Emanuele Berti





You can find my papers on SPIRES and on the NASA Astrophysics Data System

In alternative, a list with direct links and (sometimes) additional information can be found below:

1) O. Benhar, E. Berti, V. Ferrari,
The imprint of the equation of state on the axial w-modes of oscillating neutron stars,
MNRAS 310, 797 (1999), gr-qc/9901037

2) V. Ferrari, M. D'Andrea, E. Berti,
Gravitational waves emitted by extrasolar planetary systems,
Int. J. Mod. Phys. D
9 n.5, 495 (2000), astro-ph/0001463

3) E. Berti, V. Ferrari,
Excitation of g-modes of solar type stars by an orbiting companion,
Phys. Rev. D
63, 064031 (2001), astro-ph/0011364

4) L. Gualtieri, E. Berti, J.A. Pons, G. Miniutti, V. Ferrari,
Gravitational signals emitted by a point mass orbiting a neutron star: a perturbative approach,
Phys. Rev. D
64, 104007 (2001), gr-qc/0107046

5) J.A. Pons, E. Berti, L. Gualtieri, G. Miniutti, V. Ferrari,
Gravitational signals emitted by a point mass orbiting a neutron star: effects of stellar structure,
Phys. Rev. D
65, 104021 (2002), gr-qc/0111104

6) E. Berti, J.A. Pons, L. Gualtieri, G. Miniutti, V. Ferrari,
Are Post-Newtonian templates faithful and effectual in detecting gravitational signals from neutron star binaries?,
Phys. Rev. D
66, 064013 (2002), gr-qc/0208011

7) G. Miniutti, J.A. Pons, E. Berti, L. Gualtieri, V. Ferrari,
Non-radial oscillation modes as a probe of density discontinuities in neutron stars,
MNRAS
338, 389 (2003), astro-ph/0206142

8) E. Berti, K. D. Kokkotas,
Quasinormal modes of Reissner-Nordstrom-anti-de Sitter black holes: scalar, electromagnetic and gravitational perturbations,
Phys. Rev. D
67, 064020 (2003), gr-qc/0301052

9) E. Berti, K. D. Kokkotas,
Asymptotic quasinormal modes of Reissner-Nordstrom and Kerr black holes,
Phys. Rev. D
68, 044027 (2003), hep-th/0303029

10) E. Berti, K. D. Kokkotas, E. Papantonopoulos,
Gravitational stability of five-dimensional rotating black holes projected on the brane,
Phys. Rev. D 68, 064020 (2003), gr-qc/0306106

11) E. Berti, V. Cardoso, K. D. Kokkotas, H. Onozawa,
Highly damped quasinormal modes of Kerr black holes,
Phys. Rev. D 68, 124018 (2003), hep-th/0307013

12) E. Berti, M. Cavaglia, L. Gualtieri,
Gravitational energy loss in high energy particle collisions: ultrarelativistic plunge into a multidimensional black hole,
Phys. Rev. D 69, 124011 (2004), hep-th/0309203

13) E. Berti, N. Stergioulas,
Approximate matching of analytic and numerical solutions for rapidly rotating neutron stars,
MNRAS 350, 1416 (2004), gr-qc/0310061
A Mathematica notebook to compare analytic and numerical spacetimes is available here

14) E. Berti, V. Cardoso, S. Yoshida,
Highly damped quasinormal modes of Kerr black holes: A complete numerical investigation,
Phys. Rev. D 69, 124018 (2004), gr-qc/0401052

15) E. Berti, F. White, A. Maniopoulou, M. Bruni,
Rotating neutron stars: an invariant comparison of approximate and numerical spacetime models,
MNRAS 358, 923 (2005), gr-qc/0405146

16) E. Berti, V. Cardoso, J. P. S. Lemos,
Quasinormal modes and classical wave propagation in analogue black holes,
Phys. Rev. D 70, 124006 (2004), gr-qc/0408099

17) E. Berti, A. Buonanno, C. M. Will,
Estimating spinning binary parameters and testing alternative theories of gravity with LISA,
Phys. Rev. D 71, 084025 (2005), gr-qc/0411129

18) E. Berti, K. D. Kokkotas,
Quasinormal modes of Kerr-Newman black holes: coupling of electromagnetic and gravitational perturbations,
Phys. Rev. D 71, 124008 (2005), gr-qc/0502065

19) V. Cardoso, E. Berti, M. Cavaglia,
What we (don't) know about black hole formation in high-energy collisions,
Class. Quant. Grav. 22, L61 (2005), hep-ph/0505125

20) E. Berti, V. Cardoso, M. Casals,
Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of spin-weighted spheroidal harmonics in four and higher dimensions,
Phys. Rev. D 73, 024013 (2006); Erratum Phys. Rev. D 73, 109902(E) (2006), gr-qc/0511111

21) E. Berti, V. Cardoso, C. M. Will,
On gravitational-wave spectroscopy of massive black holes with the space interferometer LISA,
Phys. Rev. D 73, 064030 (2006), gr-qc/0512160

22) E. Berti, V. Cardoso,
Supermassive black holes or boson stars? Hair counting with gravitational-wave detectors,
This essay received an Honorable Mention in the Gravity Research Foundation Essay Competition, 2006
Int. J. Mod. Phys. D 15 n. 12, 2209 (2006), gr-qc/0605101

23) E. Berti, V. Cardoso,
Quasinormal ringing of Kerr black holes. I. The excitation factors,
Phys. Rev. D 74, 104020 (2006), gr-qc/0605118

24) E. Berti, S. Iyer, C. M. Will,
Eccentricity content of binary black hole initial data,
Phys. Rev. D 74, 061503(R) (2006), gr-qc/0607047

25) E. N. Dorband, E. Berti, P. Diener, E. Schnetter, M. Tiglio,
A numerical study of the quasinormal mode excitation of Kerr black holes,
Phys. Rev. D 74, 084028 (2006), gr-qc/0608091

26) E. Berti, V. Cardoso, J. A. Gonzalez, U. Sperhake,
Mining information from binary black hole mergers: a comparison of estimation methods for damped exponentials in noise,
Phys. Rev. D 75, 124017 (2007), gr-qc/0701086

27) E. Berti, V. Cardoso, J. A. Gonzalez, U. Sperhake, M. Hannam, S. Husa, B. Bruegmann,
Inspiral, merger and ringdown of unequal mass black hole binaries: a multipolar analysis,
Phys. Rev. D 76, 064034 (2007), gr-qc/0703053

28) E. Berti, J. Cardoso, V. Cardoso, M. Cavaglia,
Matched-filtering and parameter estimation of ringdown waveforms,
Phys. Rev. D 76, 104044 (2007), arXiv:0707.1202

29) E. Berti, S. Iyer, C. M. Will,
A post-Newtonian diagnosis of quasiequilibrium configurations of neutron star-neutron star and neutron star-black hole binaries,
Phys. Rev. D 77, 024019 (2008), arXiv:0709.2589

30) U. Sperhake, E. Berti, V. Cardoso, J. A. Gonzalez, B. Bruegmann, M. Ansorg,
Eccentric binary black hole mergers: The transition from inspiral to plunge in general relativity,
Phys. Rev. D 78, 064069 (2008), arXiv:0710.3823

31) E. Berti, M. Volonteri,
Cosmological black hole spin evolution by mergers and accretion,
Astrophys. J. 684, 822 (2008), arXiv:0802.0025
My work with Marta was covered in NewScientist

32) E. Berti, V. Cardoso,
Quasinormal modes and thermodynamic phase transitions,
Phys. Rev. D 77, 087501 (2008), arXiv:0802.1889

33) N. Yunes, E. Berti,
Accuracy of the post-Newtonian approximation: Optimal asymptotic expansion for quasi-circular, extreme-mass ratio inspirals,
Phys. Rev. D 77, 124006 (2008), arXiv:0803.1853

34) L. Gualtieri, E. Berti, V. Cardoso, U. Sperhake,
Transformation of the multipolar components of gravitational radiation under rotations and boosts,
Phys. Rev. D 78, 044024 (2008), arXiv:0805.1017

35) U. Sperhake, V. Cardoso, F. Pretorius, E. Berti, J. A. Gonzalez,
The high-energy collision of two black holes,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 161101 (2008), arXiv:0806.1738
Recommended by Phys. Rev. Lett. as an Editors' Suggestion
(acknowledging papers that the Editors hope will lead readers to explore other areas of physics).
 For a non-technical version, see the related article "No naked black holes" in ScienceNews

36) V. Cardoso, A. S. Miranda, E. Berti, H. Witek, V. T. Zanchin,
Geodesic stability, Lyapunov exponents and quasinormal modes,
Phys. Rev. D 79, 064016 (2009), arXiv:0812.1806

37) E. Berti, V. Cardoso, P. Pani,
Breit-Wigner resonances and the quasinormal modes of anti-de Sitter black holes,
Phys. Rev. D 79, 101501(R) (2009), arXiv:0903.5311

38) R. Cowsik, K. Wagoner, E. Berti, A. Sircar,
Internal dynamics and dynamical friction effects in the dwarf spheroidal galaxy in Fornax,
Astrophys. J. 699, 1389 (2009), arXiv:0904.0451

39) E. Berti, V. Cardoso, A. Starinets,
Quasinormal modes of black holes and black branes,
Class. Quant. Grav. 26, 163001 (2009), arXiv:0905.2975

40) N. Yunes, K. G. Arun, E. Berti, C. M. Will,
Post-circular expansion of eccentric binary inspirals: Fourier-domain waveforms in the stationary phase approximation,
Phys. Rev. D 80, 084001 (2009), arXiv:0906.0313

41) U. Sperhake, V. Cardoso, F. Pretorius, E. Berti, T. Hinderer, N. Yunes,
Cross section, final spin and zoom-whirl behavior in high energy black hole collisions,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 131102 (2009), arXiv:0907.1252

42) P. Pani, E. Berti, V. Cardoso, Y. Chen, R. Norte,
Gravitational wave signatures of the absence of an event horizon: Nonradial oscillations of a thin-shell gravastar,
Phys. Rev. D 80, 124047 (2009), arXiv:0909.0287


43) E. Berti, V. Cardoso, L. Gualtieri, F. Pretorius, U. Sperhake,
Comment on "Kerr black holes as particle accelerators to arbitrarily high energy",
Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 239001 (2009), arXiv:0911.2243


44) P. Pani, E. Berti, V. Cardoso, Y. Chen, R. Norte,
Gravitational wave signatures of the absence of an event horizon: II. Extreme mass ratio inspirals in the spacetime of a thin-shell gravastar,
Phys. Rev. D submitted, arXiv:1001.3031


45) M. Kesden, U. Sperhake, E. Berti,
Final spins from the merger of precessing binary black holes,
Phys. Rev. D submitted, arXiv:1002.2643


Conference proceedings containing previously unpublished research:

1) E. Berti,
Black hole quasinormal modes: hints of quantum gravity?,
Workshop "Dynamics and Thermodynamics of Black Holes and Naked Singularities" (Milan, May 2004)
gr-qc/0411025

2) E. Berti, A. Buonanno, C. M. Will,
Testing general relativity and probing the merger history of massive black holes with LISA,
9th annual Gravitational Wave Data Analysis Workshop (Annecy, December 2004)
This paper was included in the Classical and Quantum Gravity annual highlights collection for 2005/2006
Class. Quant. Grav. 22, S943 (2005), gr-qc/0504017

3) E. Berti, V. Cardoso, C. M. Will,
Considerations on the excitation of black hole quasinormal modes,
7th International Conference of the Hellenic Astronomical Society (Kefalonia, September 2005)
gr-qc/0601077

4) E. Berti,
LISA observations of massive black hole mergers: event rates and issues in waveform modelling,
10th annual Gravitational Wave Data Analysis Workshop (Brownsville, December 2005)
Class. Quant. Grav. 23, S785 (2006), astro-ph/0602470

5) E. Berti, V. Cardoso, J. A. Gonzalez, U. Sperhake, B. Bruegmann,
Multipolar analysis of spinning binaries,
Invited contribution to the Amaldi 7 proceedings (Sydney, July 2007)
This paper was included in the Classical and Quantum Gravity annual highlights collection for 2008/2009
Class. Quant. Grav. 25, 114035 (2008), arXiv:0711.1097

6) 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, M. Volonteri,
Massive Black Hole Binary Inspirals: Results from the LISA Parameter Estimation Taskforce,
Proceedings of the 7th LISA Symposium (Barcelona, June 2008)
Class. Quant. Grav. 26, 094027 (2009), arXiv:0811.1011