We study head-on collisions of unequal mass black hole binaries in D=5 space-time dimensions, with mass ratios between 1:1 and 1:4. Information about gravitational radiation is extracted by using the Kodama-Ishibashi gauge-invariant formalism and details of the apparent horizon of the final black hole. For the first time, we present waveforms, total integrated energy and momentum for this process. Our results show surprisingly good agreement, within 5% or less, with those extrapolated from linearized, point-particle calculations. Our results also show that consistency with the area theorem bound requires that the same process in a large number of spacetime dimensions must display new features.
@article{arxiv.1011.0742,
title = {Head-on collisions of unequal mass black holes in D=5 dimensions},
author = {Helvi Witek and Vitor Cardoso and Leonardo Gualtieri and Carlos Herdeiro and Ulrich Sperhake and Miguel Zilhao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.0742},
year = {2011}
}
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10 pages, 5 figures, RevTex4. v2: Published version