C. Bambi, R. Brustein, V. Cardoso, A. Chael, U. Danielsson, S. Giri, A. Gupta, P. Heidmann, L. Lehner, S. Liebling, A. Maselli, E. Maggio, S. Mathur, L. Medeiros, AB Nielsen, HR Olivares-Sánchez , . Pani, N. Siemonsen, GN Wong,
Black hole mimickers: from theory to observation, arXiv preprint: gr-qc/2505.09014
(2025).
M.R. Izquierdo, C. Palenzuela, S.L. Liebling, O. Gottlieb, M. Bezares,
Implications of Magnetic Flux-Disk Mass Correlation in Black Hole-Neutron Star Mergers for GRB sub-populations, arXiv preprint:
astro-ph/2501.13154
(2025).
S. Ahmed, M. Kavic, S.L. Liebling, M. Lippert, M. Mian, J.H. Simonetti,
Black hole spin-down via cosmic strings.
(2024).
arXiv preprint:
astro-ph/2407.04743
M.R. Izquierdo, M. Bezares, S.L. Liebling, C. Palenzuela.
Large Eddy Simulations of Magnetized Mergers of Black Holes and Neutron Stars.
Physical Review D110, 083017 arXiv preprint:
astro-ph/2403.09770 (2024).
S.L. Liebling, C. Palenzuela.
Dynamical Boson Stars.
Invited review. Second (10 year) major update (original 2012, first update 2017).
Living Reviews in Relativity26 No. 1 (2023).
arXiv preprint:
gr-qc/1202.5809.
J. Estes, M. Kavic, S.L. Liebling, M. Lippert, J.H. Simonetti,
Stability and Observability of Magnetic Primordial Black Hole-Neutron Star Collisions,
JCAP2023, 10.1088/1475-7516/2023/06/017
(2023).
arXiv preprint:
astro-ph/2209.06060
Carlos Palenzuela, Steven L. Liebling, B. Minano,
Large Eddy Simulations of Magnetized Mergers of Neutron Stars with Neutrinos, Physical Review D105, 103020
(2022).
arxiv preprint: gr-qc/2204.02721
Soham Mukherjee, Nathan K. Johnson-McDaniel, Wolfgang Tichy, Steven L. Liebling,
Conformally curved initial data for charged, spinning black hole binaries on arbitrary orbits, arxiv preprint: gr-qc/2202.12133
(2022).
Miguel Bezares, Mateja Boskovic, Steven Liebling, Carlos Palenzuela, Paolo Pani, Enrico Barausse,
Gravitational waves and kicks from the merger of unequal mass, highly compact boson stars, Physical Review D105, 064067 (2022).
arxiv preprint: gr-qc/2201.06113.
N. Ortiz, F. Carrasco, S.R. Green, L. Lehner, S.L. Liebling, J.R.Westernacher-Schneider,
Gamma-radiation sky maps from compact binaries, JCAP 08 2022 027 (2022).
arxiv preprint: asto-ph/2107.07020
F. Benitez, R. Gambini, S.L. Liebling, J. Pullin,
Criticality in the collapse of spherically symmetric massless scalar fields in semi-classical loop quantum gravity.
Physical Review D104 024008 (2021).
arXiv preprint:
gr-qc/2106.00674
W. E. East, L. Lehner, S.L. Liebling, C. Palenzuela,
Multimessenger signals from black hole-neutron star mergers without significant tidal disruption,
Astrophysical Journal Letters921L18 (2021).
arXiv preprint:
astro-ph/2101.12214
S.L. Liebling, C. Palenzuela, L. Lehner,
Effects of High Density Phase Transitions on Neutron Star Dynamics,
Classical and Quantum Gravity38 (2021).
arXiv preprint:
gr-qc/2010.12567
M. Kavic, S.L. Liebling, M. Lippert, J.H. Simonetti,
Accessing the axion via compact object binaries,
JCAP2020 005-005 (2020).
arXiv preprint:
astro-ph/1910.06977
S.L. Liebling, C. Palenzuela, L. Lehner,
Towards fidelity and scalability in non-vacuum mergers.
Classical and Quantum Gravity37 135006 (2020).
arXiv preprint:
gr-qc/2002.07554.
F. Benitez, R. Gambini, L. Lehner, S.L. Liebling, J. Pullin,
Critical collapse of a scalar field in semiclassical loop quantum gravity,
Physical Review Letters124 071301 (2020).
arXiv preprint:
gr-qc/2002.04044
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 D97 064016 (2018).
arXiv preprint:
gr-qc/1709.06634.
S.L. Liebling, M. Kavic, M. Lippert,
Probing Near-Horizon Fluctuations with Black Hole Binary Mergers.
JHEP176 (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 D97, 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 Letters848L12 (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 D96 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 Gravity34205012 (2017).
arXiv preprint:
gr-qc/1706.07413.
S.L. Liebling, C. Palenzuela,
Electromagnetic Luminosity of the Coalescence of Charged Black Hole Binaries Physical Review D94, 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 D94, 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 Gravity33, 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 D93, 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 D92, 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 Letters115, 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 D92, 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 D91, 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 D90, 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 Letters113, 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 D89, 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,
JCAP1403, 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 D88, 043011 (2013).
arXiv preprint:
gr-qc/1307.7372.
Nils Andersson, et al.
The Transient Gravitational-Wave Sky.
Classical and Quantum Gravity30, 193002 (2013).
arXiv preprint:
gr-qc/1305.0816.
A. Buchel, S.L. Liebling, and L. Lehner.
Boson Stars in AdS.
Physical Review D87, 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 Letters111, 061105 (2013).
arXiv preprint:
gr-qc/1301.7074.
S.L. Liebling.
Nonlinear Collapse in the Semilinear Wave Equation in AdS.
Physical Review D87, 081501 (2013).
arXiv preprint:
gr-qc/1212.6970.
A. Buchel, L. Lehner, S.L. Liebling.
Scalar Collapse in AdS.
Physical Review D86, 123011 (2012).
arXiv preprint:
gr-qc/1210.0890.
C. Palenzuela, T. Garrett, L. Lehner, S.L. Liebling,
Magnetospheres of Black Hole Systems in Force-Free Plasma.
Physical Review D82, 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 Letters105, 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 D81, 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 D80, 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 Letters103, 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 Letters100, 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 D77, 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 D77, 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 D75, 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 Gravity23, 6503-6524 (2006).
arXiv preprint:
gr-qc/0605102.
L. Lehner, S.L. Liebling, and O. Reula,
AMR, stability and higher accuracy.
Classical and Quantum Gravity23, 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 D71, 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 Letters93, 131101 (2004).
arXiv preprint:
gr-qc/0405101.
S.L. Liebling,
The Nonlinear Sigma Model With Distributed Adaptive Mesh Refinement,
Classical and Quantum Gravity21, 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 D68, 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 Gravity20, 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 D66, 041703 (2002).
arXiv preprint:
gr-qc/0202093.
J. Isenberg and S.L. Liebling,
Singularity Formation in 2+1 Wave Maps.
Journal of Mathematical Physics43, 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 Pramana55, 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 Physics41, 5691-5700 (2000).
arXiv preprint:
math-ph/9911020.
D. Maison and S.L. Liebling,
Some Remarks on Gravitational Global Monopoles.
Physical Review Letters83, 5218 (1999).
arXiv preprint:
gr-qc/9908038.
E.W. Hirschmann and S.L. Liebling,
Pair Production in the Collapse of a Hopf Texture.
Classical and Quantum Gravity16, 823-839 (1999).
arXiv preprint:
hep-ph/9808310.
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).
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 Gravity14, L21-L27 (1997).
arXiv preprint:
gr-qc/9607031.
S.L. Liebling and M.W. Choptuik,
Black Hole Criticality in the Brans-Dicke Model Physical Review Letters77, 1424-1427 (1996)
arXiv preprint:
gr-qc/9606057.
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: 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)
The New York Times, Long Island Section, June 6, 1999
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