The collision of boosted black holes: second order close limit calculations

Details The collision of boosted black holes: second order close limit calculations The collision of boosted black holes: second order close limit calculations

1998-02-26

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9802063v1

Phys.Rev. D59 (1999) 044024

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

20 pages, RevTeX, 6 figures included with psfig

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.59.044024

We study the head-on collision of black holes starting from unsymmetrized, Brill--Lindquist type data for black holes with non-vanishing initial linear momentum. Evolution of the initial data is carried out with the ``close limit approximation,'' in which small initial separation and momentum are assumed, and second-order perturbation theory is used. We find agreement that is remarkably good, and that in some ways improves with increasing momentum. This work extends a previous study in which second order perturbation calculations were used for momentarily stationary initial data, and another study in which linearized perturbation theory was used for initially moving holes. In addition to supplying answers about the collisions, the present work has revealed several subtle points about the use of higher order perturbation theory, points that did not arise in the previous studies. These points include issues of normalization, and of comparison with numerical simulations, and will be important to subsequent applications of approximation methods for collisions.

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