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arXiv:0708.2965 (cross-list from astro-ph) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Constraining Crystalline Color Superconducting Quark Matter with Gravitational-Wave Data

Authors: Lap-Ming Lin

Comments: 5 pages. Accepted for publication in PRD (Rapid Communication)

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

arXiv:0708.3037 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Multi-scale analysis of the electromagnetic self-force in a weak gravitational field

Authors: Adam Pound, Eric Poisson

Comments: 16 pages, 6 figures

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

[14] arXiv:0708.3033 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Osculating orbits in Schwarzschild spacetime, with an application to extreme mass-ratio inspirals

Authors: Adam Pound, Eric Poisson

Comments: 16 pages, 6 figures

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

[15] arXiv:0708.2984 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Is LIGO already constraining the parameters of QCD?

Authors: B. Haskell, N. Andersson, D. I. Jones, L. Samuelsson

Comments: 4 pagers, RevTeX, 3 eps figures

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

arXiv:0708.2720 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Simulating binary neutron stars: dynamics and gravitational waves

Authors: Matthew Anderson, Eric W. Hirschmann, Luis Lehner, Steven L. Liebling, Patrick M. Motl, David Neilsen, Carlos Palenzuela, Joel E. Tohline

Comments: 14 pages, 15 figures

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

[23] arXiv:0708.2837 (cross-list from physics.class-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: The Physics of Information

Authors: F. Alexander Bais, J. Doyne Farmer

Comments: The paper has 64 pages and 9 figures. It is a contribution to "The handbook on the philosophy of information", edited by J. van Benthem and P. Adriaans, to be published by Elsevier

Subjects: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); General Physics (physics.gen-ph); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

arXiv:0708.2639 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Black holes in the TeVeS theory of gravity and their thermodynamics

Authors: Eva Sagi, Jacob D. Bekenstein

Comments: 11 pages; ReVTeX

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

arXiv:0708.2537 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Optical geometry across the horizon

Authors: Rickard Jonsson

Comments: 15 pages, 10 figures

Journal-ref: Class. Quantum Grav. 23 (2006) 77

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

[34] arXiv:0708.2533 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: A covariant formalism of spin precession with respect to a reference congruence

Authors: Rickard Jonsson

Comments: 27 pages, 8 figures

Journal-ref: Class. Quantum Grav. 23 (2006) 37

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

[35] arXiv:0708.2493 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Inertial forces and the foundations of optical geometry

Authors: Rickard Jonsson

Comments: 42 pages, 7 figures

Journal-ref: Class. Quantum Grav. 23 (2006) 1

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

[36] arXiv:0708.2490 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Gyroscope precession in special and general relativity from basic principles

Authors: Rickard Jonsson

Comments: 10 pages, 14 figures. Also includes an addendum, 1 page, 1 figure

Journal-ref: Am. J. Phys. 75 (2007) 463

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

[37] arXiv:0708.2488 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: An intuitive approach to inertial forces and the centrifugal force paradox in general relativity

Authors: Rickard Jonsson

Comments: 14 pages, 21 figures

Journal-ref: Am. J. Phys. 74 (2006) 905

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

[38] arXiv:0708.2483 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Visualizing curved spacetime

Authors: Rickard Jonsson

Comments: 15 pages, 20 figures

Journal-ref: Am. J. Phys. 73 (2005) 248

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

arXiv:0708.0001 (cross-list from astro-ph) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The effects of Chern-Simons gravity on bodies orbiting the Earth

Authors: Tristan L. Smith (Caltech), Adrienne L. Erickcek (Caltech), Robert R. Caldwell (Dartmouth College), Marc Kamionkowski (Caltech)

Comments: 9 pages, 2 figures, submitted to PRD

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

[**]arXiv:0708.0628 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Observable Properties of Orbits in Exact Bumpy Spacetimes

Authors: Jonathan R Gair, Chao Li, Ilya Mandel

Comments: 42 pages, 20 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D

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

arXiv:0708.1163 (cross-list from astro-ph) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: How (Not) to Palatini

Authors: Alberto Iglesias, Nemanja Kaloper, Antonio Padilla, Minjoon Park

Comments: 18 pages, LaTeX; added references and minor improvements in sec 4

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

arXiv:0705.1565 (replaced) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Neutron stars in Einstein-aether theory

Authors: Christopher Eling, Ted Jacobson, M. Coleman Miller

Comments: 25 pages, 4 figures; v2: removed comment about rotating objects in abstract, simplified the discussion of aether-matter couplings, removed one extraneous mass vs. pressure plot, added brief discussion of ae-theory effects in Ozel's mass determination method, corrected typos

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

[***]arXiv:0708.1793 (cross-list from astro-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: A sub-horizon framework for probing the relationship between the cosmological matter distribution and metric perturbations

Authors: Mustafa A. Amin, Robert V. Wagoner, Roger D. Blandford

Comments: 10 pages, 3 figures (submitted to MNRAS)

[**]arXiv:0708.2258 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The evolution of cosmological gravitational waves in f(R) gravity

Authors: Kishore N. Ananda, S. Carloni, P. K. S. Dunsby

Comments: 19 pages, 3 figures and submitted to PRD

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

arXiv:0707.3203 (cross-list from physics.geo-ph) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Geo-neutrinos and Earth's interior

Authors: Gianni Fiorentini, Marcello Lissia, Fabio Mantovani

Comments: 56 pages in RMP ReVTeX format, 36 figures. A few typos corrected and a few minor points changed: resubmitted only to match the final version accepted for publication by Physics Reports

Subjects: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph); Astrophysics (astro-ph); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)

[***]arXiv:0708.3083 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Dynamics around supermassive black holes

Authors: Alessia Gualandris, David Merritt

Comments: Invited talk. To appear in "2007 STScI Spring Symposium: Black Holes", eds. M. Livio & A. M. Koekemoer. (Cambridge University Press, in press) 26 pages, 12 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

arXiv:0708.2947 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Detection of high-energy gamma rays from winter thunderclouds

Authors: H. Tsuchiya, T. Enoto, S. Yamada, T. Yuasa, M. Kawaharada, T. Kitaguchi, M. Kokubun, H. Kato, M. Okano, S. Nakamura, K. Makishima

Comments: 12 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)

arXiv:0708.2943 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Dark Energy or Apparent Acceleration Due to a Relativistic Cosmological Model More Complex than FLRW?

Authors: Mustapha Ishak, James Richardson, Delilah Whittington, David Garred (The University of Texas at Dallas)

Comments: 5 pages, 1 figure

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

arXiv:0708.2696 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Do flares in Sagittarius A* reflect the last stage of tidal capture?

Authors: A. Cadez, M. Calvani, A. Gomboc, U. Kostic

Comments: 6 pages, 9 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of the Albert Einstein's Century International Conference, Paris 2005

Journal-ref: AIP Conf.Proc. 861 (2006) 566-571

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

arXiv:0708.2693 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: On the stability of precessing superfluid neutron stars

Authors: K. Glampedakis, N. Andersson, D. I. Jones

Comments: 4 pages, Revtex, 1 eps figure

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

arXiv:0708.2372 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Searching for a Pulsar in SN1987A

Authors: R. N. Manchester

Comments: 10 pages, 3 figures. To appear in "Supernova 1987A: Twenty Years After: Supernovae and Gamma-Ray Bursters", edited by S. Immler, K. W. Weiler and R. McCray, American Institute of Physics, New York, 2007, in press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

arXiv:0708.2279 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Relating gravitational wave constraints from primordial nucleosynthesis, pulsar timing, laser interferometers, and the CMB: implications for the early universe

Authors: Latham A. Boyle (CITA/Princeton), Alessandra Buonanno (Maryland)

Comments: v1: 12 + 6 pages (main text + appendices), 7 figures; v2: fonts fixed in figures

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