Gravitational Capture of Cosmic Strings by a Black Hole
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2009-10-30 v1
Abstract
The gravitational interaction of an infinitely long cosmic string with a Schwarzschild black hole is studied. We consider a straight string that is initially at a great distance and moving at some initial velocity v (0 < v < c) towards the black hole. The equations of motion of the string are solved numerically to obtain the dependence of the capture impact parameter on the initial velocity.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9711045,
title = {Gravitational Capture of Cosmic Strings by a Black Hole},
author = {Jean-Pierre De Villiers and Valeri P. Frolov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9711045},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
15 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Phys Rev D