Asymptotically matched spacetime metric for non-precessing, spinning black hole binaries

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/29/23/235013MaRDI QIDQ4900413zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Louis Gallouin, Hiroyuki Nakano, Nicolás Yunes, Manuela Campanelli

Publication date 24 January 2013

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1208.6489

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic matchingperturbed Kerr metricspinning black hole

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Black holes (83C57) Galactic and stellar dynamics (85A05)

Abstract: We construct a closed-form, fully analytical 4-metric that approximately represents the spacetime evolution of non-precessing, spinning black hole binaries from infinite separations up to a few orbits prior to merger. We employ the technique of asymptotic matching to join a perturbed Kerr metric in the neighborhood of each spinning black hole to a near-zone, post-Newtonian metric farther out. The latter is already naturally matched to a far-zone, post-Minkowskian metric that accounts for full temporal retardation. The result is a 4-metric that is approximately valid everywhere in space and in a small bundle of spatial hypersurfaces. We here restrict our attention to quasi- circular orbits, but the method is valid for any orbital motion or physical scenario, provided an overlapping region of validity or buffer zone exists. A simple extension of such a metric will allow for future studies of the accretion disk and jet dynamics around spinning back hole binaries.

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