Gravitational waves from plunges into Gargantua

• Published in: Classical and quantum gravity Vol. 35; no. 10; pp. 104002 - 104066
• Main Authors: Compère, Geoffrey, Fransen, Kwinten, Hertog, Thomas, Long, Jiang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: IOP Publishing 24.05.2018
• Subjects: black holes; conformal symmetry; extreme mass ratio inspirals; gravitational waves

We analytically compute time domain gravitational waveforms produced in the final stages of extreme mass ratio inspirals of non-spinning compact objects into supermassive nearly extremal Kerr black holes. Conformal symmetry relates all corotating equatorial orbits in the geodesic approximation to ci...