| dc.contributor.author | Gralla, Samuel E | |
| dc.contributor.author | Hughes, Scott A | |
| dc.contributor.author | Warburton, Niels J | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-05-29T19:27:46Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-05-29T19:27:46Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016-07 | |
| dc.date.submitted | 2016-03 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0264-9381 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1361-6382 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/121177 | |
| dc.description.abstract | We model the inspiral of a compact object into a more massive black hole rotating very near the theoretical maximum. We find that once the body enters the near-horizon regime the gravitational radiation is characterized by a constant frequency, equal to (twice) the horizon frequency, with an exponentially damped profile. This contrasts with the usual 'chirping' behavior and, if detected, would constitute a 'smoking gun' for a near-extremal black hole in nature. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Grant PHY–1403261) | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Marie Curie International Fellowship (Award PIOF-GA-2012-627781) | en_US |
| dc.publisher | IOP Publishing | en_US |
| dc.relation.isversionof | http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/33/15/155002 | en_US |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike | en_US |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ | en_US |
| dc.source | arXiv | en_US |
| dc.title | Inspiral into Gargantua | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Gralla, Samuel E et al. “Inspiral into Gargantua.” Classical and Quantum Gravity 33, 15 (July 2016): 155002 © 2016 IOP Publishing Ltd | en_US |
| dc.contributor.department | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics | en_US |
| dc.contributor.department | MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research | en_US |
| dc.relation.journal | Classical and Quantum Gravity | en_US |
| dc.eprint.version | Author's final manuscript | en_US |
| dc.type.uri | http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle | en_US |
| eprint.status | http://purl.org/eprint/status/PeerReviewed | en_US |
| dc.date.updated | 2019-03-26T17:33:57Z | |
| dspace.orderedauthors | Gralla, Samuel E; Hughes, Scott A; Warburton, Niels | en_US |
| dspace.embargo.terms | N | en_US |
| dspace.date.submission | 2019-04-04T11:53:30Z | |
| mit.license | OPEN_ACCESS_POLICY | en_US |
| mit.license | OPEN_ACCESS_POLICY | |
