Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 91, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.91.104022
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- NSF [PHY-1305730, PHY-1212426, PHY-1229173, AST-1028087, PHY-0969855, OCI-0832606, DRL-1136221, PHY-0722703, DMS-0820923]
- MEXT [24103006]
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Physics [1305730, 1212426, 1229173] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1028087, 1516150] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Physics
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1212401] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We derive an analytical expression for extracting the gravitational waveforms at null infinity using the Weyl scalar psi(4) measured at a finite radius. Our expression is based on a series solution in orders of 1/r to the equations for gravitational perturbations about a spinning black hole. We compute this expression to order 1/r(2) and include the spin parameter a of the Kerr background. We test the accuracy of this extraction procedure by measuring the waveform for a merging black-hole binary at ten different extraction radii (in the range r/M = 75-190 and for three different resolutions in the convergence regime. We find that the extraction formula provides a set of values for the radiated energy and momenta that at finite extraction radii converges towards the expected values with increasing resolution, which is not the case for the raw waveform at finite radius. We also examine the phase and amplitude errors in the waveform as a function of observer location and again observe the benefits of using our extraction formula. The leading corrections to the phase are O(1/r) and to the amplitude are O(1/r(2)). This method provides a simple and practical way of estimating the waveform at infinity, and may be especially useful for scenarios such as well separated binaries, where the radiation zone is far from the sources, that would otherwise require extended simulation grids in order to extrapolate the raw waveform to infinity. Thus this method saves important computational resources and provides an estimate of errors.
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