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Extracting the Gravitational Recoil from Black Hole Merger Signals

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Varma, Vijay; Isi Banales, Maximiliano S; Biscoveanu, Sylvia
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Abstract
Gravitational waves carry energy, angular momentum, and linear momentum. In generic binary black hole mergers, the loss of linear momentum imparts a recoil velocity, or a “kick,” to the remnant black hole. We exploit recent advances in gravitational waveform and remnant black hole modeling to extract information about the kick from the gravitational wave signal. Kick measurements such as these are astrophysically valuable, enabling independent constraints on the rate of second-generation merger. Further, we show that kicks must be factored into future ringdown tests of general relativity with third-generation gravitational wave detectors to avoid systematic biases. We find that, although little information can be gained about the kick for existing gravitational wave events, interesting measurements will soon become possible as detectors improve. We show that, once LIGO and Virgo reach their design sensitivities, we will reliably extract the kick velocity for generically precessing binaries—including the so-called superkicks, reaching up to 5000  km/s.
Date issued
2020-03
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/125433
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; LIGO (Observatory : Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Journal
Physical Review Letters
Publisher
American Physical Society
Citation
Varma, Vijay, Maximiliano Isi, and Sylvia Biscoveanu. "Extracting the Gravitational Recoil from Black Hole Merger Signals." Physical Review Letters, 124, 10 (March 2020): 101104. © 2020 American Physical Society
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1079-7114
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