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Black Hole Formation from the Collision of Plane-Fronted Gravitational Waves
Frans Pretorius, William E. East
This paper introduces a new effort to study the collision of plane-fronted gravitational waves in four dimensional, asymptotically flat spacetime, using numerical solutions of the…
Massive Boson Superradiant Instability of Black Holes: Nonlinear Growth, Saturation, and Gravitational Radiation
William E. East
We study the superradiant instability of a massive boson around a spinning black hole in full general relativity without assuming spatial symmetries. We focus on the case of a rapi…
Evolution of Highly Eccentric Binary Neutron Stars Including Tidal Effects
Huan Yang, William E. East, Vasileios Paschalidis +2
This work is the first in a series of studies aimed at understanding the dynamics of highly eccentric binary neutron stars, and constructing an appropriate gravitational-waveform m…
Magnetosphere of a spinning black hole and the role of the current sheet
William E. East, Huan Yang
We revisit the problem of a spinning black hole immersed in a uniformly magnetized plasma within the context of force-free electrodynamics. Such configurations have been found to r…