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Test of a general formula for black hole gravitational wave kicks
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Baker, John G. van Meter, James R. Boggs, William D. Miller, M. Coleman Kelly, Bernard J. |
| Copyright Year | 2010 |
| Description | Although the gravitational wave kick velocity in the orbital plane of coalescing black holes has been understood for some time, apparently conflicting formulae have been proposed for the dominant outof- plane kick, each a good fit to different data sets. This is important to resolve because it is only the out-of-plane kicks that can reach more than 500 km s-l and can thus eject merged remnants from galaxies. Using a different ansatz for the out-of-plane kick, we show that we can fit almost all existing data to better than 5%. This is good enough for any astrophysical calculation and shows that the previous apparent conflict was only because the two data sets explored different aspects of the kick parameter space. |
| File Size | 45461 |
| Page Count | 1 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20110023405 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t1xd5w41h |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2010-08-20 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Astrophysics Coalescing Galaxies Black Holes Astronomy Gravitational Waves Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
