Fundamental frequencies and resonances from eccentric and precessing binary black hole inspirals

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AA66F4zbMATH Open1367.83026arXiv1611.03418OpenAlexW2570385327MaRDI QIDQ5283531FDOQ5283531

Authors: Adam G. M. Lewis, Aaron Zimmerman, Harald P. Pfeiffer 

Publication date: 24 July 2017

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

Abstract: Binary black holes which are both eccentric and undergo precession remain unexplored in numerical simulations. We present simulations of such systems which cover about 50 orbits at comparatively high mass ratios 5 and 7. The configurations correspond to the generic motion of a nonspinning body in a Kerr spacetime, and are chosen to study the transition from finite mass-ratio inspirals to point particle motion in Kerr. We develop techniques to extract analogs of the three fundamental frequencies of Kerr geodesics, compare our frequencies to those of Kerr, and show that the differences are consistent with self-force corrections entering at first order in mass ratio. This analysis also locates orbital resonances where the ratios of our frequencies take rational values. At the considered mass ratios, the binaries pass through resonances in one to two resonant cycles, and we find no discernible effects on the orbital evolution. We also compute the decay of eccentricity during the inspiral and find good agreement with the leading order post-Newtonian prediction.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.03418

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zbMATH Keywords

resonancesgeodesicsgravitational wavesbinary black holesextreme mass ratio inspirals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Galactic and stellar dynamics (85A05) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Black holes (83C57) Gravitational waves (83C35)

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