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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…
Further insight into gravitational recoil
Carlos O. Lousto, Yosef Zlochower
We test the accuracy of our recently proposed empirical formula to model the recoil velocity imparted to the merger remnant of spinning, unequal-mass black-hole binaries. We study…
Quasi-Local Linear Momentum in Black-Hole Binaries
Badri Krishnan, Carlos O. Lousto, Yosef Zlochower
We propose a quasi-local formula for the linear momentum of black-hole horizons inspired by the formalism of quasi-local horizons. We test this formula using two complementary conf…
Large Merger Recoils and Spin Flips From Generic Black-Hole Binaries
Manuela Campanelli, Carlos O. Lousto, Yosef Zlochower +1
We report the first results from evolutions of a generic black-hole binary, i.e. a binary containing unequal mass black holes with misaligned spins. Our configuration, which has a…