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The Third RIT binary black hole simulations catalog

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2020-11-11 v1 Astrophysics of Galaxies High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

The third release of the RIT public catalog of numerical relativity black-hole-binary waveforms \url{http://ccrg.rit.edu/~RITCatalog} consists of 777 accurate simulations that include 300 precessing and 477 nonprecessing binary systems with mass ratios q=m1/m2q=m_1/m_2 in the range 1/15q11/15\leq q\leq1 and individual spins up to s/m2=0.95s/m^2=0.95. The catalog also provides initial parameters of the binary, trajectory information, peak radiation, and final remnant black hole properties. The waveforms are corrected for the center of mass drifting and are extrapolated to future null infinity. We successfully test this correction comparing with simulations of low radition content initial data. As an initial application of this waveform catalog we reanalyze all the peak radiation and remnant properties to find new, simple, correlations among them for practical astrophysical usage.

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@article{arxiv.2007.07910,
  title  = {The Third RIT binary black hole simulations catalog},
  author = {James Healy and Carlos O. Lousto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.07910},
  year   = {2020}
}

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34 pages, 10 figures, 5 tables

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