Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2007-07-16
Phys.Rev.D76:101503,2007
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
5 pages, 5 figures, accepted by PRD Rapid Communications, RevTeX
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.101503
We follow the inspiral and merger of equal-mass black holes (BHs) by the moving puncture technique and demonstrate that both the exterior solution and the asymptotic gravitational waveforms are unchanged when the initial interior solution is replaced by constraint-violating ``junk'' initial data. We apply this result to evolve conformal thin-sandwich (CTS) binary BH initial data by filling their excised interiors with arbitrary, but smooth, initial data and evolving with standard puncture gauge choices. The waveforms generated for both puncture and filled-CTS initial data are remarkably similar, and there are only minor differences between irrotational and corotational CTS BH binaries. Even the interior solutions appear to evolve to the same constraint-satisfying solution at late times, independent of the initial data.
Baumgarte Thomas W.
Etienne Zachariah B.
Faber Joshua A.
Liu Yuk Tung
Shapiro Stuart L.
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