Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 83, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.83.024010
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Funding
- Sherman Fairchild Foundation
- Brinson Foundation
- NSF at Caltech [PHY-0601459, PHY-1005655]
- NASA at Caltech [NNX09AF97G, NNX09AF96G]
- NCSA [TG-PHY990007N]
- NSF at Cornell [PHY-0969111, PHY-1005426]
- Canada Foundation for Innovation under Compute Canada
- Government of Ontario
- Ontario Research Fund-Research Excellence
- University of Toronto
- Division Of Physics
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1005655] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Physics
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [969111] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Astrophysically realistic black holes may have spins that are nearly extremal (i.e., close to 1 in dimensionless units). Numerical simulations of binary black holes are important tools both for calibrating analytical templates for gravitational-wave detection and for exploring the nonlinear dynamics of curved spacetime. However, all previous simulations of binary-black-hole inspiral, merger, and ringdown have been limited by an apparently insurmountable barrier: the merging holes' spins could not exceed 0.93, which is still a long way from the maximum possible value in terms of the physical effects of the spin. In this paper, we surpass this limit for the first time, opening the way to explore numerically the behavior of merging, nearly extremal black holes. Specifically, using an improved initial-data method suitable for binary black holes with nearly extremal spins, we simulate the inspiral (through 12.5 orbits), merger and ringdown of two equal-mass black holes with equal spins of magnitude 0.95 antialigned with the orbital angular momentum.
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