MG12 - Talk detail |
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Participant |
Sperhake, Ulrich | |
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Institution |
California Institute of Technology - 1200 E.California Blvd. - Pasadena - CA - USA | |
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Session |
Talk |
Abstract |
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ANM6 |
Ultra-relativistic grazing collisions of black holes |
We present numerical simulations of ultra-relativistic collisions of black holes with non-zero impact parameter performed in the framework of fully non-linear general relativity. The simulations are analyzed with particular regard to the occurrence of "zoom-whirl" behavior in such experiments, the magnitude of the critical impact parameter separating merging from scattering configurations and the maximum spin resulting from black-hole binary coalescence. |