Gravitational Waves from Compact Objects
Meetings: Mondays, 3-4 PM, Building 2, room 215 (the reading room of the gravitational wave astrophysics group).
Papers for discussion:
September 26:
High frequency sources of gravitational waves
by Kokkatas
October 3:
Realistic Event Rates for Detection of Supermassive Black Hole Coalescence by LISA
by Rhook and Wyithe
October 10: no meeting (Columbus Day)
October 17:
Laser interferometry for the detection of gravitational waves
by Hough and Rowan
October 24:
The cosmic coalescence rate for neutron star binaries
by Kalogera et al.; rates corrected in
erratum
October 31:
Cosmology with coalescing massive black holes
by Hughes and Holz
November 7:
Testing Models of Supermassive Black Hole Seed Formation Through Gravity Waves
by Koushiappas and Zentner
November 14: Report on November 2-4 numerical relativity workshop
November 21: Thanksgiving!
November 28:
Present status of large-scale cryogenic gravitational wave telescope
by Uchiyama et al.
December 5:
An origin for short gamma-ray bursts unassociated with current star formation
by Barthelmy et al., and
Black Hole - Neutron Star Mergers as Central Engines of Gamma-Ray Bursts
by Janka et al.
January 23:
The young, highly relativistic binary pulsar J1906+0746
by Lorimer et al.
January 30: discussion led by Tuck Stebbins on time delay interferometric ranging, with two papers:
TDIR: Time-Delay Interferometric Ranging for Space-Borne Gravitational-Wave Detectors
by Tinto et al., and
Post-processed time-delay interferometry for LISA
by Shaddock et al.
February 6:
The gravitational wave background from cosmological compact binaries
by Farmer and Phinney
February 13:
Binary black hole merger dynamics and waveforms
by Baker et al.
February 20: no meeting (Presidents Day)
February 27:
The Afterglow of Massive Black Hole Coalescence
by Milosavljevic and Phinney
March 6: no meeting (Centrella colloquium)
March 13:
Getting a kick out of numerical relativity
by Baker et al., with additional astrophysical context in
Consequences of gravitational radiation recoil
by Merritt et al.
March 20:
Contribution of stellar tidal disruptions to the X-ray luminosity function of active galaxies
by Milosavljevic et al.
March 27:
Starbursts near supermassive black holes: young stars in the Galactic Center, and gravitational waves in LISA band
by Levin