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Estimating the final spin of a binary black hole coalescence

Alessandra Buonanno, Lawrence E. Kidder, Luis Lehner

We present a straightforward approach for estimating the final black hole spin of a binary black hole coalescence with arbitrary initial masses and spins. Making some simple assump…