Wed, 20 Dec 2006

[***]gr-qc/0612117 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Binary black hole late inspiral: Simulations for gravitational wave observations
Authors: John G. Baker, Sean T. McWilliams, James R. van Meter, Joan Centrella, Dae-Il Choi, Bernard J. Kelly, Michael Koppitz
Comments: 16 pages, 20 figures
gr-qc/0612121 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: A general variational principle for spherically symmetric perturbations in diffeomorphism covariant theories
Authors: Michael D. Seifert, Robert M. Wald
Comments: 26 pages; submitted to Phys. Rev. D

astro-ph/0609377 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: The Effect of Orbital Eccentricity on Gravitational Wave Background Radiation from Supermassive Black Hole Binaries
Authors: Motohiro Enoki, Masahiro Nagashima
Comments: 15 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in Progress of Theoretical Physics

astro-ph/0612508 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Equipotential Surfaces and Lagrangian points in Non-synchronous, Eccentric Binary and Planetary Systems
Authors: J. F. Sepinsky, B. Willems, V. Kalogera
Comments: 12 pages, 10 figures, 2 Tables, Submitted to the Astrophysical Journal

[***]astro-ph/0612517 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Dynamics of triple black hole systems in hierarchically merging massive galaxies
Authors: Loren Hoffman, Abraham Loeb
Comments: 27 pages, 19 figures, submitted to MNRAS
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Tue, 19 Dec 2006

[***]gr-qc/0612100 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Learning about compact binary merger: the interplay between numerical relativity and gravitational-wave astronomy
Authors: Thomas Baumgarte, Patrick Brady, Jolien D E Creighton, Luis Lehner, Frans Pretorius, Ricky DeVoe
Comments: 19 pages, 12 figures
gr-qc/0612104 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Loop quantum cosmology of k=1 FRW models
Authors: Abhay Ashtekar, Tomasz Pawlowski, Parampreet Singh, Kevin Vandersloot
Comments: 43 pages, 11 figures

astro-ph/0612452 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Dark Energy versus Modified Gravity
Authors: Martin Kunz, Domenico Sapone (University of Geneva)
Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures

astro-ph/0612460 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Multi-Dimensional Explorations in Supernova Theory
Authors: Adam Burrows, Luc Dessart, Christian D. Ott, Eli Livne
Comments: To be published in the "Centennial Festschrift for Hans Bethe," Physics Reports (Elsevier: Holland), ed. G.E. Brown, E. van den Heuvel, and V. Kalogera, 2006
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Mon, 18 Dec 2006

[**]gr-qc/0612096 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Binary black hole merger in the extreme mass ratio limit
Authors: Alessandro Nagar, Thibault Damour, Angelo Tartaglia
Comments: 14 pages, six figures. Submitted to the CQG special issue based on New Frontiers in Numerical Relativity conference, Golm (Germany), July 17-21 2006

gr-qc/0609117 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Generation of Closed Timelike Curves with Rotating Superconductors
Authors: Clovis Jacinto de Matos
Comments: 8 pages. Submitted to Classical and Quantum Gravity

astro-ph/0611685 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Formation and Evolution of Structure in Loop Cosmology
Authors: Martin Bojowald, Hector Hernandez, Mikhail Kagan, Parampreet Singh, Aureliano Skirzewski
Comments: 4 pages
Journal-ref: Phys.Rev. D74 (2006) 123512

astro-ph/0612404 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: The fundamental difference between alpha viscosity and turbulent magnetorotational stresses
Authors: Martin E. Pessah, Chi-kwan Chan, Dimitrios Psaltis (University of Arizona)
Comments: Submitted to MNRAS, 8 pages, 1 figure

astro-ph/0612435 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Strong gravity effects: X-ray spectra, variability and polarimetry
Authors: A.C. Fabian (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK)
Comments: 8 pages, 16 figures, For proceedings of IAU Symposium No. 238 "Black Holes - From Stars to Galaxies" edited by Vladimir Karas & Giorgio Matt

[***]astro-ph/0612440 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Neutron Star Observations: Prognosis for Equation of State Constraints
Authors: James M. Lattimer, Maddapa Prakash
Comments: 70 pages, 19 figures, submitted to Hans Bethe Centennial Physics Reports
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Fri, 15 Dec 2006

[**]astro-ph/0610657 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Black-Hole Phenomenology
Authors: Neven Bilic
Comments: 58 pages, 4 figures, notes to the lectures given at the School on Particle Physics, Gravity and Cosmology, Dubrovnik, 21 Aug - 2 Sept 2006, references added, typos corrected, to appear in the proceedings of the school, comments welcome



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Thu, 14 Dec 2006

gr-qc/0612075 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: The (pseudo)issue of the conformal frame revisited
Authors: Valerio Faraoni, Shahn Nadeau (Bishop's University)
Comments: 29 pages, latex, to appear in Phys. Rev. D

[***]gr-qc/0612076 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Spin Flips and Precession in Black-Hole-Binary Mergers
Authors: Manuela Campanelli, Carlos O. Lousto, Yosef Zlochower, Badri Krishnan, David Merritt
Comments: Revtex4, 17 figures, 14 pages. Minor fixes

gr-qc/0612077 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: The modification of the Einstein and Landau-Lifshitz pseudotensrs
Authors: Lau Loi So
Comments: 10 pages
gr-qc/0612081 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Multi-Domain Spectral Method for Initial Data of Arbitrary Binaries in General Relativity
Authors: Marcus Ansorg
Comments: 16 pages, 10 figures

gr-qc/0612086 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: The second post-Newtonian order generalized Kepler equation
Authors: László Á. Gergely, Zoltán Keresztes, Balázs Mikóczi
Comments: to appear in the Proceedings of the Eleventh Marcel Grossmann Meeting 2006, World Scientific, Singapore (2007)

[*]astro-ph/0612330 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Evolution of the Obliquities of the Giant Planets in Encounters during Migration
Authors: Man Hoi Lee (UCSB), S. J. Peale (UCSB), Eric Pfahl (KITP), William R. Ward (SwRI)
Comments: 13 pages, including 2 figures; uses AASTeX; submitted to Icarus

[***]astro-ph/0612337 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Gravitational wave bursts from the Galactic massive black hole
Authors: Clovis Hopman (Leiden University), Marc Freitag (Cambridge), Shane L. Larson (Weber State University)
Comments: Submitted to MNRAS

astro-ph/0612354 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Models for jet power in elliptical galaxies: support for rapidly spinning black holes
Authors: Rodrigo S. Nemmen, Richard G. Bower, Arif Babul, Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann
Comments: Submitted for publication in MNRAS (Aug 2006). 10 pages, 4 figures

astro-ph/0603522 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Low surface brightness galaxies rotation curves in the low energy limit of $R^n$ gravity : no need for dark matter?
Authors: S. Capozziello, V.F. Cardone, A.- Troisi
Comments: 20, 5 figures
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Wed, 13 Dec 2006

[*]astro-ph/0612312 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Observational evidence for stellar-mass black holes
Authors: Jorge Casares
Comments: 9 pages, invited review to appear in Proceedings of IAU Symposium 238: "Black Holes: From Stars to Galaxies -Across the Range of Masses". Prague 14-18 August 2006
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Tue, 12 Dec 2006

gr-qc/0612065 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Post-Newtonian expansion for Gauss-Bonnet Gravity
Authors: Thomas P. Sotiriou, Enrico Barausse
Comments: 4 pages
[***]gr-qc/0612060 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Gravitational waves from intermediate-mass-ratio inspirals for ground-based detectors
Authors: Duncan A. Brown, Hua Fang, Jonathan R. Gair, Chao Li, Geoffrey Lovelace, Ilya Mandel, Kip S. Thorne
Comments: Submitted to Physical Review Letters

[**]astro-ph/0612265 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Interaction of massive black hole binaries with their stellar environment: II. Loss-cone depletion and binary orbital decay
Authors: A. Sesana, F. Haardt, P. Madau
Comments: 10 pages, 7 figures, submitted to ApJ
astro-ph/0612253 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: New Constraints on Macroscopic Compact Objects as a Dark Matter Candidate from Gravitational Lensing of Type Ia Supernovae
Authors: R. Benton Metcalf, Joseph Silk
Comments: 4 pages, 1 figure
astro-ph/0612252 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Neutron star oscillations and QPOs during magnetar flares
Authors: Anna L. Watts (MPA), Tod E. Strohmayer (NASA GSFC)
Comments: Proceedings of the 2006 Beijing COSPAR assembly, to appear in Advances in Space Research
astro-ph/0612238 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Making a Short Gamma-Ray Burst from a Long one: Implications for the Nature of GRB 060614
Authors: Bing Zhang, Bin-Bin Zhang, En-Wei Liang, Neil Gehrels, David N. Burrows, Peter Meszaros
Comments: 7 pages, 3 figures, to appear in ApJ Letters
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