Head-on Collisions of Two Black Holes

D. W. Hobill, P. Anninos, E. Seidel, L. Smarr, W.-M. Suen, in Computational Astrophysics; 12th Kingston Meeting on Theoretical Astrophysics; ASP Conference Series #123, edited by D. A. Clarke and M. J. West., p. 314 (1997).

Abstract

Computations of head-on collisions between two equal-mass black holes are performed by constructing numerical solutions to the Einstein equations. The gravitational waves generated from the dynamics are extracted from the time-dependent metric and these give pulse profiles that should be measured by gravitational wave detectors.

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