Enrico Barausse
Department of Physics
Center for Fundamental Physics and Joint Space-Science Institute,
University of Maryland,
College Park, MD 20742-4111, USA
Office phone: +1 301 405 6026
E-mail: barausse_at_umd.edu
Research interests
- Gravitational Waves:
- Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals as a source of gravitational waves for LISA
- The effect of an accretion disc on Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals
- The self-force problem in General Relativity
- Modelling the final spin from the coalescence of two black holes
- The cosmological evolution of the spins of supermassive black holes
- Cosmological and astrophysical gravitational waves in modified theories of gravity
- The motion of spinning particles in curved spacetimes
- The Effective-One-Body formalism
- The cosmic censorship conjecture
- Cosmology:
- Linear and non-linear cosmological perturbations
- The effect of matter inhomogeneities on the redshift-distance relation and on the cosmological expansion
- Semi-analitical galaxy formation models
- The nature of dark energy/dark matter
- Modified theories of gravity
- f(R) gravity in the Palatini and in the metric approach
- Gauss-Bonnet gravity
- Einstein-Aether theory
- Experimental tests of modified gravity: Newtonian limit, Post-Newtonian expansion and Solar System tests, stellar models in alternative theories of gravity, cosmological constraints
Publications:
- E. Barausse,
The backreaction problem in cosmology,
MSc thesis (advisors S. Matarrese and A. Riotto), University of Padova (Italy), 2004.
Download it here in Italian. - E. Barausse,
Exploring gravity theories with gravitational waves and compact objects,
PhD thesis (advisors L. Rezzolla and J. C. Miller), SISSA, Trieste (Italy), 2008.
Download it here in English. - E. Barausse, S. Matarrese and A. Riotto,
The Effect of Inhomogeneities on the Luminosity Distance-Redshift Relation: is Dark Energy Necessary in a Perturbed Universe?,
Phys. Rev. D 71 (2005) 063537 [arXiv:astro-ph/0501152]. - T. P. Sotiriou and E. Barausse,
Post-Newtonian expansion for Gauss-Bonnet Gravity,
Phys. Rev. D 75 (2007) 084007 [arXiv:gr-qc/0612065]. - E. Barausse, L. Rezzolla, D. Petroff and M. Ansorg,
Gravitational waves from extreme mass ratio inspirals in non-pure Kerr spacetimes,
Phys. Rev. D 75 (2007) 064026 [arXiv:gr-qc/0612123]. - E. Barausse,
EMRIs in non-pure Kerr spacetimes,
AIP Conf. Proc. 873 (2006) 264 [http://digitallibrary.sissa.it/handle/1963/2123]. - E. Barausse, T. P. Sotiriou and J. C. Miller,
A no-go theorem for polytropic spheres in Palatini f(R) gravity,
Class. Quant. Grav. 25 (2008) 062001 [arXiv:gr-qc/0703132] - E. Barausse, S. A. Hughes and L. Rezzolla,
Circular and non-circular nearly horizon-skimming orbits in Kerr spacetimes,
Phys. Rev. D 76 (2007) 044007 [arXiv:0704.0138]. - E. Barausse,
Relativistic dynamical friction in a collisional fluid,
Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 382 (2007) 826 [arXiv:0709.0211]. - E. Barausse and L. Rezzolla,
The influence of the hydrodynamic drag from an accretion torus on extreme mass ratio inspirals,
Phys. Rev. D 77 (2008) 104027 [arXiv:0711.4558] - E. Barausse, T. P. Sotiriou and J. C. Miller,
Curvature singularities, tidal forces and the viability of Palatini f(R) gravity,
Class. Quant. Grav. 25 (2008) 105008 [arXiv:0712.1141] - L. Rezzolla, E. Barausse, E. N. Dorband, D. Pollney, C. Reisswig, J. Seiler and S. Husa,
On the final spin from the coalescence of two black holes,
Phys. Rev. D. 78 (2008) 044002 [arXiv:0712.3541] - E. Barausse, T. P. Sotiriou and J. C. Miller,
Polytropic spheres in Palatini f(R) gravity,
EAS Publ. Ser. 30 (2008) 189 [arXiv:0801.4852] - E. Barausse and T. P. Sotiriou,
Perturbed Kerr Black Holes can probe deviations from General Relativity,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101 (2008) 099001 [arXiv:0803.3433] - E. Barausse and L. Rezzolla,
Predicting the direction of the final spin from the coalescence of two black holes,
Astrophys. J. Lett. 704 (2009) L40-L44 [arXiv:0904.2577]. - M. Cook, C. Evoli, E. Barausse, G. L. Granato and A. Lapi,
Two phase galaxy formation: The Gas Content of Normal Galaxies,
Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 402 (2010) 941 [arXiv:0906.4115]. - M. Cook, E. Barausse, C. Evoli, G. L. Granato and A. Lapi,
Two phase galaxy formation: The evolutionary properties of galaxies,
Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 402 (2010) 2113 [arXiv:0910.3910] - E. Barausse, E. Racine and A. Buonanno,
Hamiltonian of a spinning test-particle in curved spacetime,
Phys. Rev. D 80 (2009) 104025 [arXiv:0907.4745]. - E. Barausse and A. Buonanno,
An improved effective-one-body Hamiltonian for spinning black-hole binaries,
Phys. Rev. D 81 (2010) 084024 [arXiv:0912.3517] - E. Barausse,
The importance of precession in modelling the direction of the final spin from a black-hole merger,
J. Phys. Conf. Ser. 228 (2010) 012050 [arXiv:0911.1274] - P. Pani, E. Barausse, E. Berti and V. Cardoso,
Gravitational instabilities of superspinars,
Phys. Rev. D 82 (2010) 044009 [arXiv:1006.1863]. - E. Barausse, V. Cardoso and G. Khanna,
Test bodies and naked singularities: is the self-force the cosmic censor?,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 105 (2010) 261102 [arXiv:1008.5159]. - N. Yunes, A. Buonanno, S. A. Hughes, Y. Pan, E.
Barausse, M. C. Miller, W. Throwe,
Extreme Mass-Ratio Inspirals in the Effective-One-Body Approach: Quasi-Circular, Equatorial Orbits around a Spinning Black Hole,
Phys. Rev. D 83 (2011) 044044 [arXiv:1009.6013] - C. Bambi and E. Barausse,
Constraining the quadrupole moment of stellar-mass black-hole candidates with the continuum fitting method
Astrophys. J. 731 (2011) 121 [arXiv:1012.2007] - E. Barausse, T. Jacobson and T. P. Sotiriou,
Black holes in Einstein-aether and Horava-Lifshitz gravity
Phys. Rev. D 83 (2011) 124043 [arXiv:arXiv:1104.2889] - E. Barausse, V. Cardoso and G. Khanna,
Testing the Cosmic Censorship Conjecture with point particles: the effect of radiation reaction and the self-force
Submitted to Phys. Rev. D [arXiv:1106.1692]. - E. Barausse and A. Buonanno,
Extending the effective-one-body Hamiltonian of black-hole binaries to include next-to-next-to-leading spin-orbit couplings
Submitted to Phys. Rev. D [arXiv:1107.2904]. - C. Bambi and E. Barausse,
The final stages of accretion onto non-Kerr compact objects
Submitted to Phys. Rev. D [arXiv:1108.4740].
Curriculum vitae
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