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Article Dans Une Revue Classical and Quantum Gravity Année : 2010

The close-limit approximation for black hole binaries with post-Newtonian initial conditions

Alexandre Le Tiec
Luc Blanchet

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The ringdown phase of a black hole formed from the merger of two orbiting black holes is described by means of the close-limit (CL) approximation starting from second-post-Newtonian (2PN) initial conditions. The 2PN metric of point-particle binaries is formally expanded in CL form and identified with that of a perturbed Schwarzschild black hole. The multipolar coefficients describing the even-parity (or polar) and odd-parity (axial) components of the linear perturbation consistently satisfy the 2PN-accurate perturbative field equations. We use these coefficients to build initial conditions for the Regge-Wheeler and Zerilli wave equations, which we then evolve numerically. The ringdown waveform is obtained in two cases: head-on collision with zero-angular momentum, composed only of even modes, and circular orbits, for which both even and odd modes contribute. In a separate work, this formalism is applied to the study of the gravitational recoil produced during the ringdown phase of coalescing binary black holes.

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hal-00569781 , version 1 (25-02-2011)

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Alexandre Le Tiec, Luc Blanchet. The close-limit approximation for black hole binaries with post-Newtonian initial conditions. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2010, 27 (4), pp.45008. ⟨10.1088/0264-9381/27/4/045008⟩. ⟨hal-00569781⟩
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