRS / Observatoire de Paris / Univ. Paris 7)
Comments: 28 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Journal of Physics: Conference Series, for the Proceedings of the VII Mexican School on Gravitation and Mathematical Physics, held in Playa del Carmen, Mexico (Nov. 26 - Dec. 2, 2006)

[***]arXiv:0704.0138 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: Circular and non-circular nearly horizon-skimming orbits in Kerr spacetimes
Authors: Enrico Barausse, Scott A. Hughes, Luciano Rezzolla
Comments: 15 pages, 4 figures, 5 tables


arXiv:astro-ph/0703775 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: Quantum Gravitational Uncertainty of Transverse Position
Authors: Craig J. Hogan
Comments: 4 pages, LaTex


arXiv:gr-qc/0703155 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: A fast search strategy for gravitational waves from low-mass X-ray binaries
Authors: C. Messenger, G. Woan
Comments: 13 pages, 3 figures, to appear in the GWDAW 11 conference proceedings

arXiv:gr-qc/0703152 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: Binary system delays and timing noise in searches for gravitational waves from known pulsars
Authors: Matthew Pitkin, Graham Woan (University of Glasgow)
Comments: 12 pages, 12 figures, submitted to PRD

[**]arXiv:0704.0221 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: The Return of a Static Universe and the End of Cosmology
Authors: Lawrence M. Krauss (1,2), Robert J. Scherrer (2) ((1) Case Western Reserve University, (2) Vanderbilt University)
Comments: submitted to 2007 Gravity Research Foundation Essay Competition

arXiv:0704.0207 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: Quark matter and the astrophysics of neutron stars
Authors: M Prakash
Comments: 8 pages, 6 figures, Plenary talk in Quark Matter 2006 to appear in J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 34 (2007)

[*]arXiv:0704.0175 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: Solar System Constraints on Gauss-Bonnet Mediated Dark Energy
Authors: Luca Amendola, Christos Charmousis, Stephen C. Davis
Comments: 12 pages

arXiv:astro-ph/0703810 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: Testing the LCDM model (and more) with the time evolution of the redshift
Authors: Kayll Lake
Comments: 4 pages revtex4

arXiv:astro-ph/0703773 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: How rapidly do supermassive black hole "seeds" grow at early times?
Authors: Federico I. Pelupessy (1), Tiziana Di Matteo (1), Benedetta Ciardi (2) (1 CMU, 2 MPA)
Comments: 13 pages and figures, ApJ accepted