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We revisit the three black hole scenario with numerical relativity techniques to study hierarchical configurations where the inner binary contains highly spinning black holes. We find that the merger time of the binary gets a delay (with a…

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Multi-body dynamical interactions of binaries with other objects are one of the main driving mechanisms for the evolution of star clusters. It is thus important to bring our understanding of three-body interactions beyond the commonly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-12 Taeho Ryu , Selma de Mink , Rob Farmer , Ruediger Pakmor , Rosalba Perna , Volker Springel

The spatial distribution of interactions in high energy collisions of heavy nuclei is discussed using the wounded nucleon, binary collision, hard sphere, and colliding disk parameterizations of interaction densities. The mean radius, its…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Jacobs , Glenn Cooper

We construct initial data suitable for the Kerr stability conjecture, that is, solutions to the constraint equations on a spacelike hypersurface with boundary entering the black hole horizon that are arbitrarily decaying perturbations of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Allen Juntao Fang , Jérémie Szeftel , Arthur Touati

In this work, we investigate head-on collisions of $\ell$-boson stars, potential candidates for dark matter compact objects. We begin with a review of the general properties and features of these stars, leveraging results from prior studies…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-09 Mariana Lira , Laura O. Villegas , Javier M. Antelis , Víctor Jaramillo , Claudia Moreno , Darío Núñez

The identification of the first confirmed neutron star - black hole (NS-BH) binary mergers by the LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA collaboration provides the opportunity to investigate the properties of the early sample of confirmed and candidate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-19 B. P. Gompertz , M. Nicholl , P. Schmidt , G. Pratten , A. Vecchio

Predictions on fluctuations of hadron production properties in central heavy ion collisions are presented. They are based on the Statistical Model of the Early Stage and extend previously published results by considering the strongly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-21 R. V. Poberezhnyuk , M. I. Gorenstein , M. Gazdzicki

We review the evolution of some statistical and thermodynamical quantities measured in difference sizes of high-energy collisions at different energies. We differentiate between intensive and extensive quantities and discuss the importance…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-10-03 A. Tawfik

Experiments involving copper-copper collisions at the RHIC-BNL (USA) at energies $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 22.5, 62 and 200 GeV have produced a vast amount of high-precision data which are to be analysed in the light of various competing models in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-13 P. Guptaroy , Goutam Sau , S. K. Biswas , S. Bhattacharyya

Finite-energy particles in free fall can collide with diverging center-of-mass energy near rapidly rotating black holes. What are the most salient observational signatures of this remarkable geometric effect? Here we revisit the problem…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-09 Delilah E. A. Gates , Shahar Hadar

In this short note I speculate on some consequences of the high energy collision picture in which the orbital angular momentum of the colliding hadrons can be converted into secondary particle angular spin momentum via some spin-orbital…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergei A. Voloshin

We consider collisions occurring between stars moving near the speed of light around supermassive black holes (SMBHs) with mass $M_{\bullet}\gtrsim10^8\,M_\odot$, without being tidally disrupted. In this SMBH range, for sun-like stars, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-28 Betty X. Hu , Abraham Loeb

The characteristic initial value problem has been implemented as a robust computational algorithm (the PITT NULL CODE), with direct application to binary black holes. The event horizon can be analyzed by characteristic techniques as a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Jeffrey Winicour

We study the inspiral, merger and ringdown of unequal mass black hole binaries by analyzing a catalogue of numerical simulations for seven different values of the mass ratio (from q=M2/M1=1 to q=4). We compare numerical and Post-Newtonian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Emanuele Berti , Vitor Cardoso , Jose A. Gonzalez , Ulrich Sperhake , Mark Hannam , Sascha Husa , Bernd Bruegmann

We discuss the effects of the black holes' spin-multipole structure in the orbital dynamics of binary black holes according to general relativity, focusing on the leading-post-Newtonian-order couplings at each order in an expansion in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-18 Justin Vines , Jan Steinhoff

It is known that, for shift-symmetric scalars, only a linear coupling with the Gauss-Bonnet invariant can introduce black hole hair. Such hairy black holes have a minimum mass, determined by the coupling of this interaction, and a scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-13 Farid Thaalba , Georgios Antoniou , Thomas P. Sotiriou

The collision of the hypersonic winds in early-type binaries produces shock heated gas, which radiates thermal X-ray emission, and relativistic electrons, which emit nonthermal radio emission. We review our current understanding of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. M. Pittard , S. M. Dougherty , R. F. Coker , M. F. Corcoran

We propose an on-shell description of spinning binary systems in gravitational theories where compact objects display scalar hair. The framework involves matter particles of arbitrary spin which, in addition to the minimal coupling to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-12 Adam Falkowski , Panagiotis Marinellis

We investigate the differences between several proposed formation scenarios for binary black holes (BBHs), including isolated stellar evolution, dynamical assembly in dense clusters and AGN disks, and primordial BHs. Our approach exploits…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-04 Emanuele Berti , Francesco Crescimbeni , Gabriele Franciolini , Simone Mastrogiovanni , Paolo Pani , Grégoire Pierra

The coalescence of a neutron star with a black hole is a primary science target of ground-based gravitational wave detectors. Constraining or measuring the neutron star spin directly from gravitational wave observations requires knowledge…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-23 Nick Tacik , Francois Foucart , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Curran Muhlberger , Lawrence E. Kidder , Mark A. Scheel , Bela Szilagyi