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Understanding the ``Antikick'' in the Merger of Binary Black Holes

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The generation of a large recoil velocity from the inspiral and merger of binary black holes represents one of the most exciting results of numerical-relativity calculations. While many aspects of this process have been investigated and explained, the ``antikick,'' namely, the sudden deceleration after the merger, has not yet found a simple explanation. We show that the antikick can be understood in terms of the radiation from a deformed black hole where the anisotropic curvature distribution on the horizon correlates with the direction and intensity of the recoil. Our analysis is focused on Robinson-Trautman spacetimes and allows us to measure both the energies and momenta radiated in a gauge-invariant manner. At the same time, this simpler setup provides the qualitative and quantitative features of merging black holes, opening the way to a deeper understanding of the nonlinear dynamics of black-hole spacetimes.
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Luciano Rezzolla, Rodrigo P. Macedo, José Luis Jaramillo. Understanding the ``Antikick'' in the Merger of Binary Black Holes. Physical Review Letters, 2010, 104, pp.221101. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.221101⟩. ⟨hal-03742368⟩
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