Mon, 28 May - Wed, 27 June

arXiv:0705.3829 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Matched Filtering of Numerical Relativity Templates of Spinning Binary Black Holes

Authors: Birjoo Vaishnav, Ian Hinder, Frank Herrmann, Deirdre Shoemaker

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Astrophysics (astro-ph)

arXiv:0705.3795 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The Cosmology of Modified Gauss-Bonnet Gravity

Authors: Baojiu Li, John D. Barrow, David F. Mota

Comments: 10 pages, 4 figures

[***]arXiv:0705.4043 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Field-theoretical formulations of MOND-like gravity

Authors: Jean-Philippe Bruneton, Gilles Esposito-Farese

Comments: 65 pages, 6 figures, RevTeX4 format

arXiv:0705.2683 (cross-list from astro-ph) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Stellar configurations in f(R) theories of gravity

Authors: K. Henttunen, T. Multamaki, I. Vilja

Comments: 8 pages, 7 figures; typos corrected, reference added

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[**]arXiv:0705.4398 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The Dark Side of a Patchwork Universe

Authors: Martin Bojowald

Comments: 24 pages, 2 figures, Contribution to the special issue on Dark Energy by Gen. Rel. Grav

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Astrophysics (astro-ph); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

arXiv:0705.4507 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Comments on "Note on varying speed of light theories"

Authors: Joao Magueijo, John W. Moffat

arXiv:0705.4585 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: A characteristic approach to the quasi-normal mode problem

Authors: Lars Samuelsson, Nils Andersson, Asimina Maniopoulou

Comments: 14 pages, 3 figures, 3 tables

[**]arXiv:0705.4287 (cross-list from astro-ph) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Eccentric double white dwarfs as LISA sources in globular clusters

Authors: B. Willems (1), V. Kalogera (1), A. Vecchio (1,2), N. Ivanova (3), F.A. Rasio (1), J.M. Fregeau (1), K. Belczynski (4) ((1) Northwestern U., (2) U. of Birmingham, (3) U. of Toronto, (4) New Mexico State U.)

Comments: minor revisions in reply to the referee report + typo corrections

arXiv:0706.0114 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: A New Template Family For The Detection Of Gravitational Waves From Comparable Mass Black Hole Binaries

Authors: Edward K. Porter

Comments: 18 pages, 9 figures, Submitted to Phys. Rev. D

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

arXiv:0705.4158 (replaced) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Can dark matter be a Bose-Einstein condensate?

Authors: C. G. Boehmer, T. Harko

Comments: 20 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in JCAP, references added

Journal-ref: JCAP 06 (2007) 025

[**]arXiv:0706.0622 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The Kerr spacetime: A brief introduction

Authors: Matt Visser (Victoria University of Wellington)

Comments: 37 pages, 1 figure: This is a draft of an introductory chapter on the Kerr spacetime that is intended for use in the book "The Kerr spacetime", currently being edited by Susan Scott, Matt Visser, and David Wiltshire. It is not, nor is it intended to be, complete and exhaustive. Comments and community feedback, especially regarding clarity and pedagogy, are welcome

arXiv:0706.0726 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Radiation reaction in the 2.5PN waveform from inspiralling binaries in circular orbits

Authors: Lawrence E. Kidder, Luc Blanchet, Bala R. Iyer

Comments: 7 pages, no figures, submitted to CQG

[**]arXiv:0706.0288 (cross-list from hep-th) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Bumpy black holes from spontaneous Lorentz violation

Authors: Sergei Dubovsky, Peter Tinyakov, Matias Zaldarriaga

Comments: 40 pages, 4 figures

[**]arXiv:0706.0904 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Reducing eccentricity in black-hole binary evolutions with initial parameters from post-Newtonian inspiral

Authors: Sascha Husa, Mark Hannam, Jose A. Gonzalez, Ulrich Sperhake, Bernd Bruegmann

Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures, 1 table

arXiv:0706.0991 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Non-axisymmetric oscillations of differentially rotating relativistic stars

Authors: Andrea Passamonti, Adamantios Stavridis, Kostas Kokkotas

Comments: 17 pages, 7 figures, 8 tables, submitted to Phys. Rev. D

arXiv:astro-ph/0610794 (cross-list from astro-ph) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Constraints on f(R) Cosmology in the Palatini Formalism

Authors: Baojiu Li, K. C. Chan, M.-C. Chu

Comments: 9 pages, 7 figures. Modified version to appear in Physical Review D

arXiv:0706.1109 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Discovering the Kerr and Kerr-Schild metrics

Authors: Roy P. Kerr

Comments: 34 pages, 2 figures, cupbook.cls. To appear in "The Kerr Spacetime", Eds D.L. Wiltshire, M. Visser and S.M. Scott, Cambridge Univ. Press

[**]arXiv:0706.1305 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Where post-Newtonian and numerical-relativity waveforms meet

Authors: Mark Hannam, Sascha Husa, Ulrich Sperhake, Bernd Bruegmann, Jose A. Gonzalez

Comments: 9 pages, 14 figures

[**]arXiv:0706.1513 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: How to tell a gravastar from a black hole

Authors: Cecilia B. M. H. Chirenti, Luciano Rezzolla

Comments: 16 pages, 13 figures, minor improvement

arXiv:0706.1654 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Gravity as an emergent phenomenon: A conceptual description

Authors: T. Padmanabhan

Comments: 11 p; AIP stylefiles included; Summary of several plenary talks in the conferences including XXIII Texas Symposium in Relativistic Astrophysics (Melbourne, Dec, 06); IAGRG Meeting (Delhi, Feb, 07); International workshop on theoretical high energy physics (Roorkee, Mar, 2007); to appear in the proceedings of IWTHEP

arXiv:0706.1565 (cross-list from astro-ph) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Resource Letter BE-1: The Beginning and Evolution of the Universe

Authors: Bharat Ratra (Kansas State University), Michael S. Vogeley (Drexel University)

Comments: 95 pages, invited review article for American Journal of Physics, comments are welcomed by the authors

arXiv:0706.1999 [pdf, other]

Title: Spacetime Indeterminacy and Holographic Noise

Authors: Craig J. Hogan

Comments: 13 pages, LaTex, 6 figures

arXiv:0706.2188 (cross-list from astro-ph) [pdf]

Title: Black Hole Constraints on Varying Fundamental Constants

Authors: Jane H MacGibbon

Comments: 7 pages, accepted by Phys.Rev.Lett

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

arXiv:0706.1931 (cross-list from astro-ph) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Systematic corrections to the measured cosmological constant as a result of local inhomogeneity

Authors: R. Ali Vanderveld, Eanna E. Flanagan, Ira Wasserman

Comments: 28 pages, 3 figures, revtex4; v2: corrected comments and the section on previous work; v3: clarified wording. References added

arXiv:0706.2360 (cross-list from astro-ph) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Magnetorotational collapse of very massive stars in full general relativity

Authors: Yuk Tung Liu, Stuart L. Shapiro, Branson C. Stephens (UIUC)

Comments: 17 pages, 13 figures, submitted to Phys.Rev.D

[*]arXiv:0706.2909 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Extended-body effects in cosmological spacetimes

Authors: Abraham I. Harte

Comments: 14 pages

[**]arXiv:0706.3198 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Overspinning a nearly extreme charged black hole via a quantum tunneling process

Authors: George E. A. Matsas, André R. R. da Silva

Comments: Submitted to Physical Review Letters, 4 pages, 3 figures

arXiv:0706.3238 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Perturbation theory of spherically symmetric self-similar black holes

Authors: A. J. S. Hamilton (JILA, U. Colorado)

Comments: 63 pages, 1 eps figure

arXiv:0705.2756 (replaced) [pdf, other]

Title: Black Hole Motion as Catalyst of Orbital Resonances

Authors: C.M. Boily, T. Padmanabhan, A. Paiement

Comments: revised version, typos fixed, added references, 20 pages MN style

[***]arXiv:0706.3732 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Toward faithful templates for non-spinning binary black holes using the effective-one-body approach

Authors: Alessandra Buonanno, Yi Pan, John G. Baker, Joan Centrella, Bernard J. Kelly, Sean T. McWilliams, James R. van Meter

Comments: 15 pages, 9 figures

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)