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Gravitational recoil from accretion-aligned black-hole binaries

Carlos O. Lousto1, Yosef Zlochower1, Massimo Dotti2, and Marta Volonteri3,4

  • 1Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation, and School of Mathematical Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology, 85 Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, New York 14623
  • 2Università di Milano Bicocca, Dipartimento di Fisica G. Occhialini, Piazza della Scienza 3, I-20126, Milano, Italy
  • 3Astronomy Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109, USA
  • 4Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, 98 bis Bd Arago, Paris, 75014, France

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Phys. Rev. D 85, 084015 – Published 19 April, 2012

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.85.084015

Abstract

We explore the newly discovered “hangup-kick” effect, which greatly amplifies the recoil for configurations with partial spin-/orbital angular momentum alignment, by studying a set of 48 new simulations of equal-mass, spinning black-hole binaries. We propose a phenomenological model for the recoil that takes this new effect into account and then use this model, in conjunction with statistical distributions for the spin magnitude and orientations, based on accretion simulations, to find the probabilities for observing recoils of several thousand km s−1. In addition, we provide initial parameters, eccentricities, radiated linear and angular momentum, precession rates and remnant mass, spin, and recoils for all 48 configurations. Our results indicate that surveys exploring peculiar (redshifted or blueshifted) differential line-of-sight velocities should observe at least one case above 2000  km s−1 out of 4000 merged galaxies. On the other hand, the probability that a remnant black hole recoils in any direction at a velocity exceeding the ∼2000  km s−1 escape velocity of large elliptical galaxies is 0.03%. Probabilities of recoils exceeding the escape velocity quickly rise to 5% for galaxies with escape velocities of 1000  km s−1 and nearly 20% for galaxies with escape velocities of 500  km s−1. In addition the direction of these large recoils is strongly peaked toward the angular momentum axis, with very low probabilities of recoils exceeding 350  km s−1 for angles larger than 45° with respect to the orbital angular momentum axis.

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Phys. Rev. D 85, 084015– Published 19 April, 2012
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