English
Related papers

Related papers: Improved numerical stability of stationary black h…

200 papers

In this work we compute numerical bounds on the mass $\mu$ of superradiantly unstable scalar fields in a Kerr black hole background using the continued fraction method. We show that the normalized upper bound on the mass $\mu$ increases…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-07 Maurício Richartz , João Luís Rosa , Emanuele Berti

To fully unlock the scientific potential of upcoming gravitational wave (GW) interferometers, numerical relativity (NR) simulation accuracy will need to be greatly enhanced. We present three infrastructure-agnostic improvements to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-19 Zachariah B. Etienne

The accurate computation of quasinormal modes from rotating black holes beyond general relativity is crucial for testing fundamental physics with gravitational waves. In this study, we assess the accuracy of the eikonal and post-Kerr…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-06 Ciro De Simone , Sebastian H. Völkel , Kostas D. Kokkotas , Vittorio De Falco , Salvatore Capozziello

We review recent efforts to re-formulate the Einstein equations for fully relativistic numerical simulations. The so-called numerical relativity (computational simulations in general relativity) is a promising research field matching with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Hisa-aki Shinkai , Gen Yoneda

We extend previous work on 3D black hole excision to the case of distorted black holes, with a variety of dynamic gauge conditions that are able to respond naturally to the spacetime dynamics. We show that the combination of excision and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Miguel Alcubierre , Bernd Bruegmann , Denis Pollney , Edward Seidel , Ryoji Takahashi

We investigate the existence and stability of both the timelike and null circular orbits for a (2+1) dimensional charged BTZ black hole in Einstein-nonlinear Maxwell gravity with a negative cosmological constant. The stability analysis of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-03 Shobhit Giri , Hemwati Nandan , Lokesh Kumar Joshi , Sunil D Maharaj

This paper explores the role of nonlinear electrodynamics on the stable configuration of thin-shell wormholes formulated from two equivalent geometries of Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole with nonlinear electrodynamics. For this purpose, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-11 Faisal Javed , G. Fatima , G. Mustafa , Ali Ovgun

We review our recent work on linear stability for scalar perturbations of Kerr spacetimes, that is to say, boundedness and decay properties for solutions of the scalar wave equation \Box_g{\psi} = 0 on Kerr exterior backgrounds. We begin…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-23 Mihalis Dafermos , Igor Rodnianski

We study the axial perturbations of spontaneously scalarized black holes in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) theories. We consider the nodeless solutions of the fundamental branch of the model studied in [1], which possesses a region of radially…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-13 Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo , Daniela D. Doneva , Sarah Kahlen , Jutta Kunz , Petya Nedkova , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

We present a singularity excision algorithm appropriate for numerical simulations of black holes moving throughout the computational domain. The method is an extension of the excision procedure previously used to obtain stable simulations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Shoemaker , K. Smith , U. Sperhake , P. Laguna , E. Schnetter , D. Fiske

We numerically investigate the dynamics near black hole formation of solutions to the Einstein--Vlasov system in axisymmetry. Our results are obtained using a particle-in-cell and finite difference code based on the $(2+1)+1$ formulation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-05 Ellery Ames , Håkan Andréasson , Oliver Rinne

We present the results of 14 simulations of nonspinning black hole binaries with mass ratios $q=m_1/m_2$ in the range $1/100\leq q\leq1$. For each of these simulations we perform three runs at increasing resolution to assess the finite…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-07-26 James Healy , Carlos O. Lousto , Yosef Zlochower

We extend a new finite element code, Einstein PHG (iPHG), to solve the evolution part of Einstein equations in first-order GH formalism. This paper is the third one of a systematic investigation of applying adaptive finite element method to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-18 Li-Wei Ji , Rong-Gen Cai , Zhoujian Cao

The massless scalar field in the higher-dimensional Kerr black hole (Myers- Perry solution with a single rotation axis) has been investigated. It has been shown that the field equation is separable in arbitrary dimensions. The quasi-normal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Daisuke Ida , Yuki Uchida , Yoshiyuki Morisawa

In our program of studying numerically the so-called Bondi-Hoyle accretion in the fully relativistic regime, we present here first results concerning the evolution of matter accreting supersonically onto a rotating (Kerr) black hole. These…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jose A. Font , Jose M. Ibanez , Philippos Papadopoulos

We have developed a numerical code to study the evolution of self-gravitating matter in dynamic black hole axisymmetric spacetimes in general relativity. The matter fields are evolved with a high-resolution shock-capturing scheme that uses…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Brandt , J. A. Font , J. M. Ibanez , J. Masso , E. Seidel

The conformally invariant scalar equation permits the Robin boundary condition at infinity of asymptotically-AdS spacetimes. We show how the dynamics of conformal cubic scalar field on the Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m-anti-de Sitter background…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-24 Filip Ficek , Maciej Maliborski

A paradigm deeply rooted in modern numerical relativity calculations prescribes the removal of those regions of the computational domain where a physical singularity may develop. We here challenge this paradigm by performing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Luca Baiotti , Luciano Rezzolla

We perform stability analysis of an accretion disc around a stellar mass black hole. The cooling of the accretion flow due to bremsstrahlung and synchrotron radiation processes are considered. The solutions with shock are perturbed at the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sivakumar G. Manickam

We consider a series of distorted black hole initial data sets, and develop techniques to evolve them using the linearized equations of motion for the gravitational wave perturbations on a Schwarzschild background. We apply this to 2D and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Gabrielle Allen , Karen Camarda , Edward Seidel