Black Hole Mergers Driven by a Captured Low-mass Companion
Increased eccentricity of a black hole binary leads to reduced merger times. With n -body simulations and analytic approximations including the effects of general relativity (GR), we show that even a low-mass companion orbiting a black hole binary can cause significant eccentricity oscillations of t...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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IOP Publishing
2023-01-01
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| Series: | The Astrophysical Journal Letters |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ad0bd8 |