Towards a novel wave-extraction method for numerical relativity. I. Foundations and initial-value formulation

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2004-07-02

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0407012v2

Phys.Rev. D72 (2005) 024013

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

11 pages, 1 figure

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.72.024013

The Teukolsky formalism of black hole perturbation theory describes weak gravitational radiation generated by a mildly dynamical hole near equilibrium. A particular null tetrad of the background Kerr geometry, due to Kinnersley, plays a singularly important role within this formalism. In order to apply the rich physical intuition of Teukolsky's approach to the results of fully non-linear numerical simulations, one must approximate this Kinnersley tetrad using raw numerical data, with no a priori knowledge of a background. This paper addresses this issue by identifying the directions of the tetrad fields in a quasi-Kinnersley frame. This frame provides a unique, analytic extension of Kinnersley's definition for the Kerr geometry to a much broader class of space-times including not only arbitrary perturbations, but also many examples which differ non-perturbatively from Kerr. This paper establishes concrete limits delineating this class and outlines a scheme to calculate the quasi-Kinnersley frame in numerical codes based on the initial-value formulation of geometrodynamics.

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