The Transition from Inspiral to Plunge for a Compact Body in a Circular Equatorial Orbit Around a Massive, Spinning Black Hole

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2000-03-08

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0003032v1

Phys.Rev. D62 (2000) 124022

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

8 Pages and 3 Figures; RevTeX; submitted to Physical Review D

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.62.124022

There are three regimes of gravitational-radiation-reaction-induced inspiral for a compact body with mass mu, in a circular, equatorial orbit around a Kerr black hole with mass M>>mu: (i) The "adiabatic inspiral regime", in which the body gradually descends through a sequence of circular, geodesic orbits. (ii) A "transition regime", near the innermost stable circular orbit (isco). (iii) The "plunge regime", in which the body travels on a geodesic from slightly below the isco into the hole's horizon. This paper gives an analytic treatment of the transition regime and shows that, with some luck, gravitational waves from the transition might be measurable by the space-based LISA mission.

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