June 27-July 27 (gr-qc)

arXiv:0704.3618 (cross-list from astro-ph) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Astrophysical Accretion as an Analogue Gravity Phenomena

Authors: Tapas Kumar Das

Comments: 56 pages, 11 figures, revtex4. Send email request to the author for high resolution version of the manuscript

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

arXiv:0706.4286 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Measuring eccentricity in binary black-hole initial data

Authors: Jason D. Grigsby, Gregory B. Cook

Comments: 12 pages, 11 figures, submitted to Physical Review D, revtex4

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

[**]arXiv:0707.0135 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Exploring black hole superkicks

Authors: Bernd Bruegmann, Jose Gonzalez, Mark Hannam, Sascha Husa, Ulrich Sperhake

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

arXiv:0707.0876 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Quasi-Local Linear Momentum in Black-Hole Binaries

Authors: Badri Krishnan, Carlos O. Lousto, Yosef Zlochower

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures, revtex4

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

arXiv:0707.0711 (cross-list from astro-ph) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Spin distribution following minor mergers and the effect of spin on the detection range for low-mass-ratio inspirals

Authors: Ilya Mandel

Comments: 18 pages, 5 figures

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

[**]arXiv:0707.1202 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Matched-filtering and parameter estimation of ringdown waveforms

Authors: Emanuele Berti, Jaime Cardoso, Vitor Cardoso, Marco Cavaglia

Comments: 19 pages, 9 figures

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

arXiv:0707.0888 (cross-list from astro-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmic String Loops and Gravitational Radiation

Authors: Joseph Polchinski

Comments: 26 pages, to appear in the Proceedings of the 11th Marcel Grossman meeting

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

arXiv:0707.2559 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Recoil velocities from equal-mass binary black-hole mergers: a systematic investigation of spin-orbit aligned configurations

Authors: Denis Pollney, Christian Reisswig, Luciano Rezzolla, Bela Szilagyi, Marcus Ansorg, Barrett Deris, Peter Diener, Ernst Nils Dorband, Michael Koppitz, Alessandro Nagar, Erik Schnetter

Comments: 24 pages, 15 figures, 5 tables

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

arXiv:0707.2283 (cross-list from hep-th) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Conformal Gravity Challenges String Theory

Authors: Philip D. Mannheim

Comments: LaTex, 8 pages. Proceedings write-up of talk presented at PASCOS-07, Imperial College London, July 2007

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

arXiv:0707.2748 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Theory of gravitation theories: a no-progress report

Authors: Thomas P Sotiriou, Valerio Faraoni, Stefano Liberati

Comments: 21 pages

arXiv:0707.2982 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: LISA detections of massive black hole inspirals: parameter extraction errors due to inaccurate template waveforms

Authors: Curt Cutler, Michele Vallisneri

Comments: RevTeX4, 15 pages, 2 EPS figures

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