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球坐标系中的数值相对论与爱因斯坦工具包

Numerical relativity in spherical coordinates with the Einstein Toolkit

Vassilios Mewes, Yosef Zlochower, Manuela Campanelli, Ian Ruchlin, Zachariah B. Etienne, Thomas W. Baumgarte

摘要:

不对空间对称性做假设的数值相对论代码最常采用笛卡尔坐标。虽然这些坐标有许多吸引人的特点,但球坐标更适合利用一些天体物理物体的近似对称性,包括单星、黑洞和吸积盘。虽然坐标奇异性的出现经常破坏球坐标系中的数值相对论模拟,特别是在没有任何对称性假设的情况下,但最近已经证明,如果解析地处理坐标奇异性,这些问题可以避免。这是可能的帮助下,一个参考度量版本的鲍姆加特-夏皮罗-柴田-中村制定连同适当的重新缩放张量。在本文中,我们报告在爱因斯坦工具包中实现这种形式主义。我们适应爱因斯坦工具包的基础设施,最初设计的笛卡尔坐标,处理球坐标,提供适当的边界条件,在内部和外部边界。我们进行数值模拟的扰动克尔黑洞,提取的引力波信号,并证明,这些信号中的噪声是在球面网格,而不是笛卡尔网格计算时的数量级小。随着我们新的爱因斯坦工具包刺的公开发布,我们在球坐标系中的数值相对论方法将可用于整个数值相对论社区。

英文摘要:

Numerical relativity codes that do not make assumptions on spatial symmetries most commonly adopt Cartesian coordinates. While these coordinates have many attractive features, spherical coordinates are much better suited to take advantage of approximate symmetries in a number of astrophysical objects, including single stars, black holes and accretion disks. While the appearance of coordinate singularities often spoils numerical relativity simulations in spherical coordinates, especially in the absence of any symmetry assumptions, it has recently been demonstrated that these problems can be avoided if the coordinate singularities are handled analytically. This is possible with the help of a reference-metric version of the Baumgarte-Shapiro-Shibata-Nakamura formulation together with a proper rescaling of tensorial quantities. In this paper we report on an implementation of this formalism in the Einstein Toolkit. We adapt the Einstein Toolkit infrastructure, originally designed for Cartesian coordinates, to handle spherical coordinates, by providing appropriate boundary conditions at both inner and outer boundaries. We perform numerical simulations for a disturbed Kerr black hole, extract the gravitational wave signal, and demonstrate that the noise in these signals is orders of magnitude smaller when computed on spherical grids rather than Cartesian grids. With the public release of our new Einstein Toolkit thorns, our methods for numerical relativity in spherical coordinates will become available to the entire numerical relativity community.

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