Local and global properties of conformal initial data for black-hole collisions

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/20/1/304MaRDI QIDQ4797256zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nina Jansen, Peter Diener, A. M. Khokhlov, I. D. Novikov, Jakob K. Hansen

Publication date 19 January 2004

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0103109

zbMATH Keywords

numerical relativityscalar invariantscolliding black holesconformally flat initial data

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Black holes (83C57) Computational methods for problems pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-08)

Abstract: We study physical properties of conformal initial value data for single and binary black hole configurations obtained using conformal-imaging and conformal-puncture methods. We investigate how the total mass M_tot of a dataset with two black holes depends on the configuration of linear or angular momentum and separation of the holes. The asymptotic behavior of M_tot with increasing separation allows us to make conclusions about an unphysical ``junk gravitation field introduced in the solutions by the conformal approaches. We also calculate the spatial distribution of scalar invariants of the Riemann tensor which determine the gravitational tidal forces. For single black hole configurations, these are compared to known analytical solutions. Spatial distribution of the invariants allows us to make certain conclusions about the local distribution of the additional field in the numerical datasets.

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