Black-hole binaries, gravitational waves, and numerical relativity

TEST OF A GENERAL FORMULA FOR BLACK HOLE GRAVITATIONAL WAVE KICKS

(2010) James R. van Meter et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

RELATIVISTIC MERGERS OF SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLES AND THEIR ELECTROMAGNETIC SIGNATURES

(2010) Tanja Bode et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

MODELING FLOWS AROUND MERGING BLACK HOLE BINARIES

(2010) James R. van Meter et al.   Astrophysical Journal Letters

Remnant masses, spins and recoils from the merger of generic black hole binaries

(2010) Carlos O Lousto et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

An axisymmetric evolution code for the Einstein equations on hyperboloidal slices

(2010) Oliver Rinne   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

High accuracy simulations of black hole binaries: Spins anti-aligned with the orbital angular momentum

(2010) Tony Chu et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Impact of mergers on LISA parameter estimation for nonspinning black hole binaries

(2010) Sean T. McWilliams et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Effective-one-body waveforms calibrated to numerical relativity simulations: Coalescence of nonprecessing, spinning, equal-mass black holes

(2010) Yi Pan et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Comparisons of eccentric binary black hole simulations with post-Newtonian models

(2010) Ian Hinder et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Gravitational Waves from Merging Compact Binaries

(2009) Scott A. Hughes   Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics

The evolution of runaway stellar collision products

(2009) E. Glebbeek et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

PREDICTING THE DIRECTION OF THE FINAL SPIN FROM THE COALESCENCE OF TWO BLACK HOLES

(2009) Enrico Barausse et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

BINARY BLACK HOLE MERGER IN GALACTIC NUCLEI: POST-NEWTONIAN SIMULATIONS

(2009) Ingo Berentzen et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

MERGERS OF STELLAR-MASS BLACK HOLES IN NUCLEAR STAR CLUSTERS

(2009) M. Coleman Miller et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

THE QUASAR SDSS J105041.35+345631.3: BLACK HOLE RECOIL OR EXTREME DOUBLE-PEAKED EMITTER?

(2009) G. A. Shields et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

REACTION OF ACCRETION DISKS TO ABRUPT MASS LOSS DURING BINARY BLACK HOLE MERGER

(2009) Sean M. O'Neill et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

X-RAY PROPERTIES OF INTERMEDIATE-MASS BLACK HOLES IN ACTIVE GALAXIES. II. X-RAY-BRIGHT ACCRETION AND POSSIBLE EVIDENCE FOR SLIM DISKS

(2009) Louis-Benoit Desroches et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

THE POPULATION OF VISCOSITY- AND GRAVITATIONAL WAVE-DRIVEN SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLE BINARIES AMONG LUMINOUS ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI

(2009) Zoltán Haiman et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

The gravitational-wave recoil from the ringdown phase of coalescing black hole binaries

(2009) Alexandre Le Tiec et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

Status of black-hole-binary simulations for gravitational-wave detection

(2009) Mark Hannam   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

Comparison of high-accuracy numerical simulations of black-hole binaries with stationary-phase post-Newtonian template waveforms for initial and advanced LIGO

(2009) Michael Boyle et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

The path to the enhanced and advanced LIGO gravitational-wave detectors

(2009) J R Smith et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

Searching for numerically simulated signals from black-hole binaries with a phenomenological template family

(2009) Lucía Santamaría et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

Identifying decaying supermassive black hole binaries from their variable electromagnetic emission

(2009) Zoltán Haiman et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

LISA detection of massive black hole binaries: imprint of seed populations and extreme recoils

(2009) A Sesana et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

Advanced localization of massive black hole coalescences with LISA

(2009) Ryan N Lang et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

Intermediate-mass black holes as LISA sources

(2009) M Coleman Miller   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

Modelling the final state from binary black-hole coalescences

(2009) Luciano Rezzolla   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

Massive black hole binary evolution in gas-rich mergers

(2009) M Colpi et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

Massive black-hole binary inspirals: results from the LISA parameter estimation taskforce

(2009) K G Arun et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

LISA parameter estimation using numerical merger waveforms

(2009) J I Thorpe et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

LISA as a dark energy probe

(2009) K G Arun et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

LISAtechnology and instrumentation

(2009) O Jennrich   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

Triple Michelson interferometer for a third-generation gravitational wave detector

(2009) A Freise et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

Testing gravitational-wave searches with numerical relativity waveforms: results from the first Numerical INJection Analysis (NINJA) project

(2009) Benjamin Aylott et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

Quasinormal modes of black holes and black branes

(2009) Emanuele Berti et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

IMEX Evolution of Scalar Fields on Curved Backgrounds

(2009) S. R. Lau et al.   Communications in Computational Physics

Timing stability of millisecond pulsars and prospects for gravitational-wave detection

(2009) J. P. W. Verbiest et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Gravitational waves from resolvable massive black hole binary systems and observations with Pulsar Timing Arrays

(2009) A. Sesana et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Erratum: Template bank for gravitational waveforms from coalescing binary black holes: Nonspinning binaries [Phys. Rev. DPRVDAQ1550-799877, 104017 (2008)]

(2009) P. Ajith et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Effective-one-body waveforms calibrated to numerical relativity simulations: Coalescence of nonspinning, equal-mass black holes

(2009) Alessandra Buonanno et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Methods for detection and characterization of signals in noisy data with the Hilbert-Huang transform

(2009) Alexander Stroeer et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Samurai project: Verifying the consistency of black-hole-binary waveforms for gravitational-wave detection

(2009) Mark Hannam et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Black-hole binary simulations: The mass ratio10∶1

(2009) José A. González et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Comparison of numerical and post-Newtonian waveforms for generic precessing black-hole binaries

(2009) Manuela Campanelli et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Improved analytical description of inspiralling and coalescing black-hole binaries

(2009) Thibault Damour et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Perturbed disks get shocked: Binary black hole merger effects on accretion disks

(2009) Miguel Megevand et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Orbiting binary black hole evolutions with a multipatch high order finite-difference approach

(2009) Enrique Pazos et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Numerical black hole initial data with low eccentricity based on post-Newtonian orbital parameters

(2009) Benny Walther et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Recoil velocity at second post-Newtonian order for spinning black hole binaries

(2009) Étienne Racine et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Search for gravitational waves from low mass compact binary coalescence in 186 days of LIGO’s fifth science run

(2009) B. P. Abbott et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Modeling gravitational recoil from precessing highly spinning unequal-mass black-hole binaries

(2009) Carlos O. Lousto et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

High-accuracy waveforms for binary black hole inspiral, merger, and ringdown

(2009) Mark A. Scheel et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Bowen-York trumpet data and black-hole simulations

(2009) Mark Hannam et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Simulations of binary black hole mergers using spectral methods

(2009) Béla Szilágyi et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Fundamental theoretical bias in gravitational wave astrophysics and the parametrized post-Einsteinian framework

(2009) Nicolás Yunes et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Comparison of post-Newtonian templates for compact binary inspiral signals in gravitational-wave detectors

(2009) Alessandra Buonanno et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Cross Section, Final Spin, and Zoom-Whirl Behavior in High-Energy Black-Hole Collisions

(2009) Ulrich Sperhake et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Unambiguous Determination of Gravitational Waveforms from Binary Black Hole Mergers

(2009) C. Reisswig et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Binary Black Holes’ Effects on Electromagnetic Fields

(2009) Carlos Palenzuela et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

John Wheeler, relativity, and quantum information

(2009) Charles W. Misner et al.   PHYSICS TODAY

Approaches to understanding cosmic acceleration

(2009) Alessandra Silvestri et al.   REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS

LIGO: the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory

(2009) B P Abbott et al.   REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS

A Recoiling Supermassive Black Hole in the Quasar SDSS J092712.65+294344.0?

(2008) S. Komossa et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Modeling Kicks from the Merger of Generic Black Hole Binaries

(2008) John G. Baker et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Localizing Coalescing Massive Black Hole Binaries with Gravitational Waves

(2008) Ryan N. Lang et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Prompt Shocks in the Gas Disk around a Recoiling Supermassive Black Hole Binary

(2008) Zoltán Lippai et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Powerful Flares from Recoiling Black Holes in Quasars

(2008) G. A. Shields et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

The Infrared Afterglow of Supermassive Black Hole Mergers

(2008) Jeremy D. Schnittman et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Premerger Localization of Gravitational Wave Standard Sirens withLISA: Triggered Search for an Electromagnetic Counterpart

(2008) Bence Kocsis et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

The Final Spin from the Coalescence of Aligned-Spin Black Hole Binaries

(2008) Luciano Rezzolla et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Multipolar analysis of spinning binaries

(2008) E Berti et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

Gravitational-wave data analysis using binary black-hole waveforms

(2008) P Ajith   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

LISA parameter estimation of supermassive black holes

(2008) Miquel Trias et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

Reducing phase error in long numerical binary black hole evolutions with sixth-order finite differencing

(2008) Sascha Husa et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

The third post-Newtonian gravitational wave polarizations and associated spherical harmonic modes for inspiralling compact binaries in quasi-circular orbits

(2008) Luc Blanchet et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

INTRODUCTORY LECTURES ON THE EFFECTIVE ONE BODY FORMALISM

(2008) THIBAULT DAMOUR   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS A

The stochastic gravitational-wave background from massive black hole binary systems: implications for observations with Pulsar Timing Arrays

(2008) A. Sesana et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Template bank for gravitational waveforms from coalescing binary black holes: Nonspinning binaries

(2008) P. Ajith et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Data-analysis driven comparison of analytic and numerical coalescing binary waveforms: Nonspinning case

(2008) Yi Pan et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Comparison between numerical-relativity and post-Newtonian waveforms from spinning binaries: The orbital hang-up case

(2008) Mark Hannam et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Anatomy of the binary black hole recoil: A multipolar analysis

(2008) Jeremy D. Schnittman et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

High-spin binary black hole mergers

(2008) Pedro Marronetti et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

High-velocity collision of two black holes

(2008) Masaru Shibata et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

High-accuracy numerical simulation of black-hole binaries: Computation of the gravitational-wave energy flux and comparisons with post-Newtonian approximants

(2008) Michael Boyle et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Hyperbolicity of scalar-tensor theories of gravity

(2008) Marcelo Salgado et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Where post-Newtonian and numerical-relativity waveforms meet

(2008) Mark Hannam et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Reducing eccentricity in black-hole binary evolutions with initial parameters from post-Newtonian inspiral

(2008) Sascha Husa et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Robustness of binary black hole mergers in the presence of spurious radiation

(2008) Tanja Bode et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Learning about compact binary merger: The interplay between numerical relativity and gravitational-wave astronomy

(2008) Thomas Baumgarte et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Mergers of nonspinning black-hole binaries: Gravitational radiation characteristics

(2008) John G. Baker et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Faithful effective-one-body waveforms of equal-mass coalescing black-hole binaries

(2008) Thibault Damour et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Final mass and spin of black-hole mergers

(2008) Wolfgang Tichy et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Erratum: Measuring coalescing massive binary black holes with gravitational waves: The impact of spin-induced precession [Phys. Rev. D74, 122001 (2006)]

(2008) Ryan N. Lang et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Estimating the final spin of a binary black hole coalescence

(2008) Alessandra Buonanno et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Foundations of multiple-black-hole evolutions

(2008) Carlos O. Lousto et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Spin expansion for binary black hole mergers: New predictions and future directions

(2008) Latham Boyle et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Comparing effective-one-body gravitational waveforms to accurate numerical data

(2008) Thibault Damour et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Circularization and final spin in eccentric binary-black-hole inspirals

(2008) Ian Hinder et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Eccentric binary black-hole mergers: The transition from inspiral to plunge in general relativity

(2008) Ulrich Sperhake et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Puncture evolution of Schwarzschild black holes

(2008) J. David Brown   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Binary-black-hole initial data with nearly extremal spins

(2008) Geoffrey Lovelace et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Wormholes and trumpets: Schwarzschild spacetime for the moving-puncture generation

(2008) Mark Hannam et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Model waveform accuracy standards for gravitational wave data analysis

(2008) Lee Lindblom et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Using full information when computing modes of post-Newtonian waveforms from inspiralling compact binaries in circular orbit

(2008) Lawrence E. Kidder   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Calibration of moving puncture simulations

(2008) Bernd Brügmann et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Exploring black hole superkicks

(2008) Bernd Brügmann et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Brightening of an Accretion Disk due to Viscous Dissipation of Gravitational Waves during the Coalescence of Supermassive Black Holes

(2008) Bence Kocsis et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

High-Energy Collision of Two Black Holes

(2008) Ulrich Sperhake et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Binary–Black-Hole Merger: Symmetry and the Spin Expansion

(2008) Latham Boyle et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS