Binary Black Hole Mergers in 3d Numerical Relativity
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2008-11-26 v3 Astrophysics
Abstract
The standard approach to the numerical evolution of black hole data using the ADM formulation with maximal slicing and vanishing shift is extended to non-symmetric black hole data containing black holes with linear momentum and spin by using a time-independent conformal rescaling based on the puncture representation of the black holes. We give an example for a concrete three dimensional numerical implementation. The main result of the simulations is that this approach allows for the first time to evolve through a brief period of the merger phase of the black hole inspiral.
Cite
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9708035,
title = {Binary Black Hole Mergers in 3d Numerical Relativity},
author = {Bernd Bruegmann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9708035},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
8 pages, 9 figures, REVTeX; expanded discussion, results unchanged