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We calculate the first dynamical evolutions of merging black hole-neutron star binaries that construct the combined black hole-neutron star spacetime in a general relativistic framework. We treat the metric in the conformal flatness…

The first attempts at solving a binary black hole spacetime date back to the 1960s, with the pioneering works of Hahn and Lindquist. In spite of all the computational advances and enormous efforts by several groups, the first stable,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-01-09 Miguel Zilhão

Current methods of evolving a spacetime containing one or more black holes are plagued by instabilities that prohibit long-term evolution. Some of these instabilities may be due to the numerical method used, traditionally finite…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Lawrence E. Kidder , Mark A. Scheel , Saul A. Teukolsky , Eric D. Carlson , Gregory B. Cook

This is the first of a series of papers describing a numerical implementation of the conformally rescaled Einstein equation, an implementation designed to calculate asymptotically flat spacetimes, especially spacetimes containing black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Peter Huebner

We present a new many-parameter family of hyperbolic representations of Einstein's equations, which we obtain by a straightforward generalization of previously known systems. We solve the resulting evolution equations numerically for a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Lawrence E. Kidder , Mark A. Scheel , Saul A. Teukolsky

Relativistic simulations in 3+1 dimensions typically monitor the Hamiltonian and momentum constraints during evolution, with significant violations of these constraints indicating the presence of instabilities. In this paper we rewrite the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-13 Adrian P. Gentle

We perform the first fully nonlinear numerical simulations of black-hole binaries with mass ratios 100:1. Our technique for evolving such extreme mass ratios is based on the moving puncture approach with a new gauge condition and an optimal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-04 Carlos O. Lousto , Yosef Zlochower

In this study, we examine the impacts of black hole spin, Lorentz-violating parameter, and the scalar field's mass on quasinormal modes (QNMs) of rotating Einstein-Bumblebee black holes, including computations up to the second-order…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-12 Weike Deng , Wentao Liu , Fen Long , Kui Xiao , Jiliang Jing

We present a new technique for time-domain numerical evolution of the scalar field generated by a pointlike scalar charge orbiting a black hole. Time-domain evolution offers an efficient way for calculating black hole perturbations,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Leor Barack , Darren A Golbourn

No Kerr-like exact solution has yet been found in Chern-Simons modified gravity. Intrigued by this absence, we study stationary and axisymmetric metrics that could represent the exterior field of spinning black holes. For the standard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Daniel Grumiller , Nicolas Yunes

Recent developments in the modified harmonic and modified puncture gauges have opened new possibilities for performing stable numerical evolutions beyond General Relativity. In this work, we utilise techniques developed in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-15 Harry L. H. Shum , Llibert Aresté Saló , Farid Thaalba , Miguel Bezares , Thomas P. Sotiriou

Combining deeper insight of Einstein's equations with sophisticated numerical techniques promises the ability to construct accurate numerical implementations of these equations. We illustrate this in two examples, the numerical evolution of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Dave Neilsen , Luis Lehner , Olivier Sarbach , Manuel Tiglio

We evolve a scalar field in a fixed Kerr-Schild background geometry to test simple $(3+1)$-dimensional algorithms for singularity excision. We compare both centered and upwind schemes for handling the shift (advection) terms, as well as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 H. J. Yo , T. W. Baumgarte , S. L. Shapiro

We study spherically symmetric black hole solutions with Skyrme hair in the Einstein-Skyrme theory with a negative cosmological constant. The dependence of the skyrmion field configuration on the cosmological constant is examined. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Noriko Shiiki , Nobuyuki Sawado

We investigate the future evolution of Nariai black hole which is extremal limit of Schwarzschild-de Sitter one in modified gravity. The perturbations equations around Nariai black hole are derived in static and cosmological patches for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-12-30 L. Sebastiani , D. Momeni , R. Myrzakulov , S. D. Odintsov

We develop a numerical solver, that extends the computational framework considered in [Phys. Rev. D 65, 084016 (2002)], to include scalar perturbations of nonrotating black holes. The nonlinear Einstein-Klein-Gordon equations for a massless…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 W. Barreto

In the absence of symmetry assumptions most numerical relativity simulations adopt Cartesian coordinates. While Cartesian coordinates have some desirable properties, spherical polar coordinates appear better suited for certain applications,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-12 Thomas W. Baumgarte , Pedro J. Montero , Isabel Cordero-Carrión , Ewald Müller

We present techniques for long-term, stable, and accurate evolutions of multiple-black-hole spacetimes using the `moving puncture' approach with fourth- and eighth-order finite difference stencils. We use these techniques to explore…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Carlos O. Lousto , Yosef Zlochower

Construction of binary black hole initial data is a prerequisite for numerical evolutions of binary black holes. This paper reports improvements to the binary black hole initial data solver in the Spectral Einstein Code, to allow robust…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-16 Serguei Ossokine , Francois Foucart , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Michael Boyle , Béla Szilágyi

The numerical evolution of Einstein's field equations in a generic background has the potential to answer a variety of important questions in physics: from applications to the gauge-gravity duality, to modelling black hole production in TeV…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Miguel Zilhao , Helvi Witek , Ulrich Sperhake , Vitor Cardoso , Leonardo Gualtieri , Carlos Herdeiro , Andrea Nerozzi