Davide Gerosa

Davide Gerosa

University professor - research in gravitational waves and black holes.

Effective potentials and morphological transitions for binary black-hole spin precession

2PN black-hole binary spin precession works exactly like Kepler’s two-body problem. Not kidding: just define effective potentials and divide the phase space into morphologies. The only things you need are a few timescales to play with.

M. Kesden, D. Gerosa, R. O’Shaughnessy, E. Berti, U. Sperhake.
Physical Review Letters 114 (2015) 081103. arXiv:1411.0674 [gr-qc].
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