Observing the Galaxy's massive black hole with gravitational wave bursts
@article{Berry2013ObservingTG, title={Observing the Galaxy's massive black hole with gravitational wave bursts}, author={Christopher P. L. Berry and Jonathan R. Gair}, journal={Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society}, year={2013}, volume={429}, pages={589-612} }
An extreme-mass-ratio burst (EMRB) is a gravitational wave signal emitted when a compact object passes through periapsis on a highly eccentric orbit about a much more massive object, in our case a stellar mass object about a 10^6 M_sol black hole. EMRBs are a relatively unexplored means of probing the spacetime of massive black holes (MBHs). We conduct an investigation of the properties of EMRBs and how they could allow us to constrain the parameters, such as spin, of the Galaxy's MBH. We find…
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