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Extra-Large Remnant Recoil Velocities and Spins from Near-Extremal-Bowen-York-Spin Black-Hole Binaries
Sergio Dain, Carlos O. Lousto, Yosef Zlochower
We evolve equal-mass, equal-spin black-hole binaries with specific spins of a/mH 0.925, the highest spins simulated thus far and nearly the largest possible for Bowen-York black ho…
A new method to integrate (2+1)-wave equations with Dirac's delta functions as sources
Carlos O. Lousto, Hiroyuki Nakano
Unlike in the Schwarzschild black hole background, gravitational perturbations in a Kerr black hole background can not be decomposed into simple tensor harmonics in the time domain…
New method to integrate 2+1 wave equations with Dirac's delta functions as sources
Hiroyuki Nakano, Carlos O. Lousto
Gravitational perturbations in a Kerr black hole background can not be decomposed into simple tensor harmonics in the time domain. Here, we make the mode decomposition only in the…
Foundations of multiple black hole evolutions
Carlos O. Lousto, Yosef Zlochower
We present techniques for long-term, stable, and accurate evolutions of multiple-black-hole spacetimes using the `moving puncture' approach with fourth- and eighth-order finite dif…
Three-body equations of motion in successive post-Newtonian approximations
Carlos O. Lousto, Hiroyuki Nakano
There are periodic solutions to the equal-mass three-body (and N-body) problem in Newtonian gravity. The figure-eight solution is one of them. In this paper, we discuss its solutio…
Close encounters of three black holes
Manuela Campanelli, Carlos O. Lousto, Yosef Zlochower
We present the first fully relativistic longterm numerical evolutions of three equal-mass black holes in a system consisting of a third black hole in a close orbit about a black-ho…