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Decoding the final state in binary black hole mergers

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-06-22 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Authors: James Healy , Pablo Laguna , Deirdre Shoemaker
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Abstract

We demonstrate that in binary black hole mergers there is a direct correlation between the frequency of the gravitational wave at peak amplitude and the mass and spin of the final black hole. This correlation could potentially assist with the analysis of gravitational wave observations from binary black hole mergers.

Keywords

binary black hole mergers black hole superradiance gravitational wave astronomy

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@article{arxiv.1407.5989,
  title  = {Decoding the final state in binary black hole mergers},
  author = {James Healy and Pablo Laguna and Deirdre Shoemaker},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.5989},
  year   = {2015}
}

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