Publications (67)
Dynamical Chern-Simons Modified Gravity I: Spinning Black Holes in the Slow-Rotation Approximation
Nicolas Yunes, Frans Pretorius
The imminent detection of gravitational waves from massive black-hole binaries with pulsar timing arrays
Sean T. McWilliams, Jeremiah P. Ostriker, Frans Pretorius
Gravitational waves and stalled satellites from massive galaxy mergers at z <= 1
Sean T. McWilliams, Jeremiah P. Ostriker, Frans Pretorius
Binary Black Hole Coalescence
Frans Pretorius
Eccentric black hole-neutron star mergers: effects of black hole spin and equation of state
William E. East, Frans Pretorius, Branson C. Stephens
Status of NINJA: the Numerical INJection Analysis project
Benjamin Aylott, John G. Baker, William D. Boggs +74
Hydrodynamics in full general relativity with conservative AMR
William E. East, Frans Pretorius, Branson C. Stephens
Learning about compact binary merger: the interplay between numerical relativity and gravitational-wave astronomy
Thomas Baumgarte, Patrick Brady, Jolien D E Creighton +3
Gravitational Wave Tests of General Relativity with the Parameterized Post-Einsteinian Framework
Neil Cornish, Laura Sampson, Nico Yunes +1
Universality, maximum radiation and absorption in high-energy collisions of black holes with spin
Ulrich Sperhake, Emanuele Berti, Vitor Cardoso +1
Observing complete gravitational wave signals from dynamical capture binaries
William E. East, Sean T. McWilliams, Janna Levin +1
Black hole spectroscopy with coherent mode stacking
Huan Yang, Kent Yagi, Jonathan Blackman +4
Eccentric Black Hole-Neutron Star Mergers
Branson C. Stephens, William E. East, Frans Pretorius
Evaporation of 2-Dimensional Black Holes
Abhay Ashtekar, Frans Pretorius, Fethi M. RamazanoÄlu
Superkicks in ultrarelativistic encounters of spinning black holes
Ulrich Sperhake, Emanuele Berti, Vitor Cardoso +2
Evolution of Binary Black Hole Spacetimes
Frans Pretorius
Evolution of Highly Eccentric Binary Neutron Stars Including Tidal Effects
Huan Yang, William E. East, Vasileios Paschalidis +2
Constraining the evolutionary history of Newton's constant with gravitational wave observations
Nicolas Yunes, Frans Pretorius, David Spergel
Black Hole Mergers and Unstable Circular Orbits
Frans Pretorius, Deepak Khurana
Dynamical Capture Binary Neutron Star Mergers
William E. East, Frans Pretorius
Spontaneous Scalarization with Massive Fields
Fethi M. RamazanoÄlu, Frans Pretorius
Adaptive Mesh Refinement for Characteristic Codes
Frans Pretorius, Luis Lehner
One-arm Spiral Instability in Hypermassive Neutron Stars Formed by Dynamical-Capture Binary Neutron Star Mergers
Vasileios Paschalidis, William E. East, Frans Pretorius +1
Simulation of Asymptotically AdS5 Spacetimes with a Generalized Harmonic Evolution Scheme
Hans Bantilan, Frans Pretorius, Steven S. Gubser
Quasi-Spherical Light Cones of the Kerr Geometry
Frans Pretorius, Werner Israel
Gravity-dominated unequal-mass black hole collisions
Ulrich Sperhake, Emanuele Berti, Vitor Cardoso +1
Surprises in the Evaporation of 2-Dimensional Black Holes
Abhay Ashtekar, Frans Pretorius, Fethi M. RamazanoÄlu
Detectable seismic consequences of the interaction of a primordial black hole with Earth
Yang Luo, Shravan Hanasoge, Jeroen Tromp +1
Eccentric binary neutron star mergers
Roman Gold, Sebastiano Bernuzzi, Marcus Thierfelder +2
Conformal Thin-Sandwich Solver for Generic Initial Data
William E. East, Fethi M. RamazanoÄlu, Frans Pretorius
Black Strings, Low Viscosity Fluids, and Violation of Cosmic Censorship
Luis Lehner, Frans Pretorius
Ultra Relativistic Particle Collisions
Matthew W. Choptuik, Frans Pretorius
Comparisons of binary black hole merger waveforms
John G. Baker, Manuela Campanelli, Frans Pretorius +1
Black Hole Superradiance in Dynamical Spacetime
William E. East, Fethi M. RamazanoÄlu, Frans Pretorius
A Dynamical Systems Approach to Schwarzschild Null Geodesics
Edward Belbruno, Frans Pretorius
Simulation of Binary Black Hole Spacetimes with a Harmonic Evolution Scheme
Frans Pretorius
Final State of Gregory-Laflamme Instability
Luis Lehner, Frans Pretorius
NR/HEP: roadmap for the future
Vitor Cardoso, Leonardo Gualtieri, Carlos Herdeiro +29
Black Hole Formation from the Collision of Plane-Fronted Gravitational Waves
Frans Pretorius, William E. East
Testing gravitational-wave searches with numerical relativity waveforms: Results from the first Numerical INJection Analysis (NINJA) project
Benjamin Aylott, John G. Baker, William D. Boggs +74
Inspiral, merger and ring-down of equal-mass black-hole binaries
Alessandra Buonanno, Gregory B. Cook, Frans Pretorius
Numerical Relativity and Astrophysics
Luis Lehner, Frans Pretorius
Quantum interest for scalar fields in Minkowski spacetime
Frans Pretorius
Simulating extreme-mass-ratio systems in full general relativity
William E. East, Frans Pretorius
Numerical Relativity Using a Generalized Harmonic Decomposition
Frans Pretorius
Equation of state effects and one-arm spiral instability in hypermassive neutron stars formed in eccentric neutron star mergers
William E. East, Vasileios Paschalidis, Frans Pretorius
Gravitational wave spectroscopy of binary neutron star merger remnants with mode stacking
Huan Yang, Vasileios Paschalidis, Kent Yagi +3
Superradiant Instability and Backreaction of Massive Vector Fields around Kerr Black Holes
William E. East, Frans Pretorius
Ultrarelativistic black hole formation
William E. East, Frans Pretorius
Theoretical Physics Implications of the Binary Black-Hole Mergers GW150914 and GW151226
Nicolas Yunes, Kent Yagi, Frans Pretorius
Stability and the Gauge Problem in Non-Perturbative Cosmology
Anna Ijjas, Frans Pretorius, Paul J. Steinhardt
Semianalytical estimates of scattering thresholds and gravitational radiation in ultrarelativistic black hole encounters
Emanuele Berti, Vitor Cardoso, Tanja Hinderer +4
Adaptive Mesh Refinement for Coupled Elliptic-Hyperbolic Systems
Frans Pretorius, Matthew W. Choptuik
Linear Stability Analysis and the Speed of Gravitational Waves in Dynamical Chern-Simons Modified Gravity
David Garfinkle, Frans Pretorius, Nicolas Yunes
Spikes in the Mixmaster regime of G_2 cosmologies
Woei Chet Lim, Lars Andersson, David Garfinkle +1
A Parametrized post-Einsteinian Framework for Gravitational Wave Bursts
Nicholas Loutrel, Nicolas Yunes, Frans Pretorius
Fundamental Theoretical Bias in Gravitational Wave Astrophysics and the Parameterized Post-Einsteinian Framework
Nicolas Yunes, Frans Pretorius
Two-dimensional quantum black holes: Numerical methods
Fethi M RamazanoÄlu, Frans Pretorius
Evolution to a smooth universe in an ekpyrotic contracting phase with w > 1
David Garfinkle, Woei Chet Lim, Frans Pretorius +1
Comment on "Kerr Black Holes as Particle Accelerators to Arbitrarily High Energy"
Emanuele Berti, Vitor Cardoso, Leonardo Gualtieri +2
Relativistic Simulations of Eccentric Binary Neutron Star Mergers: One-arm Spiral Instability and Effects of Neutron Star Spin
William E. East, Vasileios Paschalidis, Frans Pretorius +1
Eccentric mergers of black holes with spinning neutron stars
William E. East, Vasileios Paschalidis, Frans Pretorius
A data-analysis driven comparison of analytic and numerical coalescing binary waveforms: nonspinning case
Yi Pan, Alessandra Buonanno, John G. Baker +5
Gravitational collapse in 2+1 dimensional AdS spacetime
Frans Pretorius, Matthew W. Choptuik
Probing Strong Field Gravity Through Numerical Simulations
Matthew W. Choptuik, Luis Lehner, Frans Pretorius
Detecting gravitational waves from highly eccentric compact binaries
Kai Sheng Tai, Sean T. McWilliams, Frans Pretorius
Nonperturbative analysis of the evolution of cosmological perturbations through a nonsingular bounce
BingKan Xue, David Garfinkle, Frans Pretorius +1