Mon, 27 Nov 2006

gr-qc/0611129 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :

Title: An introduction to the mechanics of black holes
Authors: Geoffrey Compere
Comments: Lecture notes prepared for the Second Modave Summer School in Mathematical Physics, latex report format, 35p, 4 fig

gr-qc/0611128 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :

Title: Frankenstein's Glue: Transition functions for approximate solutions
Authors: Nicolas Yunes (Penn State)
Comments: 23 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Classical and Quantum Gravity

gr-qc/0611127 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :

Title: f(R) actions, cosmic acceleration and local tests of gravity
Authors: I. Navarro, K. Van Acoleyen
Comments: 26 pages

[**]gr-qc/0611126 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :

Title: Dynamical determination of the quadrupole mass moment of a white dwarf
Authors: Lorenzo Iorio

gr-qc/0611123 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :

Title: The Raychaudhuri equations: a brief review
Authors: Sayan Kar (IIT Kharagpur, India), Soumitra SenGupta (IACS, Kolkata, India)
Comments: 35 pages, two figures, to appear in the special issue of Pramana dedicated to the memory of A. K. Raychaudhuri

Comments: LaTex2e, 6 pages, no figures, 1 table, 18 references

astro-ph/0611737 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :

Title: A polarised infrared flare from Sagittarius A* and the signatures of orbiting plasma hotspots
Authors: S. Trippe (1), T. Paumard (1), T. Ott (1), S. Gillessen (1), F. Eisenhauer (1), F. Martins (1), R. Genzel (1 and 2) ((1) MPE Garching, Germany (2) UC Berkeley, USA)
Comments: 9 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

astro-ph/0611736 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :

Title: Gravitational lensing as a probe of compact object population in the Galaxy
Authors: S. Oslowski, R. Moderski, T. Bulik, K. Belczynski
Comments: Submitted to Astronomy and Astrophysics