Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2008-03-31
Phys.Rev.D77:124050,2008
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
11 pages, 6 figures. Accepted by Phys. Rev. D. New version addresses referee's comments
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.77.124050
The inspiral of a stellar mass compact object falling into a massive Kerr black hole can be broken into three different regimes: An adiabatic inspiral phase, where the inspiral timescale is much larger than the orbital period; a late-time radial infall, which can be approximated as a plunging geodesic; and a regime where the body transitions from the inspiral to plunge. In earlier work, Ori and Thorne have outlined a method to compute the trajectory during this transition for a compact object in a circular, equatorial orbit. We generalize this technique to include inclination and eccentricity.
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