Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
1998-05-28
Phys.Rev. D59 (1999) 064019
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
16 pages, 12 figures. Submitted to Phys. Rev. D
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.59.064019
We consider the numerical evolution of black hole initial data sets, consisting of single black holes distorted by strong gravitational waves, with a full 3D, nonlinear evolution code. These data sets mimic the late stages of coalescing black holes. We compare various aspects of the evolution of axisymmetric initial data sets, obtained with this 3D code, to results obtained from a well established axisymmetric code. In both codes we examine and compare the behavior of metric functions, apparent horizon properties, and waveforms, and show that these dynamic black holes can be accurately evolved in 3D. In particular we show that with present computational resources and techniques, the process of excitation and ringdown of the black hole can be evolved, and one can now extract accurately the gravitational waves emitted from the 3D Cartesian metric functions, even when they carry away only a small fraction ($<< 1%$) of the rest mass energy of the system. Waveforms for both the $\ell=2$ and the much more difficult $\ell=4$ and $\ell=6$ modes are computed and compared with axisymmetric calculations. In addition to exploring the physics of distorted black hole data sets, and showing the extent to which the waves can be accurately extracted, these results also provide important testbeds for all fully nonlinear numerical codes designed to evolve black hole spacetimes in 3D, whether they use singularity avoiding slicings, apparent horizon boundary conditions, or other evolution methods.
Camarda Karen
Seidel Edward
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