Binary Black Hole Mergers, Gravitational Waves, and LISA

Details Binary Black Hole Mergers, Gravitational Waves, and LISA Binary Black Hole Mergers, Gravitational Waves, and LISA

Dec 2007

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007aas...21114002c&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #211, #140.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 39, p.989

Statistics

Computation

Scientific paper

The final merger of comparable mass binary black holes is expected to be the strongest source of gravitational waves for LISA. Since these mergers take place in regions of extreme gravity, we need to solve Einstein's equations of general relativity on a computer in order to calculate these waveforms. For more than 30 years, scientists have tried to compute black hole mergers using the methods of numerical relativity. The resulting computer codes have been plagued by instabilities, causing them to crash well before the black holes in the binary could complete even a single orbit. Within the past few years, however, this situation has changed dramatically, with a series of remarkable breakthroughs. We will present the results of new simulations of black hole mergers with unequal masses and spins, focusing on the gravitational waves emitted and the accompanying astrophysical "kicks.” The magnitude of these kicks has bearing on the production and growth of supermassive blackholes during the epoch of structure formation, and on the retention of black holes in stellar clusters.
This work was supported by NASA grant 06-BEFS06-19, and the simulations were carried out using Project Columbia at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division (Ames Research Center) and at the NASA Center for Computational Sciences (Goddard Space Flight Center).

Affiliated with

Also associated with

No associations

Rating

Binary Black Hole Mergers, Gravitational Waves, and LISA does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this scientific paper.

If you have personal experience with Binary Black Hole Mergers, Gravitational Waves, and LISA, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Binary Black Hole Mergers, Gravitational Waves, and LISA will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

Comments { 0 }

Profile ID: LFWR-SCP-O-1482734