Gravity waves from extreme-mass-ratio plunges into Kerr black holes

Shahar Hadar, Achilleas P. Porfyriadis, and Andrew Strominger
Phys. Rev. D 90, 064045 – Published 24 September 2014

Abstract

Massive objects orbiting a near-extreme Kerr black hole quickly plunge into the horizon after passing the innermost stable circular orbit. The plunge trajectory is shown to be related by a conformal map to a circular orbit. Conformal symmetry of the near-horizon region is then used to compute the gravitational radiation produced during the plunge phase.

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  • Received 6 July 2014

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.90.064045

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Shahar Hadar1, Achilleas P. Porfyriadis2, and Andrew Strominger2

  • 1Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
  • 2Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA

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Vol. 90, Iss. 6 — 15 September 2014

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