Final Mass and Spin of Merged Black Holes and the Golden Black Hole


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We present results on the mass and spin of the final black hole from mergers of equal mass, spinning black holes. The study extends over a broad range of initial orbital configurations, from direct plunges to quasi-circular inspirals to more energetic orbits (generalizations of Newtonian elliptical orbits). It provides a comprehensive search of those configurations that maximize the final spin of the remnant black hole. We estimate that the final spin can reach a maximum spin $a/M_h approx 0.99pm 0.01$ for extremal black hole mergers. In addition, we find that, as one increases the orbital angular momentum from small values, the mergers produce black holes with mass and spin parameters $lbrace M_h/M, a/M_h rbrace$ ~spiraling around the values $lbrace hat M_h/M, hat a/M_h rbrace$ of a {it golden} black hole. Specifically, $(M_h-hat M_h)/M propto e^{pm B,phi}cos{phi}$ and $(a-hat a)/M_h propto e^{pm C,phi}sin{phi}$, with $phi$ a monotonically growing function of the initial orbital angular momentum. We find that the values of the parameters for the emph{golden} black hole are those of the final black hole obtained from the merger of a binary with the corresponding spinning black holes in a quasi-circular inspiral.

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