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Conformal thin-sandwich puncture initial data for boosted black holes

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-11-11 v3

Abstract

We apply the puncture approach to conformal thin-sandwich black-hole initial data. We solve numerically the conformal thin-sandwich puncture (CTSP) equations for a single black hole with non-zero linear momentum. We show that conformally flat solutions for a boosted black hole have the same maximum gravitational radiation content as the corresponding Bowen-York solution in the conformal transverse-traceless decomposition. We find that the physical properties of these data are independent of the free slicing parameter.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0502067,
  title  = {Conformal thin-sandwich puncture initial data for boosted black holes},
  author = {Mark D. Hannam and Gregory B. Cook},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0502067},
  year   = {2009}
}

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12 pages, 11 figures

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