Characteristic extraction in numerical relativity: binary black hole merger waveforms at null infinity

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2009-12-07

arxiv.org/abs/0912.1285v2

Class. Quantum Grav. 27 075014 (2010)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

41 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables, added references, fixed typos. Version matches published version.

Scientific paper

10.1088/0264-9381/27/7/075014

The accurate modeling of gravitational radiation is a key issue for gravitational wave astronomy. As simulation codes reach higher accuracy, systematic errors inherent in current numerical relativity wave-extraction methods become evident, and may lead to a wrong astrophysical interpretation of the data. In this paper, we give a detailed description of the Cauchy-characteristic extraction technique applied to binary black hole inspiral and merger evolutions to obtain gravitational waveforms that are defined unambiguously, that is, at future null infinity. By this method we remove finite-radius approximations and the need to extrapolate data from the near zone. Further, we demonstrate that the method is free of gauge effects and thus is affected only by numerical error. Various consistency checks reveal that energy and angular momentum are conserved to high precision and agree very well with extrapolated data. In addition, we revisit the computation of the gravitational recoil and find that finite radius extrapolation very well approximates the result at $\scri$. However, the (non-convergent) systematic differences to extrapolated data are of the same order of magnitude as the (convergent) discretisation error of the Cauchy evolution hence highlighting the need for correct wave-extraction.

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