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title: "Late-time tails in nonlinear evolutions of merging black holes" | ||
authors: | ||
- "De Amicis, Marina" | ||
- "Rüter, Hannes" | ||
- "Carullo, Gregorio" | ||
- "Albanesi, Simone" | ||
- "Ferrus, C. Melize" | ||
- "Mitman, Keefe" | ||
- "Stein, Leo C." | ||
- "Cardoso, Vitor" | ||
- "Bernuzzi, Sebastiano" | ||
- "Boyle, Michael" | ||
- "Deppe, Nils" | ||
- "Kidder, Lawrence E." | ||
- "Moxon, Jordan" | ||
- "Nagar, Alessandro" | ||
- "Nelli, Kyle C." | ||
- "Pfeiffer, Harald P." | ||
- "Scheel, Mark A." | ||
- "Throwe, William" | ||
- "Vu, Nils L." | ||
- "Zenginoğlu, Anıl" | ||
jref: | ||
doi: | ||
date: 2024-12-09 | ||
arxiv: "2412.06887" | ||
abstract: | | ||
We uncover late-time gravitational-wave tails in fully nonlinear 3+1 | ||
dimensional numerical relativity simulations of merging black holes, | ||
using the highly accurate SpEC code. We achieve this result by | ||
exploiting the strong magnification of late-time tails due to binary | ||
eccentricity, recently observed in perturbative evolutions, and | ||
showcase here the tail presence in head-on configurations for | ||
several mass ratios close to unity. We validate the result through a | ||
large battery of numerical tests and detailed comparison with | ||
perturbative evolutions, which display striking agreement with full | ||
nonlinear ones. Our results offer yet another confirmation of the | ||
highly predictive power of black hole perturbation theory in the | ||
presence of a source, even when applied to nonlinear solutions. The | ||
late-time tail signal is much more prominent than anticipated until | ||
recently, and possibly within reach of gravitational-wave detectors | ||
measurements, unlocking observational investigations of an | ||
additional set of general relativistic predictions on the long-range | ||
gravitational dynamics. | ||
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title: "Merging black holes with Cauchy-characteristic matching: Computation of late-time tails" | ||
authors: | ||
- "Ma, Sizheng" | ||
- "Scheel, Mark A." | ||
- "Moxon, Jordan" | ||
- "Nelli, Kyle C." | ||
- "Deppe, Nils" | ||
- "Kidder, Lawrence E." | ||
- "Throwe, William" | ||
- "Vu, Nils L." | ||
jref: | ||
doi: | ||
date: 2024-12-09 | ||
arxiv: "2412.06906" | ||
abstract: | | ||
We present successful evolutions of binary black hole mergers using | ||
a novel numerical-relativity technique known as Cauchy- | ||
characteristic matching (CCM). This approach eliminates systematic | ||
errors associated with boundary conditions, effectively extending | ||
the computational domain to infinity. As an important application, | ||
we use CCM to resolve a late-time power-law tail in the | ||
gravitational wave from a head-on collision, and show that the tail | ||
is highly suppressed in a quasi-circular binary. Our results for the | ||
two extreme cases (orbital eccentricity $=0,1$) support the fact | ||
that tails increase with orbital eccentricity. Therefore, CCM paves | ||
the way for a detailed understanding of tails in eccentric systems. | ||
For the head-on case, we find that the tail behavior is consistent | ||
with predictions in the intermediate regime from black hole linear | ||
perturbation theory. However, we also raise the possibility that the | ||
power-law tail could be generated nonlinearly by quasinormal modes. | ||
The nonlinear contribution is expected to decay slower than | ||
predicted by Price's law, potentially dominating the signal at late | ||
times. If confirmed as nonlinear, this would be an example where | ||
nonlinearity prevails over linearity in the late-time regime of | ||
black hole dynamics. | ||
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