A catalog of 174 binary black-hole simulations for gravitational-wave astronomy
Abstract
This paper presents a publicly available catalog of 174 numerical binary black-hole simulations following up to 35 orbits. The catalog includes 91 precessing binaries, mass ratios up to 8:1, orbital eccentricities from a few percent to , black-hole spins up to 98% of the theoretical maximum, and radiated energies up to 11.1% of the initial mass. We establish remarkably good agreement with post-Newtonian precession of orbital and spin directions for two new precessing simulations, and we discuss other applications of this catalog. Formidable challenges remain: e.g., precession complicates the connection of numerical and approximate analytical waveforms, and vast regions of the parameter space remain unexplored.
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@article{arxiv.1304.6077,
title = {A catalog of 174 binary black-hole simulations for gravitational-wave astronomy},
author = {Abdul H. Mroue and Mark A. Scheel and Bela Szilagyi and Harald P. Pfeiffer and Michael Boyle and Daniel A. Hemberger and Lawrence E. Kidder and Geoffrey Lovelace and Sergei Ossokine and Nicholas W. Taylor and Anil Zenginoglu and Luisa T. Buchman and Tony Chu and Evan Foley and Matthew Giesler and Robert Owen and Saul A. Teukolsky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.6077},
year = {2013}
}
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6 pages; text clarified; additional results added