Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
1996-06-06
Phys.Rev. D54 (1996) 4849-4857
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
14 pages (RevTeX 3.0 with 3 figures)
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.54.4849
Locating apparent horizons is not only important for a complete understanding of numerically generated spacetimes, but it may also be a crucial component of the technique for evolving black-hole spacetimes accurately. A scheme proposed by Libson et al., based on expanding the location of the apparent horizon in terms of symmetric trace-free tensors, seems very promising for use with three-dimensional numerical data sets. In this paper, we generalize this scheme and perform a number of code tests to fully calibrate its behavior in black-hole spacetimes similar to those we expect to encounter in solving the binary black-hole coalescence problem. An important aspect of the generalization is that we can compute the symmetric trace-free tensor expansion to any order. This enables us to determine how far we must carry the expansion to achieve results of a desired accuracy. To accomplish this generalization, we describe a new and very convenient set of recurrence relations which apply to symmetric trace-free tensors.
Baumgarte Thomas W.
Cook Gregory B.
Scheel Mark A.
Shapiro Stuart L.
Teukolsky Saul A.
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