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Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2512–2516 (1998)

Boosted Three-Dimensional Black-Hole Evolutions with Singularity Excision

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G. B. Cook et al. (Binary Black Hole Grand Challenge Alliance)
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Received 26 November 1997; published in the issue dated 23 March 1998

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Binary black-hole interactions provide potentially the strongest source of gravitational radiation for detectors currently under development. We present some results from the Binary Black Hole Grand Challenge Alliance three-dimensional Cauchy evolution module. These constitute essential steps towards modeling such interactions and predicting gravitational radiation waveforms. We report on single black-hole evolutions and the first successful demonstration of a black hole moving freely through a three-dimensional computational grid via a Cauchy evolution: a hole moving near 6M at 0.1c during a total evolution of duration near 60M.

© 1998 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.2512
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.2512
PACS:
04.70.Bw, 04.25.Dm, 04.30.Db