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Catalog of 174 Binary Black Hole Simulations for Gravitational Wave Astronomy

2013; American Physical Society; Volume: 111; Issue: 24 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1103/physrevlett.111.241104

1092-0145

Abdul Mroué, Mark Scheel, Béla Szilágyi, Harald Pfeiffer, Michael Boyle, Daniel A. Hemberger, Larry Kidder, Geoffrey Lovelace, Serguei Ossokine, Nicholas Taylor, Anıl Zenginoğlu, Luisa T. Buchman, Tony Chu, E. Foley, Matthew Giesler, Robert Owen, Saul A. Teukolsky,

Geophysics and Sensor Technology

This paper presents a publicly available catalog of 174 numerical binary black-hole simulations following up to 35 orbits. The catalog includes 91 precessing binaries, mass ratios up to 8:1, orbital eccentricities from a few percent to $10^{-5}$, black-hole spins up to 98% of the theoretical maximum, and radiated energies up to 11.1% of the initial mass. We establish remarkably good agreement with post-Newtonian precession of orbital and spin directions for two new precessing simulations, and we discuss other applications of this catalog. Formidable challenges remain: e.g., precession complicates the connection of numerical and approximate analytical waveforms, and vast regions of the parameter space remain unexplored.