Binary Black Hole Mergers in SpEC

ORAL

Abstract

The Caltech-Cornell spectral Einstein Code (SpEC) is now able to robustly and accurately evolve binary black hole systems through the inspiral, merger and ringdown phases. This is attributed to new gauge conditions as well as a robustly stable numerical algorithm. The talk will highlight the key new elements of our algorithm.

Authors

  • Bela Szilagyi

    Caltech