• DOI:10.1093/mnras/sts360
Corpus ID: 118944979

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={C. Berry and J. Gair},
  journal={Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
  year={2013},
  volume={429},
  pages={589-612}
}

C. Berry, J. Gair

Published 2013

Physics

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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… CONTINUE READING

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