Head-on collisions of unequal mass black holes in D=5 dimensions

Journal Article · Tue Feb 15 00:00:00 EST 2011 · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVD.83.044017· OSTI ID:21504985

Witek, Helvi ^[1]; Cardoso, Vitor ^[1]; Gualtieri, Leonardo ^[2]; Herdeiro, Carlos ^[3]; Sperhake, Ulrich ^[4]; Zilhao, Miguel ^[5]

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1. CENTRA, Departamento de Fisica, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa (UTL), Avenida Rovisco Pais 1, 1049 Lisboa (Portugal)
2. Dipartimento di Fisica, 'Sapienza' Universita di Roma e Sezione INFN Roma1, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185, Roma (Italy)
3. Departamento de Fisica da Universidade de Aveiro, Campus de Santiago, 3810-183 Aveiro (Portugal)
4. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Mississippi, University, Mississippi 38677 (United States)
5. Centro de Fisica do Porto (CFP), Departamento de Fisica e Astronomia, Faculdade de Ciencias da Universidade do Porto (FCUP), Rua do Campo Alegre, 4169-007 Porto (Portugal)

We study head-on collisions of unequal mass black hole binaries in D=5 spacetime dimensions, with mass ratios between 1:1 and 1:4. Information about gravitational radiation is extracted by using the Kodama-Ishibashi gauge-invariant formalism and details of the apparent horizon of the final black hole. We present waveforms, total integrated energy and momentum for this process. Our results show surprisingly good agreement, within 5% or less, with those extrapolated from linearized, point-particle calculations. Our results also show that consistency with the area theorem bound requires that the same process in a large number of spacetime dimensions must display new features.

• OSTI ID: 21504985
• Journal Information: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 83, Issue 4; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.83.044017; (c) 2011 American Institute of Physics; ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
BLACK HOLES
COLLISIONS
GAUGE INVARIANCE
GRAVITATIONAL RADIATION
MANY-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS
MASS
PARTICLES
SPACE-TIME
WAVE FORMS
INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES
RADIATIONS