GAIN Journal Club
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Welcome to the website of the "Gravitational Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Numerics (GAIN) Journal Club"! My name is Emily Alicea-Muñoz and I am the current journal club organizer. Our weekly meetings are held on Mondays, at 3:00pm - 4:00pm in NASA/GSFC Bldg 2, Room 215 (the reading room of the Gravitational Astrophysics group). Any changes of schedule will be posted here, as well as announced in the email reminders.
This page will present meeting dates, papers to be discussed (you can download them here by clicking on the link to each paper), and who is leading the discussion for each week. Any changes to the regular schedule will be posted here as well. Email reminders will be sent on Thursday afternoons and Monday mornings.
If you want to be included or taken off the GAIN (unofficial) mailing list, or if you know of someone who might be interested in joining, then just email me at Emily.Alicea-Munoz@nasa.gov and I'll take care of it right away.
IMPORTANT: Please note that the GAIN Journal Club has been on hiatus for a while. I'll make sure to let everyone know when the new season begins.
Schedule
- Spring 2007
Spring 2007
19 March 2007 -- Discussion led by Emily Alicea-Muñoz
[back to top]- Please note that this meeting will be held at 3:30pm.
- astro-ph/0703054 - "Alignment of the spins of supermassive black holes prior to merger", by Bogdanović, Reynolds and Miller
- astro-ph/0703180 - "Gravitational recoil: signatures on the massive black hole population", by Volonteri
26 March 2007 -- Discussion led by Ira Thorpe
[back to top]- astro-ph/0406106 - quot;Post-processed time-delay interferometry for LISA", by Shaddock et al
2 April 2007 -- Discussion led by Sean McWilliams
[back to top]- Phys.Rev.Lett. 96 (2006) 111102 - "Gravitational wave extraction from an inspiraling configuration of merging black holes", by Baker et al
- Phys.Rev.Lett. 96 (2006) 111101 - "Accurate Evolutions of Orbiting Black-Hole Binaries Without Excision", by Campanelli et al
9 April 2007 -- Discussion led by Emily Alicea-Muñoz
[back to top]- Please note that this meeting will be held at 3:30pm.
- astro-ph/0703773 - "How rapidly do supermassive black hole 'seeds' grow at early times?", by Pelupessy, Di Matteo and Ciardi
30 April 2007 -- Discussion led by Jeff Livas
[back to top]- Phys.Rev.Lett. 94 (2005) 121102 - "Parametric Instabilities and Their Control in Advanced Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Detectors", by Zhao et al
- Additional suggested reading:
- "Analysis of parametric instability in power recycled LIGO interferometer" (Braginsky et al 2002)
- "Analysis of Parametric Oscillatory Instability in Signal Recycled LIGO Interferometer with Different Arms" (Stringin and Vyatchanin 2006)
Last Updated: 10 February 2008

