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Marginally Outer Trapped Tori in Black Hole Spacetimes
Kam To Billy Sievers, Liam Newhook, Sarah Muth +3
During a binary black hole merger, multiple intermediary marginally outer trapped tubes connect the initial pair of apparent horizons with the final (single) apparent horizon. The…
Symmetry and instability of marginally outer trapped surfaces
Ivan Booth, Graham Cox, Juan Margalef-Bentabol
We consider an initial data set having a continuous symmetry and a marginally outer trapped surface (MOTS) that is not preserved by this symmetry. We show that such a MOTS is unsta…
What is a degree of freedom? Configuration spaces and their topology
Juan Margalef-Bentabol, Leigh Herman, Ivan Booth
Understanding degrees of freedom in classical mechanics is fundamental to characterizing physical systems. Counting them is usually easy, especially if we can assign them a clear m…
Exotic marginally outer trapped surfaces in rotating spacetimes of any dimension
Ivan Booth, Kam To Billy Chan, Robie A. Hennigar +2
The recently developed MOTSodesic method for locating marginally outer trapped surfaces was effectively restricted to non-rotating spacetimes. In this paper we extend the method to…
The Interior MOTSs of Spherically Symmetric Black Holes
Robie A. Hennigar, Kam To Billy Chan, Liam Newhook +1
There are notable similarities between the marginally outer trapped surfaces (MOTSs) present in the interior of a binary black hole merger and those present in the interior of the…
Ultimate fate of apparent horizons during a binary black hole merger II: Horizons weaving back and forth in time
Daniel Pook-Kolb, Ivan Booth, Robie A. Hennigar
In this second part of a two-part paper, we discuss numerical simulations of a head-on merger of two non-spinning black holes. We resolve the fate of the original two apparent hori…