Publications (8)
Anomalies in the gravitational recoil of eccentric black-hole mergers with unequal mass ratios
Miren Radia, Ulrich Sperhake, Emanuele Berti +1
The radiation of linear momentum imparts a recoil (or "kick") to the center of mass of a merging black hole binary system. Recent numerical relativity calculations have shown that…
GRChombo: An adaptable numerical relativity code for fundamental physics
Tomas Andrade, Llibert Areste Salo, Josu C. Aurrekoetxea +29
GRChombo is an open-source code for performing Numerical Relativity time evolutions, built on top of the publicly available Chombo software for the solution of PDEs. Whilst GRChomb…
Local Continuity of Angular Momentum and Noether Charge for Matter in General Relativity
Robin Croft
Conservation laws have many applications in numerical relativity. However, it is not straightforward to define local conservation laws for general dynamic spacetimes due the lack o…
Malaise and remedy of binary boson-star initial data
Thomas Helfer, Ulrich Sperhake, Robin Croft +3
Through numerical simulations of boson-star head-on collisions, we explore the quality of binary initial data obtained from the superposition of single-star spacetimes. Our results…
Black hole spectroscopy and nonlinear echoes in Einstein-Maxwell-scalar theory
Marco Melis, Fabrizio Corelli, Robin Croft +1
In the context of Einstein-Maxwell-scalar theory with a nonminimal coupling between the electromagnetic and scalar field, we study linear (non)radial perturbations and nonlinear ra…
Hair is complicated: Gravitational waves from stable and unstable boson-star mergers
Bo-Xuan Ge, Eugene A. Lim, Ulrich Sperhake +5
We explore the gravitational-wave emission from head-on collisions of equal-mass solitonic boson-star binaries from simulations spanning a two-dimensional parameter space, consisti…
Unequal-mass boson-star binaries: Initial data and merger dynamics
Tamara Evstafyeva, Ulrich Sperhake, Thomas Helfer +4
We present a generalization of the curative initial data construction derived for equal-mass compact binaries in Helfer {\it et al} (2019 Phys. Rev. D 99 044046; 2022 Class. Quantu…
The Gravitational Afterglow of Boson Stars
Robin Croft, Thomas Helfer, Bo-Xuan Ge +5
In this work we study the long-lived post-merger gravitational wave signature of a boson-star binary coalescence. We use full numerical relativity to simulate the post-merger and t…