The gravitational-wave recoil from the ringdown phase of coalescing black hole binaries
The gravitational-wave recoil from the ringdown phase of coalescing black hole binaries
The gravitational recoil or 'kick' of a black hole formed from the merger of two orbiting black holes, and caused by the anisotropic emission of gravitational radiation, is an astrophysically important phenomenon. We combine (i) an earlier calculation, using post-Newtonian theory, of the kick velocity accumulated up to the merger …