John Baker 2003 Class. Quantum Grav. 20 S201 doi:10.1088/0264-9381/20/10/323
John Baker
Show affiliationsThe final burst of radiation from the coalescence of two supermassive black holes produces extraordinary gravitational wave luminosity making these events visible to LISA even out to large redshift. Interpreting such observations will require detailed theoretical models, based on general relativity. The effort to construct these models is just beginning to produce results. I describe the Lazarus approach to modelling these radiation bursts, and present recent results which indicate that the system loses, in the last few wave cycles, about 3% of its mass–energy as strongly polarized gravitational radiation.
04.70.-s Physics of black holes
04.25.Nx Post-Newtonian approximation; perturbation theory; related approximations
83C25 Approximation procedures, weak fields
83C05 Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems)
Issue 10 (21 May 2003)
Received 12 December 2002
Published 29 April 2003
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