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Improved Cauchy-characteristic evolution system for high-precision numerical relativity waveforms

Moxon, Jordan and Scheel, Mark A. and Teukolsky, Saul A. (2020) Improved Cauchy-characteristic evolution system for high-precision numerical relativity waveforms. Physical Review D, 102 (4). Art. No. 044052. ISSN 2470-0010. doi:10.1103/physrevd.102.044052. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20200901-092407906

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Abstract

We present several improvements to the Cauchy-characteristic evolution procedure that generates high-fidelity gravitational waveforms at I+ from numerical relativity simulations. Cauchy-characteristic evolution combines an interior solution of the Einstein field equations based on Cauchy slices with an exterior solution based on null slices that extend to I+. The foundation of our improved algorithm is a comprehensive method of handling the gauge transformations between the arbitrarily specified coordinates of the interior Cauchy evolution and the unique (up to Bondi-Metzner-Sachs group transformations) Bondi-Sachs coordinate system of the exterior characteristic evolution. We present a reformulated set of characteristic evolution equations better adapted to numerical implementation. In addition, we develop a method to ensure that the angular coordinates used in the volume during the characteristic evolution are asymptotically inertial. This provides a direct route to an expanded set of waveform outputs and is guaranteed to avoid pure-gauge logarithmic dependence that has caused trouble for previous spectral implementations of the characteristic evolution equations. We construct a set of Weyl scalars compatible with the Bondi-like coordinate systems used in characteristic evolution and determine simple, easily implemented forms for the asymptotic Weyl scalars in our suggested set of coordinates.


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https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.102.044052DOIArticle
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.01339arXivDiscussion Paper
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Moxon, Jordan0000-0001-9891-8677
Teukolsky, Saul A.0000-0001-9765-4526
Additional Information:© 2020 American Physical Society. Received 6 July 2020; accepted 24 July 2020; published 28 August 2020. We thank Kevin Barkett, Michael Boyle, Dante Iozzo, Bela Szilagyi, and Jeff Winicour for valuable discussions and suggestions regarding this project. We thank Harald Pfeiffer for suggestions improving the presentation in this paper. This work was supported in part by the Sherman Fairchild Foundation and by NSF Grants No. PHY-1708212, No. PHY-1708213, and No. OAC-1931266 at Caltech and NSF Grants No. PHY-1912081 and No. OAC-1931280 at Cornell.
Group:TAPIR, Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics
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Sherman Fairchild FoundationUNSPECIFIED
NSFPHY-1708212
NSFPHY-1708213
NSFOAC-1931266
NSFPHY-1912081
NSFOAC-1931280
Issue or Number:4
DOI:10.1103/physrevd.102.044052
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