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Improved Cauchy-characteristic evolution system for high-precision numerical relativity waveforms
Jordan Moxon, Mark A. Scheel, Saul A. Teukolsky
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We present several improvements to the Cauchy-characteristic evolution procedure that generates high-fidelity gravitational waveforms at ℐ^+ from numerical relativity simulations. Cauchy-characteristic evolution combines an interior solution of the Einstein field equations based on Cauchy slices with an exterior solution based on null slices that extend to ℐ^+. The foundation of our improved algorithm is a comprehensive method of handling the gauge transformations between the arbitrarily specified coordinates of the interior Cauchy evolution and the unique (up to BMS transformations) Bondi-Sachs coordinate system of the exterior characteristic evolution. We present a reformulated set of characteristic evolution equations better adapted to numerical implementation. In addition, we develop a method to ensure that the angular coordinates used in the volume during the characteristic evolution are asymptotically inertial. This provides a direct route to an expanded set of waveform outputs and is guaranteed to avoid pure-gauge logarithmic dependence that has caused trouble for previous spectral implementations of the characteristic evolution equations. We construct a set of Weyl scalars compatible with the Bondi-like coordinate systems used in characteristic evolution, and determine simple, easily implemented forms for the asymptotic Weyl scalars in our suggested set of coordinates.
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