New Coordinate Systems for Axisymmetric Black Hole Collisions

1997/11/06 by S. R. Brandt, Brandt, S. R., P. Walker +3
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #gr-qc

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9711018

3 pages, 5 postscript figures, LaTeX, uses mprocl.sty (available at http://shemesh.fiz.huji.ac.il/MG8/submission.html) To appear in the proceedings of the Marcel Grossmann 8 (Jerusalem, 1997)

arxiv created 1997/11/06 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

We describe a numerical grid generating procedure to construct new classes of orthogonal coordinate systems that are specially adapted to binary black hole spacetimes. The new coordinates offer an alternative approach to the conventional Čadež coordinates, in addition to providing a potentially more stable and flexible platform to extend previous calculations of binary black hole collisions.

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