Last orbits of binary black holes

Abstract

Binary black hole systems in the pre-coalescence stage are numerically constructed by demanding that the associated spacetime admits a helical Killing vector. Comparison with third order post-Newtonian calculations indicates a rather good agreement until the innermost stable circular orbit.

4 pages, 2 figures, invited talk at Journees Relativistes 2001, to appear in International Journal of Modern Physics A

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Cited by in corpus (2)

• Physics and Initial Data for Multiple Black Hole Spacetimes
• Helical Symmetry in Linear Systems