Merger of Massive Black Holes using N-Body Simulations with Post-Newtonian Corrections Export

@article{citeulike:3680656, abstract = {We present preliminary results from self-consistent, high resolution direct {\it N}-body simulations of massive black hole binaries in mergers of galactic nuclei. The dynamics of the black hole binary includes the full Post-Newtonian corrections (up to 2.5PN) to its equations of motion. We show that massive black holes starting at separations of 100 pc can evolve down to gravitational-wave-induced coalescence in less than a Hubble time. The binaries, in our models, often form with very high eccentricity and, as a result, reach separations of 50 Schwarzschild radius with eccentricities which are clearly distinct from zero -- even though gravitational wave emission damps the eccentricity during the inspiral. These deviations from exact circular orbits, at such small separations, may have important consequences for LISA data analysis.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Preto, Miguel and Berentzen, Ingo and Berczik, Peter and Merritt, David and Spurzem, Rainer}, citeulike-article-id = {3680656}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0811.3501}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/0811.3501}, day = {21}, eprint = {0811.3501}, keywords = {black, corrections, holes, massive, merger, n-body, post-newtonian, simulations}, month = {Nov}, posted-at = {2008-11-24 10:59:39}, priority = {2}, title = {Merger of Massive Black Holes using N-Body Simulations with Post-Newtonian Corrections}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0811.3501}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3680656 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3680656 N2 - We present preliminary results from self-consistent, high resolution direct {\it N}-body simulations of massive black hole binaries in mergers of galactic nuclei. The dynamics of the black hole binary includes the full Post-Newtonian corrections (up to 2.5PN) to its equations of motion. We show that massive black holes starting at separations of 100 pc can evolve down to gravitational-wave-induced coalescence in less than a Hubble time. The binaries, in our models, often form with very high eccentricity and, as a result, reach separations of 50 Schwarzschild radius with eccentricities which are clearly distinct from zero -- even though gravitational wave emission damps the eccentricity during the inspiral. These deviations from exact circular orbits, at such small separations, may have important consequences for LISA data analysis. TI - Merger of Massive Black Holes using N-Body Simulations with Post-Newtonian Corrections KW - black KW - corrections KW - holes KW - massive KW - merger KW - n-body KW - post-newtonian KW - simulations AU - Preto, Miguel AU - Berentzen, Ingo AU - Berczik, Peter AU - Merritt, David AU - Spurzem, Rainer PY - 2008/Nov/21/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/0811.3501 ER -