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author Lovelace, Geoffrey
Nelli, Kyle C.
Deppe, Nils
Vu, Nils L.
Throwe, William
Bonilla, Marceline S.
Carpenter, Alexander
Kidder, Lawrence E.
Macedo, Alexandra
Scheel, Mark A.
Afram, Azer
Boyle, Michael
Ceja, Andrea
Giesler, Matthew
Habib, Sarah
Jones, Ken Z.
Kumar, Prayush
Lara, Guillermo
Melchor, Denyz
Mendes, Iago B.
Mitman, Keefe
Morales, Marlo
Moxon, Jordan
O'Shea, Eamonn
Pannone, Kyle
Pfeiffer, Harald P.
Ramirez-Aguilar, Teresita
Sanchez, Jennifer
Tellez, Daniel
Teukolsky, Saul A.
Wittek, Nikolas A.
author_facet Lovelace, Geoffrey
Nelli, Kyle C.
Deppe, Nils
Vu, Nils L.
Throwe, William
Bonilla, Marceline S.
Carpenter, Alexander
Kidder, Lawrence E.
Macedo, Alexandra
Scheel, Mark A.
Afram, Azer
Boyle, Michael
Ceja, Andrea
Giesler, Matthew
Habib, Sarah
Jones, Ken Z.
Kumar, Prayush
Lara, Guillermo
Melchor, Denyz
Mendes, Iago B.
Mitman, Keefe
Morales, Marlo
Moxon, Jordan
O'Shea, Eamonn
Pannone, Kyle
Pfeiffer, Harald P.
Ramirez-Aguilar, Teresita
Sanchez, Jennifer
Tellez, Daniel
Teukolsky, Saul A.
Wittek, Nikolas A.
contents Binary black holes are the most abundant source of gravitational-wave observations. Gravitational-wave observatories in the next decade will require tremendous increases in the accuracy of numerical waveforms modeling binary black holes, compared to today's state of the art. One approach to achieving the required accuracy is using spectral-type methods that scale to many processors. Using the SpECTRE numerical-relativity code, we present the first simulations of a binary black hole inspiral, merger, and ringdown using discontinuous Galerkin methods. The efficiency of discontinuous Galerkin methods allows us to evolve the binary through ~18 orbits at reasonable computational cost. We then use SpECTRE's Cauchy Characteristic Evolution (CCE) code to extract the gravitational waves at future null infinity. The open-source nature of SpECTRE means this is the first time a spectral-type method for simulating binary black hole evolutions is available to the entire numerical-relativity community.
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spellingShingle Simulating binary black hole mergers using discontinuous Galerkin methods
Lovelace, Geoffrey
Nelli, Kyle C.
Deppe, Nils
Vu, Nils L.
Throwe, William
Bonilla, Marceline S.
Carpenter, Alexander
Kidder, Lawrence E.
Macedo, Alexandra
Scheel, Mark A.
Afram, Azer
Boyle, Michael
Ceja, Andrea
Giesler, Matthew
Habib, Sarah
Jones, Ken Z.
Kumar, Prayush
Lara, Guillermo
Melchor, Denyz
Mendes, Iago B.
Mitman, Keefe
Morales, Marlo
Moxon, Jordan
O'Shea, Eamonn
Pannone, Kyle
Pfeiffer, Harald P.
Ramirez-Aguilar, Teresita
Sanchez, Jennifer
Tellez, Daniel
Teukolsky, Saul A.
Wittek, Nikolas A.
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Binary black holes are the most abundant source of gravitational-wave observations. Gravitational-wave observatories in the next decade will require tremendous increases in the accuracy of numerical waveforms modeling binary black holes, compared to today's state of the art. One approach to achieving the required accuracy is using spectral-type methods that scale to many processors. Using the SpECTRE numerical-relativity code, we present the first simulations of a binary black hole inspiral, merger, and ringdown using discontinuous Galerkin methods. The efficiency of discontinuous Galerkin methods allows us to evolve the binary through ~18 orbits at reasonable computational cost. We then use SpECTRE's Cauchy Characteristic Evolution (CCE) code to extract the gravitational waves at future null infinity. The open-source nature of SpECTRE means this is the first time a spectral-type method for simulating binary black hole evolutions is available to the entire numerical-relativity community.
title Simulating binary black hole mergers using discontinuous Galerkin methods
topic General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.00265