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 Participant

van de Meent, Maarten

Institution

University of Southampton  - Building 57 - Southampton - Hampshire - United Kingdom

Session

BN5

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Title

Resonances in small-mass-ratio binaries
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TBA

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Session

BN5

Accepted

Order

Time

Talk

Oral abstract

Title

Resonances in Small-Mass-Ratio Binaries
Coauthors

Abstract

We discuss the effect of orbital resonances on small mass-ratio inspirals. As an inspiral evolves through an orbital resonance, effects that normally average away can suddenly build up over an extended period of time. After reviewing the general phenomenology of orbital resonances, we focus on the effect of resonances between the radial and orbital frequencies on the linear momentum emitted in gravitational waves. In the most extreme case of a very eccentric inspiral around a rapidly spinning black hole, the generated kick can reach 30,000 km/s times (m1/m2)^(3/2).

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