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gr-qc2015★ 101 cited

Can we measure individual black-hole spins from gravitational-wave observations?

Michael Pürrer, Mark Hannam, Frank Ohme

Measurements of black-hole spins from gravitational-wave observations of black-hole binaries with ground-based detectors are expected to be hampered by partial degeneracies in the…

hep-ph2015★ 62 cited

Chiral and Deconfining Phase Transitions from Holographic QCD Study

Zhen Fang, Song He, Danning Li

A first attempt to accommodate the chiral and deconfining phase transitions of QCD in the bottom-up holographic framework is given. We constrain the relation between dilaton field…

hep-th2015★ 79 cited

Non-Singular Bouncing Cosmology: Consistency of the Effective Description

Michael Koehn, Jean-Luc Lehners, Burt Ovrut

We explicitly confirm that spatially flat non-singular bouncing cosmologies make sense as effective theories. The presence of a non-singular bounce in a spatially flat universe imp…

hep-th2015★ 101 cited

Exceptional field theory:

Edvard T. Musaev

In this work the exceptional field theory formulation of supergravity with SL(5) gauge group is considered. This group appears as a U-duality group of maximal supergravity. I…

gr-qc2015★ 179 cited

Frequency domain reduced order model of aligned-spin effective-one-body waveforms with generic mass-ratios and spins

Michael Pürrer

I provide a frequency domain reduced order model (ROM) for the aligned-spin effective-one-body (EOB) model "SEOBNRv2" for data analysis with second and third generation ground base…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 5 cited

Towards a Model for Computing in European Astroparticle Physics

T. Berghöfer, I. Agrafioti, B. Allen +14

Current and future astroparticle physics experiments are operated or are being built to observe highly energetic particles, high energy electromagnetic radiation and gravitational…

hep-th2015★ 64 cited

Complete construction of magical, symmetric and homogeneous N=2 supergravities as double copies of gauge theories

Marco Chiodaroli, Murat Gunaydin, Henrik Johansson +1

We show that scattering amplitudes in magical, symmetric or homogeneous N=2 Maxwell-Einstein supergravities can be obtained as double copies of two gauge theories, using the framew…

hep-th2015★ 35 cited

Remark on the Dunne-Unsal relation in exact semi-classics

Ilmar Gahramanov, Kemal Tezgin

Recently, it is realized that non-perturbative instanton effects can be generated to all orders by perturbation theory around a degenerate minima via Dunne-Unsal relation in severa…

hep-th2015★ 46 cited

From Higher Spins to Strings: A Primer

Rakibur Rahman, Massimo Taronna

A contribution to the collection of reviews "Introduction to Higher Spin Theory" edited by S. Fredenhagen, this introductory article is a pedagogical account of higher-spin fields…

gr-qc2015★ 83 cited

On the accuracy and precision of numerical waveforms: Effect of waveform extraction methodology

Tony Chu, Heather Fong, Prayush Kumar +6

We present a new set of 95 numerical relativity simulations of non-precessing binary black holes (BBHs). The simulations sample comprehensively both black-hole spins up to spin mag…

gr-qc2015★ 28 cited

Separate universes in loop quantum cosmology: framework and applications

Edward Wilson-Ewing

I present a streamlined review of how the separate universe approach to cosmological perturbation theory can be used to study the dynamics of long-wavelength scalar perturbations i…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 66 cited

Relativistic mergers of black hole binaries have large, similar masses, low spins and are circular

Pau Amaro-Seoane, Xian Chen

Gravitational waves are a prediction of general relativity, and with ground-based detectors now running in their advanced configuration, we will soon be able to measure them direct…

gr-qc2015★ 14 cited

Anisotropic loop quantum cosmology with self-dual variables

Edward Wilson-Ewing

A loop quantization of the diagonal class A Bianchi models starting from the complex-valued self-dual connection variables is presented in this paper. The basic operators in the qu…

gr-qc2015★ 151 cited

Fokker action of non-spinning compact binaries at the fourth post-Newtonian approximation

Laura Bernard, Luc Blanchet, Alejandro Bohé +2

The Fokker action governing the motion of compact binary systems without spins is derived in harmonic coordinates at the fourth post-Newtonian approximation (4PN) of general relati…

gr-qc2015★ 18 cited

Tuning into Scorpius X-1: adapting a continuous gravitational-wave search for a known binary system

Grant David Meadors, Evan Goetz, Keith Riles

We describe how the TwoSpect data analysis method for continuous gravitational waves (GWs) has been tuned for directed sources such as the Low Mass X-ray Binary (LMXB), Scorpius X-…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 294 cited

A large scale dynamo and magnetoturbulence in rapidly rotating core-collapse supernovae

Philipp Mösta, Christian D. Ott, David Radice +3

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence is of key importance in many high-energy astrophysical systems, where MHD instabilities can amplify local magnetic field over very short time s…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 25 cited

Probing dark matter crests with white dwarfs and IMBHs

Pau Amaro-Seoane, Jordi Casanellas, Rainer Schödel +2

White dwarfs (WDs) are the most promising captors of dark matter (DM) particles in the crests that are expected to build up in the cores of dense stellar clusters. The DM particles…

gr-qc2015★ 62 cited

A Proposed Search for the Detection of Gravitational Waves from Eccentric Binary Black Holes

Vaibhav Tiwari, Sergey Klimenko, Nelson Christensen +14

Most of compact binary systems are expected to circularize before the frequency of emitted gravitational waves (GWs) enters the sensitivity band of the ground based interferometric…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 2 cited

Optimal design of calibration signals in space borne gravitational wave detectors

M. Nofrarias, N. Karnesis, F. Gibert +17

Future space borne gravitational wave detectors will require a precise definition of calibration signals to ensure the achievement of their design sensitivity. The careful design o…

hep-th2015★ 4 cited

New modes from higher curvature corrections in holography

Steffen Aksteiner, Yegor Korovin

In gravitational theories involving higher curvature corrections the metric describes additional degrees of freedom beyond the graviton. Holographic duality maps these to operators…

hep-ph2015★ 36 cited

Multiphoton amplitudes and generalized LKF transformation in Scalar QED

Naser Ahmadiniaz, Adnan Bashir, Christian Schubert

We apply the worldline formalism to amplitudes in scalar quantum electrodynamics (QED) involving open scalar lines, with an emphasis on their non-perturbative gauge dependence. At…

gr-qc2015★ 6 cited

Indirect (source-free) integration method. II. Self-force consistent radial fall

P. Ritter, S. Aoudia, A. Spallicci +1

We apply our method of indirect integration, described in Part I, at fourth order, to the radial fall affected by the self-force. The Mode-Sum regularisation is performed in the Re…

gr-qc2015★ 3 cited

Indirect (source-free) integration method. I. Wave-forms from geodesic generic orbits of EMRIs

P. Ritter, S. Aoudia, A. Spallicci +1

The Regge-Wheeler-Zerilli (RWZ) wave-equation describes Schwarzschild-Droste black hole perturbations. The source term contains a Dirac distribution and its derivative. We have pre…

gr-qc2015★ 92 cited

Impact of gravitational radiation higher order modes on single aligned-spin gravitational wave searches for binary black holes

Juan Calderón Bustillo, Sascha Husa, Alicia M. Sintes +1

Current template-based gravitational wave searches for compact binary coalescences (CBC) use waveform models that neglect the higher order modes content of the gravitational radiat…