Computing the merger of black-hole binaries: the IBBH problem

Details Computing the merger of black-hole binaries: the IBBH problem Computing the merger of black-hole binaries: the IBBH problem

1998-04-22

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9804057v1

Phys.Rev.D58:061501,1998

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

6 pages RevTeX

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.58.061501

Gravitational radiation arising from the inspiral and merger of binary black holes (BBH's) is a promising candidate for detection by kilometer-scale interferometric gravitational wave observatories. This paper discusses a serious obstacle to searches for such radiation and to the interpretation of any observed waves: the inability of current computational techniques to evolve a BBH through its last ~10 orbits of inspiral (~100 radians of gravitational-wave phase). A new set of numerical-relativity techniques is proposed for solving this ``Intermediate Binary Black Hole'' (IBBH) problem: (i) numerical evolutions performed in coordinates co-rotating with the BBH, in which the metric coefficients evolve on the long timescale of inspiral, and (ii) techniques for mathematically freezing out gravitational degrees of freedom that are not excited by the waves.

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