Mon, 28 May - Wed, 27 June

arXiv:0705.3829 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Matched Filtering of Numerical Relativity Templates of Spinning Binary Black Holes
Authors: Birjoo Vaishnav, Ian Hinder, Frank Herrmann, Deirdre Shoemaker
Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Astrophysics (astro-ph)
arXiv:0705.3795 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: The Cosmology of Modified Gauss-Bonnet Gravity
Authors: Baojiu Li, John D. Barrow, David F. Mota
Comments: 10 pages, 4 figures
[***]arXiv:0705.4043 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Field-theoretical formulations of MOND-like gravity
Authors: Jean-Philippe Bruneton, Gilles Esposito-Farese
Comments: 65 pages, 6 figures, RevTeX4 format

arXiv:0705.2683 (cross-list from astro-ph) [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Stellar configurations in f(R) theories of gravity
Authors: K. Henttunen, T. Multamaki, I. Vilja
Comments: 8 pages, 7 figures; typos corrected, reference added
Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[**]arXiv:0705.4398 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: The Dark Side of a Patchwork Universe
Authors: Martin Bojowald
Comments: 24 pages, 2 figures, Contribution to the special issue on Dark Energy by Gen. Rel. Grav
Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Astrophysics (astro-ph); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
arXiv:0705.4507 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Comments on "Note on varying speed of light theories"
Authors: Joao Magueijo, John W. Moffat
arXiv:0705.4585 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: A characteristic approach to the quasi-normal mode problem
Authors: Lars Samuelsson, Nils Andersson, Asimina Maniopoulou
Comments: 14 pages, 3 figures, 3 tables

[**]arXiv:0705.4287 (cross-list from astro-ph) [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Eccentric double white dwarfs as LISA sources in globular clusters
Authors: B. Willems (1), V. Kalogera (1), A. Vecchio (1,2), N. Ivanova (3), F.A. Rasio (1), J.M. Fregeau (1), K. Belczynski (4) ((1) Northwestern U., (2) U. of Birmingham, (3) U. of Toronto, (4) New Mexico State U.)
Comments: minor revisions in reply to the referee report + typo corrections

arXiv:0706.0114 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: A New Template Family For The Detection Of Gravitational Waves From Comparable Mass Black Hole Binaries
Authors: Edward K. Porter
Comments: 18 pages, 9 figures, Submitted to Phys. Rev. D
Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

arXiv:0705.4158 (replaced) [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Can dark matter be a Bose-Einstein condensate?
Authors: C. G. Boehmer, T. Harko
Comments: 20 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in JCAP, references added
Journal-ref: JCAP 06 (2007) 025
[**]arXiv:0706.0622 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: The Kerr spacetime: A brief introduction
Authors: Matt Visser (Victoria University of Wellington)
Comments: 37 pages, 1 figure: This is a draft of an introductory chapter on the Kerr spacetime that is intended for use in the book "The Kerr spacetime", currently being edited by Susan Scott, Matt Visser, and David Wiltshire. It is not, nor is it intended to be, complete and exhaustive. Comments and community feedback, especially regarding clarity and pedagogy, are welcome
arXiv:0706.0726 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Radiation reaction in the 2.5PN waveform from inspiralling binaries in circular orbits
Authors: Lawrence E. Kidder, Luc Blanchet, Bala R. Iyer
Comments: 7 pages, no figures, submitted to CQG
[**]arXiv:0706.0288 (cross-list from hep-th) [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Bumpy black holes from spontaneous Lorentz violation
Authors: Sergei Dubovsky, Peter Tinyakov, Matias Zaldarriaga
Comments: 40 pages, 4 figures
[**]arXiv:0706.0904 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Reducing eccentricity in black-hole binary evolutions with initial parameters from post-Newtonian inspiral
Authors: Sascha Husa, Mark Hannam, Jose A. Gonzalez, Ulrich Sperhake, Bernd Bruegmann
Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures, 1 table
arXiv:0706.0991 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Non-axisymmetric oscillations of differentially rotating relativistic stars
Authors: Andrea Passamonti, Adamantios Stavridis, Kostas Kokkotas
Comments: 17 pages, 7 figures, 8 tables, submitted to Phys. Rev. D
arXiv:astro-ph/0610794 (cross-list from astro-ph) [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Constraints on f(R) Cosmology in the Palatini Formalism
Authors: Baojiu Li, K. C. Chan, M.-C. Chu
Comments: 9 pages, 7 figures. Modified version to appear in Physical Review D
arXiv:0706.1109 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Discovering the Kerr and Kerr-Schild metrics
Authors: Roy P. Kerr
Comments: 34 pages, 2 figures, cupbook.cls. To appear in "The Kerr Spacetime", Eds D.L. Wiltshire, M. Visser and S.M. Scott, Cambridge Univ. Press
[**]arXiv:0706.1305 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Where post-Newtonian and numerical-relativity waveforms meet
Authors: Mark Hannam, Sascha Husa, Ulrich Sperhake, Bernd Bruegmann, Jose A. Gonzalez
Comments: 9 pages, 14 figures
[**]arXiv:0706.1513 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: How to tell a gravastar from a black hole
Authors: Cecilia B. M. H. Chirenti, Luciano Rezzolla
Comments: 16 pages, 13 figures, minor improvement
arXiv:0706.1654 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Gravity as an emergent phenomenon: A conceptual description
Authors: T. Padmanabhan
Comments: 11 p; AIP stylefiles included; Summary of several plenary talks in the conferences including XXIII Texas Symposium in Relativistic Astrophysics (Melbourne, Dec, 06); IAGRG Meeting (Delhi, Feb, 07); International workshop on theoretical high energy physics (Roorkee, Mar, 2007); to appear in the proceedings of IWTHEP
arXiv:0706.1565 (cross-list from astro-ph) [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Resource Letter BE-1: The Beginning and Evolution of the Universe
Authors: Bharat Ratra (Kansas State University), Michael S. Vogeley (Drexel University)
Comments: 95 pages, invited review article for American Journal of Physics, comments are welcomed by the authors
arXiv:0706.1999 [pdf, other]
Title: Spacetime Indeterminacy and Holographic Noise
Authors: Craig J. Hogan
Comments: 13 pages, LaTex, 6 figures
arXiv:0706.2188 (cross-list from astro-ph) [pdf]
Title: Black Hole Constraints on Varying Fundamental Constants
Authors: Jane H MacGibbon
Comments: 7 pages, accepted by Phys.Rev.Lett
Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

arXiv:0706.1931 (cross-list from astro-ph) [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Systematic corrections to the measured cosmological constant as a result of local inhomogeneity
Authors: R. Ali Vanderveld, Eanna E. Flanagan, Ira Wasserman
Comments: 28 pages, 3 figures, revtex4; v2: corrected comments and the section on previous work; v3: clarified wording. References added
arXiv:0706.2360 (cross-list from astro-ph) [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Magnetorotational collapse of very massive stars in full general relativity
Authors: Yuk Tung Liu, Stuart L. Shapiro, Branson C. Stephens (UIUC)
Comments: 17 pages, 13 figures, submitted to Phys.Rev.D
[*]arXiv:0706.2909 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Extended-body effects in cosmological spacetimes
Authors: Abraham I. Harte
Comments: 14 pages
[**]arXiv:0706.3198 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Overspinning a nearly extreme charged black hole via a quantum tunneling process
Authors: George E. A. Matsas, André R. R. da Silva
Comments: Submitted to Physical Review Letters, 4 pages, 3 figures
arXiv:0706.3238 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Perturbation theory of spherically symmetric self-similar black holes
Authors: A. J. S. Hamilton (JILA, U. Colorado)
Comments: 63 pages, 1 eps figure
arXiv:0705.2756 (replaced) [pdf, other]
Title: Black Hole Motion as Catalyst of Orbital Resonances
Authors: C.M. Boily, T. Padmanabhan, A. Paiement
Comments: revised version, typos fixed, added references, 20 pages MN style

[***]arXiv:0706.3732 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Toward faithful templates for non-spinning binary black holes using the effective-one-body approach
Authors: Alessandra Buonanno, Yi Pan, John G. Baker, Joan Centrella, Bernard J. Kelly, Sean T. McWilliams, James R. van Meter
Comments: 15 pages, 9 figures
Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
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