The transition from adiabatic inspiral to geodesic plunge for a compact object around a massive Kerr black hole: Generic orbits

dc.creatorSundararajan, Pranesh A.
dc.date2008-03-31
dc.date2008-05-08
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dc.descriptionThe inspiral of a stellar mass compact object falling into a massive Kerr black hole can be broken into three different regimes: An adiabatic inspiral phase, where the inspiral timescale is much larger than the orbital period; a late-time radial infall, which can be approximated as a plunging geodesic; and a regime where the body transitions from the inspiral to plunge. In earlier work, Ori and Thorne have outlined a method to compute the trajectory during this transition for a compact object in a circular, equatorial orbit. We generalize this technique to include inclination and eccentricity.
dc.description11 pages, 6 figures. Accepted by Phys. Rev. D. New version addresses referee's comments
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0803.4482
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0803.4482
dc.identifierPhys.Rev.D77:124050,2008
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevD.77.124050
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/197892
dc.subjectGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
dc.titleThe transition from adiabatic inspiral to geodesic plunge for a compact object around a massive Kerr black hole: Generic orbits
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