Finding and Using Electromagnetic Counterparts of Gravitational Wave Sources (2009)
The principal goal of this whitepaper is not so much to demonstrate that gravitational wave detectors like LIGO and LISA will help answer many central questions in astronomy and astrophysics, but to...
The astrophysics of ultra-compact binaries (2009)
Nelemans, G., Wood, M., Groot, P., Anderson, S., Belczynski, K., Benacquista, M., ...
This white paper briefly describes the astrophysics of ultra-compact binaries, with emphasis of the challenges and opportunities in the next decade.
The Astrophysical Journal, J. S. Bloom, S. R. Kulkarni, F. Harrison, T. Prince, E. S. Phinney, ...
The spatial and temporal coincidence of gamma-ray burst (GRB) 980425 and supernova (SN) 1998bw has prompted speculation that there exists a subclass of GRBs produced by SNe ("S-GRBs"). A...
Discovery of a Radio Source following the 27 December 2004 Giant Flare from SGR 1806-20 (2005)
Cameron, P. B., Chandra, P., Ray, A., Kulkarni, S. R., Frail, D. A., Wieringa, M. H., ...
Over a decade ago it was established that the remarkable high energy transients, known as soft gamma-ray repeaters (SGRs), are a Galactic population and originate from neutron stars with intense (~...
Detection of a radio counterpart to the 27 December 2004 giant flare from SGR 1806-20 (2005)
Cameron, P. B., Chandra, P., Ray, A., Kulkarni, S. R., Frail, D. A., Wieringa, M. H., ...
Event rate estimates for LISA extreme mass ratio capture sources (2004)
Gair,J. R., Barack,Leor, Creighton,T., Cutler,Curt, Larson,S. L., Phinney,E. S., ...
The Afterglow of Massive Black Hole Coalescence (2004)
Milosavljevic, Milos, Phinney, E. S.
The final merger of a pair of massive black holes in a galactic nucleus is compelled by gravitational radiation. Gravitational waves from the mergers of black holes of masses (10^5-10^7)(1+z)^{-1}...
Event rate estimates for LISA extreme mass ratio capture sources (2004)
Gair, J R, Barack, L, Creighton, T, Cutler, C, Larson, S L, Phinney, E S, ...
One of the most exciting prospects for the LISA gravitational wave observatory is the detection of gravitational radiation from the inspiral of a compact object into a supermassive black hole. The...
Event rate estimates for LISA extreme mass ratio capture sources (2004)
Gair, Jonathan R., Barack, Leor, Creighton, Teviet D., Cutler, Curt, Larson, Shane L., Phinney, E. S., ...
The Gravitational Wave Background from Cosmological Compact Binaries (2003)
Farmer, Alison J., Phinney, E. S.
We use a population synthesis approach to characterise, as a function of cosmic time, the extragalactic close binary population descended from stars of low to intermediate initial mass. The...
A Practical Theorem on Gravitational Wave Backgrounds (2001)
There is an extremely simple relationship between the spectrum of the gravitational wave background produced by a cosmological distribution of discrete gravitational wave sources, the total...
Expected characteristics of the subclass of Supernova Gamma-ray Bursts (S-GRBs) (1998)
Bloom, J. S., Kulkarni, S. R., Harrison, F., Prince, T., Phinney, E. S., Frail, D. A.
The spatial and temporal coincidence between the gamma-ray burst (GRB) 980425 and supernova (SN) 1998bw has prompted speculation that there exists a class of GRBs produced by SNe (``S-GRBs''). Robust...
Kulkarni, S. R., Frail, D. A., Wieringa, M. H., Ekers, R. D., Sadler, E. M., Wark, R. M., ...
Supernova SN 1998bw exploded in the same direction and at the same time as the gamma-ray burst GRB 980425. Here we report radio observations of this type Ic supernova, beginning 4 days after the...
Why pulsars rotate and move: kicks at birth (1998)
RADIO pulsars are thought to born with spin periods of 0.02-0.5 s and space velocities of 100-1000 km/s, and they are inferred to have initial dipole magnetic fields of 10^{11}-10^{13}. The average...
Binaries in Globular Clusters (1997)
McMillan, S. L. W., Pryor, C., Phinney, E. S.
Binary stars play a critical role in determining both the dynamical evolution and the observational appearance of globular star clusters. We present a summary of three talks presented at IAU JD15,...
Hogg, David W., Phinney, E. S.
Dwarf, irregular and infrared-luminous starburst galaxies are all known to have "steep" luminosity functions with faint-end behavior roughly phi(L)-propto- L^(-1.8). This form is exactly what is...
Stability Criteria for Mass Transfer in Binary Stellar Evolution (1997)
Soberman, G. E., Phinney, E. S.
The evolution of a binary star system by various analytic approximations of mass transfer is discussed, with particular attention payed to the stability of these processes against runaway on the...
Dynamics and Interactions of Binaries and Neutron Stars in Globular Clusters (1994)
Sigurdsson, Steinn, Phinney, E. S.
We model the dynamics of test binaries in isotropic, multi-mass models of galactic globular clusters. The evolution of binary orbits through the cluster potentials is modeled, including second order...
Taylor, L M, Edwards, J M, Phinney, E S, Porter, J M
In recent years many reports have attributed improved patency and improved vein utilization with lower extremity arterial bypass to infrapopliteal arteries to the use of the in-situ vein graft...
Taylor, L M, Edwards, J M, Phinney, E S, Porter, J M
In recent years many reports have attributed improved patency and improved vein utilization with lower extremity arterial bypass to infrapopliteal arteries to the use of the in-situ vein graft...