Black hole binary inspiral and trajectory dominance

Black hole binary inspiral and trajectory dominance

Gravitational waves emitted during the inspiral, plunge and merger of a black hole binary carry linear momentum. This results in an astrophysically important recoil to the final merged black hole, a "kick" that can eject it from the nucleus of a galaxy. In a previous paper we showed that t...

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Main Authors: Price, Richard H. (Author), Khanna, Gaurav (Author), Hughes, Scott A (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor), MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (Contributor), Hughes, Scott A. (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: American Physical Society, 2014-07-22T13:54:06Z.
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