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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