Gravitational-Wave Extraction from an Inspiraling Configuration of Merging Black Holes

2005/11/17 by John G. Baker, Joan Centrella, Dae-Il Choi +2 · 56 citations
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #Astrophysics #Binary black hole #Black hole (networking) #Classical mechanics #Computer science #Gauge (firearms) #Geophysics and Sensor Technology #Gravitation #Gravitational energy #Gravitational wave #Hawking radiation #Materials science #Physics #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Quantum mechanics #Waveform #astro-ph #gr-qc #physics.comp-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.96.111102

published as Phys.Rev.Lett.96:111102,2006 · 4 pages, 5 figures

arxiv created 2005/11/17 · openalex publication_date 2006/03/22 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

We present new ideas for evolving black holes through a computational grid without excision, which enable accurate and stable evolutions of binary black hole systems with the accurate determination of gravitational waveforms directly from the wave zone region. Rather than excising the black hole interiors, our approach follows the "puncture" treatment of black holes, but utilizing a new gauge condition which allows the black holes to move successfully through the computational domain. We apply these techniques to an inspiraling binary, modeling the radiation generated during the final plunge and ringdown. We demonstrate convergence of the waveforms and good conservation of mass-energy, with just over 3% of the system's mass converted to gravitational radiation.

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