Abstract
We measure the gravitational recoil for unequal-mass-black-hole-binary mergers, with the larger BH having spin a/mH = 0.8, and the smaller BH non-spinning. We choose our configurations such that, initially, the spins lie on the orbital plane. The spin and orbital plane precess significantly, and we find that the out-of plane recoil (i.e. the recoil perpendicular to the orbital plane around merger) varies as η2/(1+q), in agreement with our previous prediction, based on the post-Newtonian scaling.
Publication Date
3-18-2009
Document Type
Article
Department, Program, or Center
School of Physics and Astronomy (COS)
Recommended Citation
C. Lousto and Y. Zlochower, Phys. Rev. D 79, 064018 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.79.064018
Campus
RIT – Main Campus
Comments
This is the pre-print of an article published by the American Physical Society. The final, published version is located here: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.79.064018
©2009 American Physical Society
Archived in arXiv:0805.0159 v4 Jan 1, 2009.
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