Mon 25 Aug '07 - Wed. 25 Sept '07

arXiv:0704.1149 (replaced) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Distortion of Gravitational-Wave Packets Due to their Self-Gravity

Authors: Bence Kocsis, Abraham Loeb (Harvard)

Comments: accepted for publication in Physical Review D

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

arXiv:0708.2865 (cross-list from hep-th) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Lectures on Cosmic Inflation and its Potential Stringy Realizations

Authors: C. P. Burgess

Comments: 68 pages, lectures given at Dubrovnik, Aug 2006; CERN, January 2007; and Cargese, Aug 2007

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

arXiv:0708.3680 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Black Holes, Entropy, and Information

Authors: Gary T. Horowitz

Comments: 8 pages. To appear in "2007 STScI Spring Symposium: Black Holes", eds. M. Livio & A. M. Koekemoer. (Cambridge University Press)

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

arXiv:0705.1060 (replaced) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Obtaining the spacetime metric from cosmological observations

Authors: Teresa Hui-Ching Lu, Charles Hellaby

Comments: 26 pages, 10 figures. Minor changes to match the published version

Journal-ref: Class. Quantum Grav. 24 (2007) 4107-4131

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

[**]arXiv:0708.3999 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Spin Diagrams for Equal-Mass Black-Hole Binaries with Aligned Spins

Authors: Luciano Rezzolla, Ernst Nils Dorband, Christian Reisswig, Peter Diener, Denis Pollney, Erik Schnetter, Bela Szilagyi

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures

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

arXiv:0708.4048 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Further insight into gravitational recoil

Authors: Carlos O. Lousto, Yosef Zlochower

Comments: 13 pages, 12 figures, revtex 4

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

arXiv:0708.4242 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Gaussianity of LISA's confusion backgrounds

Authors: Etienne Racine, Curt Cutler

Comments: 24 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Physical Review D

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

arXiv:0708.4361 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Fundamental Constants

Authors: Frank Wilczek

Comments: 20 pages, no figures

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

arXiv:0708.4388 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Quasi-local definitions of energy in general relativity

Authors: Bjoern S. Schmekel

Comments: 4 pages, very brief review article about quasi-local energy

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

arXiv:0708.4202 (cross-list from astro-ph) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Gravitational waves from black-hole mergers

Authors: John G. Baker, William D. Boggs, Joan M. Centrella, Bernard J. Kelly, Sean T. McWilliams, James R. van Meter

Comments: 14 pages, 5 figures, 1 table. To be published in the Proceedings of the 2007 Spring Symposium of the Space Telescope Science Institute (Baltimore, MD), held from Monday April 23, 2007 to Thursday April 26, 2007

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

arXiv:0708.3877 (cross-list from astro-ph) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: A Null Test of the Cosmological Constant

Authors: Takeshi Chiba, Takashi Nakamura

Comments: 4 pages, 1 figure, to appear in Prog.Theor.Phys

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

arXiv:0709.0299 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Binary black hole merger: symmetry and the spin expansion

Authors: Latham Boyle, Michael Kesden, Samaya Nissanke

Comments: 4 pages, 5 figures

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

arXiv:0709.0211 (cross-list from astro-ph) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Relativistic dynamical friction in a collisional fluid

Authors: Enrico Barausse (SISSA, Italy)

Comments: 9 pages and 1 figure. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

arXiv:0709.0003 (cross-list from astro-ph) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Probing Gravity with Spacetime Sirens

Authors: Cedric Deffayet (APC/IAP), Kristen Menou (Columbia)

Comments: 11 pages, 1 figure, accepted for publication in ApJ Letters

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

arXiv:0708.4231 (cross-list from hep-th) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: TASI Lectures on the Cosmological Constant

Authors: Raphael Bousso

Comments: 39 pages, 3 figures

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

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