CGPG Center Seminar Series, Fall 1998

	Prof. J. Pullin, Penn State
	Title: Colliding Black Holes - Why Now? And How?
	Date: September 1, 1998

Abstract

This is the first in a series of two talks, the second being delivered by Pablo Laguna. I will describe why there is renewed interest in the gravitational wave astronomy community in obtaining waveforms for black hole collisions and I will sketch some of the milestones reached using the "close limit approximation", which by now has been applied to head on and inspiralling situations and worked out to first and second order in perturbation theory. We will see that in spite of the limited range of applicability, attractive physical conclusions can be reached in some situations. Pablo will in the next talk describe issues arising in the full numerical simulation of black hole collisions

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