Black Hole Binary Dynamics

Preprint

4 October 2002

preprint
Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.astro-ph/0210116

Abstract

We discuss a new N-body simulation method for studying black hole binary dynamics. This method avoids previous numerical problems due to large mass ratios and trapped orbits with short periods. A treatment of relativistic effects is included when the associated time-scale becomes small. Preliminary results with up to N = 240 000 particles are obtained showing systematic eccentricity growth until the relativistic regime is reached, with subsequent coalescence in some cases.

Keywords

RELATIVISTIC EFFECTS
HOLE BINARY DYNAMICS
BLACK HOLE BINARY
BODY SIMULATION
PARTICLES

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