Publications

1. D. Gerosa and M. Kesden, PRECESSION. Dynamics of spinning black-hole binaries with PYTHON, Phys. Rev. D 93, 124066 (2016).


2. D. Trifirò, R. O’Shaughnessy, D. Gerosa, E. Berti, M. Kesden, T. Littenberg, and U. Sperhake, Distinguishing black-hole spin-orbit resonances by their gravitational wave signatures. II. Full parameter estimation, Phys. Rev. D 93, 044071 (2016).


3. D. Gerosa, M. Kesden, R. O’Shaughnessy, A. Klein, E. Berti, U. Sperhake, and D. Trifirò, Precession instability in binary black holes with aligned spins, Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 141102 (2015).


4. D. Gerosa, M. Kesden, U. Sperhake, E. Berti, and R. O’Shaughnessy, Multi-timescale analysis of phase transitions in precessing black-hole binaries, Phys. Rev. D 92, 064016 (2015).


5. M. Kesden, D. Gerosa, R. O’Shaughnessy, E. Berti, and U. Sperhake, Effective potentials and morphological transitions for binary black-hole spin precession, Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 081103 (2015).


6. D. Gerosa, R. O’Shaughnessy, M. Kesden, E. Berti, and U. Sperhake, Distinguishing black-hole spin-orbit resonances by their gravitational-wave signatures, Phys. Rev. D 89, 124025 (2014).


7. D. Gerosa, M. Kesden, E. Berti, R. O'Shaughnessy, and U. Sperhake, Resonant-plane locking and spin alignment in stellar-mass black-hole binaries: a diagnostic compact binary formation, Phys. Rev. D 87, 104028 (2013).


8. M. Kesden, Black-hole spin dependence in the light curves of tidal disruption events, Phys. Rev. D 86, 064026 (2012).


9. E. Berti, M.Kesden, and U. Sperhake, Effects of post-Newtonian spin alignment on the distribution of black-hole recoils, Phys. Rev. D 85, 124049 (2012).


10. M. Kesden, Tidal disruption rate of stars by spinning supermassive black holes, Phys. Rev. D 85, 024037 (2012).


11. M. Kesden, Black-hole mergers, in proceedings of the “Frank N. Bash Symposium 2011: New Horizons in Astronomy” PoS(Bash11)007.


12. M. Kesden and S. Hanasoge, Transient solar oscillations driven by primordial black holes, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 111101 (2011).


13. M. Kesden, Transition from adiabatic inspiral to plunge into a spinning black hole, Phys. Rev. D 83, 104011 (2011).


14. M. Kesden, G. Lockhart, and E. S. Phinney, Maximum black-hole spin from quasi-circular binary mergers, Phys. Rev. D 82, 124045 (2010).


15. M. Kesden, U. Sperhake, and E. Berti, Relativistic suppression of black hole recoils, Astrophys. J. 715, 1006 (2010).


16. M. Kesden, U. Sperhake, and E. Berti, Final spins from the merger of precessing binary black holes, Phys. Rev. D 81, 084054 (2010).


17. M. Kesden, Are symmetric tidal streams possible with long-range dark-matter forces?, Phys. Rev. D 80, 083530 (2009).


18. M. Kesden, Can binary mergers produce maximally spinning black holes?, Phys. Rev. D 78, 084030 (2008).


19. L. Boyle and M. Kesden, Spin expansion for binary black hole mergers: New predictions and future directions, Phys. Rev. D 78, 024017 (2008).


20. L. Boyle, M. Kesden, and S. Nissanke, Binary Black Hole Merger: Symmetry and the Spin Expansion, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 151101 (2008).


21. M. Kesden and M. Kamionkowski, Tidal tails test the equivalence principle in the dark-matter sector, Phys. Rev. D 74, 083007 (2006).


22. M. Kesden and M. Kamionkowski, Galilean Equivalence for Galactic Dark Matter, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 131303 (2006).


23. M. Kesden, Weak lensing of CMB temperature and polarization patterns: implications for large-scale structure, Proceedings of "CMB and Physics of the Early Universe" (CMB2006). 20-22 April 2006, Ischia, Italy.


24. M. Kesden, J. Gair, and M. Kamionkowski, Gravitational-wave signature of an inspiral into a supermassive horizonless object, Phys. Rev. D 71, 044015 (2005).


25. M. Kesden, M. Kamionkowski, and A. Cooray, Can Cosmic Shear Shed Light on Low Cosmic Microwave Background Multipoles?, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 221302 (2003).


26. M. Kesden, A. Cooray, and M. Kamionkowski, Lensing reconstruction with CMB temperature and polarization, Phys. Rev. D 67, 123507 (2003).


27. A. Cooray and M. Kesden, Weak lensing of the CMB: extraction of lensing information from the trispectrum, New Astronomy 8, 231 (2003).


28. M. Kesden, A. Cooray, and M. Kamionkowski, Weak lensing of the CMB: Cumulants of the probability distribution function, Phys. Rev. D 66, 123507 (2002).


29. M. Kesden, M. Kamionkowski, and A. Cooray, Separation of Gravitational-Wave and Cosmic-Shear Contributions to Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization, Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 011304 (2002).


30. T. Shutt, M. Kesden, S. Golwala, J. Emes, J. Hellmig, B. Sadoulet, and B. Young, Charge collection and electrode structures in ionization and phonon based dark matter detectors, LOW TEMPERATURE DETECTORS: Ninth International Workshop on Low Temperature Detectors. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 605, pp. 513-516 (2002).