Gravitational waves from plunges into Gargantua

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DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AAB99EzbMATH Open1391.83033arXiv1712.07130OpenAlexW2777921073WikidataQ130068494 ScholiaQ130068494MaRDI QIDQ3177486FDOQ3177486


Authors: Geoffrey Compère, Kwinten Fransen, Thomas Hertog, Jiang Long Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 26 July 2018

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We analytically compute time domain gravitational waveforms produced in the final stages of extreme mass ratio inspirals of non-spinning compact objects into supermassive nearly extremal Kerr black holes. Conformal symmetry relates all corotating equatorial orbits in the geodesic approximation to circular orbits through complex conformal transformations. We use this to obtain the time domain Teukolsky perturbations for generic equatorial corotating plunges in closed form. The resulting gravitational waveforms consist of an intermediate polynomial ringdown phase in which the decay rate depends on the impact parameters, followed by an exponential quasi-normal mode decay. The waveform amplitude exhibits critical behavior when the orbital angular momentum tends to a minimal value determined by the innermost stable circular orbit. We show that either near-critical or large angular momentum leads to a significant extension of the LISA observable volume of gravitational wave sources of this kind.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.07130




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