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The Final Merger of Black-Hole BinariesRecent breakthroughs in the field of numerical relativity have led to dramatic progress in understanding the predictions of General Relativity for the dynamical interactions of two black holes in the regime of very strong gravitational fields. Such black-hole binaries are important astrophysical systems and are a key target of current and developing gravitational-wave detectors. The waveform signature of strong gravitational radiation emitted as the black holes fall together and merge provides a clear observable record of the process. After decades of slow progress / these mergers and the gravitational-wave signals they generate can now be routinely calculated using the methods of numerical relativity. We review recent advances in understanding the predicted physics of events and the consequent radiation, and discuss some of the impacts this new knowledge is having in various areas of astrophysics
Document ID
20100031072
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Preprint (Draft being sent to journal)
Authors
Kelly, Bernard J.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Centrealla, Joan
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Baker, John G.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Kelly, Bernard J.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
vanMeter, James R.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Date Acquired
August 25, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 2010
Subject Category
Astrophysics
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NNG06EQ90A
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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