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Exact Event Horizon of a Black Hole Merger

Emparan, Roberto, Martinez, Marina

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We argue that the event horizon of a binary black hole merger, in the extreme-mass-ratio limit where one of the black holes is much smaller than the other, can be described in an exact analytic way.

This is done by tracing in the Schwarzschild geometry a congruence of null geodesics that approaches a null plane at infinity.
Its form can be given explicitly in terms of elliptic functions, and we use it to analyze and illustrate the time-evolution of the horizon along the merger.
We identify features such as the line of caustics at which light rays enter the horizon, and the critical point at which the horizons touch.

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