Publications

Here we list papers produced by members of our group, gathered (roughly) by category, and in chronological order in each each category. Please note that this webpage tends to be updated in bursts (last updated in early 2022), so it is likely that it is not quite up to date at any given moment.

Extreme mass-ratio inspiral, black hole orbits, perturbation theory

S. Drasco and S. A. Hughes, Rotating black hole orbit functionals in the frequency domain, Physical Review D 69, 044015 (2004); astro-ph/0308479.

S. A. Hughes, S. Drasco, É. E. Flanagan, and J. Franklin, Gravitational radiation reaction and inspiral waveforms in the adiabatic limit, Physical Review Letters 94, 221101 (2005); gr-qc/0504015.

S. Drasco, É. E. Flanagan, S. A. Hughes, Computing inspirals in Kerr in the adiabatic regime. I. The scalar case, Classical and Quantum Gravity 22, S801 (2005); gr-qc/0505075.

S. Drasco and S. A. Hughes, Gravitational wave snapshots of generic extreme mass ratio inspirals, Physical Review D 73, 024027 (2006); gr-qc/0509101.

S. Babak, H. Fang, J. R. Gair, K. Glampedakis, and S. A. Hughes, “Kludge” gravitational waveforms for a test body orbiting a Kerr black hole, Physical Review D 75, 024005 (2007); gr-qc/0607007.

P. A. Sundararajan, G. Khanna, and S. A. Hughes, Towards adiabatic waveforms for inspiral into Kerr black holes: I. A new model of the source for the time domain perturbation equation, Physical Review D 76, 104005 (2007); gr-qc/0703028.

E. Barausse, S. A. Hughes, and L. Rezzolla, Circular and non-circular nearly horizon-skimming orbits in Kerr spacetimes, Physical Review D 76, 044007 (2007); arXiv:0704.0138.

P. A. Sundararajan, G. Khanna, S. A. Hughes, and S. Drasco, Towards adiabatic waveforms for inspiral into Kerr black holes: II. Dynamical sources and generic orbits, Physical Review D 78, 024022 (2008); arXiv:0803.0317.

P. Sundararajan, Transition from adiabatic inspiral to geodesic plunge for a compact object around a massive Kerr black hole: Generic orbits, Physical Review D 77, 124050 (2008); arXiv:0803.4482.

N. Yunes, A. Buonnano, S. A. Hughes, M. C. Miller, and Y. Pan, Modeling extreme mass-ratio inspirals within the effective-one-body approach, Physical Review Letters 104, 091102 (2010); arXiv:0909.4263.

S. J. Vigeland and S. A. Hughes, Spacetime and orbits of bumpy black holes, Physical Review D 81, 024030 (2010); arXiv:0911.1756.

P. A. Sundararajan, G. Khanna, and S. A. Hughes, Binary black hole merger waves and recoil in the large mass ratio limit, Physical Review D 81, 104009 (2010); arXiv:1003.0485.

L. Burko and S. A. Hughes, Falloff of radiated energy in black hole spacetimes, Physical Review D 82, 104029 (2010); arXiv:1007.4596.

S. J. Vigeland, Multipole moments of bumpy black holes, Physical Review D 82, 104041 (2010); arXiv:1008.1278.

N. Yunes, A. Buonanno, S. A. Hughes, Y. Pan, E. Barausse, M. Coleman Miller, and W. Throwe, Extreme mass-ratio inspirals in the effective one-body approach: Quasicircular, equatorial orbits around a spinning black hole, Physical Review D 83, 044044 (2011); arXiv:1009.6013.

E. Barausse, A. Buonanno, S. A. Hughes, G. Khanna, S. O’Sullivan, and Yi Pan, Modeling multipolar gravitational-wave emission from small mass-ratio mergers, Physical Review D 85, 024046 (2012); arXiv:1110.3081.

É. E. Flanagan, S. A. Hughes, and U. Ruangsri, Resonantly enhanced and diminished strong-field gravitational-wave fluxes, Physical Review D 89, 084028 (2014); arXiv:1208.3906.

A. Taracchini, A. Buonanno, S. A. Hughes, and G. Khanna, Modeling the horizon-absorbed gravitational flux for equatorial-circular orbits in Kerr spacetime, Physical Review D 88, 044001 (2013); arXiv:1305.2184.

E. Barausse, A. Buonanno, S. A. Hughes, G. Khanna, S. O’Sullivan, and Y. Pan, Modeling multipolar gravitational-wave emission from small mass-ratio mergers, Physical Review D 85, 024046 (2012); arXiv:1110.3081.

U. Ruangsri and S. A. Hughes, A census of transient orbital resonances encountered during binary inspiral, Physical Review D 89, 084036 (2014); arXiv:1307.6483.

A. Taracchini, A. Buonanno, G. Khanna, and S. A. Hughes, Small mass plunging into a Kerr black hole: Anatomy of the inspiral-merger-ringdown waveforms, Physical Review D 90, 084025 (2014); arXiv:1404.1819.

S. O’Sullivan and S. A. Hughes, Strong-field tidal distortions of rotating black holes: Formalism and results for circular, equatorial orbits, Physical Review D 90, 124039 (2014); arXiv:1407.6983.

S. O’Sullivan and S. A. Hughes, Strong-field tidal distortions of rotating black holes: II. Horizon dynamics from eccentric and inclined orbits, Physical Review D 94, 044057 (2016); arXiv:1505.03809.

U. Ruangsri, S. J. Vigeland, and S. A. Hughes, Gyroscopes orbiting black holes: A frequency-domain approach to precession and spin-curvature coupling for spinning bodies on generic Kerr orbits, Physical Review D 94, 044008 (2016); arXiv:1512.00376.

S. E. Gralla, S. A. Hughes and N. Warburton, Inspiral into Gargantua, Classical and Quantum Gravity 33, 155002 (2016); arXiv:1603.01221.

R. F. Penna, S. A. Hughes and S. O’Sullivan, Strong-field tidal distortions of rotating black holes: III. Embeddings in hyperbolic 3-space, Physical Review D 96, 064030 (2017); arXiv:1704.05471.

L. London, Modeling ringdown II: non-precessing binary black holes, Physical Review D 102, 084052 (2020); arXiv:1801.08208.

S. A. Hughes, Bound orbits of a slowly evolving black hole, Physical Review D 100, 064001 (2019); arXiv:1806.09022.

L. London and E. Fauchon-Jones, On modeling for Kerr black holes: Basis learning, QNM frequencies, and spherical-spheroidal mixing coefficients, Classical and Quantum Gravity 36, 235015 (2019); arXiv:1810.03550.

S. A. Hughes, A. Apte, G. Khanna, and H. Lim, Learning about black hole binaries from their ringdown spectra, Physical Review Letters 123, 161101 (2019); arXiv:1901.05900.

A. Apte and S. A. Hughes, Exciting black hole modes via misaligned coalescences: I. Inspiral, transition, and plunge trajectories using a generalized Ori-Thorne procedure, Physical Review D 100, 084031 (2019); arXiv:1901.05901.

H. Lim, G. Khanna, A. Apte, and S. A. Hughes, Exciting black hole modes via misaligned coalescences: II. The mode content of late-time coalescence waveforms, Physical Review D 100, 084032 (2019); arXiv:1901.05902.

B. Bonga, H. Yang, and S. A. Hughes, Tidal resonance in extreme mass-ratio inspiral, Physical Review Letters 123, 101103 (2019); arXiv:1905.00030.

S. Datta, R. Brito, S. Bose, P. Pani, and S. A. Hughes, Tidal heating as a discriminator for horizons in extreme mass ratio inspirals, Physical Review D 101, 044004 (2020); arXiv:1910.07841.

A. J. K. Chua, M. L. Katz, N. Warburton, and S. A. Hughes, Rapid generation of fully relativistic extreme-mass-ratio inspiral waveform templates for LISA data analysis, Physical Review Letters 126, 051102 (2021); arXiv:2008.06071.

S. A. Hughes, N. Warburton, G. Khanna, A. J. K. Chua, and M. L. Katz, Adiabatic waveforms for extreme mass-ratio inspirals via multivoice decomposition in time and frequency, Physical Review D 103, 104014 (2021); arXiv:2102.02713.

M. L. Katz, A. J. K. Chua, L. Speri, N. Warburton, and S. A. Hughes, Fast extreme-mass-ratio-inspiral waveforms: New tools for millihertz gravitational-wave data analysis, Physical Review D 104, 064047 (2021); arXiv:2104.04582.

E. Barausse, E. Berti, V. Cardoso, S. A. Hughes, and G. Khanna, Divergences in gravitational-wave emission and absorption from extreme mass ratio binaries, Physical Review D 104, 064031 (2021); arXiv:2106.09721.

L. V. Drummond and S. A. Hughes, Precisely computing bound orbits of spinning bodies around black holes I: General framework and results for nearly equatorial orbits, Physical Review D, submitted; arXiv:2201.13334.

L. V. Drummond and S. A. Hughes, Precisely computing bound orbits of spinning bodies around black holes II: Generic orbits, Physical Review D, submitted; arXiv:2201.13335.

Binary black hole astrophysics

M. Favata, S. A. Hughes, and D. E. Holz, How black holes get their kicks: Gravitational radiation recoil revisited, Astrophysical Journal Letters 607, L5 (2004); astro-ph/0402056.

D. Merritt, M. Milosavljevic, M. Favata, S. A. Hughes, and D. E. Holz, Consequences of gravitational radiation recoil, Astrophysical Journal Letters 607, L9 (2004); astro-ph/0402057.

S. A. Hughes and K. Menou, Golden binary gravitational-wave sources: Robust probes of strong-field gravity, Astrophysical Journal 623, 689 (2005); astro-ph/0410148.

R. N. Lang and S. A. Hughes, Measuring coalescing massive binary black holes with gravitational waves: The impact of spin-induced precession (see also erratum 1 and erratum 2), Physical Review D 74, 122001 (2006); gr-qc/0608062. Erratum 1: Physical Review D 75, 089902(E) (2007). Erratum 2: Physical Review D 77, 109901(E) (2008).

R. N. Lang and S. A. Hughes, Localizing coalescing massive black hole binaries with gravitational waves, Astrophysical Journal 677, 1184 (2008); arXiv:0710.3795.

R. N. Lang, S. A. Hughes, and N. J. Cornish, Measuring parameters of massive black holes with partially aligned spins, Physical Review D 84, 022002 (2011); arXiv:1101.3591.

R. H. Price, G. Khanna, and S. A. Hughes, Systematics of black hole binary inspiral kicks and the slowness approximation, Physical Review D 83, 124002 (2011); arXiv:1104.0387.

R. H. Price, G. Khanna, and S. A. Hughes, Black hole binary inspiral and trajectory dominance, Physical Review D 88, 104004 (2013); arXiv:1306.1159.

Gravitational-wave astrophysics more generally

C. L. Fryer, D. E. Holz, and S. A. Hughes, Gravitational waves from stellar collapse: Correlations to explosion asymmetries, Astrophysical Journal 609, 288 (2004); astro-ph/0403188.

D. E. Holz and S. A. Hughes, Using gravitational-wave standard sirens, Astrophysical Journal 629, 15 (2005); astro-ph/0504616.

N. Dalal, D. E. Holz, S. A. Hughes, and B. Jain, Short GRB and binary black hole standard sirens as a probe of dark energy, Physical Review D 74, 063006 (2006); astro-ph/0601275.

T. Regimbau and S. A. Hughes, Gravitational-wave confusion background from cosmological compact binaries: Implications for future terrestrial detectors, Physical Review D 79, 062002 (2009); arXiv:0901.2958.

S. Nissanke, S. A. Hughes, D. E. Holz, N. Dalal, and J. L. Sievers, Exploring short gamma-ray bursts as gravitation-wave standard sirens, Astrophysical Journal 725, 496 (2010); arXiv:0904.1017.

T. Hinderer, B. D. Lackey, R. N. Lang, and J. S. Read, Tidal deformability of neutron stars with realistic equations of state and their gravitational wave signatures in binary inspiral, Physical Review D 81, 123016 (2010); arXiv:0911.3535.

S. Nissanke, D. E. Holz, N. Dalal, S. A. Hughes, J. L. Sievers, and C. M. Hirata, Determining the Hubble constant from gravitational wave observations of merging compact binaries; arXiv:1307.2638.

Comment: This above Nissanke et al paper was originally submitted to the Astrophysical Journal, and received a somewhat lukewarm referee report. All authors were quite busy with other business, and never got around to addressing the report’s criticisms. Four years later, the first standard siren was discovered and validated more or less everything in this paper. A rather stark lesson in prioritizing which referee reports to work on!

H. Lim and C. L. Rodriguez, Relativistic three-body effects in hierarchical triples, Physical Review D 102, 064033 (2020); arXiv:2001.03654.

L. London, Notes on the spheroidal harmonic multipole moments of gravitational radiation, arXiv:2006.11449.

A. J. K. Chua, M. L. Katz, N. Warburton, and S. A. Hughes, Rapid generation of fully relativistic extreme-mass-ratio-inspiral waveform templates for LISA data analysis, Physical Review Letters, submitted; arXiv:2008.06071.

Studies or tests of non-GR theories of gravity

N. A. Collins and S. A. Hughes, Towards a formalism for mapping the spacetimes of massive compact objects: Bumpy black holes and their orbits, Physical Review D 69, 124022 (2004); gr-qc/0402063.

N. Yunes and S. A. Hughes, Binary pulsar constraints on the parameterized post-Einsteinian framework, Physical Review D 82, 082002 (2010); arXiv:1007.1995.

L. C. Stein and N. Yunes, Effective gravitational-wave stress-energy tensor in alternative theories of gravity, Physical Review D 83, 064038 (2011); arXiv:1012.3144

N. Yunes and L. C. Stein, Non-spinning black holes in alternative theories of gravity, Physical Review D 83, 104002 (2011); arXiv:1101.2921.

S. Vigeland, N. Yunes, and L. C. Stein, Bumpy black holes in alternative theories of gravity, Physical Review D 83, 104027 (2011); arXiv:1102.3706.

K. Yagi, L. C. Stein, N. Yunes, and T. Tanaka, Post-Newtonian, quasi-circular binary inspirals in quadratic modified gravity, Physical Review D 85, 064022 (2012); arXiv:1110.5950.

Review articles

S. A. Hughes, Listening to the universe with gravitational-wave astronomy, Annals of Physics 303, 142 (2003); astro-ph/0210481.

É. E. Flanagan and S. A. Hughes, The basics of gravitational wave theory, New Journal of Physics 7, 204 (2005), special issue “Spacetime 100 Years Later”; gr-qc/0501041.

S. A. Hughes, Trust but verify: The case for astrophysical black holes, Writeup of lectures given at the 2005 SLAC Summer Institute; hep-ph/0511217.

S. A. Hughes, Gravitational waves from merging compact binaries, Annual Reviews of Astronomy and Astrophysics 47, 107 (2009); arXiv:0903.4877.

D. E. Holz, S. A. Hughes, and B. F. Schutz, Measuring cosmic distances with standard sirens, Physics Today 71, 12, 34 (2018).

Conference proceedings and non-refereed publications

S. A. Hughes, Gravitational-wave physics, in Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics, edited by F. Avignone and W. Haxton: Nuclear Physics B 138, 429 (2005).

S. A. Hughes, M. Favata, and D. E. Holz, How black holes get their kicks: Radiation recoil in binary black hole mergers, in Accretion in a Cosmological Context, edited by A. Merloni, S. Nayakshin, and R. Sunyaev (Springer-Verlag series of “ESO Astrophysics Symposia”, Berlin, 2005); astro-ph/0408492.

S. A. Hughes, (Sort of) Testing relativity with extreme mass ratio inspirals, in Laser Interferometer Space Antenna — Proceedings of the Sixth International LISA Symposium, edited by S. M. Merkowitz and J. C. Livas (AIP Conference Proceedings 873, Melville, New York, 2006); gr-qc/0608140.

S. A. Hughes, A brief survey of LISA sources and science, in Laser Interferometer Space Antenna — Proceedings of the Sixth International LISA Symposium, edited by S. M. Merkowitz and J. C. Livas (AIP Conference Proceedings 873, Melville, New York, 2006); gr-qc/0609028.

D. G. Blair, P. Barriga, A. F. Brooks, P. Charlton, D. Coward, J.-C. Dumas, Y. Fan, D. Galloway, S. Gras, D. J. Hosken, E. Howell, S. Hughes, L. Ju, D. E. McClelland, A. Melatos, H. Miao, J. Munch, S. M. Scott, B. J. J. Slagmolen, P. J. Veitch, L. Wen, J. K. Webb, A. Wolley, Z. Yan, C. Zhao, The science benefits and preliminary design of the Southern Hemisphere gravitational wave detector AIGO, Journal of Physics: Conference Series 122, 012001 (2008).

R. N. Lang and S. A. Hughes, Advanced localization of massive black hole coalescences with LISA, in Proceedings of the Seventh International LISA Symposium, Classical and Quantum Gravity 26, 094035 (2009); arXiv:0810.5125.

K. G. Arun, S. Babak, E. Berti, N. Cornish, C. Cutler, J. Gair, S. A. Hughes, B. R. Iyer, R. N. Lang, I. Mandel, E. K. Porter, B. S. Sathyaprakash, S. Sinha, A. M. Sintes, M. Trias, C. Van Den Broeck, and M. Volonteri, Massive black hole binary inspirals: Results from the LISA Parameter Estimation Taskforce, in Proceedings of the Seventh International LISA Symposium, Classical and Quantum Gravity 26, 094027 (2009); arXiv:0811.1011.

T. Regimbau and S. A. Hughes, Confusion background from compact binaries, Journal of Physics: Conference Series 228, 012009 (2010); arXiv:0911.1043.

S. A. Hughes, Probing strong-field gravity and black holes with gravitational waves, in Proceedings of the 19th Workshop on General Relativity and Gravitation in Japan; arXiv:1002.2591.

S. A. Hughes, Gravitational-wave astronomy and cosmology, Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics: Physics of the Dark Universe 4, 86 (2014); arXiv:1405.0504.

P. Amaro-Seoane, J. R. Gair, A. Pound, S. A. Hughes, and C. F. Sopuerta, Research update on extreme-mass-ratio inspirals, Proceedings of the 10th International LISA Symposium: Journal of Physics: Conference Series 610, 012002 (2015); arXiv:1410.0958.

S. A. Hughes, Adiabatic and post-adiabatic approaches to extreme mass ratio inspiral, Proceedings of the 14th Marcel Grossmann Meeting, edited by Massimo Bianchi, Robert T. Janzen, and Remo Ruffini (World Scientific, Singapore, 2018), p 1953; arXiv:1601.02042.

E. Barausse, E. Berti, T. Hertog, S. A. Hughes, P. Jetzer, P. Pani, T. P. Sotiriou, N. Tamanini, H. Witek, K. Yagi, and N. Yunes (plus 310 cosigning authors), Prospects for Fundamental Physics with LISA, General Relativity and Gravitation 52 8, 81 (2020); arXiv:2001.09793.

White papers and programmatic documents

J. S. Bloom, D. E. Holz, S. A. Hughes, and K. Menou (plus 37 co-signing authors), Coordinated Science in the Gravitational and Electromagnetic Skies, Submitted to Astro 2010, the Decadal Survey in Astronomy and Astrophysics; arXiv:0902.1527.

P. Madau, T. Abel, P. Bender, T. Di Matteo, Z. Haiman, S. Hughes, A. Loeb, E. Phinney, J. Primack, T. Prince, M. Rees, D. Richstone, B. Schutz, K. Thorne, and M. Volonteri, Massive Black Holes Across Cosmic Time, Submitted to Astro 2010, the Decadal Survey in Astronomy and Astrophysics; arXiv:0903.0097.

B. F. Schutz, J. Centrella, C. Cutler, and S. A. Hughes, Will Einstein Have the Last Word on Gravity?, Submitted to Astro 2010, the Decadal Survey in Astronomy and Astrophysics; arXiv:0903.0100.

P. Amaro Seoane plus over 100 additional authors, including S. A. Hughes, The Gravitational Universe, Submitted to the European Space Agency as part of the selection process for their Cosmic Vision program; arXiv:1305.5720.

C. P. L. Berry, S. A. Hughes, C. F. Sopuerta, A. J. K. Chua, A. Heffernan, K. Holley-Bockelmann, D. P. Mihaylov, M. C. Miller, and A. Sesana, The unique potential of extreme mass-ratio inspirals for gravitational-wave astronomy, Submitted to Astro 2020, the Decadal Survey in Astronomy and Astrophysics; arXiv:1903.03686.

E. Berti and 17 additional authors, including S. A. Hughes, Tests of General Relativity and Fundamental Physics with Space-based Gravitational Wave Detectors, Submitted to Astro 2020, the Decadal Survey in Astronomy and Astrophysics; arXiv:1903.02781.

V. Babhav and 28 additional authors, including S. A. Hughes, Probing the Nature of Black Holes: Deep in mHz Gravitational-Wave Sky, Submitted to the European Space Agency’s Voyage 2050 Programme; arXiv:1908.11390.