Peaking into the abyss: Characterizing the merger of equatorial-eccentric-geodesic plunges in rotating black holes

Guglielmo Faggioli, Maarten van de Meent, Alessandra Buonanno +1

We study the gravitational waveforms generated by critical, equatorial plunging geodesics of the Kerr metric that start from an unstable-circular-orbit, which describe the test-mas…