Deformation of horizons during a merger

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AA9959zbMATH Open1382.83060arXiv1705.01510OpenAlexW3102516333MaRDI QIDQ4606576FDOQ4606576

Authors: Uzair Hussain, Ivan Booth 

Publication date: 8 March 2018

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

Abstract: We model an extreme mass ratio merger (EMR) as a point particle radially plunging into a large Schwarzschild black hole. We assume that the mass of the point particle, $mu$, is much smaller than the black hole mass M. Under this assumption we can employ the Zerilli formalism modified to include a source term which arises from the energy-momentum tensor of the small object. We solve the Zerilli equation by numerically evolving initial data. Then, we ray trace the null geodesics of the event horizon from after the merger backward in time to extract the geometry of the perturbed event horizon. Further, we take advantage of the axisymmetry of the setup to locate the apparent horizon and study its geometry.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.01510

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zbMATH Keywords

black hole perturbationsapparent horizon deformationblack hole mergersevent horizon deformationextreme mass ratio mergers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Galactic and stellar dynamics (85A05) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Black holes (83C57)

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