Abstract
We computed the spectrum of gravitational waves from a dust disk star of radius inspiraling into a Kerr black hole of mass and specific angular momentum . We found that when is much larger than the wave length of the quasinormal mode, the spectrum has several peaks and the separation of peaks is proportional to irrespective of and . This suggests that the radius of the star in coalescing binary black hole–star systems may be determined directly from the observed spectrum of gravitational waves. This also suggests that the spectrum of the radiation may give us important information in gravitational wave astronomy as in optical astronomy.
- Received 14 February 2000
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.2665
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