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Author:: Vaishnav, Birjoo
Title:: Gravitational waves from Intermediate Mass Binary Black Holes: First steps toward using Numerical Relativity waveforms for LIGO data analysis
Graduate Program:: Physics
Keywords:: black holes
gravitational waves
numerical relativity
LIGO
data analysis
gravitational wave astronomy
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Committee Members:: Deirdre Shoemaker, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Benjamin Owen, Committee Member
Pablo Laguna, Committee Member
Richard Alan Wade, Committee Member

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Author:: Van Den Broeck, Chris
Title:: Black Holes and Neutron Stars: Fundamental and Phenomenological Issues
Graduate Program:: Physics
Keywords:: neutron stars
black holes
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Committee Members:: Abhay Vasant Ashtekar, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peter Istvan Meszaros, Committee Member
Benjamin Owen, Committee Member
Richard Wallace Robinett, Committee Member
Jayanth R Banavar, Committee Member

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Author:: Garrison, David
Title:: Testing Binary Black Hole Codes in Strong Field Regimes
Graduate Program:: Physics
Keywords:: numerical relativity
cosmology
black holes
partial differential equations
gravity
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Committee Members:: Pablo Laguna, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Steinn Sigurdsson, Committee Member
Jorge Pullin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Abhay Vasant Ashtekar, Committee Member

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Author:: Bentivegna, Eloisa
Title:: Ringing in unison: exploring black hole coalescence with quasinormal modes
Graduate Program:: Physics
Keywords:: Numerical relativity
black holes
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Committee Members:: Deirdre Shoemaker, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Pablo Laguna, Committee Member
Lee S Finn, Committee Member
Yousry Azmy, Committee Member

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Author:: Smith, Kenneth Lee
Title:: Dynamic Singularity Excision in Numerical Relativity
Graduate Program:: Physics
Keywords:: black holes
classical general relativity
numerical relativity
singularity excision
File:: Download ksmith_thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Pablo Laguna, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bernd BrÜGmann, Committee Member
Abhay Vasant Ashtekar, Committee Member
Steinn Sigurdsson, Committee Member

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Author:: Lopez-Aleman, Ramon
Title:: EVOLVING PARTICLE TRAJECTORIES PERTURBATIVELY AROUND ROTATING BLACK HOLES IN THE TIME DOMAIN
Graduate Program:: Physics
Keywords:: perturbation theory
black holes
Numerical Relativity
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Committee Members:: Jorge Pullin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Pablo Laguna, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lee S Finn, Committee Member
Abhay Vasant Ashtekar, Committee Member

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Author:: Fairhurst, Stephen
Title:: Isolated horizons and distorted black holes
Graduate Program:: Physics
Keywords:: theoretical physics
general relativity
black holes
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Committee Members:: Pablo Laguna, Committee Member
Murat Gunaydin, Committee Member
Jorge Pullin, Committee Member
Abhay Vasant Ashtekar, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

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Author:: Bode, Tanja
Title:: The Robustness of Binary Black Hole Mergers and Waveforms
Graduate Program:: Physics
Keywords:: numerical relativity
black holes
initial data
gravitational waves
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Committee Members:: Lee S Finn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lee S Finn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Deirdre Shoemaker, Committee Member
Martin Bojowald, Committee Member
Michael Eracleous, Committee Member

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Author:: Campiglia Curcho, Miguel
Title:: Topics in black holes and quantum cosmology
Graduate Program:: Physics
Keywords:: loop quantum cosmology
black holes
dynamical horizons
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Committee Members:: Abhay Vasant Ashtekar, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Martin Bojowald, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Murat Gunaydin, Committee Member
Nigel David Higson, Special Member

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Author:: Clausen, Drew Reid
Title:: Strong Encounters with Black Holes In Globular Clusters.
Graduate Program:: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Keywords:: black holes
globular clusters
neutron stars
tidal disruption events
File:: Download DRC_thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Michael Eracleous, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Steinn Sigurdsson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard Alan Wade, Committee Member
Lee S Finn, Committee Member
Yuexing Cindy Li, Committee Member

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