Simulating Precessing Binary Black Holes with SpECTRE

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Abstract

SpECTRE is a next-generation numerical-relativity code that uses a discontinuous Galerkin method combined with task-based parallelism. Over the next decade, new gravitational wave observatories will require highly accurate models of the binary black holes they expect to observe, including binaries with precessing spins and unequal masses; near the time of merger, these models necessarily rely on numerical relativity simulations. In this talk I will discuss the progress towards simulating precessing binary black hole systems and the gravitational waves they emit using SpECTRE.

*This work was supported in part by NSF awards PHY-2208014 and AST-2219109, the Dan Black Family Trust, and Nicholas and Lee Begovich at Cal State Fullerton; by NSF awards PHY-2407742, PHY- 2207342, and OAC-2209655, and by the Sherman Fairchild Foundation at Cornell; by NASA through the NASA Hubble Fellowship grant number HST-HF2-51562.001-A awarded by the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Incorporated, under NASA contract NAS5-26555; by the Sherman Fairchild Foundation and by NSF Grants PHY-2309211, PHY-2309231, and OAC-2209656 at Caltech; and by the Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India, under project RTI4001, and by the Ashok and Gita Vaish Early Career Faculty Fellowship at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences.

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Presenters

  • Alex H Carpenter

    • California State University, Fullerton

Authors

  • Alex H Carpenter

    • California State University, Fullerton