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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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Signatures of kicked disks and mass loss
Cole Miller
University of Maryland
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Abstract:
The merger of comparable-mass black holes releases a few
percent of the mass-energy in gravitational waves, and can lead to a
final black hole that moves at tens to thousands of kilometers per
second relative to the original binary center of mass. An accretion
disk around the binary will feel these effects, possibly leading to
electromagnetic signatures. I will summarize some of the suggestions
for these signatures, and will feature recent MHD simulations of mass
loss. |
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