Gravity-dominated unequal-mass black hole collisions

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We continue our series of studies of high-energy collisions of black holes investigating unequal-mass, boosted head-on collisions in four dimensions. We show that the fraction of the center-of-mass energy radiated as gravitational waves becomes independent of mass ratio and approximately equal to 13% at large energies. We support this conclusion with calculations using black hole perturbation theory and Smarr's zero-frequency limit approximation. These results lend strong support to the conjecture that the detailed structure of the colliding objects is irrelevant at high energies.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
Artikelnummer044012
TidsskriftPhysical Review D
Vol/bind93
Udgave nummer4
Antal sider5
ISSN2470-0010
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 4 feb. 2016
Eksternt udgivetJa

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