Small mass plunging into a Kerr black hole: Anatomy of the inspiral-merger-ringdown waveforms

We numerically solve the Teukolsky equation in the time domain to obtain the gravitational-wave emission of a small mass inspiraling and plunging into the equatorial plane of a Kerr black hole. We account for the dissipation of orbital energy using the Teukolsky frequency-domain gravitational-wave f...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Taracchini, Andrea, Buonanno, Alessandra, Khanna, Gaurav, Hughes, Scott A
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Physical Society 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/98061
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6211-1388