Mon, 11 Dec 2006

gr-qc/0612049 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: MHD of rotating compact stars with spectral methods: description of the algorithm and tests
Authors: S. Bonazzola, L. Villain, M. Bejger
Comments: 14 pages, 3 figures, submitted to a special issue of Classical and Quantum Gravity "New Frontiers in Numerical Relativity"

Fri, 8 Dec 2006

gr-qc/0612047 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: The limit to General Relativity in f(R) theories of gravity
Authors: Gonzalo J. Olmo
Comments: 8 pages, no figures

gr-qc/0612043 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Axisymmetric stationary solutions with arbitrary multipole moments
Authors: Thomas Bäckdahl
Comments: 12 pages

Thu, 7 Dec 2006

[**]gr-qc/0612037 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Extracting Information about EMRIs using Time-Frequency Methods
Authors: Linqing Wen (MPI/AEI), Yanbei Chen (MPI/AEI), Jonathan Gair (University of Cambridge)
Comments: Submitted to the proceedings of the LISA6 Symposium, 2006, GSFC, Maryland
hep-th/0612029 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Killing-Yano Tensors, Rank-2 Killing Tensors, and Conserved Quantities in Higher Dimensions
Authors: Pavel Krtous, David Kubiznak, Don N. Page, Valeri P. Frolov
Comments: 7 pages

astro-ph/0612155 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Eppur si espande
Authors: Marek A. Abramowicz, Stanislaw Bajtlik, Jean-Pierre Lasota, Audrey Moudens
Comments: 11 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Acta Astronomica
astro-ph/0612145 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Magnetic Hydrogen Atmosphere Models and the Neutron Star RX J1856.5-3754
Authors: Wynn C. G. Ho, David L. Kaplan, Philip Chang, Matthew van Adelsberg, Alexander Y. Potekhin
Comments: 11 pages, 8 figures; MNRAS, accepted
[**]astro-ph/0612144 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Formation of Double Compact Objects
Authors: V. Kalogera (1), K. Belczynski (2), C. Kim (3), R. O'Shaughnessy (1), B. Willems (1) ((1) Northwestern U., (2) New Mexico State U., (3) Cornell U.)
Comments: 55 pages, 16 figures, to appear in the Bethe Centennial Volume of Physics Reports, eds. G. E. Brown, V. Kalogera, E.P.J. van den Heuvel

Wed, 6 Dec 2006

[**]astro-ph/0612102 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Dark Energy with a Fine-toothed Comb
Authors: Eric V. Linder
Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures
gr-qc/0612032 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: No realistic wormholes from ghost-free scalar-tensor phantom dark energy
Authors: Kirill A. Bronnikov, Alexei A. Starobinsky
Comments: 8 pages, latex
[***]gr-qc/0612029 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Using LISA EMRI sources to test off-Kerr deviations in the geometry of massive black holes
Authors: Leor Barack, Curt Cutler
Comments: 12 pages, 5 figures

Tue, 5 Dec 2006

[***]gr-qc/0612024 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Consistency of post-Newtonian waveforms with numerical relativityAuthors: John G. Baker, James R. van Meter, Sean T. McWilliams, Joan Centrella, Bernard J. Kelly
Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures
  • gr-qc/0612022 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
  • Title: Dynamical determination of the quadrupole mass moment of the double pulsar PSR J0737-3039 system
    Authors: Lorenzo Iorio
    Comments: LaTex2e, 11 pages, 1 figure, 2 tables, 21 references

  • gr-qc/0612017 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
  • Title: The Effacing Principle in the Post-Newtonian Celestial Mechanics
    Authors: Sergei Kopeikin (University of Missouri-Columbia, USA), Igor Vlasov (University of Guelph, Canada)
    Comments: 3 pages, to apper in Proc. of 11th Marcel Grssmann Meeting (Berlin, July 23-30, 2006)

  • [***]astro-ph/0612073 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
  • Title: Consequences of Triaxiality for Gravitational Wave Recoil of black holes
    Authors: Alessandro Vicari (1), Roberto Capuzzo-Dolcetta (1), David Merritt (2) ((1) Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita' di Roma La Sapienza, Roma, Italy, (2) Department of Physics, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY USA)
    Comments: 28 pages, including 13 eps figures. Submitted to ApJ
  • astro-ph/0612069 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
    Title: Ultraviolet Detection of the Tidal Disruption of a Star by a Supermassive Black Hole
    Authors: S. Gezari, D. C. Martin, B. Milliard, S. Basa, J. P. Halpern, K. Forster, P. G. Friedman, P. Morrissey, S. G. Neff, D. Schiminovich, M. Seibert, T. Small, T. K. Wyder
    Comments: To appear in Dec. 10, 2006 issue of ApJ Letters
    Journal-ref: ApJ, 653, L25 (2006)

    [***]astro-ph/0612061 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
    Title: Constraints to the EOS of ultradense matter with model-independent astrophysical observations
    Authors: G. Lavagetto, I. Bombaci, A. D'Ai', I. Vidana, N.R. Robba
    Comments: 4 pages, 1 colour figure, uses emulateapj class, submitted to ApJ Letters

    [**]astro-ph/0612055 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
    Title: Compact Binaries as Sources of Gravitational Radiation
    Authors: M. Coleman Miller (University of Maryland)
    Comments: To appear in the proceedings of the meeting "The Multicoloured Landscape of Compact Objects and their Explosive Origins", Cefalu, Italy, June 2006, to be published by AIP, Eds. L. Burderi et al

    astro-ph/0612054 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
    Title: Pulsars as Astrophysical Laboratories for Nuclear and Particle Physics
    Authors: F. Weber (San Diego State University), R. Negreiros (San Diego State University), P. Rosenfield (San Diego State University), M. Stejner (University of Aarhus & San Diego State University)
    Comments: 10 pages, 13 figures; Paper presented at the International School Of Nuclear Physics, 28th Course: Radioactive Beams, Nuclear Dynamics and Astrophysics, Erice-Sicily, 16-24 September 2006; to be published in Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys


    astro-ph/0612041 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
    Title: The instability of planetary systems in binaries: how the Kozai mechanism leads to strong planet-planet interactions
    Authors: D. Malmberg, M. B. Davies, John E. Chambers
    Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures, submitted to MNRAS

    astro-ph/0612040 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
    Title: Dynamical evidence for intermediate mass black holes in old globular clusters
    Authors: Michele Trenti (STScI)
    Comments: 5 pages, 2 figures, submitted to MNRAS Letters on Oct. 12 2006

    Mon, 4 Dec 2006

    [***]astro-ph/0612032 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
    Title: On the rarity of double black hole binaries: consequences for gravitational-wave detection
    Authors: Krzysztof Belczynski, Vassiliki Kalogera, Frederic A. Rasio, Ronald E. Taam, Tomasz Bulik
    Comments: 5 pages, submitted to ApJ Letters

    [**]gr-qc/0612003 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
    Title: Chaos and Order in Models of Black Hole Pairs
    Authors: Janna Levin

    [**]gr-qc/0612002 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
    Title: Violation of the Equivalence Principle in Modified Theories of Gravity
    Authors: Gonzalo J. Olmo
    Comments: 4 pages, no comments

    gr-qc/0612001 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
    Title: Beyond the Bowen-York extrinsic curvature for spinning black holes
    Authors: Mark Hannam, Sascha Husa, Bernd Bruegmann, Jose A. Gonzalez, Ulrich Sperhake
    Comments: 10 pages, 2 figures, submitted to special "New Frontiers in Numerical Relativity" issue of Classical and Quantum Gravity

    Fri, 1 Dec 2006

    gr-qc/0611158 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
    Title: The significance of matter coupling in f(R) gravity
    Authors: Thomas P. Sotiriou
    Comments: Talk given at the 11th Marcel Grossman Meeting, Berlin, Germany, 23-29 Jul 2006

    gr-qc/0611155 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
    Title: On thermodynamical properties of dark energy
    Authors: Yungui Gong, Bin Wang, Anzhong Wang
    Comments: 5 two column pages, 2 figures

    astro-ph/0611950 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
    Title: The core radius of a star cluster containing a massive black hole
    Authors: Douglas C. Heggie, Piet Hut, Shin Mineshige, Jun Makino, Holger Baumgardt
    Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures, submitted to PASJ Letters
    astro-ph/0611939 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
    Title: Accretion Disk Spectra of the Brightest Ultra-luminous X-ray Source in M82
    Authors: Feng Yuan, Ronald E. Taam R. Misra, Xue-Bing Wu, Yongquan Xue
    Comments: 17 pages, 2 figures; accepted by ApJ
    astro-ph/0611938 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
    Title: General Relativistic Radiative Transfer
    Authors: S. Knop, P. H. Hauschildt, E. Baron
    astro-ph/0611924 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
    Title: Wave Modes in the Magnetospheres of Pulsars and Magnetars
    Authors: Chen Wang, Dong Lai
    Comments: 18 pages, 9 figures. Submitted to MNRAS