Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 79, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.79.064018
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- NSF [PHY-0722315, PHY0653303, PHY 0714388, PHY 0722703]
- [NASA 07ATFP07-0158]
- [HST-AR-11763.01]
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We measure the gravitational recoil for unequal-mass black-hole binary mergers, with the larger black hole having intrinsic spin a/m(H)=0.8, and the smaller black hole nonspinning. We choose our configurations such that, initially, the spins lie on the orbital plane. The spin and orbital plane precess significantly (we introduce a technique to identify the orbital plane at merger), and we find that the out-of plane recoil (i.e. the recoil perpendicular to the orbital plane around merger) varies as eta(2)/(1+q), in agreement with our previous prediction, based on the post-Newtonian scaling.
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