Orbiting black-hole binaries and apparent horizons in higher dimensions

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AAE995MaRDI QIDQ5218341zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors William G. Cook, Diandian Wang, Ulrich Sperhake

Publication date 2 March 2020

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.05834, https://authors.library.caltech.edu/90869/

zbMATH Keywords

black holesgravitational waveshigher dimensional relativitynumerical relativity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computational methods for problems pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-08) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Gravitational waves (83C35) Black holes (83C57) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) Galactic and stellar dynamics (85A05)

Abstract: We study gravitational wave emission and the structure and formation of apparent horizons in orbiting black-hole binary systems in higher-dimensional general relativity. For this purpose we present an apparent horizon finder for use in higher dimensional numerical simulations and test the finder's accuracy and consistency in single and binary black-hole spacetimes. The black-hole binaries we model in $D=6$ dimensions complete up to about one orbit before merging or scatter off each other without formation of a common horizon. In agreement with the absence of stable circular geodesic orbits around higher-dimensional black holes, we do not find binaries completing multiple orbits without finetuning of the initial data. All binaries radiate about $0.13,\mathrm{\%}$ to $0.2,\mathrm{\%}$ of the total mass-energy in gravitational waves, over an order of magnitude below the radiated energy measured for four-dimensional binaries. The low radiative efficiency is accompanied by relatively slow dynamics of the binaries as expected from the more rapid falloff of the binding gravitational force in higher dimensions.

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Uses Software

• Cactus
• AHFinderDirect

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