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Antikick Relation in High-Energy Head-On Collisions of Spinning Black Holes
Carlos O. Lousto, James Healy, Alessandro Ciarfella +1
The collision of black holes at relativistic speeds probes gravity in its most extreme dynamical regime. While the maximum gravitational recoil from \emph{grazing} high-energy coll…
The Fifth RIT Catalog of Binary Black Hole Simulations: Multiple-Resolution Studies of Eccentric Orbits
Giuseppe Ficarra, James Healy, Carlos O. Lousto
This fifth release of the RIT public catalog of numerical relativity binary black hole waveforms http://ccrg.rit.edu/~RITCatalog introduces an additional 248 configurations, priori…
The maximum radiated energy and final spin of high speed collision of two black holes
James Healy, Alessandro Ciarfella, Carlos O. Lousto
We performed a series of 769 full numerical simulations of high energy collision of black holes to search for the maximum gravitational energy emitted , during their merge…
Quasicircular Orbital Parameters for Numerical Relativity Revisited
Alessandro Ciarfella, James Healy, Carlos O. Lousto +1
In the post-Newtonian (PN) expansion, we extend the determination of quasicircular orbital parameters to be used by subsequent full numerical simulations to the 3.5PN order, and fi…