Approximations in General Relativity

Presentations

• How to Compute the Motion of a Body

  ORAL

  April 2, 2012, 1:30 PM – April 2, 2012, 1:42 PM

  Authors

  • Samuel Gralla

    • University of Maryland
    • University of Maryland College Park

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• Self-forced motion of a scalar particle around a Schwarzschild black hole

  ORAL

  April 2, 2012, 1:42 PM – April 2, 2012, 1:54 PM

  Authors

  • Ian Vega

    • University of Guelph

  • Peter Diener

    • Louisiana State University

  • Barry Wardell

    • University College Dublin

  • Steven Detweiler

    • University of Florida

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• Self-consistent waveforms from a scalar charge in orbit around a Schwarzschild blak hole

  ORAL

  April 2, 2012, 1:54 PM – April 2, 2012, 2:06 PM

  Authors

  • Peter Diener

    • Louisiana State University

  • Ian Vega

    • University of Guelph

  • Barry Wardell

    • University College Dublin

  • Steven Detweiler

    • University of Florida

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• Inspiralling compact binaries in scalar-tensor theories of gravity: Equations of motion to 2.5 post-Newtonian order

  ORAL

  April 2, 2012, 2:06 PM – April 2, 2012, 2:18 PM

  Authors

  • Saeed Mirshekari

    • Washington University in St. Louis

  • Clifford Will

    • Washington University in St. Louis
    • Washington University, St. Louis

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• Tendex and Vortex Lines of Black Hole Spacetimes

  ORAL

  April 2, 2012, 2:18 PM – April 2, 2012, 2:30 PM

  Authors

  • Aaron Zimmerman

    • California Institute of Technology
    • Caltech

  • David Nichols

    • Caltech

  • Rob Owen

    • Cornell

  • Fan Zhang

    • Caltech

  • Jeandrew Brink

    • National Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stellenbosch, South Africa

  • Yanbei Chen

    • Caltech

  • Jeffrey Kaplan

    • Caltech

  • Geoffrey Lovelace

    • Cornell

  • Keith Matthews

    • Caltech

  • Mark Scheel

    • Caltech

  • Kip Thorne

    • Caltech

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• Tendex and Vortex Lines of Perturbed Schwarzschild and Kerr Black Holes

  ORAL

  April 2, 2012, 2:30 PM – April 2, 2012, 2:42 PM

  Authors

  • David Nichols

    • California Institute of Technology

  • Jeandrew Brink

    • National Institute of Theoretical Physics

  • Yanbei Chen

    • California Institute of Technology

  • Jeffrey Kaplan

    • California Institute of Technology
    • Caltech

  • Geoffrey Lovelace

    • Cornell University

  • Keith Matthews

    • California Institute of Technology

  • Robert Owen

    • Cornell University

  • Mark Scheel

    • California Institute of Technology
    • Caltech

  • Kip Thorne

    • California Institute of Technology

  • Fan Zhang

    • California Institute of Technology

  • Aaron Zimmerman

    • California Institute of Technology
    • Caltech

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• Quasinormal modes of Kerr black holes in the eikonal limit

  ORAL

  April 2, 2012, 2:42 PM – April 2, 2012, 2:54 PM

  Authors

  • Huan Yang

    • California Institute of Technology

  • David Nichols

    • California Institute of Technology

  • Fan Zhang

    • California Institute of Technology

  • Aaron Zimmerman

    • California Institute of Technology

  • Zhongyang Zhang

    • The University of Mississippi

  • Yanbei Chen

    • California Institute of Technology

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• Relativistic effects in the tidal interaction between a white dwarf and a massive black hole in Fermi normal coordinates

  ORAL

  April 2, 2012, 2:54 PM – April 2, 2012, 3:06 PM

  Authors

  • Roseanne M. Cheng

    • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  • Charles R. Evans

    • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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