Publication: Gravity waves from extreme-mass-ratio plunges into Kerr black holes
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2014
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Hadar, Shahar, Achilleas P. Porfyriadis, and Andrew Strominger. 2014. “Gravity Waves from Extreme-Mass-Ratio Plunges into Kerr Black Holes.” Phys. Rev. D 90 (6) (September). doi:10.1103/physrevd.90.064045.
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Massive objects orbiting a near-extreme Kerr black hole quickly plunge into the horizon after passing the innermost stable circular orbit. The plunge trajectory is shown to be related by a conformal map to a circular orbit. Conformal symmetry of the near-horizon region is then used to compute the gravitational radiation produced during the plunge phase.
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