Toward a dynamical shift condition for unequal mass black hole binary simulations

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/27/11/114008zbMATH Open1190.83063arXiv0912.3125OpenAlexW1984933861MaRDI QIDQ3575112FDOQ3575112

Authors: Doreen Müller, Bernd Brügmann 

Publication date: 7 July 2010

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Moving puncture simulations of black hole binaries rely on a specific gauge choice that leads to approximately stationary coordinates near each black hole. Part of the shift condition is a damping parameter, which has to be properly chosen for stable evolutions. However, a constant damping parameter does not account for the difference in mass in unequal mass binaries. We introduce a position dependent shift damping that addresses this problem. Although the coordinates change, the changes in the extracted gravitational waves are small.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.3125

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zbMATH Keywords

black holesgravitational wavescanonical formalismCauchy problems)Einstein's equations (general structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Black holes (83C57) Galactic and stellar structure (85A15) Computational methods for problems pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-08)

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