Mon 21 Jan08 to Thu 31Jan08 (gr-qc only)

arXiv:0801.2896 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Bounds on gravitational wave backgrounds from large distance clock comparisons
Authors: Serge Reynaud, Brahim Lamine, Loic Duchayne, Peter Wolf, Marc-Thierry Jaekel
Comments: 10 pages, 8 figures

arXiv:0801.2911 (cross-list from astro-ph) [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Tidal imprint on the gravitational signal emitted by BH-NS coalescing binaries
Authors: V. Ferrari, L. Gualtieri, F. Pannarale
Comments: 16 pages, 6 figures, submitted to Class. Quant. Grav

arXiv:0712.2460 (cross-list from astro-ph) [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Fully General Relativistic Simulations of Black Hole-Neutron Star Mergers
Authors: Zachariah B. Etienne, Joshua A. Faber, Yuk Tung Liu, Stuart L. Shapiro, Keisuke Taniguchi, Thomas W. Baumgarte
Comments: 22 pages, 14 figures, s arXiv:0708.2720 (replaced) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Simulating binary neutron stars: dynamics and gravitational waves
Authors: Matthew Anderson, Eric W. Hirschmann, Luis Lehner, Steven L. Liebling, Patrick M. Motl, David Neilsen, Carlos Palenzuela, Joel E. Tohline
Comments: 14 pages, 16 figures. Added one figure from previous version; corrected typos
Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 77:024006 (2008) ubmitted to Phys.Rev.D

arXiv:0801.3805 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Scattering and Absorption of Gravitational Plane Waves by Rotating Black Holes
Authors: Sam R. Dolan
Comments: 33 pages, 13 figures

arXiv:0801.3471 (cross-list from hep-th) [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Black Holes in Higher Dimensions
Authors: Roberto Emparan, Harvey S. Reall
Comments: 76 pages, 14 figures; review article for Living Reviews in Relativity

arXiv:0801.4297 [pdf, other]
Title: Method to estimate ISCO and ring-down frequencies in binary systems and consequences for gravitational wave data analysis
Authors: Chad Hanna, Miguel Megevand, Evan Ochsner, Carlos Palenzuela
Comments: Added references to section 3 14 pages 5 figures. Submitted to Classical and Quantum Gravity

arXiv:0801.4195 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Quasinormal Modes of Kerr Black Holes in Four and Higher Dimensions
Authors: Hsien-chung Kao, Dan Tomino
Comments: 14 pages, 7 figures

arXiv:0712.2050 (replaced) [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Search of S3 LIGO data for gravitational wave signals from spinning black hole and neutron star binary inspirals
Authors: The LIGO Scientific Collaboration: B. Abbott, et al
Comments: 17 pages, 8 figures

arXiv:0801.4387 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Magnetized Neutron Star Mergers and Gravitational Wave Signals
Authors: Matthew Anderson, Eric W. Hirschmann, Luis Lehner, Steven L. Liebling, Patrick M. Motl, David Neilsen, Carlos Palenzuela, Joel E. Tohline
Comments: 4 figures
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Mon 14Jan08 to Fri 18Jan08

arXiv:0801.2090 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Dynamical excitation of space-time modes of compact objects
Authors: Sebastiano Bernuzzi, Alessandro Nagar, Roberto De Pietri
Comments: RevTeX, 9 pages, 7 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. D
Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
arXiv:0712.4405 (replaced) [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Regularization of fields for self-force problems in curved spacetime: foundations and a time-domain application
Authors: Ian Vega, Steven Detweiler
Comments: 15 pages, 12 figures, 1 table. More figures, extended summary
Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc

arXiv:0801.2750 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: New method to integrate 2+1 wave equations with Dirac's delta functions as sources
Authors: Hiroyuki Nakano, Carlos O. Lousto (RIT)
Comments: 4 pages, 1 figure, prepared for the proceedings of the 17th workshop on general relativity and gravitation, Nagoya, Japan, Dec.3 - Dec.7, 2007
Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
arXiv:0705.4287 (replaced) [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: Published in ApJ 665, L59
Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

arXiv:0706.3700 (replaced) [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Probing white dwarf interiors with LISA: periastron precession in double white dwarfs
Authors: B. Willems (1), A. Vecchio (1,2), V. Kalogera (1) ((1) Northwestern U., (2) U. of Birmingham)
Comments: PRL, in press (expected publication date January 22, 2008)
Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

arXiv:0710.1598 (replaced) [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Classification of the Weyl Tensor in Higher Dimensions and Applications
Authors: A. Coley
Comments: Topical Review for Classical and Quantum Gravity. Final published version
Journal-ref: Classical and Quantum Gravity, vol 25 (2008) 033001
Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

arXiv:0801.1677 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Precise Measurement of the Cosmological Power Spectrum With a Dedicated 21cm Survey After Reionization
Authors: Abraham Loeb (Harvard), Stuart Wyithe (Melbourne)
Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures
Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

arXiv:0709.0657 (replaced) [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Quasi-Normal Modes and Gravitational Wave Astronomy
Authors: V. Ferrari, L. Gualtieri
Comments: 25 pages, 7 figures, to appear on Gen. Rel. Grav
Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Astrophysics (astro-ph)

arXiv:0801.2025 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Accretion Rates and Beaming in Ultraluminous X-ray Sources
Authors: A. R. King
Comments: MNRAS Letters, in press
Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

arXiv:0801.2133 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Gas Shepherding by an Infalling Satellite
Authors: P. Chang
Comments: 11 pages, 6 figures, submitted to ApJ
Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

arXiv:0801.2431 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Distinguishing Modified Gravity from Dark Energy
Authors: Edmund Bertschinger, Phillip Zukin
Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

arXiv:0801.2433 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Parametrized Post-Friedmann Signatures of Acceleration in the CMB
Authors: Wayne Hu (KICP, U. Chicago)
Comments: 11 pages, 8 figures, submitted to PRD
Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

arXiv:0801.2450 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Observing the strong gravity regime of accreting black holes with Simbol-X
Authors: R. W. Goosmann, M. Dovciak, V. Karas (Astronomical Institute, Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic)
Comments: Proceedings of the international workshop "Simbol-X: the hard X-ray universe in focus" held 14-16 May 2007 in Bologna, Italy
Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

arXiv:0710.5300 (replaced) [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Big Bang Nucleosynthesis Constraints on the Self-Gravity of Pressure
Authors: Saul Rappaport, Josiah Schwab, Scott Burles, Gary Steigman
Comments: 5 pages, 1 figure. This paper was developed from an earlier version which was posted as arXiv:0707.3589
Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 77, 023515 (2008)
Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

arXiv:0801.2589 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Precision timing of PSR J0437-4715: an accurate pulsar distance, a high pulsar mass and a limit on the variation of Newton's gravitational constant
Authors: J.P.W. Verbiest, M. Bailes, W. van Straten, G.B. Hobbs, R.T. Edwards, R.N. Manchester, N.D.R. Bhat, J.M. Sarkissian, B.A. Jacoby, S.R. Kulkarni
Comments: 19 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal
Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

arXiv:0706.3700 (replaced) [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Probing white dwarf interiors with LISA: periastron precession in double white dwarfs
Authors: B. Willems (1), A. Vecchio (1,2), V. Kalogera (1) ((1) Northwestern U., (2) U. of Birmingham)
Comments: PRL, in press (expected publication date January 22, 2008)
Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

arXiv:0705.4287 (replaced) [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: Published in ApJ 665, L59
Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

arXiv:0801.1847 (cross-list from hep-th) [ps, pdf, other]
Title: What is the entropy of the universe?
Authors: Paul Frampton, Stephen D.H. Hsu, Thomas W. Kephart, David Reeb
Comments: 4 pages, revtex, 2 figures
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Astrophysics (astro-ph); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
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Mon 7Jan08 to Fri 11Jan08

arXiv:0801.1547 [pdf, other]
Title: Einstein-aether gravity: a status report
Authors: Ted Jacobson
Comments: 18 pages, for the proceedings of the conference "From Quantum to Emergent Gravity: Theory and Phenomenology", June 11-15 2007, SISSA; Trieste, Italy
Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
arXiv:0801.1423 (cross-list from math-ph) [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Linear Waves in the Kerr Geometry: A Mathematical Voyage to Black Hole Physics
Authors: Felix Finster, Niky Kamran, Joel Smoller, Shing-Tung Yau
Comments: 23 pages, LaTeX, 2 figures
Subjects: Mathematical Physics (math-ph); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

arXiv:0801.0739 (cross-list from astro-ph) [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Prompt Shocks in the Gas Disk Around a Recoiling Supermassive Black Hole Binary
Authors: Zoltan Lippai (1), Zsolt Frei (1), Zoltan Haiman (2) ((1) Inst. of Physics, Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary, (2) Dept. of Astronomy, Columbia University, New York, NY)
Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures, submitted to ApJL
Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
arXiv:0801.1334 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Collider Physics and Cosmology
Authors: Jonathan L. Feng
Comments: 14 pages, plenary talk presented at the 18th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation (GRG18) and the 7th Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves (Amaldi7), Sydney, Australia, 8-14 July 2007
Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
arXiv:0801.0983 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: The Parameterised Post-Newtonian Limit of Fourth-Order Theories of Gravity
Authors: Timothy Clifton
Comments: 12 pages
Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Astrophysics (astro-ph)
arXiv:0801.0900 [pdf, other]
Title: Self-force on extreme mass ratio inspirals via curved spacetime effective field theory
Authors: Chad R. Galley, B. L. Hu
Comments: 29 pages, 6 figures
Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Astrophysics (astro-ph); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
arXiv:0710.4564 (cross-list from astro-ph) [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Kerr Black Holes are Not Unique to General Relativity
Authors: Dimitrios Psaltis (Arizona), Delphine Perrodin (Arizona), Keith R. Dienes (Arizona), Irina Mocioiu (Penn State)
Comments: 4 pages, Physical Review Letters in press
Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
arXiv:0801.0735 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Topological censorship and chronology protection
Authors: John L. Friedman, Atsushi Higuchi
Comments: Dedicated to Rafael Sorkin, whose tutoring and friendship from third grade on is responsible for one of us (JF) having spent his adult life in physics and whose work has inspired both of us
Journal-ref: A somewhat extended version of Annalen der Physik, 15, 109-128 (2006)
Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
arXiv:0801.0603 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Indistinguishable Macroscopic Behaviour of Palatini Gravities and General Relativity
Authors: Baojiu Li, David F. Mota, Douglas J. Shaw
Comments: 4 pages
Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Astrophysics (astro-ph); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
arXiv:0801.1653 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Nuclear constraints on the momenta of inertia of neutron stars
Authors: Aaron Worley, Plamen G. Krastev, Bao-An Li (Department of Physics, Texas A&M University-Commerce)
Comments: 19 pages, 8 figures, 4 tables. Submitted to the Astrophysical Journal
Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
arXiv:0801.1582 [pdf, other]
Title: Simulating Black Hole White Dwarf Encounters
Authors: S. Rosswog, E. Ramirez-Ruiz, W. R. Hix, M. Dan
Comments: 9 pages, 4 figures, Computer Physics Communications, accepted; movie can be found at this http URL
Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
arXiv:0801.1564 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: The Evolution of Black Hole Mass and Spin in Active Galactic Nuclei
Authors: A.R. King, J.E. Pringle, J.A. Hofmann
Comments: MNRAS, in press
Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
arXiv:0801.1421 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Soft gamma repeaters activity in time
Authors: S.B. Popov (Sternberg Astronomical Institute)
Comments: 5 pages, no figures
Journal-ref: Astron. Nachr. 329, 15 (2008)
Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
arXiv:0801.1365 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Formation Scenario of Magnetars: The Puzzle of Isolation
Authors: Nirvikar Prasad
Comments: Prepared for the conference "40 Years of Pulsars: Millisecond Pulsars, Magnetars, and More", August 12-17, 2007, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
arXiv:0801.1142 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: A Precise Proper Motion for the Crab Pulsar, and the Difficulty of Testing Spin-Kick Alignment for Young Neutron Stars
Authors: D. L. Kaplan, S. Chatterjee, B. M. Gaensler, J. Anderson
Comments: 15 pages, 6 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ. Figure 3 fixed, included at low resolution
Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
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