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Unstable flip-flopping spinning binary black holes

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arxiv 1601.05086 v1 pith:WS3FY742 submitted 2016-01-19 gr-qc astro-ph.COastro-ph.GAastro-ph.SRhep-th

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We give a unified description of the flip-flop effect in spinning binary black holes and the anti-alignment instability in terms of real and imaginary flip-flop frequencies. We find that this instability is only effective for mass ratios $0.5<q<1$. We provide analytic expressions that determine the region of parameter space for which the instability occurs in terms of maps of the mass ratio and spin magnitudes $(q,\alpha_1,\alpha_2)$. This restricts the priors of parameter estimation techniques for the observation of gravitational waves from binary black holes and it is relevant for astrophysical modeling and final recoil computations of such binary systems.

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