Waveform propagation in black hole spacetimes: evaluating the quality of numerical solutions
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2009-10-30 v1
Abstract
We compute the propagation and scattering of linear gravitational waves off a Schwarzschild black hole using a numerical code which solves a generalization of the Zerilli equation to a three dimensional cartesian coordinate system. Since the solution to this problem is well understood it represents a very good testbed for evaluating our ability to perform three dimensional computations of gravitational waves in spacetimes in which a black hole event horizon is present.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9712037,
title = {Waveform propagation in black hole spacetimes: evaluating the quality of numerical solutions},
author = {L. Rezzolla and A. M. Abrahams and T. W. Baumgarte and G. B. Cook and M. A. Scheel and S. L. Shapiro and S. A. Teukolsky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9712037},
year = {2009}
}
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13 pages, RevTeX, to appear in Phys. Rev. D