Binary black holes coalescence: transition from adiabatic inspiral to plunge
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
Using two recent techniques giving non-perturbative re-summed estimates of the damping and of the conservative part of the dynamics of two-body systems, we describe the transition between adiabatic inspiral and plunge in binary non-spinning black holes moving along quasi-circular orbits.
Cite
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0011052,
title = {Binary black holes coalescence: transition from adiabatic inspiral to plunge},
author = {Alessandra Buonanno and Thibault Damour},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0011052},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
2 pages; contributed paper to the IX Marcel Grossmann Meeting in Rome, July 2000