Inspiralling black holes: the close limit
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2011-07-19 v1 Astrophysics
Abstract
Using several approximations, we calculate an estimate of the gravitational radiation emitted when two equal mass black holes coalesce at the end of their binary inspiral. We find that about 1% of the mass energy of the pair will emerge as gravitational waves during the final ringdown and a negligible fraction of the angular momentum will be radiated.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9905081,
title = {Inspiralling black holes: the close limit},
author = {Gaurav Khanna and John Baker and Reinaldo Gleiser and Pablo Laguna and Carlos Nicasio and Hans-Peter Nollert and Richard Price and Jorge Pullin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9905081},
year = {2011}
}
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4 pages, RevTeX, 2 figures