Self-Consistent Adiabatic Inspiral and Transition Motion

Binary Black Holes Coalescence: Transition from Adiabatic Inspiral to Plunge

It seems likely that the first detection of gravitational waves with the LIGO/VIRGO/... interferometers will come from binary systems made of massive black holes of comparable masses, say with a total mass M ≃ 15M⊙ + 15M⊙. For such massive systems the gravitational-wave frequency at the last stable (circular) orbit (LSO) is very close to the location of the minimum of the detector’s noise spect...

Gravitational radiation reaction and inspiral waveforms in the adiabatic limit.

We describe progress evolving an important limit of binaries in general relativity: stellar mass compact objects spiraling into much larger black holes. Such systems are of great observational interest. We have developed tools to compute for the first time the radiation from generic orbits. Using global conservation laws, we find the orbital evolution and waveforms for special cases. For generi...

Generating Consistent Motion Transition via Decoupled Framespace Interpolation

The framespace interpolation algorithm abstracts motion sequences as 1D signals, and interpolates between them to create higher dimension signals, with weights drawn from a user specified curve in a bounded region. We reformulate the algorithm to achieve motion-state based transition via dynamic warping of framespaces and automatic transition timing via framespace frequency interpolation. Basis...

Kinetics at the Collapse Transition Gaussian self-consistent approach

Towards adiabatic waveforms for inspiral into Kerr black holes. II. Dynamical sources and generic orbits

Pranesh A. Sundararajan, Gaurav Khanna, Scott A. Hughes, and Steve Drasco Department of Physics and MIT Kavli Institute, MIT, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, Massachusetts 02747, USA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena California 91109, USA (Received 3 March 2008; publ...