Event Horizons of Numerical Black Holes
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We have developed a powerful and efficient method for locating the event horizon of a black hole spacetime, making possible the study of the dynamics of event horizons in numerical relativity. We describe the method and apply it to a colliding black hole spacetime.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9412056,
title = {Event Horizons of Numerical Black Holes},
author = {Peter Anninos and David Bernstein and Steven Brandt and Joan Masso and Edward Seidel and Larry Smarr and Wai-Mo Suen and Paul Walker},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9412056},
year = {2007}
}
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3 pages, uuencoded gziped ps file including 1 Fig. Also available at http://jean-luc.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Papers/ To appear in the MG7 proceedings