Multipole analysis of kicks in collision of spinning binary black holes

DOI10.1007/S10714-008-0682-9zbMATH Open1169.83012arXiv0807.3028OpenAlexW1653266808MaRDI QIDQ1016004FDOQ1016004

Richard Matzner, Sarah H. Miller

Publication date: 4 May 2009

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Thorne and Kidder give expressions which allow for analytical estimates of the "kick", it i.e. the recoil, produced from asymmetrical gravitational radiation during the interaction of black holes, or in fact any gravitating compact bodies. (The Thorne-Kidder formula uses momentum flux calculations based on the linearized General Relativity of gravitational radiation.) We specifically treat kicks arising in the binary interaction of equal mass black holes, when at least one of the black holes has significant spin, a. Such configurations can produce very large kicks in computational simulations. We consider both fly-by and quasicircular orbits. For fly-by orbits we find substantial kicks from those Thorne-Kidder terms which are linear in a. For the quasi-circular case, we consider in addition the nonlinear contribution (O(a^2)) to the kicks, and provide a dynamical explanation for such terms. However, in the cases of maximal kick velocities, the dependence on spin is largely linear (reproduced in numerical results).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.3028

zbMATH Keywords

black hole physicsgravitationrelativitygravitational wavesnucleigalaxies

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Black holes (83C57)

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