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Data formats for numerical relativity waves

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2011-02-28 v3

Abstract

This document proposes data formats to exchange numerical relativity results, in particular gravitational waveforms. The primary goal is to further the interaction between gravitational-wave source modeling groups and the gravitational-wave data-analysis community. We present a simple and extendable format which is applicable to various kinds of gravitational wave sources including binaries of compact objects and systems undergoing gravitational collapse, but is nevertheless sufficiently general to be useful for other purposes.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.0709.0093,
  title  = {Data formats for numerical relativity waves},
  author = {P. Ajith and M. Boyle and D. A. Brown and S. Fairhurst and M. Hannam and I. Hinder and S. Husa and B. Krishnan and R. A. Mercer and F. Ohme and C. D. Ott and J. S. Read and L. Santamaria and J. T. Whelan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0709.0093},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

21 pages. Original document extensively rewritten to provide a more detailed metadata description and a more economical file format for hybrid waveforms

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