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Session R8 - Focus Session: Numerical Relativity I.
FOCUS session, Monday afternoon, April 07
Regency Ballroom C2, Loews Philadelphia Hotel

[R8.009] Quasiequilibrium models for binary black hole systems

Antonios Tsokaros (University of Wisconsin Milwaukee), Koji Uryu Collaboration, John L. Friedman Collaboration

A numerical scheme for constructing quasiequilibrium orbits for binary black hole systems is described. We use a second order finite difference method for the solution of the elliptic equations associated with the Hamiltonian and momentum constraints. The initial data are computed using a superposition of two Kerr-Schild black holes. We performed several convergence tests and we compared the results of this new code with other existing computations.

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