Binary black hole mergers: large kicks for generic spin orientations

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2007-03-13

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0703075v1

Phys.Rev.D76:061502,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

5 pages, 3 figures, to be submitted to PRD

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.76.061502

We present results from several simulations of equal mass black holes with spin. The spin magnitudes are $S/m^2=0.8$ in all cases, but we vary the spin orientations arbitrarily, in and outside the orbital plane. We find that in all but one case the final merged black hole acquires a kick of more than 1000 km/s, indicating that kicks of this magnitude are likely to be generic and should be expected for mergers with general spin orientations. The maximum kick velocity we find is 2500 km/s and occurs for initial spins which are anti-aligned in the initial orbital plane.

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