A remarkable series of breakthroughs in numerical relativity modeling of black hole binary mergers has occurred over the past few years. This paper provides a general overview of these exciting developments, focusing on recent progress in merger simulations and calculations of the resulting gravitational waveforms.
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0609172,
title = {The Final Merger of Comparable Mass Binary Black Holes},
author = {Joan M. Centrella},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0609172},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
12 pages, 4 figures; this paper has been accepted by the conference proceedings for the Sixth International LISA Symposium, which will be published by the AIP