Null InfinityWaveforms from Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals in Kerr Spacetime

Physical Review X

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Zenginoglu, Anil ^a   Khanna, Gaurav ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLACK HOLES; COMPACTIFICATION; LAYER METHOD; NUMERICAL GRIDS; POINT PARTICLE; SPACETIME; WAVE FORMS;

GRAVITATION;

EID: 84865173844     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.1.021017     Document Type: Article

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