Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2007-08-17
Phys.Rev.D76:104021,2007
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
21 pages, 21 figures, RevTex, accepted by PRD; minor updates
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.104021
Many of the recent numerical simulations of binary black holes in vacuum adopt the moving puncture approach. This successful approach avoids the need to impose numerical excision of the black hole interior and is easy to implement. Here we wish to explore how well the same approach can be applied to moving black hole punctures in the presence of relativistic hydrodynamic matter. First, we evolve single black hole punctures in vacuum to calibrate our BSSN (Baumgarte-Shapiro-Shibata-Nakamura) implementation and to confirm that the numerical solution for the exterior spacetime is invariant to any ``junk'' (i.e., constraint-violating) initial data employed in the black hole interior. Then we focus on relativistic Bondi accretion onto a moving puncture Schwarzschild black hole as a numerical testbed for our high-resolution shock-capturing relativistic hydrodynamics scheme. We find that the hydrodynamical equations can be evolved successfully in the interior without imposing numerical excision. These results help motivate the adoption of the moving puncture approach to treat the binary black hole-neutron star problem using conformal thin-sandwich initial data.
Baumgarte Thomas W.
Etienne Zachariah B.
Faber Joshua A.
Shapiro Stuart L.
Taniguchi Keisuke
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