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Simple method to set up low eccentricity initial data for moving puncture simulations

Wolfgang Tichy and Pedro Marronetti

  • Department of Physics, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida 33431, USA

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Phys. Rev. D 83, 024012 – Published 11 January, 2011

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.83.024012

Abstract

We introduce two new eccentricity measures to analyze numerical simulations. Unlike earlier definitions these eccentricity measures do not involve any free parameters which makes them easy to use. We show how relatively inexpensive grid setups can be used to estimate the eccentricity during the early inspiral phase. Furthermore, we compare standard puncture data and post-Newtonian data in ADMTT gauge. We find that both use different coordinates. Thus low eccentricity initial momentum parameters for a certain separation measured in ADMTT coordinates are hard to use in puncture data, because it is not known how the separation in puncture coordinates is related to the separation in ADMTT coordinates. As a remedy we provide a simple approach which allows us to iterate the momentum parameters until our numerical simulations result in acceptably low eccentricities.

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Phys. Rev. D 83, 024012– Published 11 January, 2011
  • Received 15 October 2010
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