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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★ 20 cited
Final Mass and Spin of Merged Black Holes and the Golden Black Hole
James Healy, Pablo Laguna, Richard A. Matzner +1
We present results on the mass and spin of the final black hole from mergers of equal mass, spinning black holes. The study extends over a broad range of initial orbital configurat…