Gravitational wave extraction based on Cauchy–characteristic extraction and characteristic evolution

Authors

Maria C. Babiuc-Hamilton, Marshall UniversityFollow
Yosef Zlochower
Béla Szilágyi
Ian Hawke

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Fall 9-27-2005

Abstract

We implement a code to find the gravitational news at future null infinity by using data from a Cauchy code as boundary data for a characteristic code. This technique of Cauchy–characteristic extraction (CCE) allows for the unambiguous extraction of gravitational waves from numerical simulations. We first test the technique on non-radiative spacetimes: Minkowski spacetime, perturbations of Minkowski spacetime and static black hole spacetimes in various gauges. We show the convergence and limitations of the algorithm and illustrate its success in cases where other wave extraction methods fail. We further apply our techniques to a standard radiative test case for wave extraction, a linearized Teukolsky wave, presenting our results in comparison to the Zerilli technique, and we argue for the advantages of our method of extraction.

Comments

This is the article preprint. The version of record is available from the publisher at http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/22/23/011. Copyright © 2005 IOP Publishing Ltd.

Recommended Citation

Babiuc, M., Szilágyi, B., Hawke, I., & Zlochower, Y. (2005). Gravitational wave extraction based on Cauchy–characteristic extraction and characteristic evolution. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 22(23), 5089.