Advances in Simulations of Generic Black-Hole Binaries
arXiv:1001.3834 · doi:10.1088/0264-9381/27/8/084034
Abstract
We review some of the recent dramatic developments in the fully nonlinear simulation of generic, highly-precessing, black-hole binaries, and introduce a new approach for generating hybrid post-Newtonian / Numerical waveforms for these challenging systems.
12 pages, 5 figures, Prepared for 8th Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves (Amaldi8)
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