Here are refereed papers and reviews which I have authored or coauthored, in chronological order. I give journal reference and arXiv number, where available.

1. Finding black holes in numerical spacetimes
Reference: Physical Review D 49, 4004 (1994).
Full author list: Scott A. Hughes, Charles R. Keeton, II, Paul Walker, Kevin T. Walsh, Stuart L. Shapiro, Saul A. Teukolsky.

WARNING! PDF file is from a scanned version of the print paper; some of the figures look awful.

2. Central density of a neutron star is unaffected by a binary companion at linear order in mu/R
Reference: Physical Review Letters 79, 1186 (1997); gr-qc/9704019.
Full author list: Patrick R. Brady and Scott A. Hughes.

3. Measuring gravitational waves from binary black hole coalescences.
I. Signal to noise for inspiral, merger, and ringdown

Reference: Physical Review D 57, 4535 (1998); gr-qc/9701039.
Full author list: Éanna E. Flanagan and Scott A. Hughes.

4. Measuring gravitational waves from binary black hole coalescences.
II. The waves' information and its extraction, with and without templates

Reference: Physical Review D 57, 4566 (1998); gr-qc/9710129.
Full author list: Éanna E. Flanagan and Scott A. Hughes.

5. Seismic gravity-gradient noise in interferometric gravitational-wave detectors
Reference: Physical Review D 58, 122002 (1998); gr-qc/9806018.
Full author list: Scott A. Hughes and Kip S. Thorne.

6. Observational limit on gravitational waves from binary neutron stars in the galaxy
Reference: Physical Review Letters 83, 1498 (1999); gr-qc/9903108.
Full author list: B. Allen, J. K. Blackburn, P. R. Brady, J. D. E. Creighton, T. Creighton, S. Droz, A. D. Gillespie, S. A. Hughes, S. Kawamura, T. T. Lyons, J. E. Mason, B. J. Owen, F. J. Raab, M. W. Regehr, B. S. Sathyaprakash, R. L. Savage, S. Whitcomb, A. G. Wiseman.

7. Evolving Einstein's field equations with matter: The "hydro without hydro" test
Reference: Physical Review D Brief Reports 60, 087501 (1999); gr-qc/9902024.
Full author list: Thomas W. Baumgarte, Scott A. Hughes, Stuart L. Shapiro.

8. The evolution of circular, non-equatorial orbits of Kerr black holes due to gravitational-wave emission
(see also this paper's erratum 1, erratum 2, erratum 3, and erratum 4).
Reference: Physical Review D 61, 084004 (2000); gr-qc/9910091.
Errata: Physical Review D 63, 049902(E) (2001); Physical Review D 65, 069902(E) (2002); Physical Review D 67, 089901(E) (2003); Physical Review D 78, 109902(E) (2008).
Full author list: Scott A. Hughes.

9. Computing radiation from Kerr black holes: Generalization of the Sasaki-Nakamura equation
(see also this paper's erratum).
Reference: Physical Review D 62, 044029 (2000); gr-qc/0002043.
Erratum: Physical Review D 67, 089902(E) (2003).
Full author list: Scott A. Hughes.

10. Comment on "Gravity waves, Chaos, and Spinning Compact Binaries"
Reference: Physical Review Letters 85, 5480 (2000); gr-qc/0101024.
Full author list: Scott A. Hughes.

11. Nearly horizon skimming orbits of Kerr black holes
Reference: Physical Review D 63, 064016 (2001); gr-qc/0101023.
Full author list: Scott A. Hughes.

12. Evolution of circular, non-equatorial orbits of Kerr black holes due to gravitational-wave emission:
II. Inspiral trajectories and gravitational waveforms

Reference: Physical Review D 64, 064004 (2001); gr-qc/0104041.
Full author list: Scott A. Hughes.

13. Gravitational wave emission from core collapse of massive stars
Reference: Astrophysical Journal 565, 430 (2002); astro-ph/0106113.
Full author list: Chris L. Fryer, Daniel E. Holz, and Scott A. Hughes.

14. Untangling the merger history of massive black holes with LISA
Reference: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 331, 805 (2002); astro-ph/0108483.
Full author list: Scott A. Hughes.

15. New physics and astronomy with the new gravitational-wave observatories
Reference: Proceedings of the APS / DPF / DPB Summer Study on the Future of Particle Physics (Snowmass 2001), edited by R. Davidson and C. Quigg, eConf C010630 (2001) P402; astro-ph/0110349.
Full author list: Scott A. Hughes, Szabolcs Márka, Peter L. Bender, Craig J. Hogan.

16. Approximating the inspiral of test bodies into Kerr black holes
Reference: Physical Review D 66, 064005 (2002); gr-qc/0205033.
Full author list: Kostas Glampedakis, Scott A. Hughes, and Daniel Kennefick.

17. Black hole mass and spin coevolution by mergers
Reference: Astrophysical Journal Letters 585, L101 (2003); astro-ph/0208484.
Full author list: Scott A. Hughes and Roger D. Blandford.

18. Tuning gravitational-wave detector networks to measure compact binary mergers
Reference: Physical Review D 66, 102001 (2002); gr-qc/0209012.
Full author list: Scott A. Hughes.

19. Listening to the universe with gravitational-wave astronomy
Reference: Annals of Physics 303, 142 (2003); astro-ph/0210481.
Full author list: Scott A. Hughes.

20. Rotating black hole orbit functionals in the frequency domain
Reference: Physical Review D 69, 044015 (2004); astro-ph/0308479.
Full author list: Steve Drasco and Scott A. Hughes.

21. How black holes get their kicks: Gravitational radiation recoil revisited
Reference: Astrophysical Journal Letters 607, L5 (2004); astro-ph/0402056.
Full author list: Marc Favata, Scott A. Hughes, and Daniel E. Holz.

22. Consequences of gravitational radiation recoil
Reference: Astrophysical Journal Letters 607, L9 (2004); astro-ph/0402057.
Full author list: David Merritt, Milos Milosavljevic, Marc Favata, Scott A. Hughes, and Daniel E. Holz.

23. Towards a formalism for mapping the spacetimes of massive compact objects: Bumpy black holes and their orbits
Reference: Physical Review D 69, 124022 (2004); gr-qc/0402063.
Full author list: Nathan A. Collins and Scott A. Hughes.

24. Gravitational waves from stellar collapse: Correlations to explosion asymmetries
Reference: Astrophysical Journal 609, 288 (2004); astro-ph/0403188.
Full author list: Chris L. Fryer, Daniel E. Holz, and Scott A. Hughes.

25. Golden binary gravitational-wave sources: Robust probes of strong-field gravity
Reference: Astrophysical Journal 623, 689 (2005); astro-ph/0410148.
Full author list: Scott A. Hughes and Kristen Menou.

26. The basics of gravitational wave theory
Reference: New Journal of Physics 7, 204 (2005), special issue "Spacetime 100 Years Later"; gr-qc/0501041.
Full author list: Éanna E. Flanagan and Scott A. Hughes.

27. Gravitational radiation reaction and inspiral waveforms in the adiabatic limit
Reference: Physical Review Letters 94, 221101 (2005); gr-qc/0504015.
Full author list: Scott A. Hughes, Steve Drasco, Éanna E. Flanagan and Joel Franklin.

28. Using gravitational-wave standard sirens
Reference: Astrophysical Journal 629, 15 (2005); astro-ph/0504616.
Full author list: Daniel E. Holz and Scott A. Hughes.

29. Computing inspirals in Kerr in the adiabatic regime. I. The scalar case
Reference: Classical and Quantum Gravity 22, S801 (2005); gr-qc/0505075.
Full author list: Steve Drasco, Éanna E. Flanagan and Scott A. Hughes.

30. Gravitational wave snapshots of generic extreme mass ratio inspirals
Reference: Physical Review D 73, 024027 (2006); gr-qc/0509101.
Full author list: Steve Drasco and Scott A. Hughes.

31. Trust but verify: The case for astrophysical black holes
Reference: Writeup of lectures given at the 2005 SLAC Summer Institute; hep-ph/0511217.
Full author list: Scott A. Hughes.

32. Short GRB and binary black hole standard sirens as a probe of dark energy
Reference: Physical Review D 74, 063006 (2006); astro-ph/0601275.
Full author list: Neal Dalal, Daniel E. Holz, Scott A. Hughes, and Bhuvnesh Jain.

33. "Kludge" gravitational waveforms for a test body orbiting a Kerr black hole
Reference: Physical Review D 75, 024005 (2007); gr-qc/0607007.
Full author list: Stanislav Babak, Hua Fang, Jonathan R. Gair, Kostas Glampedakis, and Scott A. Hughes.

34. Measuring coalescing massive binary black holes with gravitational waves: The impact of spin-induced precession
(see also this paper's erratum 1 and erratum 2.)
Reference: Physical Review D 74, 122001 (2006); gr-qc/0608062.
Erratum: Physical Review D 75, 089902(E) (2007).
Erratum: Physical Review D 77, 109901(E) (2008).
Full author list: Ryan N. Lang and Scott A. Hughes.

35. Towards adiabatic waveforms for inspiral into Kerr black holes: I. A new model of the source for the time domain perturbation equation
Reference: Physical Review D 76, 104005 (2007); gr-qc/0703028.
Full author list: Pranesh A. Sundararajan, Gaurav Khanna, and Scott A. Hughes.

36. Circular and non-circular nearly horizon-skimming orbits in Kerr spacetimes
Reference: Physical Review D 76, 044007 (2007); arXiv:0704.0138.
Full author list: Enrico Barausse, Scott A. Hughes, and Luciano Rezzolla.

37. Localizing coalescing massive black hole binaries with gravitational waves
Reference: Astrophysical Journal 677, 1184 (2008); arXiv:0710.3795.
Full author list: Ryan N. Lang and Scott A. Hughes.

38. Towards adiabatic waveforms for inspiral into Kerr black holes: II. Dynamical sources and generic orbits
Reference: Physical Review D 78, 024022 (2008); arXiv:0803.0317.
Full author list: Pranesh A. Sundararajan, Gaurav Khanna, Scott A. Hughes, and Steve Drasco.

39. Gravitational-wave confusion background from cosmological compact binaries: Implications for future terrestrial detectors
Reference: Physical Review D 79, 062002 (2009); arXiv:0901.2958.
Full author list: Tania Regimbau and Scott A. Hughes.

40. Gravitational waves from merging compact binaries
Reference: Annual Reviews of Astronomy and Astrophysics 47, 107 (2009); arXiv:0903.4877.
Full author list: Scott A. Hughes.

41. Exploring short gamma-ray bursts as gravitational-wave standard sirens
Reference: Astrophysical Journal 725, 496 (2010); arXiv:0904.1017.
Full author list: Samaya Nissanke, Scott A. Hughes, Daniel E. Holz, Neal Dalal, and Jonathan L. Sievers.

42. Modeling extreme mass-ratio inspirals within the effective-one-body approach
Reference: Physical Review Letters 104, 091102 (2010); arXiv:0909.4263
Full author list: Nicolás Yunes, Alessandra Buonanno, Scott A. Hughes, M. Coleman Miller, and Yi Pan.

43. Spacetime and orbits of bumpy black holes
Reference: Physical Review D 81, 024030 (2010); arXiv:0911.1756
Full author list: Sarah J. Vigeland and Scott A. Hughes.

44. Binary black hole merger gravitational waves and recoil in the large mass ratio limit
Reference: Physical Review D 81, 104009 (2010); arXiv:1003.0485
Full author list: Pranesh A. Sundararajan, Gaurav Khanna, and Scott A. Hughes.

45. Binary pulsar constraints on the parameterized post-Einsteinian framework
Reference: Physical Review D 82, 082002 (2010); arXiv:1007.1995
Full author list: Nicolás Yunes and Scott A. Hughes.

46. On the falloff of radiated energy in black hole spacetimes
Reference: Physical Review D 82, 104029 (2010); arXiv:1007.4596
Full author list: Lior M. Burko and Scott A. Hughes.

47. Extreme-mass-ratio inspirals in the effective-one-body approach: Quasi-circular, equatorial orbits around a spinning black hole
Reference: Physical Review D 83, 044044 (2011); arXiv:1009.6013
Full author list: Nicolás Yunes, Alessandra Buonanno, Scott A. Hughes, Yi Pan, Enrico Barausse, M. Coleman Miller, and William Throwe.

48. Measuring parameters of massive black hole binaries with partially aligned spins
Reference: Physical Review D 84, 022002 (2011); arXiv:1101.3591
Full author list: Ryan N. Lang, Scott A. Hughes, and Neil J. Cornish.

49. Systematics of black hole binary inspiral kicks and the slowness approximation
Reference: Physical Review D 83, 124002 (2011); arXiv:1104.0387
Full author list: Richard H. Price, Gaurav Khanna, and Scott A. Hughes.

50. Modeling multipolar gravitational-wave emission from small mass-ratio mergers
Reference: Physical Review D 85, 024046 (2012); arXiv:1110.3081
Full author list: Enrico Barausse, Alessandra Buonanno, Scott A. Hughes, Gaurav Khanna, Stephen O'Sullivan, and Yi Pan

51. Resonantly enhanced and diminished strong-field gravitational-wave fluxes
Reference: Physical Review D, submitted; arXiv:1208.3906
Full author list: Éanna E. Flanagan, Scott A. Hughes, and Uchupol Ruangsri

52. Modeling the horizon-absorbed gravitational flux for equatorial-circular orbits in Kerr spacetime
Reference: Physical Review D, submitted; arXiv:1305.2183
Full author list: Andrea Taracchini, Alessandra Buonanno, Scott A. Hughes, and Guarav Khanna


The following papers were submitted to Astro 2010, the Decadal Survey in Astronomy and Astrophysics.

1. Coordinated Science in the Gravitational and Electromagnetic Skies
Reference: arxiv:0902.1527
Full author list: Joshua S. Bloom, Daniel E. Holz, Scott A. Hughes, and Kristen Menou (plus 37 co-signing authors).

2. Massive Black Holes Across Cosmic Time
Reference: arxiv:0903.0097
Full author list: P. Madau, T. Abel, P. Bender, T. Di Matteo, Z. Haiman, S. Hughes, A. Loeb, E. Phinney, J. Primack, T. Prince, M. Rees, D. Richstone, B. Schutz, K. Thorne, and M. Volonteri

3. Will Einstein Have the Last Word on Gravity?
Reference: arxiv:0903.0100
Full author list: Bernard F. Schutz, Joan Centrella, Curt Cutler, and Scott A. Hughes.


The following papers are conference proceedings or other non-refereed publications. (I try to avoid writing such papers when possible! --- I'd rather spend my time writing a "real" paper for a refereed journal. In some cases, it can't be avoided.)

1. Implementing fully relativistic hydrodynamics in three dimensions
Reference: General Relativity and Relativistic Astrophysics - Eighth Canadian Conference, edited by C. P. Burgess and R. C. Myers (AIP Conference Proceedings 493, Melville, New York, 1999); gr-qc/9907098.
Full author list: Thomas W. Baumgarte, Scott A. Hughes, Luciano Rezzolla, Stuart L. Shapiro, Masaru Shibata.

2. Gravitational waves from inspiral into massive black holes
Reference: Gravitational Waves --- Proceedings of the Third Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves, edited by Sydney Meshkov (AIP Conference Proceedings 523, Melville, New York, 2000); gr-qc/9912031.
Full author list: Scott A. Hughes.

3. Gravitational waves from extreme mass ratio inspirals:
Challenges in mapping the spacetime of massive, compact objects

Reference: Proceedings of the 3rd International LISA Symposium, edited by Bernard Schutz: Classical and Quantum Gravity 18, 4067 (2001); gr-qc/0008058.
Full author list: Scott A. Hughes.

4. Gravitational Waves from Core Collapse
Reference: Gravitational-Wave Detection, SPIE Proceedings Volume 4856, edited by P. Saulson and M. Cruise; from the meeting "Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 2002".
Full author list: Chris L. Fryer, Michael S. Warren, Daniel E. Holz, Scott A. Hughes, and Rejean Dupuis.

5. Stellar collapse and gravitational waves
Reference: "Stellar Collapse", edited by C. L. Fryer (Astrophysics and Space Science Library, Kluwer Academic, Amsterdam, 2004), p. 373; astro-ph/0211609.
Full author list: Chris L. Fryer, Daniel E. Holz, Scott A. Hughes and Michael S. Warren.

6. Cosmology with coalescing massive black holes
Reference: Proceedings of the 4th International LISA Symposium, edited by L. Samuel Finn: Classical and Quantum Gravity 20, S65 (2003); astro-ph/0212218.
Full author list: Scott A. Hughes and Daniel E. Holz.

7. Gravitational-wave physics
Reference: Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics, edited by Frank Avignone and Wick Haxton: Nuclear Physics B 138, 429 (2005).
Full author list: Scott A. Hughes.

8. How black holes get their kicks: Radiation recoil in binary black hole mergers
Reference: Accretion in a Cosmological Context, edited by A. Merloni, S. Nayakshin, and R. Sunyaev (Springer-Verlag series of "ESO Astrophysics Symposia", Berlin, 2005); astro-ph/0408492.
Full author list: Scott A. Hughes, Marc Favata, and Daniel E. Holz.

9. (Sort of) Testing relativity with extreme mass ratio inspirals
Reference: Laser Interferometer Space Antenna --- Proceedings of the Sixth International LISA Symposium, edited by S. M. Merkowitz and J. C. Livas (AIP Conference Proceedings 873, Melville, New York, 2006); gr-qc/0608140.
Full author list: Scott A. Hughes.

10. A brief survey of LISA sources and science
Reference: Laser Interferometer Space Antenna --- Proceedings of the Sixth International LISA Symposium, edited by S. M. Merkowitz and J. C. Livas (AIP Conference Proceedings 873, Melville, New York, 2006); gr-qc/0609028.
Full author list: Scott A. Hughes.

11. The science benefits and preliminary design of the Southern Hemisphere gravitational wave detector AIGO
Reference: Journal of Physics: Conference Series 122, 012001 (2008).
Full author list: D. G. Blair, P. Barriga, A. F. Brooks, P. Charlton, D. Coward, J.-C. Dumas, Y. Fan, D. Galloway, S. Gras, D. J. Hosken, E. Howell, S. Hughes, L. Ju, D. E. McClelland, A. Melatos, H. Miao, J. Munch, S. M. Scott, B. J. J. Slagmolen, P. J. Veitch, L. Wen, J. K. Webb, A. Wolley, Z. Yan, C. Zhao.

12. Advanced localization of massive black hole coalescences with LISA
Reference: Proceedings of the Seventh International LISA Symposium, Classical and Quantum Gravity 26, 094035 (2009); arXiv:0810.5125.
Full author list: Ryan N. Lang and Scott A. Hughes

13. Massive black hole binary inspirals: Results from the LISA Parameter Estimation Taskforce
Reference: Proceedings of the Seventh International LISA Symposium, Classical and Quantum Gravity 26, 094027 (2009); arXiv:0811.1011.
Full author list: K. G. Arun, Stas Babak, Emanuele Berti, Neil Cornish, Curt Cutler, Jonathan Gair, Scott A. Hughes, Bala R. Iyer, Ryan N. Lang, Ilya Mandel, Edward K. Porter, B. S. Sathyaprakash, Siddhartha Sinha, Alicia M. Sintes, Miquel Trias, Chris Van Den Broeck, and Marta Volonteri.

14. Confusion background from compact binaries
Reference: Journal of Physics: Conference Series 228, 012009 (2010); arXiv:0911.1043.
Full author list: Tania Regimbau and Scott A. Hughes

15. AIGO: a southern hemisphere detector for the worldwide array of ground-based interferometric gravitational wave detectors
Reference: Proceedings of the Eighth Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves, Classical and Quantum Gravity 27, 084005 (2010).
Full author list: P. Barriga, D. G. Blair, D. Coward, J. Davidson, J.-C. Dumas, E. Howell, L. Ju, L. Wen, C. Zhao, D. E. McClelland, S. M. Scott, B. J. J. Slagmolen, R. Inta, J. Munch, D. J. Ottaway, P. Veitch, D. Hosken, A. Melatos, C. Chung, L. Sammut, D. K. Galloway, J. Marx, S. Whitcomb, D. Shoemaker, S. A. Hughes, D. H. Reitze, B. R. Iyer, S. V. Dhurandhar, T. Souradeep, C. S. Unnikrishnan, G. Rajalakshmi, C. N. Man, A. Heidmann, P.-F. Cohadon, T. Briant, H. Grote, K. Danzmann, H. Lück, B. Willke, K. A. Strain, B. S. Sathyaprakash, J. Cao, Y.-K. E. Cheung, and Y. Zhang

16. Probing strong-field gravity and black holes with gravitational waves
Reference: Proceedings of the 19th Workshop on General Relativity and Gravitation in Japan; arXiv:1002.2591.
Full author list: Scott A. Hughes


There's also my Ph.D. thesis:

Gravitational-wave astronomy: Aspects of the theory of binary sources and interferometric detectors.


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