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Matter and Electromagnetic Fields in Strong Gravity
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Matter and Electromagnetic Fields in Strong Gravity
CSIC Building (#406),
Seminar Room 4122.
Directions: home.cscamm.umd.edu/directions
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Modeling the Dynamics and Gravitational-Wave Emissions of Coalescing Binary Black Holes
Alessandra Buonanno
University of Maryland
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Abstract:
Recent developments at the interface between analytical and numerical
relativity have deepened our understanding of the two-body problem in
general relativity, revealing an intriguing simplicity. I will review those
advances, focusing on the most dynamical and non-linear phase of the
coalescence of binary black holes -- that is, when the two black holes end their long inspiral with a plunge, merge, and leave behind a "ringing" black hole. I will discuss the implications of the advances in the search for
gravitational waves, notably in building analytical templates of black hole coalescences, and in astrophysics, in calculating the distribution of recoil
velocity, the mass and the spin of the merger remnant.
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