Gravity-dominated unequal-mass black hole collisions
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- PhysRevD.93.044012
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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.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 044012 |
Journal | Physical Review D |
Volume | 93 |
Issue number | 4 |
Number of pages | 5 |
ISSN | 2470-0010 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 4 Feb 2016 |
Externally published | Yes |
- NUMERICAL RELATIVITY, GRAVITATIONAL-RADIATION
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