  Circumbinary accretion disks have been examined, theoretically, for
supermassive and intermediate mass black holes, however, disks for black hole
masses in the LIGO regime are poorly understood. Assuming these binaries
possess such a disk initially, the question we want to answer is: are they
dissipated by outflows or accretion prior to inspiral? To study this problem we
propose a novel approach, whereby we consider an approximate, analytic
spacetime and solve the geodesic equation for particles in this spacetime so
that we can determine the likely fate of particles coming from the accretion
disk. Preliminary indications suggest a likelihood of accretion prior to
inspiral.
