Transition from inspiral to plunge in binary black hole coalescences

By A. Buonanno, T. Damour. 2000

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Combining recent techniques giving non-perturbative re-summed estimates of the damping and conservative parts of the two-body dynamics, we describe the transition between the adiabatic phase and the plunge, in coalescing binary black holes with comparable masses moving on quasi-circular orbits. We give initial dynamical data for numerical relativity investigations, with a fraction of an orbit left, and provide, for data analysis purposes, an estimate of the gravitational wave-form emitted throughout the inspiral, plunge and coalescence phases.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology with Gravitational Waves (2009, background): “Buonanno and Damour [96, 97] have proposed an EOB approach to two-body dynamics, which makes it possible to compute the orbit of the binary and hence the phasing of the gravitational waves emitted beyond the last stable orbit into the merger and ringdown phases in the evolution of the black hole bin”
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