Gyroscropes Orbiting Gargantuan Black Holes: Spinning Secondaries in Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals

Large mass ratio binary black hole systems are essential for studying the two-body problem in general relativity and are key sources of low-frequency gravitational waves. These sources will be detectable by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), which is a planned space-based gravitational-w...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Drummond, Lisa V.
Other Authors: Hughes, Scott A.
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2024
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/156758
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8435-9955