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Modeling maximum astrophysical gravitational recoil velocities

Carlos O. Lousto and Yosef Zlochower

  • Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation, School of Mathematical Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology, 78 Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, New York 14623, USA

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Phys. Rev. D 83, 024003 – Published 4 January, 2011

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.83.024003

Abstract

We measure the recoil velocity as a function of spin for equal-mass, highly spinning black-hole binaries, with spins in the orbital plane, equal in magnitude, and opposite in direction. We confirm that the leading-order effect is linear in the spin and the cosine of angle between the spin direction and the infall direction at the merger. We find higher-order corrections that are proportional to the odd powers in both the spin and cosine of this angle. Taking these corrections into account, we predict that the maximum recoil will be 3680±130  km s−1.

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Phys. Rev. D 83, 024003– Published 4 January, 2011
  • Received 1 November 2010
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