Tue, 8 May 2007 - Thu, 17 May 2007

arXiv:hep-ph/0607158 (replaced) [ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Gravitational Waves from Warped Spacetime
Authors: Lisa Randall, Geraldine Servant
Comments: 18 pages, 15 figures; v2: discussion improved, in particular on the justification of the thick wall approximation. 6 figures added. 4 pi factor corrected in perturbativity bound. N-dependence displayed. Conclusions unchanged. JHEP version

arXiv:0705.1060
[ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Obtaining the spacetime metric from cosmological observations
Authors: Teresa Hui-Ching Lu, Charles Hellaby
Comments: 26 pages, 10 figures

arXiv:0705.1080 [ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Quasi-local energy for cosmological models
Authors: Chiang-Mei Chen, Jian-Liang Liu, James M. Nester
Comments: Contributed to International Symposium on Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics (CosPA 2006), Taipei, Taiwan, 15-17 Nov 2006

arXiv:0705.1359 [pdf, other] :
Title: Puncture Evolution of Schwarzschild Black Holes
Authors: J. David Brown
Comments: 4 pages, 3 color figures

arXiv:0704.3338 (replaced) [ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Gravitomagnetism, Frame-Dragging and Lunar Laser Ranging
Authors: Ignazio Ciufolini

[**]arXiv:0705.1158 (cross-list from astro-ph) [ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Models of f(R) Cosmic Acceleration that Evade Solar-System Tests
Authors: Wayne Hu, Ignacy Sawicki (KICP, U. Chicago)
Comments: 13 pages, 10 figures. Submitted to Phys. Rev. D

[**]arXiv:0705.1667 [ps, pdf, other] :
Title: How far from measuring the moment of inertia of the PSR J0737-3039A pulsar at 10% are we?
Authors: Lorenzo Iorio
Comments: LaTex2e, 6 pages, 1 table, no figures, 18 references. Terminology improved. References added. Discussion on the proposal of measuring the gravitomagnetic spin-orbit precession of the orbital angular momentum added

arXiv:0705.1565 [ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Neutron stars in Einstein-aether theory
Authors: Christopher Eling, Ted Jacobson, M. Coleman Miller
Comments: 26 pages, 5 figures

arXiv:0705.1404 (cross-list from hep-th) [ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Probing extra dimensions with higher dimensional black hole analogues?
Authors: Xian-Hui Ge, Sung-Won Kim
Comments: 16 pages, 5 figures; Version 2, some references added

arXiv:astro-ph/0702002 (replaced) [ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Cuscuton Cosmology: Dark Energy meets Modified Gravity
Authors: Niayesh Afshordi (ITC, Harvard), Daniel J.H. Chung (UW-Madison), Michael Doran (Heidelberg), Ghazal Geshnizjani (UW-Madison)
Comments: 10 pages, 5 figures, minor changes and added references, PRD in press

arXiv:0705.2222 [ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Loop Quantum Gravity: Four Recent Advances and a Dozen Frequently Asked Questions
Authors: Abhay Ashtekar
Comments: 21 pages, to appear in the Proceedings of the 11th Marcel Grossmann Conference

[**]arXiv:0705.1034 [ps, pdf, other] :
Title: The 2003 Outburst of the X-ray Nova H1743-322: Comparisons with the Black Hole Binary XTE J1550-564
Authors: Jeffrey E. McClintock, Ronald A. Remillard, Michael P. Rupen, M. A. P. Torres, D. Steeghs, Alan M. Levine, Jerome A. Orosz
Comments: aastex preprint, 24 pages of text, appendix with 5 data tables, 18 figures, submitted to ApJ

arXiv:0705.1032 [ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Matter density perturbations and effective gravitational constant in modified gravity models of dark energy
Authors: Shinji Tsujikawa
Comments: 10 pages, no figures

arXiv:0705.1011 [ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Discovery of an Isolated Compact Object at High Galactic Latitude
Authors: R. E. Rutledge (McGill), D. B. Fox, A. H. Shevchuk (PSU)
Comments: 19 pages, 4 figures, ApJ, submitted


arXiv:0705.1007 [ps, pdf, other] :
Title: The Mass Assembly History of Spheroidal Galaxies: Did Newly-Formed Systems Arise Via Mergers?
Authors: K. Bundy (1), T. Treu (2), R. S. Ellis (3) ((1) U. of Toronto, (2) UCSB, (3) Caltech)
Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters

arXiv:0705.0987 [ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Imprint of Distortions in the Oort Cloud on the CMB Anisotropies
Authors: Daniel Babich (Caltech/CfA), Abraham Loeb (CfA)
Comments: 15 pages, 6 figures. To be submitted to MNRAS

arXiv:0705.0986 [ps, pdf, other] :
Title: What Can the Cosmic Microwave Background Tell Us About the Outer Solar System?
Authors: Daniel Babich (Caltech/CfA), Cullen H. Blake (CfA), Charles Steinhardt (CfA)
Comments: 21 pages, 2 figures. Accepted by ApJ


arXiv:astro-ph/0703180 (replaced) [ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Gravitational recoil: signatures on the massive black hole population
Authors: Marta Volonteri
Comments: ApJ Letters in press

arXiv:0705.1170 [ps, pdf, other] :
Title: The Collision Between The Milky Way And Andromeda
Authors: T.J. Cox, Abraham Loeb (Harvard/CfA)
Comments: submitted to MNRAS

arXiv:0705.1537 [ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Supermassive Black Holes
Authors: Fulvio Melia
Comments: 26 pages, 15 figures, to appear in "Kerr Spacetime: Rotating Black Holes in General Relativity" eds. D.L. Wiltshire, M. Visser and S.M. Scott, (Cambridge Univ. Press)

[***]arXiv:0705.1780 [ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Modelling magnetically deformed neutron stars
Authors: B. Haskell, L. Samuelsson, K. Glampedakis, N. Andersson

arXiv:0705.1955 [ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Can we ever distinguish between quintessence and a cosmological constant?
Authors: Sirichai Chongchitnan, George Efstathiou
Comments: 10 pages, 6 figures. Submitted to Phys. Rev. D

arXiv:0705.1733 [ps, pdf, other] :
Title: The Spectrum of Gravitational Radiation from Primordial Turbulence
Authors: Grigol Gogoberidze, Tina Kahniashvili, Arthur Kosowsky
Comments: 12 pages, 1 figure

[***]arXiv:0705.2123 [ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Massive perturbers and the efficient merger of binary massive black holes
Authors: Hagai B. Perets, Tal Alexander
Comments: 13 pages, 5 figures, 3 tables. Submitted to ApJ

arXiv:0705.2195 [ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Toroidal Magnetic Fields in Type II Superconducting Neutron Stars
Authors: Taner Akgun, Ira Wasserman (Cornell University)
Comments: 50 pages, 6 figures

arXiv:0705.2037 [ps, pdf, other] :
Title: The shapes, orientation, and alignment of Galactic dark matter subhalos
Authors: M. Kuhlen (1), J. Diemand (2), P. Madau (2,3) ((1) Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, (2) UC Santa Cruz, (3) ESO, Garching)
Comments: 12 pages, 11 figures, submitted to ApJ

arXiv:0705.2269 [ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Direct cosmological simulations of the growth of black holes and galaxies
Authors: Tiziana Di Matteo (CMU), Joerg Colberg (CMU), Volker Springel (MPA), Lars Hernquist (CfA), Debora Sijacki (MPA)
Comments: 22 pages, 17 figures, submitted to ApJ

arXiv:0705.2244 [ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Viscous Torque and Dissipation in the Inner Region of a Thin Accretion Disk: Implications for Measuring Black Hole Spin
Authors: Rebecca Shafee, Ramesh Narayan, Jeffrey E. McClintock
Comments: 29 pages, 9 figures, submitted to ApJ