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The gravity group : http:// www.phy.olemiss.edu /GR/. Missing pics : Michael Horbatsch , Alex Dietz, Cody Arceneaux …. Black holes and compact binaries: astrophysics and high-energy physics http://www.phy.olemiss.edu/~berti/. Emanuele Berti , University of Mississippi/Caltech
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The gravitygroup: http://www.phy.olemiss.edu/GR/ Missing pics:Michael Horbatsch,Alex Dietz, Cody Arceneaux…
Black holes and compact binaries: astrophysics and high-energy physicshttp://www.phy.olemiss.edu/~berti/ EmanueleBerti, University of Mississippi/Caltech University of Mississippi, 9/7/2010
Work at Ole Miss (since Jan 2009): 30+ papers • 1) Black holeperturbationtheory and quasinormalmodes • Mainapplications: • a) Astrophysics (tests of the no-hairtheorem) • b) Gauge-gravityduality • 110-page review (arXiv:0905.2975, with Cardoso & Starinets) • Critical phenomena: Lyapunovexponents • Quantum mechanicalscattering: Breit-Wignerresonances • Green’sfunctionstechniques: quasinormal mode excitation • 2)Numericalrelativity and relativisticblackholecollisions • Head-on collisions (E<14%, no nakedsingularities; PRL) • Grazing collisions (E<35%, spin >0.95; PRL) • AstrophysicalrotatingBHs are notparticleaccelerators (PRL) • Semianalyticstudy: zero-frequencylimit, pointparticles • Superkicks for ultrarelativisticcollisions
Work at Ole Miss (since Jan 2009): 30+ papers • 3) Black holeastrophysics • Spin-orbitresonances: implications for recoildistribution • Compact binaryrates for advanced detectors – workshop! • eLISA Science Taskforce • Massive blackholecosmichistory • Eccentricbinaries • 4) Astrophysicaltests of strong-fieldgravity • Stars in extendedgravitytheories, spontaneousscalarization • Gravastars and superspinars • Graviton mass bounds with compact binaries • Massive scalar fields: a) Tests in the Solar System/with gravitationalwavesb) Superradiance and floatingorbits (PRL) • c) Bosenovas and limits on the photon mass
Support: • As PI or Co-PI: • NSF Grant PHY-0900735 ($150k, 2009-2012) NSF CAREER Grant PHY-1055103 ($460k, 2011-2016)NSF Grant PHY-090003 (2009-2012, 6.5million CPU hours) • with U.Sperhake (Cambridge), V.Cardoso (Lisbon), F.Pretorius (Princeton) • European Union FP7 IRSES (318k euros, 2012-2016) • ”International Research Staff Exchange Scheme”; E.Berti (UM), V.Cardoso(Lisbon), L.Crispino (Belém), L.Gualtieri (Rome), C.Herdeiro (Aveiro), U.Sperhake (Cambridge) • Pending: • GAANN proposal to fund 4/5 graduate studentseveryyear • As collaborator: • SFB Project on Advanced LIGO/Virgo Rates (10k euros, 2012) • CERN/FP/123593/2011 FCT PTDC/FIS/098025/2008 • FCT PTDC/CTE-AST/098032/2008
StartingSeptember 2012: Michael Horbatsch (postdoc), Davide Gerosa (Master student in Milan)