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Moving black holes via singularity excision

Deirdre Shoemaker1, Kenneth Smith2, Ulrich Sperhake2, Pablo Laguna2, Erik Schnetter3 and David Fiske4

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We present a singularity excision algorithm appropriate for numerical simulations of black holes moving throughout the computational domain. The method is an extension of the excision procedure previously used to obtain stable simulations of single, non-moving black holes. The excision procedure also shares elements used in recent work to study the dynamics of a scalar field in the background of a single, boosted black hole. The excision method is tested with single black-hole evolutions using a coordinate system in which the coordinate location of the black hole, and thus the excision boundary, moves throughout the computational domain.


PACS

04.70.-s Physics of black holes

04.20.-q Classical general relativity

04.25.D- Numerical relativity

02.60.Cb Numerical simulation; solution of equations

MSC

83C05 Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems)

83C57 Black holes

Subjects

Computational physics

Gravitation and cosmology

Dates

Issue 16 (21 August 2003)

Received 30 January 2003

Published 31 July 2003



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