2001/06/06 by Mark Miller, Miller, Mark
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #astro-ph #gr-qc
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/0106017
15 pages, 10 figures, 3 tables
arxiv created 2001/06/06 · openalex publication_date 2001/06/06 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We present an algorithm for solving the general relativistic initial value equations for a corotating polytropic star in quasicircular orbit with a nonspinning black hole. The algorithm is used to obtain initial data for cases where the black hole mass is 1, 3, and 10 times larger than the mass of the star. By analyzing sequences of constant baryon mass, constant black hole mass initial data sets and carefully monitoring the numerical error, we find innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) configuration for these cases. While these quasiequilibrium, conformally flat sequences of initial data sets are not true solutions of the Einstein equations (each set, however, solves the full initial value problem), and thus, we do not expect the ISCO configurations found here to be completely consistent with the Einstein equations, they will be used as convenient starting points for future numerical evolutions of the full 3+1 Einstein equations.