Foundations of multiple-black-hole evolutions

Foundations of multiple black hole evolutions

Initial Data for Black Hole Evolutions

Foundations of Black Hole Accretion Disk Theory

This review covers the main aspects of black hole accretion disk theory. We begin with the view that one of the main goals of the theory is to better understand the nature of black holes themselves. In this light we discuss how accretion disks might reveal some of the unique signatures of strong gravity: the event horizon, the innermost stable circular orbit, and the ergosphere. We then review,...

Binary black hole evolutions of approximate puncture initial data

Tanja Bode, Pablo Laguna, Deirdre M. Shoemaker, Ian Hinder, Frank Herrmann, and Birjoo Vaishnav Center for Gravitational Wave Physics The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802 Center for Relativistic Astrophysics and School of Physics Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332 Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, Albert-Einstein-Institut, Golm, Germany Center f...

Binary black-hole evolutions of excision and puncture data

We present a new numerical code developed for the evolution of binary black-hole spacetimes using different initial data and evolution techniques. The code is demonstrated to produce state-of-theart simulations of orbiting and inspiralling black-hole binaries with convergent waveforms. We also present the first detailed study of the dependence of gravitational waveforms resulting from threedime...