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Gravitational waves from black hole collisions via an eclectic approach

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John Baker1, Bernd Brügmann1, Manuela Campanelli1 and Carlos O Lousto1,2

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

We present the first results in a new program intended to make the best use of all available technologies to provide an effective understanding of waves from inspiralling black hole binaries in time to assist imminent observations. In particular, we address the problem of combining the close-limit approximation describing ringing black holes and full numerical relativity, required for essentially nonlinear interactions. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach using general methods for a model problem, the head-on collision of black holes. Our method allows a more direct physical understanding of these collisions indicating clearly when non-linear methods are important. The success of this method supports our expectation that this unified approach will be able to provide relevant results for black hole binaries in time to assist gravitational wave observations.


PACS

04.30.-w Gravitational waves

04.25.-g Approximation methods; equations of motion

04.70.-s Physics of black holes

MSC

83C57 Black holes

83C25 Approximation procedures, weak fields

83C35 Gravitational waves

Subjects

Gravitation and cosmology

Dates

Issue 20 (21 October 2000)

Received 19 September 2000



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