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gr-qc2010★ 80 cited
Frame-Dragging Vortexes and Tidal Tendexes Attached to Colliding Black Holes: Visualizing the Curvature of Spacetime
Robert Owen, Jeandrew Brink, Yanbei Chen +8
When one splits spacetime into space plus time, the spacetime curvature (Weyl tensor) gets split into an "electric" part E_{jk} that describes tidal gravity and a "magnetic" part B…
gr-qc2010★ 16 cited
A hybrid method for understanding black-hole mergers: head-on case
David A. Nichols, Yanbei Chen
Black-hole-binary coalescence is often divided into three stages: inspiral, merger and ringdown. The post-Newtonian (PN) approximation treats the inspiral phase, black-hole perturb…