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