Hadar, ShaharPorfyriadis, AchilleasStrominger, Andrew2015-08-262014Hadar, 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.90.064045.1550-7998http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:20483713Massive 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.en-USJournal Article2015-08-13Hadar, Shahar, Porfyriadis, Achilleas, Strominger, Andrew2015-08-2610.1103/physrevd.90.064045