Binary black-hole evolutions of excision and puncture data

Jun, 2006
14 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 76 (2007) 104015
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We present a new numerical code developed for the evolution of binary black-hole spacetimes using different initial data and evolution techniques. The code is demonstrated to produce state-of-the-art simulations of orbiting and inspiralling black-hole binaries with convergent waveforms. We also present the first detailed study of the dependence of gravitational waveforms resulting from three-dimensional evolutions of different types of initial data. For this purpose we compare the waveforms generated by head-on collisions of superposed Kerr-Schild data with those of Brill-Lindquist data over a wide range of initial separations.
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  • 14 pages, 10 figures, submitted to PRD
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