Quasi-circular orbits of conformal thin-sandwich puncture binary black holes (2005)
I construct initial data for equal-mass irrotational binary black holes using the conformal thin-sandwich puncture (CTSP) approach. I locate quasi-circular orbits using the effective-potential...
Conformal thin-sandwich puncture initial data for boosted black holes (2005)
Hannam, Mark D., Cook, Gregory B.
We apply the puncture approach to conformal thin-sandwich black-hole initial data. We solve numerically the conformal thin-sandwich puncture (CTSP) equations for a single black hole with non-zero...
Hannam, Mark D., Evans, Charles R., Cook, Gregory B., Baumgarte, Thomas W.
We consider combining two important methods for constructing quasi-equilibrium initial data for binary black holes: the conformal thin-sandwich formalism and the puncture method. The former seeks to...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2003.
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2003.