Cross section, final spin, and zoom-whirl behavior in high-energy black-hole collisions

Ulrich Sperhake; Vitor Cardoso; Frans Pretorius; Emanuele Berti; Tanja Hinderer; Nicolas Yunes

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.131102

Cross section, final spin, and zoom-whirl behavior in high-energy black-hole collisions

Ulrich Sperhake, Vitor Cardoso, Frans Pretorius, Emanuele Berti, Tanja Hinderer, Nicolas Yunes

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We study the collision of two highly boosted equal-mass, nonrotating black holes with generic impact parameter. We find such systems to exhibit zoom-whirl behavior when fine-tuning the impact parameter. Near the threshold of immediate merger the remnant black-hole Kerr parameter can be near maximal (a/M0.95) and the radiated energy can be as large as 35±5% of the center-of-mass energy.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	131102
Journal	Physical review letters
Volume	103
Issue number	13
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.131102
State	Published - Sep 22 2009

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