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GR: Fachverband Gravitation und Relativitätstheorie

GR 13: Numerical Relativity

GR 13.3: Vortrag

Donnerstag, 24. März 2022, 14:40–15:00, GR-H2

Comparison of eccentric numerical relativity simulations to small mass-ratio perturbation theory — •antoni ramos-buades, maarten van de meent, and harald pfeiffer — Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam, Germany

During the third observing run of the LIGO and Virgo detectors a few gravitational wave (GW) signals from binary black hole (BBH) mergers with unequal masses have been detected. As detectors' sensitivity continues to increase, more systems with more asymmetric masses are expected to be detected, and therefore modelling of BBHs at all mass ratios is of preeminent relevance. In this work we compare two approaches to modeling binary black holes (BBHs): 1) small mass-ratio (SMR) perturbation theory, and 2) numerical relativity (NR). We extend recent work on combining information from quasicircular nonspinning NR simulations of BBHs with results from SMR perturbation theory to nonspinning eccentric BBHs. We produce a dataset of long and accurate eccentric nonspinning NR simulations with the Spectral Einstein Code (SpEC) from mass ratios 1 to 10, and eccentricities up to 0.7. We analyze these NR simulations, compute gauge invariant quantities from the gravitational radiation, and develop tools to map points in parameter space between eccentric NR and SMR waveforms. Finally, we discuss discrepancies between SMR and NR predictions for the energy and angular momentum fluxes due to eccentricity, and limitations of such comparisons due to the limited parameter space in mass ratio covered by the NR simulations.