Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2001-04-09
Phys.Rev. D65 (2002) 084016
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
13 pages; submitted to Phys. Rev D
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.65.084016
The non-linear generation of harmonics in gravitational perturbations of black holes is explored using numerical relativity based on an in-going light-cone framework. Localised, finite, perturbations of an isolated black hole are parametrised by amplitude and angular harmonic form. The response of the black hole spacetime is monitored and its harmonic content analysed to identify the strength of the non-linear generation of harmonics as a function of the initial data amplitude. It is found that overwhelmingly the black hole responds at the harmonic mode perturbed, even for spacetimes with 10% of the black hole mass radiated. The relative efficiencies of down and up-scattering in harmonic space are computed for a range of couplings. Down-scattering, leading to smoothing out of angular structure is found to be equally or more efficient than the up-scatterings that would lead to increased rippling. The details of this non-linear balance may form the quantitative mechanism by which black holes avoid fission even for arbitrary strong distortions.
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