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Black Holes are neither Particle Accelerators nor Dark Matter Probes
Sean T. McWilliams
It has been suggested that maximally spinning black holes can serve as particle accelerators, reaching arbitrarily high center-of-mass energies. Despite several objections regardin…
Binary Systems as Resonance Detectors for Gravitational Waves
Lam Hui, Sean T. McWilliams, I-Sheng Yang
Gravitational waves at suitable frequencies can resonantly interact with a binary system, inducing changes to its orbit. A stochastic gravitational-wave background causes the orbit…
Observing complete gravitational wave signals from dynamical capture binaries
William E. East, Sean T. McWilliams, Janna Levin +1
We assess the detectability of the gravitational wave signals from highly eccentric compact binaries. We use a simple model for the inspiral, merger, and ringdown of these systems.…
Low-frequency gravitational-wave science with eLISA/NGO
Pau Amaro-Seoane, Sofiane Aoudia, Stanislav Babak +27
We review the expected science performance of the New Gravitational-Wave Observatory (NGO, a.k.a. eLISA), a mission under study by the European Space Agency for launch in the early…