Published October 17, 2008
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High-Energy Collision of Two Black Holes
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Abstract
We study the head-on collision of two highly boosted equal mass, nonrotating black holes. We determine the waveforms, radiated energies, and mode excitation in the center of mass frame for a variety of boosts. For the first time we are able to compare analytic calculations, black-hole perturbation theory, and strong field, nonlinear numerical calculations for this problem. Extrapolation of our results, which include velocities of up to 0.94c, indicate that in the ultrarelativistic regime about 14±3% of the energy is converted into gravitational waves. This gives rise to a luminosity of order 10^-2c^5/G, the largest known so far in a black-hole merger.
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© 2008 The American Physical Society. (Received 10 June 2008; published 14 October 2008) This work was supported in part by DFG grant SFB/TR 7, by FCT—Portugal through projects PTDC/FIS/64175/2006 and POCI/FP/81915/2007, and by the Fulbright Foundation (V.C.). E.B. was supported by the NASA Postdoctoral Program at JPL/Caltech, administered by Oak Ridge Associated Universities through a contract with NASA. F.P. was supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and NSF PHY-0745779. Computations were performed at LRZ Munich, Milipeia at CFC in Coimbra, and the Woodhen cluster at Princeton University.Attached Files
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
- SFB/TR 7
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)
- PTDC/FIS/64175/2006
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)
- POCI/FP/81915/2007
- Fulbright Foundation
- NASA Postdoctoral Program
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- NSF
- PHY-0745779
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