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William E. East

Researcher at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

Publications -  64
Citations -  2662

William E. East is an academic researcher from Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. The author has contributed to research in topics: Black hole & Gravitational wave. The author has an hindex of 27, co-authored 50 publications receiving 1861 citations. Previous affiliations of William E. East include Princeton University & SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

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Prospects for Fundamental Physics with LISA

Enrico Barausse, +320 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the future potential of the LISA mission in the area of fundamental physics is further delineated and sharpen by identifying the sources that are currently expected to provide the principal contribution to our knowledge, and the areas that need further development.
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Superradiant Instability and Backreaction of Massive Vector Fields around Kerr Black Holes.

TL;DR: The growth and saturation of the superradiant instability of a complex, massive vector (Proca) field as it extracts energy and angular momentum from a spinning black hole is studied using numerical solutions of the full Einstein-Proca equations.
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Beginning inflation in an inhomogeneous universe

TL;DR: In this paper, the conditions under which a universe that is initially expanding, highly inhomogeneous and dominated by gradient energy can transition to an inflationary period were studied, where the initial scalar field variations are contained within a sufficiently flat region of the inflaton potential, and the universe is spatially flat or open on average.
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Relativistic simulations of eccentric binary neutron star mergers: One-arm spiral instability and effects of neutron star spin

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of the initial spin of a binary neutron star in a dynamical capture binary system was investigated, and it was shown that even moderate spins can significantly increase the amount of ejected material, including the amount unbound with velocities greater than half the speed of light.
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Superradiant instability of massive vector fields around spinning black holes in the relativistic regime

TL;DR: In this article, the superradiant instability of massive vector fields around spinning black holes in the test field limit was studied, and the authors showed that relativistic effects in this regime increase the range of Proca masses that are unstable, as well as the maximum instability rate.