Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications and Presentations

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-2006

Abstract

We present a new algorithm for evolving orbiting black-hole binaries that does not require excision or a corotating shift. Our algorithm is based on a novel technique to handle the singular puncture conformal factor. This system, based on the Baumgarte-Shapiro-Shibata-Nakamura formulation of Einstein’s equations, when used with a ‘‘precollapsed’’ initial lapse, is nonsingular at the start of the evolution and remains nonsingular and stable provided that a good choice is made for the gauge. As a test case, we use this technique to fully evolve orbiting black-hole binaries from near the innermost stable circular orbit regime. We show fourth-order convergence of waveforms and compute the radiated gravitational energy and angular momentum from the plunge. These results are in good agreement with those predicted by the Lazarus approach.

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© 2006 The American Physical Society http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.111101

Publication Title

Physical Review Letters

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.111101

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