Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2004-01-04
J.Comput.Phys. 199 (2004) 376-422
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
AMS article, 105 pages, 45 figures. Version 3 has more minor corrections as well as extra commentary added in response to reac
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.jcp.2004.05.013
For scalar, electromagnetic, or gravitational wave propagation on a fixed Schwarzschild blackhole background, we describe the exact nonlocal radiation outer boundary conditions (ROBC) appropriate for a spherical outer boundary of finite radius enclosing the blackhole. Derivation of the ROBC is based on Laplace and spherical-harmonic transformation of the Regge-Wheeler equation, the PDE governing the wave propagation, with the resulting radial ODE an incarnation of the confluent Heun equation. For a given angular index l the ROBC feature integral convolution between a time-domain radiation boundary kernel (TDRK) and each of the corresponding 2l+1 spherical-harmonic modes of the radiating wave. The TDRK is the inverse Laplace transform of a frequency-domain radiation kernel (FDRK) which is essentially the logarithmic derivative of the asymptotically outgoing solution to the radial ODE. We numerically implement the ROBC via a rapid algorithm involving approximation of the FDRK by a rational function. Such an approximation is tailored to have relative error \epsilon uniformly along the axis of imaginary Laplace frequency. Theoretically, \epsilon is also a long-time bound on the relative convolution error. Via study of one-dimensional radial evolutions, we demonstrate that the ROBC capture the phenomena of quasinormal ringing and decay tails. Moreover, carrying out a numerical experiment in which a wave packet strikes the boundary at an angle, we find that the ROBC yield accurate results in a three-dimensional setting. Our work is a partial generalization to Schwarzschild wave propagation and Heun functions of the methods developed for flatspace wave propagation and Bessel functions by Alpert, Greengard, and Hagstrom.
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