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S.L. Liebling, C. Palenzuela, L. Lehner,
Towards fidelity and scalability in non-vacuum mergers.
arXiv preprint: gr-qc/2002.07554.
F. Benitez, R. Gamini, L. Lehner, S.L. Liebling, J. Pullin,
Critical collapse of a scalar field in semiclassical loop quantum gravity,
Accepted by Physical Review Letters (2020).
arXiv preprint: gr-qc/2002.04044
M. Kavic, S.L. Liebling, M. Lippert, J.H. Simonetti,
Accessing the axion via compact object binaries,
arXiv preprint: astro-ph/1910.06977
S.L. Liebling,
Maxwell-Dilaton Dynamics,
Physical Review D 100, 104040 (2019).
arXiv preprint: gr-qc/1910.12644
K.E.S. Ford, F. Fraschetti, C. Fryer, S.L. Liebling, R. Perna, P. Shawhan, P. Veres, B. Zhang,
Multi-Messenger Astrophysics Opportunities with Stellar-Mass Binary Black Hole Mergers,
Science white paper submitted to Astro2020
arXiv preprint: astro-ph/1903.11116
L. Sagunski, J. Zhang, M.C. Johnson, L. Lehner, M. Sakellariadou, S.L. Liebling, C. Palenzuela, D. Neilsen,
Neutron Star Mergers as a Probe of Modifications of General Relativity with Finite-Range Scalar Forces,
Physical Review D 97 064016 (2018).
arXiv preprint: gr-qc/1709.06634.
S.L. Liebling, M. Kavic, M. Lippert,
Probing Near-Horizon Fluctuations with Black Hole Binary Mergers.
JHEP 176 (2018).
arXiv preprint: gr-qc/1707.02299.
E.W. Hirschmann, L. Lehner, S.L. Liebling, C. Palenzuela,
Black Hole Dynamics in Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton Theory.
Physical Review D 97, 064032 (2018).
arXiv preprint: gr-qc/1706.09875.
LIGO Scientific and Virgo and Fermi GBM and INTEGRAL and IceCube and IPN and Insight-Hxmt and ANTARES and Swift and Dark Energy Camera GW-EM and DES and DLT40 and GRAWITA and Fermi-LAT and ATCA and ASKAP and OzGrav and DWF and AST3 and CAASTRO and VINROUGE and MASTER and J-GEM and GROWTH and JAGWAR and CaltechNRAO and TTU-NRAO and NuSTAR and Pan-STARRS and MAXI and TZAC and KU and Nordic Optical Telescope and ePESSTO and GROND and Texas Tech University and TOROS and BOOTES and MWA and CALET and IKI-GW Follow-up and H.E.S.S. and LOFAR and LWA and HAWC and Pierre Auger and ALMA and Pi of Sky and DFN and ATLAS and High Time Resolution Universe Survey and RIMAS and RATIR and SKA South Africa/MeerKAT Collaborations and AstroSat Cadmium Zinc Telluride Imager Team and AGILE Team and 1M2H Team and Las Cumbres Observatory Group and SALT Group and Euro VLBI Team and Chandra Team at McGill University,
Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger,
The Astrophysical Journal Letters 848 L12 (2017).
arXiv preprint: astro-ph/1710.05833.
C. Palenzuela, P. Pani, M. Bezares, V. Cardoso, L. Lehner, S.L. Liebling,
Gravitational Wave Signatures of Highly Compact Boson Star Binaries,
Physical Review D 96 104058 (2017).
arXiv preprint: gr-qc/1710.09432.
S.L. Liebling, G. Khanna,
Scalar collapse in AdS with an OpenCL open source code.
Classical and Quantum Gravity 34 205012 (2017).
arXiv preprint: gr-qc/1706.07413.
S.L. Liebling, C. Palenzuela.
Dynamical Boson Stars.
Invited review. Five-year update.
Living Reviews in Relativity 20 No. 1 (2017).
arXiv preprint: gr-qc/1202.5809.
S.L. Liebling, C. Palenzuela,
Electromagnetic Luminosity of the Coalescence of Charged Black Hole Binaries
Physical Review D 94, 064046 (2016).
arXiv preprint: gr-qc/1607.02140.
L. Lehner, S.L. Liebling, C. Palenzuela, P. Motl,
The m=1 instability & gravitational wave signal in binary neutron star mergers,
Physical Review D 94, 043003 (2016).
arXiv preprint: gr-qc/1605.02369.
L. Lehner, S.L. Liebling, C. Palenzuela, O.L. Caballero, E. O'Connor, M. Anderson, D. Neilsen,
Unequal mass binary neutron star mergers and multimessenger signals,
Classical and Quantum Gravity 33, 184002 (2016).
Part of focus issue: Rattle and shine: the signals from compact binary mergers.
arXiv preprint: gr-qc/1603.00501.
C. Palenzuela, S.L. Liebling,
Constraining scalar-tensor theories of gravity from the most massive neutron stars,
Physical Review D 93, 044009 (2016).
arXiv preprint: gr-qc/1510.03471.
S.R. Green, A. Maillard, L. Lehner, S.L. Liebling,
Islands of stability and recurrence times in AdS,
Physical Review D 92, 084001 (2015).
arXiv preprint: gr-qc/1507.08261.
A. Buchel, S.R. Green, L. Lehner, S.L. Liebling,
Reply to `Comment on two-mode stability islands around AdS,'
Physical Review Letters 115, 049102 (2015).
arXiv preprint: gr-qc/1506.07907.
C. Palenzuela, S.L. Liebling, D. Neilsen, L. Lehner, O.L. Caballero, E. O'Connor, M. Anderson,
Effects of the microphysical Equation of State in the mergers of magnetized Neutron Stars With Neutrino Cooling,
Physical Review D 92, 044045 (2015).
arXiv preprint: gr-qc/1505.01607.
A. Buchel, S.R. Green, L. Lehner, S.L. Liebling,
Conserved quantities and dual turbulent cascades in Anti-de Sitter spacetime,
Physical Review D 91, 064026 (2015).
arXiv preprint: gr-qc/1412.4761.
A. Buchel, S.R. Green, L. Lehner, S.L. Liebling,
Universality of non-equilibrium dynamics of CFTs from holography,
arXiv preprint: hep-th/1410.5381.
M. Ponce, C. Palenzuela, L. Lehner, S.L. Liebling,
Interaction of misaligned magnetospheres in the coalescence of binary neutron stars,
Physical Review D 90, 044007 (2014).
arXiv preprint: gr-qc/1404.0692.
V. Balasubramanian, A. Buchel, S.R. Green, L. Lehner, S.L. Liebling,
Holographic Thermalization, Stability of AdS, and the FPU Paradox,
Physical Review Letters 113, 071601 (2014).
arXiv preprint: gr-qc/1403.6471.
D. Neilsen, S.L. Liebling, M. Anderson, L. Lehner, E. O'Connor, C. Palenzuela,
Magnetized Neutron Stars With Realistic Equations of State and Neutrino Cooling,
Physical Review D 89, 104029 (2014).
arXiv preprint: gr-qc/1403.3680.
C.L. Wainwright, M.C. Johnson, H.V. Peiris, A. Aguirre, L. Lehner, S.L. Liebling.
Simulating the universe(s): from cosmic bubble collisions to cosmological observables with numerical relativity,
JCAP 1403, 030 (2014).
arXiv preprint: gr-qc/1312.1357.
C. Palenzuela, L. Lehner, S.L. Liebling, M. Ponce, M. Anderson, D. Neilsen, P. Motl.
Linking electromagnetic and gravitational radiation in coalescing binary neutron stars,
Physical Review D 88, 043011 (2013).
arXiv preprint: gr-qc/1307.7372.
Nils Andersson, et al.
The Transient Gravitational-Wave Sky.
Classical and Quantum Gravity 30, 193002 (2013).
arXiv preprint: gr-qc/1305.0816.
A. Buchel, S.L. Liebling, and L. Lehner.
Boson Stars in AdS.
Physical Review D 87, 123006 (2013).
arXiv preprint: gr-qc/1304.4166.
L. Lehner, S.L. Liebling.
Simulations to Usher in the Era of Gravitational Wave Astronomy.
Comput. Sci. Eng. 15, 2 pp 60-65, March (2013).
C. Palenzuela, L. Lehner, M. Ponce, S.L. Liebling, M. Anderson, D. Neilsen, P. Motl.
Electromagnetic and Gravitational Outputs from Binary-Neutron-Star Coalescence,
Physical Review Letters 111, 061105 (2013).
arXiv preprint: gr-qc/1301.7074.
S.L. Liebling.
Nonlinear Collapse in the Semilinear Wave Equation in AdS.
Physical Review D 87, 081501 (2013).
arXiv preprint: gr-qc/1212.6970.
A. Buchel, L. Lehner, S.L. Liebling.
Scalar Collapse in AdS.
Physical Review D 86, 123011 (2012).
arXiv preprint: gr-qc/1210.0890.
S.L. Liebling, C. Palenzuela.
Dynamical Boson Stars.
Invited review: Living Reviews in Relativity 15 (2012).
arXiv preprint: gr-qc/1202.5809.
L. Lehner, C. Palenzuela, S.L. Liebling, C. Thompson, C. Hanna.
Intense Electromagnetic Outbursts from Collapsing Hypermassive Neutron Stars.
Physical Review D 86, 104035 (2012)
arXiv preprint: astro-ph.HE/1112.2622.
D. Neilsen, L. Lehner, C. Palenzuela, E.W. Hirschmann, S.L. Liebling, P.M. Motl, T. Garrett.
Boosting jet power in black hole spacetimes.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108, (2011)
arXiv preprint: astro-ph.HE/1012.5661.
C. Palenzuela, T. Garrett, L. Lehner, S.L. Liebling,
Magnetospheres of Black Hole Systems in Force-Free Plasma.
Physical Review D 82, 044045 (2010)
arXiv preprint: astro-ph.HE/1007.1198.
S. Chawla, M. Anderson, M. Besselman, L. Lehner, S.L. Liebling, P.M. Motl and D. Neilsen,
Mergers of Magnetized Neutron Stars with Spinning Black Holes: Disruption, Accretion and Fallback.
Physical Review Letters 105, 111101 (2010).
arXiv preprint: gr-qc/1006.2839.
C. Palenzuela, L. Lehner, S.L. Liebling,
Dual Jets from Binary Black Holes.
Science Vol. 329 no. 5994 , pp. 927-930 (2010)
Related arXiv preprint: astro-ph.HE/1005.1067.
S.L. Liebling,
Dynamics of Rotating, Magnetized Neutron Stars.
Proceedings of the 12th Marcel Grossman Meeting, Paris, July 12-18, (2009).
arXiv preprint: gr-qc/1002.2217.
S.L. Liebling, L. Lehner, D. Neilsen, C. Palenzuela,
Evolutions of Magnetized and Rotating Neutron Stars.
Physical Review D 81, 124023 (2010)
arXiv preprint: gr-qc/1001.0575.
M. Megevand, M. Anderson, J. Frank, E.W. Hirschmann, L. Lehner, S.L. Liebling, P.M. Motl, D. Neilsen,
Perturbed disks get shocked. Binary black hole merger effects on accretion disks.
Physical Review D 80, 024012 (2009).
arXiv preprint: astro-ph/0905.3390.
C. Palenzuela, M. Anderson, L. Lehner, S.L. Liebling, D. Neilsen,
Stirring, not shaking: binary black holes' effects on electromagnetic fields.
Physical Review Letters 103, 081101 (2009).
arXiv preprint: astro-ph/0905.1121.
M. Anderson, E.W. Hirschmann, L. Lehner, S.L. Liebling, P.M. Motl, D. Neilsen, C. Palenzuela, J.E. Tohline
Magnetized Neutron-Star Mergers and Gravitational-Wave Signals.
Physical Review Letters 100, 191101 (2008).
arXiv preprint: gr-qc/0801.4387.
M. Anderson, E.W. Hirschmann, L. Lehner, S.L. Liebling, P.M. Motl, D. Neilsen, C. Palenzuela, J.E. Tohline
Simulating binary neutron stars: dynamics and gravitational waves.
Physical Review D 77, 024006 (2008).
arXiv preprint: gr-qc/0708.2720.
C. Palenzuela, L. Lehner and S.L. Liebling,
Orbital Dynamics of Binary Boson Star Systems.
Physical Review D 77, 044036 (2008).
arXiv preprint: gr-qc/0706.2435.
D. Neilsen, E.W. Hirschmann, M. Anderson, S.L. Liebling.
Adaptive Mesh Refinement and Relativistic MHD
Proceedings of the Marcel Grossmann Meeting XI
arXiv preprint: gr-qc/0702035.
C. Palenzuela, I. Olabarrieta, L. Lehner and S.L. Liebling,
Head-on collisions of boson stars.
Physical Review D 75, 064005 (2007).
arXiv preprint: gr-qc/0612067.
M. Anderson, E.W. Hirschmann, S.L. Liebling, and D. Neilsen,
Relativistic MHD with Adaptive Mesh Refinement.
Classical and Quantum Gravity 23, 6503-6524 (2006).
arXiv preprint: gr-qc/0605102.
L. Lehner, S.L. Liebling, and O. Reula,
AMR, stability and higher accuracy.
Classical and Quantum Gravity 23, S421-S445 (2006).
arXiv preprint: gr-qc/0510111.
D. Choi, C.W. Lai., M.W. Choptuik, E.W. Hirschmann, S.L. Liebling, F. Pretorius,
Dynamics of Axisymmetric (Head-on) Boson Star Collisions.
Link to PDF.
S.L. Liebling,
Threshold of Singularity Formation in the Semilinear Wave Equation,
Physical Review D 71, 044019 (2005).
arXiv preprint: gr-qc/0502056.
M.W. Choptuik, E.W. Hirschmann, S.L. Liebling, and F. Pretorius.
Critical Collapse of a Complex Scalar Field with Angular Momentum.
Physical Review Letters 93, 131101 (2004).
arXiv preprint: gr-qc/0405101.
S.L. Liebling,
The Nonlinear Sigma Model With Distributed Adaptive Mesh Refinement,
Classical and Quantum Gravity 21, 3995-4003 (2004).
arXiv preprint: gr-qc/0403076.
M.W. Choptuik, E.W. Hirschmann, S.L. Liebling, and F. Pretorius.
Critical Collapse of the Massless Scalar Field in Axisymmetry.
Physical Review D 68, 044007 (2003).
arXiv preprint: gr-qc/0305003.
M.W. Choptuik, E.W. Hirschmann, S.L. Liebling, and F. Pretorius.
An Axisymmetric Gravitational Collapse Code.
Classical and Quantum Gravity 20, 1857-1878 (2003).
arXiv preprint: gr-qc/0301006.
M.W. Choptuik, E.W. Hirschmann, and S.L. Liebling.
Towards Axisymmetric Critical Collapse,
Proceedings of the Ninth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity,
World Scientific (2002).

S.L. Liebling,
The Singularity Threshold of the Nonlinear Sigma Model Using 3D Adaptive Mesh Refinement
Physical Review D 66, 041703 (2002).
arXiv preprint: gr-qc/0202093.

J. Isenberg and S.L. Liebling,
Singularity Formation in 2+1 Wave Maps.
Journal of Mathematical Physics 43, 678-683 (2002).
arXiv preprint: math-ph/0106029.

S.L. Liebling,
Black Hole Critical Phenomena Without Black Holes.
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Gravitation and Cosmology published in Pramana 55, 497-509 (2000).
arXiv preprint: gr-qc/0006005.

S.L. Liebling, E.W. Hirschmann, and J. Isenberg,
Critical Phenomena in Nonlinear Sigma Models.
Journal of Mathematical Physics 41, 5691-5700 (2000).
arXiv preprint: math-ph/9911020.

D. Maison and S.L. Liebling,
Some Remarks on Gravitational Global Monopoles.
Physical Review Letters 83, 5218 (1999).
arXiv preprint: gr-qc/9908038.

S.L. Liebling,
Static Gravitational Global Monopoles.
Physical Review D 61, 024030 (2000).
arXiv preprint: gr-qc/9906014.

S.L. Liebling,
Critical Phenomena Inside Global Monopoles.
Physical Review D60, 061502 (1999).
arXiv preprint: gr-qc/9904077.

E.W. Hirschmann and S.L. Liebling,
Pair Production in the Collapse of a Hopf Texture.
Classical and Quantum Gravity 16, 823-839 (1999).
arXiv preprint: hep-ph/9808310.

S.L. Liebling,
Multiply Unstable Black Hole Critical Solutions.
Physical Review D58, 084015 (1998).
arXiv preprint: gr-qc/9805043.

M.W. Choptuik, E.W. Hirschmann, and Steven L. Liebling,
Instability of an ``Approximate Black Hole''.
Physical Review D55, 6014-19 (1997).
arXiv preprint: gr-qc/9701011.

M.W. Choptuik, E.W. Hirschmann, and S.L. Liebling.
Dynamical Instability and Critical Behavior of van Putten's "Approximate Black Hole",
Conference Proceedings of the Eighth Marcel Grossmann Meeting, World Scientific (1997).

S.L. Liebling and M.W. Choptuik,
Black Hole Criticality in the Brans-Dicke Model
Physical Review Letters 77, 1424-1427 (1996)
arXiv preprint: gr-qc/9606057.

R.A. Matzner, M. Huq, A. Botero, D.I. Choi, U. Kask, J. Lara, S. Liebling, D. Neilsen, P. Premadi, and D. Shoemaker,
Analysis of ``Gauge Modes'' in Linearized Relativity.
Classical and Quantum Gravity 14, L21-L27 (1997).
arXiv preprint: gr-qc/9607031.

Talks:

Invited Seminar: Nonlinear Wave Equations and Numerical Relativity.
Miami Waves 2004, Miami, FL, January 2004.

Invited Seminar: Black Hole Dynamics: Modeling Collapse and Collisions.
UMass Dartmouth, Darmouth, MA, November 2003.

Invited Seminar: Modeling Black Holes: Formation and Dynamics.
Oakland University, Oakland, MI, February, 2003.

Invited (Teleconference) Seminar: An Axisymmetric Gravitational Collapse Code.
Penn State's Numerical Relativity Lunch, State College, PA, January 2003.

Invited Seminar: Modeling Black Holes and Gravitational Waves (works with IE).
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, July 2002.

Invited Seminar: Modeling Black Holes and Gravity Waves.
University of Houston Clear Lake, Houston, TX, May 2002.

Contributed Talk: Critical Behavior in Two and Three Dimensions Using AMR.
APS April Meeting, Albuquerue, NM, April 2002.

Invited Seminar: Nonlinear Aspects of Gravitational Collapse.
Center For Relativity, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, November 2001.

Invited Seminar: "Theoretical Experiments" in Gravity: Modeling Collapse.
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, October 2001.

Invited Seminar: Global Existence of Wave Maps: Computing Dynamical PDE Solutions.
The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, April 2001.

Contributed Talk: Axisymmetric Gravitational Collapse.
APS April Meeting, Washington, D.C., April 2001.

Invited Seminar: Modeling Gravitational Collapse: Black Holes and Gravity Waves.
Washington State University, Pullman, WA, April 2001.

Invited Seminar: Axisymmetric Gravitational Collapse.
Center For Relativity, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, January 2001.
The slides and accompanying movies are available.

Contributed Talk: Axisymmetric Collapse: Textures and Gravity.
Eastern Gravity Meeting, Pittsburgh, April 2000

Invited Talk: Global Monopoles.
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, March 2000

Invited Talk: Black Hole Critical Phenomena Without Black Holes.
ICGC '00, Kharagpur, India, January 2000

Theses:

S.L. Liebling,
Nonlinear Field Dynamics in General Relativity:
Black Hole Critical Phenomena and Topological Defects.
Dissertation, unpublished, The University of Texas at Austin, May 1998.
Abstract (HTML) · Gzipped Postscript (850Kb) · Converted PDF(7.2Mb)

S.L. Liebling,
Massless Scalar Field Collapse in Brans-Dicke Theory,
Master's thesis, unpublished, The University of Texas at Austin, May 1995.
Gzipped Postscript (250Kb) · Converted PDF(500Kb)

Publicity:

New Scientist July, 12, 2017
Physics World, October, 6, 2011
Science Daily, July 20, 2011
SPACE.com, August 19, 2010
CBC News, August 19, 2010
The Independent of Southampton, March 30, 1999

The New York Times, Long Island Section, June 6, 1999

Software:

sdftool
A distributed utility that reads in large datasets in SDF format and performs various calculations as directed by a user script. Data is read into various registers and the utility processes the data similar to a calculator would.

sdfapps
Various utilities to operate on data in SDF format. Examples include computing a Fourier power spectrum and extracting 1D slices of data.

HAD infrastructure
Infrastructure for distributed (via MPI), adaptive-mesh-refinement (AMR) computations.

Last updated Feb. 19, 2020.
Copyright© 2002-2020 S.L. Liebling

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Last updated Feb. 19, 2020.	Copyright© 2002-2020 S.L. Liebling
(home)	Research Supported by NSF