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gr-qc2009★ 125 cited
Zoom-Whirl Orbits in Black Hole Binaries
James Healy, Janna Levin, Deirdre Shoemaker
Zoom-whirl behavior has the reputation of being a rare phenomenon. The concern has been that gravitational radiation would drain angular momentum so rapidly that generic orbits wou…
gr-qc2009★ 12 cited
Binary black hole evolutions of approximate puncture initial data
Tanja Bode, Pablo Laguna, Deirdre M. Shoemaker +3
Approximate solutions to the Einstein field equations are a valuable tool to investigate gravitational phenomena. An important aspect of any approximation is to investigate and qua…