John Wheeler, relativity, and quantum information (2009)
Misner, Charles W., Thorne, Kip S., Zurek, Wojciech H.
In spring 1952, as John Wheeler neared the end of design work for the first thermonuclear explosion, he plotted a radical change of research direction: from particles and atomic nuclei to general...
Keppel, Drew, Nichols, David A., Chen, Yanbei, Thorne, Kip S.
A brief overview is presented of a new Caltech/Cornell research program that is exploring the nonlinear dynamics of curved spacetime in binary black hole collisions and mergers, and of an initial...
Post-Newtonian Approximation in Maxwell-Like Form (2008)
Kaplan, Jeff D., Nichols, David A., Thorne, Kip S.
The equations of the linearized first post-Newtonian approximation to general relativity are often written in "gravitoelectromagnetic" Maxwell-like form, since that facilitates physical intuition....
Foreword to Feynman Lectures on Gravitation (2007)
This paper, one of the very few references cited in Feynman's lectures, employs Kruskal's coordinates to construct the complete analytically extended Schwarzschild geometry, and presents a...
Prospects for Detection of Gravitational Waves from Intermediate-Mass-Ratio Inspirals (2007)
Brown, Duncan A., Brink, Jeandrew, Fang, Hua, Gair, Jonathan R., Li, Chao, Lovelace, Geoffrey, ...
We explore prospects for detecting gravitational waves from stellar-mass compact objects spiraling into intermediate mass black holes (BHs) M~50M[sun] to 350M[sun]) with ground-based observatories....
Gravitational waves from intermediate-mass-ratio inspirals for ground-based detectors (2006)
Brown, Duncan A., Brink, Jeandrew, Fang, Hua, Gair, Jonathan R., Li, Chao, Lovelace, Geoffrey, ...
We explore the prospects for Advanced LIGO to detect gravitational waves from neutron stars and stellar mass black holes spiraling into intermediate-mass ($M\sim 50 M_\odot$ to $350 M_\odot$) black...
New family of light beams and mirror shapes for future LIGO interferometers (2006)
Bondarescu, Mihai, Thorne, Kip S.
Advanced LIGO's present baseline design uses arm cavities with Gaussian light beams supported by spherical mirrors. Because Gaussian beams have large intensity gradients in regions of high intensity,...
Search for gravitational-wave bursts in LIGO's third science run (2006)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Agresti, Juri, Allen, Bruce, Amin, R., ...
We report on a search for gravitational-wave bursts in data from the three LIGO interferometric detectors during their third science run. The search targets sub-second bursts in the frequency range...
A New Family of Light Beams and Mirror Shapes for Future LIGO Interferometers (2004)
Bondarescu, Mihai, Thorne, Kip S.
Advanced LIGO's present baseline design uses arm cavities with Gaussian light beams supported by spherical mirrors. Because Gaussian beams have large intensity gradients in regions of high intensity,...
D'Ambrosio, Erika, O'Shaughnessy, Richard, Strigin, Sergey, Thorne, Kip S., Vyatchanin, Sergey
In the baseline design for advanced LIGO interferometers, the most serious noise source is tiny, dynamically fluctuating bumps and valleys on the faces of the arm-cavity mirrors, caused by random...
Abbott,B., Abbott,F., Adhikari,R., Ageev,A., Allen,Bruce, Amin,R., ...
For 17 days in August and September 2002, the LIGO and GEO interferometer gravitational wave detectors were operated in coincidence to produce their first data for scientific analysis. Although the...
Upper limits on the strength of periodic gravitational waves from PSR J1939+2134 (2004)
Woan,G., Allen,Bruce, Abbott,B., Abbott,F., Adhikari,R., Amin,R., ...
The first science run of the LIGO and GEO gravitational wave detectors presented the opportunity to test methods of searching for gravitational waves from known pulsars. Here we present new direct...
Abbott,B., Abbott,F., Adhikari,R., Ageev,A., Allen,Bruce, Amin,R., ...
Data collected by the GEO 600 and LIGO interferometric gravitational wave detectors during their first observational science run were searched for continuous gravitational waves from the pulsar J1939...
Analysis of first LIGO science data for stochastic gravitational waves (2004)
Abbott,B., Abbott,F., Adhikari,R., Ageev,A., Allen,Bruce, Amin,R., ...
We present the analysis of between 50 and 100 h of coincident interferometric strain data used to search for and establish an upper limit on a stochastic background of gravitational radiation. These...
Analysis of LIGO data for gravitational waves from binary neutron stars (2004)
Abbott,B., Abbott,F., Adhikari,R., Ageev,A., Allen,Bruce, Amin,R., ...
We report on a search for gravitational waves from coalescing compact binary systems in the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds. The analysis uses data taken by two of the three LIGO interferometers...
LIGO: S1 Science Results and Plans Beyond (2004)
Abbott,B., Abbott,F., Adhikari,R., Ageev,A., Allen,Bruce, Amin,R., ...
Abbott, B., Abbott, F., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Allen, Bruce, Amin, R., ...
For 17 days in August and September 2002, the LIGO and GEO interferometer gravitational wave detectors were operated in coincidence to produce their first data for scientific analysis. Although the...
Upper limits on the strength of periodic gravitational waves from PSR J1939+2134 (2004)
Woan, G., Allen, Bruce, Abbott, B., Abbott, F., Adhikari, R., Amin, R., ...
The first science run of the LIGO and GEO gravitational wave detectors presented the opportunity to test methods of searching for gravitational waves from known pulsars. Here we present new direct...
Abbott, B., Abbott, F., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Allen, Bruce, Amin, R., ...
Data collected by the GEO 600 and LIGO interferometric gravitational wave detectors during their first observational science run were searched for continuous gravitational waves from the pulsar J1939...
Analysis of first LIGO science data for stochastic gravitational waves (2004)
Abbott, B., Abbott, F., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Allen, Bruce, Amin, R., ...
We present the analysis of between 50 and 100 h of coincident interferometric strain data used to search for and establish an upper limit on a stochastic background of gravitational radiation. These...
Analysis of LIGO data for gravitational waves from binary neutron stars (2004)
Abbott, B., Abbott, F., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Allen, Bruce, Amin, R., ...
We report on a search for gravitational waves from coalescing compact binary systems in the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds. The analysis uses data taken by two of the three LIGO interferometers...
LIGO: S1 Science Results and Plans Beyond (2004)
Abbott, B., Abbott, F., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Allen, Bruce, Amin, R., ...
Analysis of LIGO data for gravitational waves from binary neutron stars (2004)
Abbott, B., Abbott, F., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Allen, Bruce, Amin, R., ...
We report on a search for gravitational waves from coalescing compact binary systems in the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds. The analysis uses data taken by two of the three LIGO interferometers...
Systems with small dissipation (2003)
V. B. Braginskiæi, V. P. Mitrofanov, V. I. Panov, Kip S. Thorne, Cynthia. Eller
Braginsky, Vladimir B., Gorodetsky, Mikhail L., Khalili, Farid Ya., Matsko, Andrey B., Thorne, Kip S., Vyatchanin, Sergey P.
It is shown that photon shot noise and radiation-pressure back-action noise are the sole forms of quantum noise in interferometric gravitational wave detectors that operate near or below the standard...
An Overview of Gravitational-Wave Sources (2002)
We review current best estimates of the strength and detectability of the gravitational waves from a variety of sources, for both ground-based and space-based detectors, and we describe the...
Kimble, H. J., Levin, Yuri, Matsko, Andrey B., Thorne, Kip S., Vyatchanim, Sergey P.
The LIGO-II gravitational-wave interferometers (ca. 2006–2008) are designed to have sensitivities near the standard quantum limit (SQL) in the vicinity of 100 Hz. This paper describes and analyzes...
An Overview of Gravitational-Wave Sources (2002)
We review current best estimates of the strength and detectability of the gravitational waves from a variety of sources, for both ground-based and space-based detectors, and we describe the...
An Overview of Gravitational-Wave Sources (2002)
We review current best estimates of the strength and detectability of the gravitational waves from a variety of sources, for both ground-based and space-based detectors, and we describe the...
Braginsky, Vladimir B., Gorodetsky, Mikhail L., Khalili, Farid Ya., Matsko, Andrey B., Thorne, Kip S., Vyatchanin, Sergey P.
It is shown that photon shot noise and radiation-pressure back-action noise are the sole forms of quantum noise in interferometric gravitational wave detectors that operate near or below the standard...
There are three regimes of gravitational-radiation-reaction-induced inspiral for a compact body with mass μ, in a circular, equatorial orbit around a Kerr black hole with mass M≫μ: (i) the...
Finn, Lee Samuel, Thorne, Kip S.
Results are presented from high-precision computations of the orbital evolution and emitted gravitational waves for a stellar-mass object spiraling into a massive black hole in a slowly shrinking,...
An analysis is given of thermoelastic noise (thermal noise due to thermoelastic dissipation) in finite sized test masses of laser interferometer gravitational-wave detectors. Finite-size effects...
Kimble, H. J., Levin, Yuri, Matsko, Andrey B., Thorne, Kip S., Vyatchanin, Sergey P.
The LIGO-II gravitational-wave interferometers (ca. 2006--2008) are designed to have sensitivities at about the standard quantum limit (SQL) near 100 Hz. This paper describes and analyzes possible...
Finn, Lee Samuel, Thorne, Kip S.
Results are presented from high-precision computations of the orbital evolution and emitted gravitational waves for a stellar-mass object spiraling into a massive black hole in a slowly shrinking,...
Energetic quantum limit in large-scale interferometers (2000)
Braginsky, Vladimir B., Gorodetsky, Mikhail L., Khalili, Farid Ya., Thorne, Kip S.
For each optical topology of an interferometric gravitational wave detector, quantum mechanics dictates a minimum optical power (the "energetic quantum limit") to achieve a given sensitivity. For...
There are three regimes of gravitational-radiation-reaction-induced inspiral for a compact body with mass mu, in a circular, equatorial orbit around a Kerr black hole with mass M>>mu: (i) The...
An analysis is given of thermoelastic noise (thermal noise due to thermoelastic dissipation) in finite sized test masses of laser interferometer gravitational-wave detectors. Finite-size effects...
Dual-resonator speed meter for a free test mass (2000)
Braginsky, Vladimir B., Gorodetsky, Mikhail L., Khalili, Farid Ya., Thorne, Kip S.
A description and analysis are given of a “speed meter” for monitoring a classical force that acts on a test mass. This speed meter is based on two microwave resonators (“dual resonators”),...
Human gravity-gradient noise in interferometric gravitational-wave detectors (1999)
Thorne, Kip S., Winstein, Carolee J.
Among all forms of routine human activity, the one which produces the strongest gravity-gradient noise in interferometric gravitational-wave detectors (e.g. LIGO) is the beginning and end of weight...
Energetic Quantum Limit in Large-Scale Interferometers (1999)
Braginsky, Vladimir B., Gorodetsky, Mikhail L., Khalili, Farid Ya., Thorne, Kip S.
For each optical topology of an interferometric gravitational wave detector, quantum mechanics dictates a minimum optical power (the ``energetic quantum limit'') to achieve a given sensitivity. For...
Dual-Resonator Speed Meter for a Free Test Mass (1999)
Braginsky, Vladimir B., Gorodetsky, Mikhail L., Khalili, Farid Ya., Thorne, Kip S.
A description and analysis are given of a ``speed meter'' for monitoring a classical force that acts on a test mass. This speed meter is based on two microwave resonators (``dual resonators''), one...
Tidal stabilization of rigidly rotating, fully relativistic neutron stars (1998)
It is shown analytically that an external tidal gravitational field increases the secular stability of a fully general relativistic, rigidly rotating neutron star that is near marginal stability,...
Seismic gravity-gradient noise in interferometric gravitational-wave detectors (1998)
Hughes, Scott A., Thorne, Kip S.
When ambient seismic waves pass near and under an interferometric gravitational-wave detector, they induce density perturbations in the Earth, which in turn produce fluctuating gravitational forces...
Thorne,Kip S., Zimmerman,Barbara
This report is a user's manual for ALBERT, a package of four Caltech computer programs which calculate analytic expressions for general relativistic curvature tensors and equations of motion. The...
Human Gravity-Gradient Noise in Interferometric Gravitational-Wave Detectors (1998)
Thorne, Kip S., Winstein, Carolee J.
Among all forms of routine human activity, the one which produces the strongest gravity-gradient noise in interferometric gravitational-wave detectors (e.g. LIGO) is the beginning and end of weight...
Computing the merger of black-hole binaries: The IBBH problem (1998)
Brady, Patrick R., Creighton, Jolien D. E., Thorne, Kip S.
Gravitational radiation arising from the inspiral and merger of binary black holes (BBH’s) is a promising candidate for detection by kilometer-scale interferometric gravitational wave...
Gravitational-wave data analysis requires a detailed understanding of the highly relativistic, late stages of inspiral of neutron-star and black-hole binaries. A promising method to compute the late...
Seismic gravity-gradient noise in interferometric gravitational-wave detectors (1998)
Hughes, Scott A., Thorne, Kip S.
When ambient seismic waves pass near an interferometric gravitational-wave detector, they induce density perturbations in the earth which produce fluctuating gravitational forces on the...
Computing the merger of black-hole binaries: the IBBH problem (1998)
Brady, Patrick R., Creighton, Jolien D. E., Thorne, Kip S.
Gravitational radiation arising from the inspiral and merger of binary black holes (BBH's) is a promising candidate for detection by kilometer-scale interferometric gravitational wave observatories....
Gravitational Waves from Coalescing Black Hole MACHO Binaries (1997)
Nakamura, Takashi, Sasaki, Misao, Tanaka, Takahiro, Thorne, Kip S.
If MACHOs are black holes of mass about 0.5 solar mass, they must have been formed in the early universe when the temperature was about 1 GeV. We estimate that in this case in our galaxy's halo out...
Probing Black Holes and Relativistic Stars with Gravitational Waves (1997)
In the coming decade, gravitational waves will convert the study of general relativistic aspects of black holes and stars from a largely theoretical enterprise to a highly interactive,...
Tidal Stabilization of Rigidly Rotating, Fully Relativistic Neutron Stars (1997)
It is shown analytically that an external tidal gravitational field increases the secular stability of a fully general relativistic, rigidly rotating neutron star that is near marginal stability,...
Gravitational Radiation -- A New Window Onto the Universe (1997)
A summary is given of the current status and plans for gravitational-wave searches at all plausible wavelengths, from the size of the observable universe to a few kilometers. The anticipated...
Gravitational Waves from Compact Bodies (1995)
A review is given of recent research on gravitational waves from compact bodies and its relevance to the LIGO/VIRGO international network of high-frequency (10 to 10,000 Hz) gravitational-wave...
This article reviews current efforts and plans for gravitational-wave detection, the gravitational-wave sources that might be detected, and the information that the detectors might extract from the...
Agujeros negros y tiempo curvo : el escandaloso legado de Einstein (1995)
Thorne, Kip S., Hawking, Stephen W. (presen.)
Traducción de: Black holes and time warps. Einstein's outrageous legacy
Thorne, Kip S., Hawking, Stephen W. (presen.)
Traducción de: Black holes and time warps. Einstein's outrageous legacy
Apostolatos, Theocharis A., Cutler, Curt, Sussman, Gerald J., Thorne, Kip S.
Merging compact binaries are currently regarded as the most promising source of gravitational waves for the planned Earth-based LIGO/VIRGO laser-interferometer detector system, and will be an...
Quantum propagator for a nonrelativistic particle in the vicinity of a time machine (1994)
Goldwirth, Dalia S., Perry, Malcolm J., Piran, Tsvi, Thorne, Kip S.
We study the propagator of a nonrelativistic, noninteracting particle in any nonrelativistic "time-machine" spacetime of the following type: an external, chronal spacetime in which two spatial...
The Quantum Propagator for a Nonrelativistic Particle in the Vicinity of a Time Machine (1993)
Goldwirth, Dalia S., Perry, Malcolm J., Piran, Tsvi, Thorne, Kip S.
We study the propagator of a non-relativistic, non-interacting particle in any non-relativistic ``time-machine'' spacetime of the type shown in Fig.~1: an external, flat spacetime in which two...
Cutler, Curt, Apostolatos, Theocharis A., Bildsten, Lars, Finn, Lee Samuel, Flanagan, Eanna E., Kennefick, Daniel, ...
Gravitational-wave interferometers are expected to monitor the last three minutes of inspiral and final coalescence of neutron star and black hole binaries at distances approaching cosmological,...
Rotation halts cylindrical, relativistic gravitational collapse (1992)
Apostolatos, Theocharis A., Thorne, Kip S.
It is shown, in a simple analytic example, that an infinitesimal amount of rotation can halt the general relativistic gravitational collapse of a pressure-free cylindrical body. The example is a thin...
Cutler, Curt, Apostolatos, Theocharis A., Bildsten, Lars, Finn, Lee Samuel, Flanagan, Eanna E., Kennefick, Daniel, ...
Gravitational-wave interferometers are expected to monitor the last three minutes of inspiral and final coalescence of neutron star and black hole binaries at distances approaching cosmological,...
Gravitational-wave bursts with memory: the Christodoulou effect (1992)
The "memory" of a gravitational-wave burst is the permanent relative displacement that it imposes on free test masses, or more precisely, the permanent change in the burst’s gravitational-wave...
Billiard balls in wormhole spacetimes with closed timelike curves: Classical theory (1991)
Echeverria, Fernando, Klinkhammer, Gunnar, Thorne, Kip S.
The effects of self-interaction in classical physics, in the presence of closed timelike curves, are probed by means of a simple model problem: The motion and self-collisions of a nonrelativistic,...
Do vacuum fluctuations prevent the creation of closed timelike curves? (1991)
It has been shown elsewhere that in a classical spacetime with multiply connected space slices (wormhole spacetime), closed timelike curves can form generically. The boundary between an initial...
Cauchy problem in spacetimes with closed timelike curves (1990)
Friedman, John, Morris, Michael S., Novikov, Igor D., Echeverria, Fernando, Klinkhammer, Gunnar, Thorne, Kip S., ...
The laws of physics might permit the existence, in the real Universe, of closed timelike curves (CTC’s). Macroscopic CTC’s might be a semiclassical consequence of Planck-scale, quantum...
Renormalized stress-energy tensor near the horizon of a slowly evolving, rotating black hole (1989)
Frolov, Valery P., Thorne, Kip S.
The renormalized expectation value of the stress-energy tensor〈Tμν〉^ren of a quantum field in an arbitrary quantum state near the future horizon of a rotating (Kerr) black hole is derived in...
Wormholes, time machines, and the weak energy condition (1988)
Morris, Michael S., Thorne, Kip S., Yurtsever, Ulvi
It is argued that, if the laws of physics permit an advanced civilization to create and maintain a wormhole in space for interstellar travel, then that wormhole can be converted into a time machine...
Membrane viewpoint on black holes: Properties and evolution of the stretched horizon (1986)
Price, Richard H., Thorne, Kip S.
This paper derives the ‘‘membrane formalism’’ for black holes. The membrane formalism rewrites the standard mathematical theory of black holes in a language and notation which (we hope) will...
Thorne, Kip S, Macdonald, Douglas A
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Statistical Mechanical Origin of the Entropy of a Rotating, Charged Black Hole (1985)
It is shown that the entropy of a rotating, charged black hole is, in senses made precise in the paper, (i) the logarithm of the number of quantum mechanically distinct ways that the hole could have...
Laws of motion and precession for black holes and other bodies (1985)
Thorne, Kip S., Hartle, James B.
Laws of motion and precession are derived for a Kerr black hole or any other body which is far from all other sources of gravity ("isolated body") and has multipole moments that change slowly with...
Braginsky, Vladimir B., Polnarev, Aleksander G., Thorne, Kip S.
An experiment is proposed for measuring the earth's gravitomagnetic field by monitoring its effect on the plane of swing of a Foucault pendulum at the south pole ("dragging of inertial frames by...
Multipole expansions of gravitational radiation (1980)
This paper brings together, into a single unified notation, the multipole formalisms for gravitational radiation which various people have constructed. It also extends the results of previous...
Gravitational-wave research: Current status and future prospects (1980)
There is a reasonably good change that in the 1980s cosmic gravitational waves will be discovered and will become a powerful tool for astronomy. This prospect has stimulated a three-pronged research...
Quantum Nondemolition Measurements of Harmonic Oscillators (1978)
Thorne, Kip S., Drever, Ronald W. P., Caves, Carlton M., Zimmermann, Mark, Sandberg, Vernon D.
The complex amplitude X1+iX2≡(x+ip / mω)e^(iωt) of a harmonic oscillator is constant in the absence of driving forces. Although the uncertainty principle forbids precise measurements of X1 and X2...
Laboratory experiments to test relativistic gravity (1977)
Braginsky, Vladimir B., Caves, Carlton M., Thorne, Kip S.
Advancing technology will soon make possible a new class of gravitation experiments: pure laboratory experiments with laboratory sources of non-Newtonian gravity and laboratory detectors. This paper...
A toroidal solution of the vacuum Einstein field equations (1975)
This paper presents a new solution to the vacuum Einstein field equations for the static external gravitational field of a toroidal singularity. This solution is unique among known toroidal solutions...
Foundations for a theory of gravitation theories (1973)
Thorne, Kip S., Lee, David L., Lightman, Alan P.
A foundation is laid for future analyses of gravitation theories. This foundation is applicable to any theory formulated in terms of geometric objects defined on a 4-dimensional spacetime manifold....
Gravitation / Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne, John Archibald Wheeler (1970)
Misner, Charles W, Thorne, Kip S., Wheeler, John Archibald
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Gravitational radiation damping (1968)
An analysis is presented of the emission of gravitational waves by a star in nonradial pulsation. This analysis, rigorous to first order in the pulsation amplitude and to all orders in G and c,...
Absolute stability of Melvin's magnetic universe (1965)
The physical structure of Melvin's magnetic universe is briefly examined and its dynamical behavior under arbitrarily large radial perturbations is discussed. It is shown that no radial perturbation...
Energy of infinitely long, cylindrically symmetric systems in general relativity (1965)
A definition of energy is proposed for systems invariant under rotations about, and translations along, a symmetry axis. This energy (which is called "cylindrical energy" or "C energy") takes the...
Geometrodynamics of cylindrical systems, (1965)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Princeton University, 1965.