Jonathan Thornburg's Publications (Relativity and Astrophysics)
Numerical Simulation of Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals
Jonathan Thornburg, Barry Wardell, and Maarten van de Meent
Excitation of Kerr quasinormal modes in extreme--mass-ratio inspirals
Physical Review Research 2,
013365 (2020)
[Open-access]
Preprint: arXiv:1906.06791
Jonathan Thornburg and Barry Wardell
Scalar self-force for highly eccentric equatorial orbits
in Kerr spacetime
Physical Review D 95(8),
084043 (2017)
Preprint: arXiv:1610.09319
Barry Wardell, Ian Vega, Jonathan Thornburg, and Peter Diener
Generic effective source for scalar self-force calculations
Physical Review D 85(10),
104044 (2012)
Preprint: arXiv:1112.6355
Jonathan Thornburg
The Capra Research Program for Modelling Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals
GW Notes 5
(2011)
[Open-access]
Preprint: arXiv:1102.2857
Jonathan Thornburg
Highly accurate and efficient self-force computation using time-domain
methods: Error estimates, validation, and optimization
Preprint: arXiv:1006.3788
Jonathan Thornburg
Adaptive Mesh Refinement for Characteristic Grids
General Relativity and Gravitation 43(5),
1211-1251 (2011)
Preprint: arXiv:0909.0036 (includes C++ source code)
Astrophysics of Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals
Nicolás Yunes, M. Coleman Miller, and Jonathan Thornburg
The Effect of Massive Perturbers on Extreme Mass-Ratio Inspiral
Waveforms
Physical Review D 83(4),
044030 (2011)
Preprint: arXiv:1010.1721
Template Banks for Detecting Gravitational Waves from Binary Black Holes
Parameswaran Ajith, Stas Babak, Yanbei Chen, Martin Hewitson,
Badri Krishnan, Alicia M. Sintes, John T. Whelan, Bernd Brügmann,
Peter Diener, Nils Dorband, Jose Gonzalez, Mark Hannam, Sascha Husa,
Denis Pollney, Luciano Rezzolla, Lucia Santamaría, Ulrich Sperhake,
and Jonathan Thornburg
A template bank for gravitational waveforms from coalescing binary
black holes: non-spinning binaries
Physical Review D 77(10),
104017 (2008)
Erratum: Physical Review D 79(12),
129901(E) (2009)
Preprint: arXiv:0710.2335
Parameswaran Ajith, Stas Babak, Yanbei Chen, Martin Hewitson,
Badri Krishnan, John T. Whelan, Bernd Brügmann, Peter Diener,
Jose Gonzalez, Mark Hannam, Sascha Husa, Michael Koppitz,
Denis Pollney, Luciano Rezzolla, Lucia Santamaría, Alicia M. Sintes,
Ulrich Sperhake, and Jonathan Thornburg
A phenomenological template family for black-hole coalescence waveforms
Classical and Quantum Gravity 24(19),
S689-S699 (2007)
Preprint: arXiv:0704.3764
Numerical Simulation of Dynamic Black Hole Systems ("Numerical Relativity")
Jonathan Thornburg, Peter Diener, Denis Pollney, Luciano Rezzolla,
Erik Schnetter, Ed Seidel, and Ryoji Takahashi
Are moving punctures equivalent to moving black holes?
Classical and Quantum Gravity 24(15) (2007),
3911-3918
Preprint: arXiv:gr-qc/0701038
Jonathan Thornburg
Event and Apparent Horizon Finders for 3+1 Numerical Relativity
Living Reviews in Relativity 10,
3 (2007)
[Open-access]
Preprint: arXiv:gr-qc/0512169
Michael Koppitz, Denis Pollney, Christian Reisswig, Luciano Rezzolla,
Jonathan Thornburg, Peter Diener, and Erik Schnetter
Recoil Velocities from Equal-Mass Binary-Black-Hole Mergers
Physical Review Letters 99(4),
041102 (2007)
Preprint: arXiv:gr-qc/0701163
Béla Szilágyi, Denis Pollney, Luciano Rezzolla,
Jonathan Thornburg, and Jeffrey Winicour
An explicit harmonic code for black-hole evolution using excision
Classical and Quantum Gravity 24(12),
S275-S293 (2007)
Preprint: arXiv:gr-qc/0612150
Christian Reisswig, Nigel T. Bishop, Chi Wai Lai, Jonathan Thornburg,
and Béla Szilágyi
Numerical Relativity with Characteristic Evolution,
Using Six Angular Patches
Classical and Quantum Gravity 24(12),
S327-S339 (2007)
Preprint: arXiv:gr-qc/0610019
Peter Diener, Frank Herrmann, Denis Pollney, Erik Schnetter,
Edward Seidel, Ryoji Takahashi, Jonathan Thornburg, and Jason Ventrella
Accurate Evolution of Orbiting Binary Black Holes
Physical Review Letters 96(12),
121101 (2006)
Preprint: arXiv:gr-qc/0512108
Miguel Alcubierre, Bernd Brügmann, Peter Diener,
F. Siddhartha Guzmán, Ian Hawke, Scott Hawley, Frank Herrmann,
Michael Koppitz, Denis Pollney, Edward Seidel, and Jonathan Thornburg
Dynamical evolution of quasi-circular binary black hole data
Physical Review D 72(4),
044004 (2005)
Preprint: arXiv:gr-qc/0411149
Jonathan Thornburg
Black Hole Excision with Multiple Grid Patches
Classical and Quantum Gravity 21(15),
3665-3691 (2004)
Preprint: arXiv:gr-qc/0404059
Jonathan Thornburg
A Fast Apparent-Horizon Finder for 3-Dimensional Cartesian Grids
in Numerical Relativity
Classical and Quantum Gravity 21(2) (2004),
743-766
Preprint: arXiv:gr-qc/0306056
Jonathan Thornburg
A Multiple-Grid-Patch Evolution Scheme for 3-D Black Hole Excision
Proceedings of the 9th Marcel Grossman Meeting 1743-1744
Preprint: arXiv:gr-qc/0012012
Miguel Alcubierre, Steve Brandt, Bernd Brügmann, Daniel Holz, Ed Seidel,
Ryoji Takahashi, and Jonathan Thornburg
Symmetry without Symmetry: Numerical Simulation of Axisymmetric Systems
using Cartesian Grids
International Journal of Modern Physics D 10(3),
273-289 (2001)
Preprint: arXiv:gr-qc/9908012
Jonathan Thornburg
A 3+1 Computational Scheme for Dynamic Spherically Symmetric
Black Hole Spacetimes -- II: Time Evolution
Preprint: arXiv:gr-qc/9906022
Jonathan Thornburg
A 3+1 Computational Scheme for Dynamic Spherically Symmetric
Black Hole Spacetimes -- I: Initial Data
Physical Review D 59,
104007 (1999)
Preprint: arXiv:gr-qc/9801087
Jonathan Thornburg
Finding Apparent Horizons in Numerical Relativity
Physical Review D 54(8),
4899--4918 (1996)
Preprint: arXiv:gr-qc/9508014
Jonathan Thornburg
Coordinates and Boundary Conditions
for the General Relativistic Initial Data Problem
Classical and Quantum Gravity 4(5), 1119-1131 (1987)
Self-Similarity and Critical Phenomena in Gravitational Collapse
Christiane Lechner, Jonathan Thornburg, Sascha Husa, and Peter C. Aichelburg
A New Transition between Discrete and Continuous Self-Similarity in
Critical Gravitational Collapse
Physical Review D 65(8) (2002), 081501(R)
Preprint: arXiv:gr-qc/0112008
Sascha Husa, Christiane Lechner, Michael Pürrer, Jonathan Thornburg,
and Peter C. Aichelburg
Type II Critical Collapse of a Self-Gravitating Nonlinear $\sigma$-Model
Physical Review D 62(10),
104007 (2000)
Preprint: arXiv:gr-qc/0002067