Search

Your search keyword '"Radia, Miren"' showing total 24 results
Start Over Author "Radia, Miren"
24 results on '"Radia, Miren"'

1. Unequal-mass boson-star binaries: Initial data and merger dynamics

Author

Evstafyeva, Tamara, Sperhake, Ulrich, Helfer, Thomas, Croft, Robin, Radia, Miren, Ge, Bo-Xuan, and Lim, Eugene A.

Subjects
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We present a generalization of the curative initial data construction derived for equal-mass compact binaries in Helfer {\it et al} (2019 Phys. Rev. D 99 044046; 2022 Class. Quantum Grav. 39 074001) to arbitrary mass ratios. We demonstrate how these improved initial data avoid substantial spurious artifacts in the collision dynamics of unequal-mass boson-star binaries in the same way as has previously been achieved with the simpler method restricted to the equal-mass case. We employ the improved initial data to explore in detail the impact of phase offsets in the coalescence of equal- and unequal-mass boson star binaries., Comment: 37 pages, 12 figures, to match published version in CQG

Published
2022
Full Text
View/download PDF

2. Numerical modelling of gravitational wave sources in general relativity

Author

Radia, Miren and Sperhake, Ulrich

Subjects
General Relativity, Gravitational Waves, Numerical Relativity, Theoretical Physics
Abstract

The first direct detection of gravitational waves (GWs) from a black-hole (BH) binary, GW150914, by the advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (aLIGO) detectors in 2015 heralded a new era in GW physics. Since then, over 90 compact binary merger events have been detected by the GW detector network with many more expected in the decades to come. A significant part of the theoretical foundations that underpins this achievement is the modelling of GW sources in General Relativity (GR) using numerical relativity (NR). In this thesis, we discuss the features and capabilities of the NR code GRChombo. Although GRChombo is no longer a new code, its original development and design targeted applications beyond the conventional astrophysical paradigm that other NR codes have focussed on. Here, we describe more recent additions that have allowed GRChombo to model BH binaries and other GW sources with good accuracy. Through direct comparison, we demonstrate that this accuracy is comparable to that of a more mature NR code. One of the key capabilities of GRChombo is its adaptive mesh refinement (AMR). This allows the numerical grid to dynamically adjust itself in order to sufficiently resolve the large range of spatial and temporal scales that characteristically arise in non-trivial solutions of GR as a consequence of the theory's non-linearity. However, this flexibility requires careful control in order to achieve the desired accuracy and we discuss in detail the lessons learned in order to achieve this with GRChombo. We apply GRChombo and these techniques to the investigation of the effect of orbital eccentricity on the GW emission and the gravitational recoil imparted to the BH merger remnant from the inspiral and merger of unequal-mass non-spinning BH binaries. Finally, we explore the modelling of a more exotic type of compact object: boson stars (BSs) which are comprised of complex scalar field matter. In particular, we investigate the construction of suitable initial data describing BS binaries and its effect on the ensuing evolutions.

Published
2023
Full Text
View/download PDF

3. The Gravitational Afterglow of Boson Stars

Author

Croft, Robin, Helfer, Thomas, Ge, Bo-Xuan, Radia, Miren, Evstafyeva, Tamara, Lim, Eugene A., Sperhake, Ulrich, and Clough, Katy

Subjects
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

In this work we study the long-lived post-merger gravitational wave signature of a boson-star binary coalescence. We use full numerical relativity to simulate the post-merger and track the gravitational afterglow over an extended period of time. We implement recent innovations for the binary initial data, which significantly reduce spurious initial excitations of the scalar field profiles, as well as a measure for the angular momentum that allows us to track the total momentum of the spatial volume, including the curvature contribution. Crucially, we find the afterglow to last much longer than the spin-down timescale. This prolonged gravitational wave afterglow provides a characteristic signal that may distinguish it from other astrophysical sources., Comment: Movie: https://youtu.be/JE5FRG7kgvU Data: https://github.com/ThomasHelfer/BosonStarAfterglow

Published
2022
Full Text
View/download PDF

4. GRChombo: An adaptable numerical relativity code for fundamental physics

Author

Andrade, Tomas, Salo, Llibert Areste, Aurrekoetxea, Josu C., Bamber, Jamie, Clough, Katy, Croft, Robin, de Jong, Eloy, Drew, Amelia, Duran, Alejandro, Ferreira, Pedro G., Figueras, Pau, Finkel, Hal, França, Tiago, Ge, Bo-Xuan, Gu, Chenxia, Helfer, Thomas, Jäykkä, Juha, Joana, Cristian, Kunesch, Markus, Kornet, Kacper, Lim, Eugene A., Muia, Francesco, Nazari, Zainab, Radia, Miren, Ripley, Justin, Shellard, Paul, Sperhake, Ulrich, Traykova, Dina, Tunyasuvunakool, Saran, Wang, Zipeng, Widdicombe, James Y., and Wong, Kaze

Subjects
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract

GRChombo is an open-source code for performing Numerical Relativity time evolutions, built on top of the publicly available Chombo software for the solution of PDEs. Whilst GRChombo uses standard techniques in NR, it focusses on applications in theoretical physics where adaptability, both in terms of grid structure, and in terms of code modification, are key drivers., Comment: JOSS submission for first official release and review of the GRChombo GitHub repository: https://github.com/GRChombo/GRChombo, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.03703

Published
2022
Full Text
View/download PDF

5. Lessons for adaptive mesh refinement in numerical relativity

Author

Radia, Miren, Sperhake, Ulrich, Drew, Amelia, Clough, Katy, Figueras, Pau, Lim, Eugene A., Ripley, Justin L., Aurrekoetxea, Josu C., França, Tiago, and Helfer, Thomas

Subjects
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract

We demonstrate the flexibility and utility of the Berger-Rigoutsos Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) algorithm used in the open-source numerical relativity code GRChombo for generating gravitational waveforms from binary black-hole inspirals, and for studying other problems involving non-trivial matter configurations. We show that GRChombo can produce high quality binary black-hole waveforms through a code comparison with the established numerical relativity code Lean. We also discuss some of the technical challenges involved in making use of full AMR (as opposed to, e.g. moving box mesh refinement), including the numerical effects caused by using various refinement criteria when regridding. We suggest several "rules of thumb" for when to use different tagging criteria for simulating a variety of physical phenomena. We demonstrate the use of these different criteria through example evolutions of a scalar field theory. Finally, we also review the current status and general capabilities of GRChombo., Comment: 46 pages, 10 figures, to match version published in CQG

Published
2021
Full Text
View/download PDF

6. The critical layer in quadratic flow boundary layers over acoustic linings

Author

King, Matthew J., Brambley, Edward J., Liupekevicius, Renan, Radia, Miren, Lafourcade, Paul, and Shah, Tauqeer H.

Subjects
Physics - Fluid Dynamics
Abstract

A straight cylindrical duct is considered containing an axial mean flow that is uniform everywhere except within a boundary layer near the wall, which need not be thin. Within this boundary layer the mean flow varies parabolically. The linearized Euler equations are Fourier transformed to give the Pridmore-Brown equation, for which the Greens function is constructed using Frobenius series. Inverting the spatial Fourier transform, the critical layer contribution is given as the non-modal contribution from integrating around the continuous spectrum branch cut. This contribution is found to be the dominant downstream contribution to the pressure perturbation in certain cases, particularly for thicker boundary layers. The continuous spectrum branch cut is also found to stabilize what are otherwise convectively unstable modes by hiding them behind the branch cut. Overall, the contribution from the critical layer is found to give a neutrally stable non-modal wave with a phase velocity equal to the mean flow velocity at the source when the source is located within the sheared-flow region, and to decay algebraically along the duct as $O(x^{-5/2})$ for a source located with the uniform flow region. The Frobenius expansion, in addition to being numerically accurate close to the critical layer where other numerical methods loose accuracy, is also able to locate modal poles hidden behind the branch cut, which other methods are unable to find; this includes the stabilized hydrodynamic instability. Matlab code is provided to compute the Greens function., Comment: 44 pages, 14 figures

Published
2021
Full Text
View/download PDF

7. Malaise and remedy of binary boson-star initial data

Author

Helfer, Thomas, Sperhake, Ulrich, Croft, Robin, Radia, Miren, Ge, Bo-Xuan, and Lim, Eugene A.

Subjects
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract

Through numerical simulations of boson-star head-on collisions, we explore the quality of binary initial data obtained from the superposition of single-star spacetimes. Our results demonstrate that evolutions starting from a plain superposition of individual boosted boson-star spacetimes are vulnerable to significant unphysical artefacts. These difficulties can be overcome with a simple modification of the initial data suggested in [PRD 99 (2018) 044046] for collisions of oscillatons. While we specifically consider massive complex scalar field boson star models up to a 6th-order-polynomial potential, we argue that this vulnerability is universal and present in other kinds of exotic compact systems and hence needs to be addressed., Comment: 28 pages, 9 figures, submitted to Classical Quantum Gravity

Published
2021
Full Text
View/download PDF

8. Anomalies in the gravitational recoil of eccentric black-hole mergers with unequal mass ratios

Author

Radia, Miren, Sperhake, Ulrich, Berti, Emanuele, and Croft, Robin

Subjects
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

The radiation of linear momentum imparts a recoil (or "kick") to the center of mass of a merging black hole binary system. Recent numerical relativity calculations have shown that eccentricity can lead to an approximate 25% increase in recoil velocities for equal-mass, spinning binaries with spins lying in the orbital plane ("superkick" configurations) [U Sperhake et al. Phys. Rev. D 101 (2020) 024044 (arXiv:1910.01598)]. Here we investigate the impact of nonzero eccentricity on the kick magnitude and gravitational-wave emission of nonspinning, unequal-mass black hole binaries. We confirm that nonzero eccentricities at merger can lead to kicks which are larger by up to ~25% relative to the quasicircular case. We also find that the kick velocity $v$ has an oscillatory dependence on eccentricity, that we interpret as a consequence of changes in the angle between the infall direction at merger and the apoapsis (or periapsis) direction., Comment: 14 pages, 7 figures, to match published version in Phys. Rev. D

Published
2021
Full Text
View/download PDF

9. Black holes, gravitational waves and fundamental physics: a roadmap

Author

Barack, Leor, Cardoso, Vitor, Nissanke, Samaya, Sotiriou, Thomas P., Askar, Abbas, Belczynski, Krzysztof, Bertone, Gianfranco, Bon, Edi, Blas, Diego, Brito, Richard, Bulik, Tomasz, Burrage, Clare, Byrnes, Christian T., Caprini, Chiara, Chernyakova, Masha, Chrusciel, Piotr, Colpi, Monica, Ferrari, Valeria, Gaggero, Daniele, Gair, Jonathan, Garcia-Bellido, Juan, Hassan, S. F., Heisenberg, Lavinia, Hendry, Martin, Heng, Ik Siong, Herdeiro, Carlos, Hinderer, Tanja, Horesh, Assaf, Kavanagh, Bradley J., Kocsis, Bence, Kramer, Michael, Tiec, Alexandre Le, Mingarelli, Chiara, Nardini, Germano, Nelemans, Gijs, Palenzuela, Carlos, Pani, Paolo, Perego, Albino, Porter, Edward K., Rossi, Elena M., Schmidt, Patricia, Sesana, Alberto, Sperhake, Ulrich, Stamerra, Antonio, Stein, Leo C., Tamanini, Nicola, Tauris, Thomas M., Urena-Lopez, L. Arturo, Vincent, Frederic, Volonteri, Marta, Wardell, Barry, Wex, Norbert, Yagi, Kent, Abdelsalhin, Tiziano, Aloy, Miguel Angel, Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Annulli, Lorenzo, Arca-Sedda, Manuel, Bah, Ibrahima, Barausse, Enrico, Barakovic, Elvis, Benkel, Robert, Bennett, Charles L., Bernard, Laura, Bernuzzi, Sebastiano, Berry, Christopher P. L., Berti, Emanuele, Bezares, Miguel, Blanco-Pillado, Jose Juan, Blazquez-Salcedo, Jose Luis, Bonetti, Matteo, Boskovic, Mateja, Bosnjak, Zeljka, Bricman, Katja, Bruegmann, Bernd, Capelo, Pedro R., Carloni, Sante, Cerda-Duran, Pablo, Charmousis, Christos, Chaty, Sylvain, Clerici, Aurora, Coates, Andrew, Colleoni, Marta, Collodel, Lucas G., Compere, Geoffrey, Cook, William, Cordero-Carrion, Isabel, Correia, Miguel, de la Cruz-Dombriz, Alvaro, Czinner, Viktor G., Destounis, Kyriakos, Dialektopoulos, Kostas, Doneva, Daniela, Dotti, Massimo, Drew, Amelia, Eckner, Christopher, Edholm, James, Emparan, Roberto, Erdem, Recai, Ferreira, Miguel, Ferreira, Pedro G., Finch, Andrew, Font, Jose A., Franchini, Nicola, Fransen, Kwinten, Gal'tsov, Dmitry, Ganguly, Apratim, Gerosa, Davide, Glampedakis, Kostas, Gomboc, Andreja, Goobar, Ariel, Gualtieri, Leonardo, Guendelman, Eduardo, Haardt, Francesco, Harmark, Troels, Hejda, Filip, Hertog, Thomas, Hopper, Seth, Husa, Sascha, Ihanec, Nada, Ikeda, Taishi, Jaodand, Amruta, Jimenez-Forteza, Philippe Jetzer Xisco, Kamionkowski, Marc, Kaplan, David E., Kazantzidis, Stelios, Kimura, Masashi, Kobayashi, Shiho, Kokkotas, Kostas, Krolik, Julian, Kunz, Jutta, Lammerzahl, Claus, Lasky, Paul, Lemos, Jose P. S., Said, Jackson Levi, Liberati, Stefano, Lopes, Jorge, Luna, Raimon, Ma, Yin-Zhe, Maggio, Elisa, Montero, Marina Martinez, Maselli, Andrea, Mayer, Lucio, Mazumdar, Anupam, Messenger, Christopher, Menard, Brice, Minamitsuji, Masato, Moore, Christopher J., Mota, David, Nampalliwar, Sourabh, Nerozzi, Andrea, Nichols, David, Nissimov, Emil, Obergaulinger, Martin, Obers, Niels A., Oliveri, Roberto, Pappas, George, Pasic, Vedad, Peiris, Hiranya, Petrushevska, Tanja, Pollney, Denis, Pratten, Geraint, Rakic, Nemanja, Racz, Istvan, Radia, Miren, Ramazanouglu, Fethi M., Ramos-Buades, Antoni, Raposo, Guilherme, Rosca-Mead, Roxana, Rogatko, Marek, Rosinska, Dorota, Rosswog, Stephan, Morales, Ester Ruiz, Sakellariadou, Mairi, Sanchis-Gual, Nicolas, Salafia, Om Sharan, Samajdar, Anuradha, Sintes, Alicia, Smole, Majda, Sopuerta, Carlos, Souza-Lima, Rafael, Stalevski, Marko, Stergioulas, Nikolaos, Stevens, Chris, Tamfal, Tomas, Torres-Forne, Alejandro, Tsygankov, Sergey, Unluturk, Kivanc, Valiante, Rosa, van de Meent, Maarten, Velhinho, Jose, Verbin, Yosef, Vercnocke, Bert, Vernieri, Daniele, Vicente, Rodrigo, Vitagliano, Vincenzo, Weltman, Amanda, Whiting, Bernard, Williamson, Andrew, Witek, Helvi, Wojnar, Aneta, Yakut, Kadri, Yan, Haopeng, Yazadjiev, Stoycho, Zaharijas, Gabrijela, and Zilhao, Miguel

Subjects
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract

The grand challenges of contemporary fundamental physics---dark matter, dark energy, vacuum energy, inflation and early universe cosmology, singularities and the hierarchy problem---all involve gravity as a key component. And of all gravitational phenomena, black holes stand out in their elegant simplicity, while harbouring some of the most remarkable predictions of General Relativity: event horizons, singularities and ergoregions. The hitherto invisible landscape of the gravitational Universe is being unveiled before our eyes: the historical direct detection of gravitational waves by the LIGO-Virgo collaboration marks the dawn of a new era of scientific exploration. Gravitational-wave astronomy will allow us to test models of black hole formation, growth and evolution, as well as models of gravitational-wave generation and propagation. It will provide evidence for event horizons and ergoregions, test the theory of General Relativity itself, and may reveal the existence of new fundamental fields. The synthesis of these results has the potential to radically reshape our understanding of the cosmos and of the laws of Nature. The purpose of this work is to present a concise, yet comprehensive overview of the state of the art in the relevant fields of research, summarize important open problems, and lay out a roadmap for future progress., Comment: White Paper for the COST action "Gravitational Waves, Black Holes, and Fundamental Physics", 272 pages, 12 figures; v4: updated references and author list. Overall improvements and corrections. To appear in Classical and Quantum Gravity

Published
2018
Full Text
View/download PDF

11. The gravitational afterglow of boson stars

Author

Croft, Robin, primary, Helfer, Thomas, additional, Ge, Bo-Xuan, additional, Radia, Miren, additional, Evstafyeva, Tamara, additional, Lim, Eugene A, additional, Sperhake, Ulrich, additional, and Clough, Katy, additional

Published
2023
Full Text
View/download PDF

13. Lessons for adaptive mesh refinement in numerical relativity

Author

Radia, Miren, primary, Sperhake, Ulrich, additional, Drew, Amelia, additional, Clough, Katy, additional, Figueras, Pau, additional, Lim, Eugene A, additional, Ripley, Justin L, additional, Aurrekoetxea, Josu C, additional, França, Tiago, additional, and Helfer, Thomas, additional

Published
2022
Full Text
View/download PDF

14. The critical layer in quadratic flow boundary layers over acoustic linings

Author

King, Matthew J., Brambley, Edward J., Liupekevicius, Renan, Radia, Miren, Lafourcade, Paul, Shah, Tauqeer H., King, Matthew J., Brambley, Edward J., Liupekevicius, Renan, Radia, Miren, Lafourcade, Paul, and Shah, Tauqeer H.

Abstract

A straight cylindrical duct is considered containing an axial mean flow that is uniform everywhere except within a boundary layer near the wall, which need not be thin. Within this boundary layer the mean flow varies parabolically. The linearized Euler equations are Fourier transformed to give the Pridmore-Brown equation, for which the Greens function is constructed using Frobenius series. Inverting the spatial Fourier transform, the critical layer contribution is given as the non-modal contribution from integrating around the continuous spectrum branch cut. This contribution is found to be the dominant downstream contribution to the pressure perturbation in certain cases, particularly for thicker boundary layers. Moreover, the continuous spectrum branch cut is found to be involved in stabilizing what are otherwise convectively unstable modes by hiding them behind the branch cut, particularly for slower flows. Overall, the contribution from the critical layer is found to give a neutrally stable non-modal wave with a phase velocity equal to the mean flow velocity at the source when the source is located within the sheared-flow region, and to decay algebraically along the duct as O(x-5/2) for a source located with the uniform flow region. The Frobenius expansion, in addition to being numerically accurate close to the critical layer where other numerical methods loose accuracy, is also able to locate modal poles hidden behind the branch cut, which other methods are unable to find. Matlab code is provided to compute the Greens function.

Published
2022

16. GRChombo: An adaptable numerical relativity code for fundamental physics

Author

Andrade, Tomas, primary, Salo, Llibert, additional, Aurrekoetxea, Josu, additional, Bamber, Jamie, additional, Clough, Katy, additional, Croft, Robin, additional, de Jong, Eloy, additional, Drew, Amelia, additional, Duran, Alejandro, additional, Ferreira, Pedro, additional, Figueras, Pau, additional, Finkel, Hal, additional, Frana, Tiago, additional, Ge, Bo-Xuan, additional, Gu, Chenxia, additional, Helfer, Thomas, additional, Jäykkä, Juha, additional, Joana, Cristian, additional, Kunesch, Markus, additional, Kornet, Kacper, additional, Lim, Eugene, additional, Muia, Francesco, additional, Nazari, Zainab, additional, Radia, Miren, additional, Ripley, Justin, additional, Shellard, Paul, additional, Sperhake, Ulrich, additional, Traykova, Dina, additional, Tunyasuvunakool, Saran, additional, Wang, Zipeng, additional, Widdicombe, James, additional, and Wong, Kaze, additional

Published
2021
Full Text
View/download PDF

18. Black holes, gravitational waves and fundamental physics: A roadmap

Author

Barack, Leor, Cardoso, Vitor, Nissanke, Samaya, Sotiriou, Thomas P, Askar, Abbas, Belczynski, Chris, Bertone, Gianfranco, Bon, Edi, Blas, Diego, Brito, Richard, Bulik, Tomasz, Burrage, Clare, Byrnes, Christian T, Caprini, Chiara, Chernyakova, Masha, Chru?ciel, Piotr, Colpi, Monica, Ferrari, Valeria, Gaggero, Daniele, Gair, Jonathan, Hassan, S F, Heisenberg, Lavinia, Hendry, Martin, Heng, Ik Siong, Herdeiro, Carlos, Hinderer, Tanja, Horesh, Assaf, Kavanagh, Bradley J, Kocsis, Bence, Kramer, Michael, Le Tiec, Alexandre, Mingarelli, Chiara, Nardini, Germano, Nelemans, Gijs, Palenzuela, Carlos, Pani, Paolo, Perego, Albino, Porter, Edward K, Rossi, Elena M, Schmidt, Patricia, Sesana, Alberto, Sperhake, Ulrich, Stamerra, Antonio, Stein, Leo C, Tamanini, Nicola, Tauris, Thomas M, Vincent, Frederic, Volonteri, Marta, Wardell, Barry, Wex, Norbert, Yagi, Kent, Abdelsalhin, Tiziano, Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Annulli, Lorenzo, Arca-Sedda, Manuel, Bah, Ibrahima, Barausse, Enrico, Barakovic, Elvis, Benkel, Robert, Bennett, Charles L, Bernard, Laura, Bernuzzi, Sebastiano, Berry, Christopher P L, Berti, Emanuele, Bezares, Miguel, Blanco-Pillado, Jose Juan, Bonetti, Matteo, Bosnjak, Zeljka, Bricman, Katja, Capelo, Pedro R, Carloni, Sante, Charmousis, Christos, Chaty, Sylvain, Clerici, Aurora, Coates, Andrew, Colleoni, Marta, Collodel, Lucas G, Cook, William, Correia, Miguel, Czinner, Viktor G, Destounis, Kyriakos, Dialektopoulos, Kostas, Doneva, Daniela, Dotti, Massimo, Drew, Amelia, Eckner, Christopher, Edholm, James, Emparan, Roberto, Erdem, Recai, Ferreira, Miguel, Ferreira, Pedro G, Finch, Andrew, Font, Jose A, Franchini, Nicola, Fransen, Kwinten, Ganguly, Apratim, Gerosa, Davide, Glampedakis, Kostas, Gomboc, Andreja, Goobar, Ariel, Gualtieri, Leonardo, Guendelman, Eduardo, Haardt, Francesco, Harmark, Troels, Hejda, Filip, Hertog, Thomas, Hopper, Seth, Husa, Sascha, Ihanec, Nada, Ikeda, Taishi, Jaodand, Amruta, Jetzer, Philippe, Jimenez-Forteza, Xisco, Kamionkowski, Marc, Kaplan, David E, Kazantzidis, Stelios, Kimura, Masashi, Kobayashi, Shiho, Kokkotas, Kostas, Krolik, Julian, Kunz, Jutta, Lasky, Paul, Levi Said, Jackson, Liberati, Stefano, Lopes, Jorge, Luna, Raimon, Ma, Yin-Zhe, Maggio, Elisa, Mangiagli, Alberto, Montero, Marina Martinez, Maselli, Andrea, Mayer, Lucio, Mazumdar, Anupam, Messenger, Christopher, Minamitsuji, Masato, Moore, Christopher J, Mota, David, Nampalliwar, Sourabh, Nerozzi, Andrea, Nichols, David, Nissimov, Emil, Obergaulinger, Martin, Obers, Niels A, Oliveri, Roberto, Pappas, George, Pasic, Vedad, Peiris, Hiranya, Petrushevska, Tanja, Pollney, Denis, Pratten, Geraint, Rakic, Nemanja, Racz, Istvan, Radia, Miren, Ramazano?lu, Fethi M, Ramos-Buades, Antoni, Raposo, Guilherme, Rogatko, Marek, Rosca-Mead, Roxana, Rosinska, Dorota, Rosswog, Stephan, Ruiz-Morales, Ester, Sakellariadou, Mairi, Sharan Salafia, Om, Samajdar, Anuradha, Sintes, Alicia, Smole, Majda, Sopuerta, Carlos, Souza-Lima, Rafael, Stalevski, Marko, Stergioulas, Nikolaos, Stevens, Chris, Tamfal, Tomas, Tsygankov, Sergey, Valiante, Rosa, van de Meent, Maarten, Verbin, Yosef, Vercnocke, Bert, Vernieri, Daniele, Vicente, Rodrigo, Vitagliano, Vincenzo, Weltman, Amanda, Whiting, Bernard, Williamson, Andrew, Witek, Helvi, Wojnar, Aneta, Yakut, Kadri, Yan, Haopeng, Yazadjiev, Stoycho, Zaharijas, Gabrijela, Torres-Forne, Alejandro, Unluturk, Kivanc, and Velhinho, Jose

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Theory, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

© 2019 IOP Publishing Ltd. The grand challenges of contemporary fundamental physics-dark matter, dark energy, vacuum energy, inflation and early universe cosmology, singularities and the hierarchy problem-all involve gravity as a key component. And of all gravitational phenomena, black holes stand out in their elegant simplicity, while harbouring some of the most remarkable predictions of General Relativity: event horizons, singularities and ergoregions. The hitherto invisible landscape of the gravitational Universe is being unveiled before our eyes: the historical direct detection of gravitational waves by the LIGO-Virgo collaboration marks the dawn of a new era of scientific exploration. Gravitational-wave astronomy will allow us to test models of black hole formation, growth and evolution, as well as models of gravitational-wave generation and propagation. It will provide evidence for event horizons and ergoregions, test the theory of General Relativity itself, and may reveal the existence of new fundamental fields. The synthesis of these results has the potential to radically reshape our understanding of the cosmos and of the laws of Nature. The purpose of this work is to present a concise, yet comprehensive overview of the state of the art in the relevant fields of research, summarize important open problems, and lay out a roadmap for future progress. This write-up is an initiative taken within the framework of the European Action on 'Black holes, Gravitational waves and Fundamental Physics'.

Published
2019

19. Black holes, gravitational waves and fundamental physics: A roadmap

Author

Barack, L, Cardoso, V, Nissanke, S, Sotiriou, T, Askar, A, Belczynski, C, Bertone, G, Bon, E, Blas, D, Brito, R, Bulik, T, Burrage, C, Byrnes, C, Caprini, C, Chernyakova, M, Chruściel, P, Colpi, M, Ferrari, V, Gaggero, D, Gair, J, García-Bellido, J, Hassan, S, Heisenberg, L, Hendry, M, Heng, I, Herdeiro, C, Hinderer, T, Horesh, A, Kavanagh, B, Kocsis, B, Kramer, M, Le Tiec, A, Mingarelli, C, Nardini, G, Nelemans, G, Palenzuela, C, Pani, P, Perego, A, Porter, E, Rossi, E, Schmidt, P, Sesana, A, Sperhake, U, Stamerra, A, Stein, L, Tamanini, N, Tauris, T, Urena-López, L, Vincent, F, Volonteri, M, Wardell, B, Wex, N, Yagi, K, Abdelsalhin, T, Aloy, M, Amaro-Seoane, P, Annulli, L, Arca-Sedda, M, Bah, I, Barausse, E, Barakovic, E, Benkel, R, Bennett, C, Bernard, L, Bernuzzi, S, Berry, C, Berti, E, Bezares, M, Blanco-Pillado, J, Blázquez-Salcedo, J, Bonetti, M, Bošković, M, Bosnjak, Z, Bricman, K, Brügmann, B, Capelo, P, Carloni, S, Cerdá-Durán, P, Charmousis, C, Chaty, S, Clerici, A, Coates, A, Colleoni, M, Collodel, L, Compère, G, Cook, W, Cordero-Carrión, I, Correia, M, de la Cruz-Dombriz, Á, Czinner, V, Destounis, K, Dialektopoulos, K, Doneva, D, Dotti, M, Drew, A, Eckner, C, Edholm, J, Emparan, R, Erdem, R, Ferreira, M, Ferreira, P, Finch, A, Font, J, Franchini, N, Fransen, K, Gal’Tsov, D, Ganguly, A, Gerosa, D, Glampedakis, K, Gomboc, A, Goobar, A, Gualtieri, L, Guendelman, E, Haardt, F, Harmark, T, Hejda, F, Hertog, T, Hopper, S, Husa, S, Ihanec, N, Ikeda, T, Jaodand, A, Jetzer, P, Jimenez-Forteza, X, Kamionkowski, M, Kaplan, D, Kazantzidis, S, Kimura, M, Kobayashi, S, Kokkotas, K, Krolik, J, Kunz, J, Lämmerzahl, C, Lasky, P, Lemos, J, Levi Said, J, Liberati, S, Lopes, J, Luna, R, Ma, Y, Maggio, E, Mangiagli, A, Montero, M, Maselli, A, Mayer, L, Mazumdar, A, Messenger, C, Ménard, B, Minamitsuji, M, Moore, C, Mota, D, Nampalliwar, S, Nerozzi, A, Nichols, D, Nissimov, E, Obergaulinger, M, Obers, N, Oliveri, R, Pappas, G, Pasic, V, Peiris, H, Petrushevska, T, Pollney, D, Pratten, G, Rakic, N, Racz, I, Radia, M, Ramazanoğlu, F, Ramos-Buades, A, Raposo, G, Rogatko, M, Rosca-Mead, R, Rosinska, D, Rosswog, S, Ruiz-Morales, E, Sakellariadou, M, Sanchis-Gual, N, Sharan Salafia, O, Samajdar, A, Sintes, A, Smole, M, Sopuerta, C, Souza-Lima, R, Stalevski, M, Stergioulas, N, Stevens, C, Tamfal, T, Torres-Forné, A, Tsygankov, S, İ Ünlütürk, K, Valiante, R, van de Meent, M, Velhinho, J, Verbin, Y, Vercnocke, B, Vernieri, D, Vicente, R, Vitagliano, V, Weltman, A, Whiting, B, Williamson, A, Witek, H, Wojnar, A, Yakut, K, Yan, H, Yazadjiev, S, Zaharijas, G, Zilhão, M, Barack, Leor, Cardoso, Vitor, Nissanke, Samaya, Sotiriou, Thomas P, Askar, Abbas, Belczynski, Chris, Bertone, Gianfranco, Bon, Edi, Blas, Diego, Brito, Richard, Bulik, Tomasz, Burrage, Clare, Byrnes, Christian T, Caprini, Chiara, Chernyakova, Masha, Chruściel, Piotr, Colpi, Monica, Ferrari, Valeria, Gaggero, Daniele, Gair, Jonathan, García-Bellido, Juan, Hassan, S F, Heisenberg, Lavinia, Hendry, Martin, Heng, Ik Siong, Herdeiro, Carlos, Hinderer, Tanja, Horesh, Assaf, Kavanagh, Bradley J, Kocsis, Bence, Kramer, Michael, Le Tiec, Alexandre, Mingarelli, Chiara, Nardini, Germano, Nelemans, Gijs, Palenzuela, Carlos, Pani, Paolo, Perego, Albino, Porter, Edward K, Rossi, Elena M, Schmidt, Patricia, Sesana, Alberto, Sperhake, Ulrich, Stamerra, Antonio, Stein, Leo C, Tamanini, Nicola, Tauris, Thomas M, Urena-López, L Arturo, Vincent, Frederic, Volonteri, Marta, Wardell, Barry, Wex, Norbert, Yagi, Kent, Abdelsalhin, Tiziano, Aloy, Miguel Ángel, Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Annulli, Lorenzo, Arca-Sedda, Manuel, Bah, Ibrahima, Barausse, Enrico, Barakovic, Elvis, Benkel, Robert, Bennett, Charles L, Bernard, Laura, Bernuzzi, Sebastiano, Berry, Christopher P L, Berti, Emanuele, Bezares, Miguel, Blanco-Pillado, Jose Juan, Blázquez-Salcedo, Jose Luis, Bonetti, Matteo, Bošković, Mateja, Bosnjak, Zeljka, Bricman, Katja, Brügmann, Bernd, Capelo, Pedro R, Carloni, Sante, Cerdá-Durán, Pablo, Charmousis, Christos, Chaty, Sylvain, Clerici, Aurora, Coates, Andrew, Colleoni, Marta, Collodel, Lucas G, Compère, Geoffrey, Cook, William, Cordero-Carrión, Isabel, Correia, Miguel, de la Cruz-Dombriz, Álvaro, Czinner, Viktor G, Destounis, Kyriakos, Dialektopoulos, Kostas, Doneva, Daniela, Dotti, Massimo, Drew, Amelia, Eckner, Christopher, Edholm, James, Emparan, Roberto, Erdem, Recai, Ferreira, Miguel, Ferreira, Pedro G, Finch, Andrew, Font, Jose A, Franchini, Nicola, Fransen, Kwinten, Gal’tsov, Dmitry, Ganguly, Apratim, Gerosa, Davide, Glampedakis, Kostas, Gomboc, Andreja, Goobar, Ariel, Gualtieri, Leonardo, Guendelman, Eduardo, Haardt, Francesco, Harmark, Troels, Hejda, Filip, Hertog, Thomas, Hopper, Seth, Husa, Sascha, Ihanec, Nada, Ikeda, Taishi, Jaodand, Amruta, Jetzer, Philippe, Jimenez-Forteza, Xisco, Kamionkowski, Marc, Kaplan, David E, Kazantzidis, Stelios, Kimura, Masashi, Kobayashi, Shiho, Kokkotas, Kostas, Krolik, Julian, Kunz, Jutta, Lämmerzahl, Claus, Lasky, Paul, Lemos, José P S, Levi Said, Jackson, Liberati, Stefano, Lopes, Jorge, Luna, Raimon, Ma, Yin-Zhe, Maggio, Elisa, Mangiagli, Alberto, Montero, Marina Martinez, Maselli, Andrea, Mayer, Lucio, Mazumdar, Anupam, Messenger, Christopher, Ménard, Brice, Minamitsuji, Masato, Moore, Christopher J, Mota, David, Nampalliwar, Sourabh, Nerozzi, Andrea, Nichols, David, Nissimov, Emil, Obergaulinger, Martin, Obers, Niels A, Oliveri, Roberto, Pappas, George, Pasic, Vedad, Peiris, Hiranya, Petrushevska, Tanja, Pollney, Denis, Pratten, Geraint, Rakic, Nemanja, Racz, Istvan, Radia, Miren, Ramazanoğlu, Fethi M, Ramos-Buades, Antoni, Raposo, Guilherme, Rogatko, Marek, Rosca-Mead, Roxana, Rosinska, Dorota, Rosswog, Stephan, Ruiz-Morales, Ester, Sakellariadou, Mairi, Sanchis-Gual, Nicolás, Sharan Salafia, Om, Samajdar, Anuradha, Sintes, Alicia, Smole, Majda, Sopuerta, Carlos, Souza-Lima, Rafael, Stalevski, Marko, Stergioulas, Nikolaos, Stevens, Chris, Tamfal, Tomas, Torres-Forné, Alejandro, Tsygankov, Sergey, İ Ünlütürk, Kıvanç, Valiante, Rosa, van de Meent, Maarten, Velhinho, José, Verbin, Yosef, Vercnocke, Bert, Vernieri, Daniele, Vicente, Rodrigo, Vitagliano, Vincenzo, Weltman, Amanda, Whiting, Bernard, Williamson, Andrew, Witek, Helvi, Wojnar, Aneta, Yakut, Kadri, Yan, Haopeng, Yazadjiev, Stoycho, Zaharijas, Gabrijela, Zilhão, Miguel, Barack, L, Cardoso, V, Nissanke, S, Sotiriou, T, Askar, A, Belczynski, C, Bertone, G, Bon, E, Blas, D, Brito, R, Bulik, T, Burrage, C, Byrnes, C, Caprini, C, Chernyakova, M, Chruściel, P, Colpi, M, Ferrari, V, Gaggero, D, Gair, J, García-Bellido, J, Hassan, S, Heisenberg, L, Hendry, M, Heng, I, Herdeiro, C, Hinderer, T, Horesh, A, Kavanagh, B, Kocsis, B, Kramer, M, Le Tiec, A, Mingarelli, C, Nardini, G, Nelemans, G, Palenzuela, C, Pani, P, Perego, A, Porter, E, Rossi, E, Schmidt, P, Sesana, A, Sperhake, U, Stamerra, A, Stein, L, Tamanini, N, Tauris, T, Urena-López, L, Vincent, F, Volonteri, M, Wardell, B, Wex, N, Yagi, K, Abdelsalhin, T, Aloy, M, Amaro-Seoane, P, Annulli, L, Arca-Sedda, M, Bah, I, Barausse, E, Barakovic, E, Benkel, R, Bennett, C, Bernard, L, Bernuzzi, S, Berry, C, Berti, E, Bezares, M, Blanco-Pillado, J, Blázquez-Salcedo, J, Bonetti, M, Bošković, M, Bosnjak, Z, Bricman, K, Brügmann, B, Capelo, P, Carloni, S, Cerdá-Durán, P, Charmousis, C, Chaty, S, Clerici, A, Coates, A, Colleoni, M, Collodel, L, Compère, G, Cook, W, Cordero-Carrión, I, Correia, M, de la Cruz-Dombriz, Á, Czinner, V, Destounis, K, Dialektopoulos, K, Doneva, D, Dotti, M, Drew, A, Eckner, C, Edholm, J, Emparan, R, Erdem, R, Ferreira, M, Ferreira, P, Finch, A, Font, J, Franchini, N, Fransen, K, Gal’Tsov, D, Ganguly, A, Gerosa, D, Glampedakis, K, Gomboc, A, Goobar, A, Gualtieri, L, Guendelman, E, Haardt, F, Harmark, T, Hejda, F, Hertog, T, Hopper, S, Husa, S, Ihanec, N, Ikeda, T, Jaodand, A, Jetzer, P, Jimenez-Forteza, X, Kamionkowski, M, Kaplan, D, Kazantzidis, S, Kimura, M, Kobayashi, S, Kokkotas, K, Krolik, J, Kunz, J, Lämmerzahl, C, Lasky, P, Lemos, J, Levi Said, J, Liberati, S, Lopes, J, Luna, R, Ma, Y, Maggio, E, Mangiagli, A, Montero, M, Maselli, A, Mayer, L, Mazumdar, A, Messenger, C, Ménard, B, Minamitsuji, M, Moore, C, Mota, D, Nampalliwar, S, Nerozzi, A, Nichols, D, Nissimov, E, Obergaulinger, M, Obers, N, Oliveri, R, Pappas, G, Pasic, V, Peiris, H, Petrushevska, T, Pollney, D, Pratten, G, Rakic, N, Racz, I, Radia, M, Ramazanoğlu, F, Ramos-Buades, A, Raposo, G, Rogatko, M, Rosca-Mead, R, Rosinska, D, Rosswog, S, Ruiz-Morales, E, Sakellariadou, M, Sanchis-Gual, N, Sharan Salafia, O, Samajdar, A, Sintes, A, Smole, M, Sopuerta, C, Souza-Lima, R, Stalevski, M, Stergioulas, N, Stevens, C, Tamfal, T, Torres-Forné, A, Tsygankov, S, İ Ünlütürk, K, Valiante, R, van de Meent, M, Velhinho, J, Verbin, Y, Vercnocke, B, Vernieri, D, Vicente, R, Vitagliano, V, Weltman, A, Whiting, B, Williamson, A, Witek, H, Wojnar, A, Yakut, K, Yan, H, Yazadjiev, S, Zaharijas, G, Zilhão, M, Barack, Leor, Cardoso, Vitor, Nissanke, Samaya, Sotiriou, Thomas P, Askar, Abbas, Belczynski, Chris, Bertone, Gianfranco, Bon, Edi, Blas, Diego, Brito, Richard, Bulik, Tomasz, Burrage, Clare, Byrnes, Christian T, Caprini, Chiara, Chernyakova, Masha, Chruściel, Piotr, Colpi, Monica, Ferrari, Valeria, Gaggero, Daniele, Gair, Jonathan, García-Bellido, Juan, Hassan, S F, Heisenberg, Lavinia, Hendry, Martin, Heng, Ik Siong, Herdeiro, Carlos, Hinderer, Tanja, Horesh, Assaf, Kavanagh, Bradley J, Kocsis, Bence, Kramer, Michael, Le Tiec, Alexandre, Mingarelli, Chiara, Nardini, Germano, Nelemans, Gijs, Palenzuela, Carlos, Pani, Paolo, Perego, Albino, Porter, Edward K, Rossi, Elena M, Schmidt, Patricia, Sesana, Alberto, Sperhake, Ulrich, Stamerra, Antonio, Stein, Leo C, Tamanini, Nicola, Tauris, Thomas M, Urena-López, L Arturo, Vincent, Frederic, Volonteri, Marta, Wardell, Barry, Wex, Norbert, Yagi, Kent, Abdelsalhin, Tiziano, Aloy, Miguel Ángel, Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Annulli, Lorenzo, Arca-Sedda, Manuel, Bah, Ibrahima, Barausse, Enrico, Barakovic, Elvis, Benkel, Robert, Bennett, Charles L, Bernard, Laura, Bernuzzi, Sebastiano, Berry, Christopher P L, Berti, Emanuele, Bezares, Miguel, Blanco-Pillado, Jose Juan, Blázquez-Salcedo, Jose Luis, Bonetti, Matteo, Bošković, Mateja, Bosnjak, Zeljka, Bricman, Katja, Brügmann, Bernd, Capelo, Pedro R, Carloni, Sante, Cerdá-Durán, Pablo, Charmousis, Christos, Chaty, Sylvain, Clerici, Aurora, Coates, Andrew, Colleoni, Marta, Collodel, Lucas G, Compère, Geoffrey, Cook, William, Cordero-Carrión, Isabel, Correia, Miguel, de la Cruz-Dombriz, Álvaro, Czinner, Viktor G, Destounis, Kyriakos, Dialektopoulos, Kostas, Doneva, Daniela, Dotti, Massimo, Drew, Amelia, Eckner, Christopher, Edholm, James, Emparan, Roberto, Erdem, Recai, Ferreira, Miguel, Ferreira, Pedro G, Finch, Andrew, Font, Jose A, Franchini, Nicola, Fransen, Kwinten, Gal’tsov, Dmitry, Ganguly, Apratim, Gerosa, Davide, Glampedakis, Kostas, Gomboc, Andreja, Goobar, Ariel, Gualtieri, Leonardo, Guendelman, Eduardo, Haardt, Francesco, Harmark, Troels, Hejda, Filip, Hertog, Thomas, Hopper, Seth, Husa, Sascha, Ihanec, Nada, Ikeda, Taishi, Jaodand, Amruta, Jetzer, Philippe, Jimenez-Forteza, Xisco, Kamionkowski, Marc, Kaplan, David E, Kazantzidis, Stelios, Kimura, Masashi, Kobayashi, Shiho, Kokkotas, Kostas, Krolik, Julian, Kunz, Jutta, Lämmerzahl, Claus, Lasky, Paul, Lemos, José P S, Levi Said, Jackson, Liberati, Stefano, Lopes, Jorge, Luna, Raimon, Ma, Yin-Zhe, Maggio, Elisa, Mangiagli, Alberto, Montero, Marina Martinez, Maselli, Andrea, Mayer, Lucio, Mazumdar, Anupam, Messenger, Christopher, Ménard, Brice, Minamitsuji, Masato, Moore, Christopher J, Mota, David, Nampalliwar, Sourabh, Nerozzi, Andrea, Nichols, David, Nissimov, Emil, Obergaulinger, Martin, Obers, Niels A, Oliveri, Roberto, Pappas, George, Pasic, Vedad, Peiris, Hiranya, Petrushevska, Tanja, Pollney, Denis, Pratten, Geraint, Rakic, Nemanja, Racz, Istvan, Radia, Miren, Ramazanoğlu, Fethi M, Ramos-Buades, Antoni, Raposo, Guilherme, Rogatko, Marek, Rosca-Mead, Roxana, Rosinska, Dorota, Rosswog, Stephan, Ruiz-Morales, Ester, Sakellariadou, Mairi, Sanchis-Gual, Nicolás, Sharan Salafia, Om, Samajdar, Anuradha, Sintes, Alicia, Smole, Majda, Sopuerta, Carlos, Souza-Lima, Rafael, Stalevski, Marko, Stergioulas, Nikolaos, Stevens, Chris, Tamfal, Tomas, Torres-Forné, Alejandro, Tsygankov, Sergey, İ Ünlütürk, Kıvanç, Valiante, Rosa, van de Meent, Maarten, Velhinho, José, Verbin, Yosef, Vercnocke, Bert, Vernieri, Daniele, Vicente, Rodrigo, Vitagliano, Vincenzo, Weltman, Amanda, Whiting, Bernard, Williamson, Andrew, Witek, Helvi, Wojnar, Aneta, Yakut, Kadri, Yan, Haopeng, Yazadjiev, Stoycho, Zaharijas, Gabrijela, and Zilhão, Miguel

Abstract

The grand challenges of contemporary fundamental physics-dark matter, dark energy, vacuum energy, inflation and early universe cosmology, singularities and the hierarchy problem-all involve gravity as a key component. And of all gravitational phenomena, black holes stand out in their elegant simplicity, while harbouring some of the most remarkable predictions of General Relativity: event horizons, singularities and ergoregions. The hitherto invisible landscape of the gravitational Universe is being unveiled before our eyes: the historical direct detection of gravitational waves by the LIGO-Virgo collaboration marks the dawn of a new era of scientific exploration. Gravitational-wave astronomy will allow us to test models of black hole formation, growth and evolution, as well as models of gravitational-wave generation and propagation. It will provide evidence for event horizons and ergoregions, test the theory of General Relativity itself, and may reveal the existence of new fundamental fields. The synthesis of these results has the potential to radically reshape our understanding of the cosmos and of the laws of Nature. The purpose of this work is to present a concise, yet comprehensive overview of the state of the art in the relevant fields of research, summarize important open problems, and lay out a roadmap for future progress. This write-up is an initiative taken within the framework of the European Action on 'Black holes, Gravitational waves and Fundamental Physics'.

Published
2019

20. Lessons for adaptive mesh refinement in numerical relativity

Author

Miren Radia, Ulrich Sperhake, Amelia Drew, Katy Clough, Pau Figueras, Eugene A Lim, Justin L Ripley, Josu C Aurrekoetxea, Tiago França, Thomas Helfer, Radia, Miren [0000-0001-8861-2025], Sperhake, Ulrich [0000-0002-3134-7088], Drew, Amelia [0000-0001-8252-602X], Ripley, Justin [0000-0001-7192-0021], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, Radia, M [0000-0001-8861-2025], Sperhake, U [0000-0002-3134-7088], Drew, A [0000-0001-8252-602X], Clough, K [0000-0001-8841-1522], Figueras, P [0000-0001-6438-315X], Lim, EA [0000-0002-6227-9540], Ripley, JL [0000-0001-7192-0021], Aurrekoetxea, JC [0000-0001-9584-5791], França, T [0000-0002-1718-151X], and Helfer, T [0000-0001-6880-1005]

Subjects
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), astro-ph.HE, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), gr-qc, FOS: Physical sciences, hep-ph, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc), numerical relativity, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, compact objects, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, computational methods, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), gravitational waves, adaptive mesh refinement, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

Funder: Queen’s College, University of Oxford; doi: https://doi.org/10.13039/100010356, Funder: Homerton College, University of Cambridge; doi: https://doi.org/10.13039/501100008420, We demonstrate the flexibility and utility of the Berger-Rigoutsos Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) algorithm used in the open-source numerical relativity code GRChombo for generating gravitational waveforms from binary black-hole inspirals, and for studying other problems involving non-trivial matter configurations. We show that GRChombo can produce high quality binary black-hole waveforms through a code comparison with the established numerical relativity code Lean. We also discuss some of the technical challenges involved in making use of full AMR (as opposed to, e.g. moving box mesh refinement), including the numerical effects caused by using various refinement criteria when regridding. We suggest several "rules of thumb" for when to use different tagging criteria for simulating a variety of physical phenomena. We demonstrate the use of these different criteria through example evolutions of a scalar field theory. Finally, we also review the current status and general capabilities of GRChombo.

Published
2022
Full Text
View/download PDF

21. GRChombo: An adaptable numerical relativity code for fundamental physics

Author

Tomas Andrade, Llibert Salo, Josu Aurrekoetxea, Jamie Bamber, Katy Clough, Robin Croft, Eloy de Jong, Amelia Drew, Alejandro Duran, Pedro Ferreira, Pau Figueras, Hal Finkel, Tiago Frana, Bo-Xuan Ge, Chenxia Gu, Thomas Helfer, Juha Jäykkä, Cristian Joana, Markus Kunesch, Kacper Kornet, Eugene Lim, Francesco Muia, Zainab Nazari, Miren Radia, Justin Ripley, Paul Shellard, Ulrich Sperhake, Dina Traykova, Saran Tunyasuvunakool, Zipeng Wang, James Widdicombe, Kaze Wong, Drew, Amelia [0000-0001-8252-602X], Muia, Francesco [0000-0002-4872-6172], Radia, Miren [0000-0001-8861-2025], Ripley, Justin [0000-0001-7192-0021], Sperhake, Ulrich [0000-0002-3134-7088], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository

Subjects
gr-qc, FOS: Physical sciences, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc), General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract

GRChombo is an open-source code for performing Numerical Relativity time evolutions, built on top of the publicly available Chombo software for the solution of PDEs. Whilst GRChombo uses standard techniques in NR, it focusses on applications in theoretical physics where adaptability, both in terms of grid structure, and in terms of code modification, are key drivers., Comment: JOSS submission for first official release and review of the GRChombo GitHub repository: https://github.com/GRChombo/GRChombo, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.03703

Published
2021
Full Text
View/download PDF

22. Anomalies in the gravitational recoil of eccentric black-hole mergers with unequal mass ratios

Author

Ulrich Sperhake, Miren Radia, Emanuele Berti, Robin Croft, Radia, Miren [0000-0001-8861-2025], Sperhake, Ulrich [0000-0002-3134-7088], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository

Subjects
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), astro-ph.HE, Physics, Orbital plane, Spins, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, gr-qc, media_common.quotation_subject, FOS: Physical sciences, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc), Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Black hole, Gravitation, Numerical relativity, Recoil, 0103 physical sciences, Center of mass, Eccentricity (behavior), 010306 general physics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, media_common
Abstract

The radiation of linear momentum imparts a recoil (or "kick") to the center of mass of a merging black hole binary system. Recent numerical relativity calculations have shown that eccentricity can lead to an approximate 25% increase in recoil velocities for equal-mass, spinning binaries with spins lying in the orbital plane ("superkick" configurations) [U Sperhake et al. Phys. Rev. D 101 (2020) 024044 (arXiv:1910.01598)]. Here we investigate the impact of nonzero eccentricity on the kick magnitude and gravitational-wave emission of nonspinning, unequal-mass black hole binaries. We confirm that nonzero eccentricities at merger can lead to kicks which are larger by up to ~25% relative to the quasicircular case. We also find that the kick velocity $v$ has an oscillatory dependence on eccentricity, that we interpret as a consequence of changes in the angle between the infall direction at merger and the apoapsis (or periapsis) direction., 14 pages, 7 figures, to match published version in Phys. Rev. D

Published
2021

23. Malaise and remedy of binary boson-star initial data

Author

Thomas Helfer, Ulrich Sperhake, Robin Croft, Miren Radia, Bo-Xuan Ge, Eugene A Lim, Sperhake, Ulrich [0000-0002-3134-7088], Radia, Miren [0000-0001-8861-2025], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, Helfer, Thomas [0000-0001-6880-1005], Ge, Bo-Xuan [0000-0003-0738-3473], and Lim, Eugene A [0000-0002-6227-9540]

Subjects
Paper, Focus Issue on Bosonic Stars, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), boson stars, gravitational waves, gr-qc, FOS: Physical sciences, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc), numerical relativity, compact objects, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract

Through numerical simulations of boson-star head-on collisions, we explore the quality of binary initial data obtained from the superposition of single-star spacetimes. Our results demonstrate that evolutions starting from a plain superposition of individual boosted boson-star spacetimes are vulnerable to significant unphysical artefacts. These difficulties can be overcome with a simple modification of the initial data suggested in [PRD 99 (2018) 044046] for collisions of oscillatons. While we specifically consider massive complex scalar field boson star models up to a 6th-order-polynomial potential, we argue that this vulnerability is universal and present in other kinds of exotic compact systems and hence needs to be addressed., Comment: 28 pages, 9 figures, submitted to Classical Quantum Gravity

Published
2021
Full Text
View/download PDF

24. Black holes, gravitational waves and fundamental physics: a roadmap

Author

Ramazanoğlu, Fethi Mübin (ORCID 0000-0003-3075-1457 & YÖK ID 254225), Ünlütürk, Kıvanç İbrahim, Barack, Leor, Cardoso, Vitor, Nissanke, Samaya, Sotiriou, Thomas P., Askar, Abbas, Belczynski, Chris, Bertone, Gianfranco, Bon, Edi, Blas, Diego, Brito, Richard, Bulik, Tomasz, Burrage, Clare, Byrnes, Christian T., Caprini, Chiara, Chernyakova, Masha, Chrusciel, Piotr, Colpi, Monica, Ferrari, Valeria, Gaggero, Daniele, Gair, Jonathan, Garcia-Bellido, Juan, Hassan, S. F., Heisenberg, Lavinia, Hendry, Martin, Heng, Ik Siong, Herdeiro, Carlos, Hinderer, Tanja, Horesh, Assaf, Kavanagh, Bradley J., Kocsis, Bence, Kramer, Michael, Le Tiec, Alexandre, Mingarelli, Chiara, Nardini, Germano, Nelemans, Gijs, Palenzuela, Carlos, Pani, Paolo, Perego, Albino, Porter, Edward K., Rossi, Elena M., Schmidt, Patricia, Sesana, Alberto, Sperhake, Ulrich, Stamerra, Antonio, Stein, Leo C., Tamanini, Nicola, Tauris, Thomas M., Arturo Urena-Lopez, L., Vincent, Frederic, Volonteri, Marta, Wardell, Barry, Wex, Norbert, Yagi, Kent, Abdelsalhin, Tiziano, Angel Aloy, Miguel, Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Annulli, Lorenzo, Arca-Sedda, Manuel, Bah, Ibrahima, Barausse, Enrico, Barakovic, Elvis, Benkel, Robert, Bennett, Charles L., Bernard, Laura, Bernuzzi, Sebastiano, Berry, Christopher P. L., Berti, Emanuele, Bezares, Miguel, Juan Blanco-Pillado, Jose, Blazquez-Salcedo, Jose Luis, Bonetti, Matteo, Boskovic, Mateja, Bosnjak, Zeljka, Bricman, Katja, Bruegmann, Bernd, Capelo, Pedro R., Carloni, Sante, Cerda-Duran, Pablo, Charmousis, Christos, Chaty, Sylvain, Clerici, Aurora, Coates, Andrew, Colleoni, Marta, Collodel, Lucas G., Compere, Geoffrey, Cook, William, Cordero-Carrion, Isabel, Correia, Miguel, de la Cruz-Dombriz, Alvaro, Czinner, Viktor G., Destounis, Kyriakos, Dialektopoulos, Kostas, Doneva, Daniela, Dotti, Massimo, Drew, Amelia, Eckner, Christopher, Edholm, James, Emparan, Roberto, Erdem, Recai, Ferreira, Miguel, Ferreira, Pedro G., Finch, Andrew, Font, Jose A., Franchini, Nicola, Fransen, Kwinten, Gal'tsov, Dmitry, Ganguly, Apratim, Gerosa, Davide, Glampedakis, Kostas, Gomboc, Andreja, Goobar, Ariel, Gualtieri, Leonardo, Guendelman, Eduardo, Haardt, Francesco, Harmark, Troels, Hejda, Filip, Hertog, Thomas, Hopper, Seth, Husa, Sascha, Ihanec, Nada, Ikeda, Taishi, Jaodand, Amruta, Jetzer, Philippe, Jimenez-Forteza, Xisco, Kamionkowski, Marc, Kaplan, David E., Kazantzidis, Stelios, Kimura, Masashi, Kobayashi, Shiho, Kokkotas, Kostas, Krolik, Julian, Kunz, Jutta, Laemmerzahl, Claus, Lasky, Paul, Lemos, Jose P. S., Said, Jackson Levi, Liberati, Stefano, Lopes, Jorge, Luna, Raimon, Ma, Yin-Zhe, Maggio, Elisa, Mangiagli, Alberto, Montero, Marina Martinez, Maselli, Andrea, Mayer, Lucio, Mazumdar, Anupam, Messenger, Christopher, Menard, Brice, Minamitsuji, Masato, Moore, Christopher J., Mota, David, Nampalliwar, Sourabh, Nerozzi, Andrea, Nichols, David, Nissimov, Emil, Obergaulinger, Martin, Obers, Niels A., Oliveri, Roberto, Pappas, George, Pasic, Vedad, Peiris, Hiranya, Petrushevska, Tanja, Pollney, Denis, Pratten, Geraint, Rakic, Nemanja, Racz, Istvan, Radia, Miren, Ramazanoglu, Fethi M., Ramos-Buades, Antoni, Raposo, Guilherme, Rogatko, Marek, Rosca-Mead, Roxana, Rosinska, Dorota, Rosswog, Stephan, Ruiz-Morales, Ester, Sakellariadou, Mairi, Sanchis-Gual, Nicolas, Salafia, Om Sharan, Samajdar, Anuradha, Sintes, Alicia, Smole, Majda, Sopuerta, Carlos, Souza-Lima, Rafael, Stalevski, Marko, Stergioulas, Nikolaos, Stevens, Chris, Tamfal, Tomas, Torres-Forne, Alejandro, Tsygankov, Sergey, Valiante, Rosa, van de Meent, Maarten, Velhinho, Jose, Verbin, Yosef, Vercnocke, Bert, Vernieri, Daniele, Vicente, Rodrigo, Vitagliano, Vincenzo, Weltman, Amanda, Whiting, Bernard, Williamson, Andrew, Witek, Helvi, Wojnar, Aneta, Yakut, Kadri, Yan, Haopeng, Yazadjiev, Stoycho, Zaharijas, Gabrijela, Zilhao, Miguel, College of Sciences, Graduate School of Sciences and Engineering, and Department of Physics

Subjects
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Astronomy and astrophysics, Quantum science and technology, Gravitational waves, Gravitational-wave astronomy, Source modelling, Black holes, Fundamental physics, Birth and evolution of black holes, Physics, multidisciplinary, Physics, particles and fields
Abstract

The grand challenges of contemporary fundamental physics dark matter, dark energy, vacuum energy, inflation and early universe cosmology, singularities and the hierarchy problem all involve gravity as a key component. And of all gravitational phenomena, black holes stand out in their elegant simplicity, while harbouring some of the most remarkable predictions of General Relativity: event horizons, singularities and ergoregions.The hitherto invisible landscape of the gravitational Universe is being unveiled before our eyes: the historical direct detection of gravitational waves by the LIGO-Virgo collaboration marks the dawn of a new era of scientific exploration. Gravitational-wave astronomy will allow us to test models of black hole formation, growth and evolution, as well as models of gravitational-wave generation and propagation. It will provide evidence for event horizons and ergoregions, test the theory of General Relativity itself, and may reveal the existence of new fundamental fields. The synthesis of these results has the potential to radically reshape our understanding of the cosmos and of the laws of Nature.The purpose of this work is to present a concise, yet comprehensive overview of the state of the art in the relevant fields of research, summarize important open problems, and lay out a roadmap for future progress., European Union (EU); European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST); Polish National Science Center (NCN); Carl Tryggers Foundation; Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC); European Union's H2020 ERC Consolidator Grant 'Matter and strong-field gravity: New frontiers in Einstein's theory'; European Research Council (ERC); Horizon 2020; Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC; Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Serbia; Foundation for Polish Science; Austrian Science Fund (FWF); Polish National Center of Science (NCN); European Research Council (ERC); Hungarian National Research, Development, and Innovation Office; Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF); European Union's H2020 ERC; H2020-MSCA-RISE-2015 Grant; National Science Foundation (NSF); PRACE; Simons Foundation; Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness of Spain; Slovenian Research Agency - Slovenia; EU H2020 under ERC; Spanish MINECO; Generalitat Valenciana; NASA by the Chandra X-ray Center; National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA); Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK); H2020-MSCA-RISE-2017 Grant; Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK); National Science Centre of Poland - European Union; Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD); GWAVES of ARIS-GRNET(Athens); Royal Society of London; Research Grant; Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK)

Published
2019

Catalog

Books, media, physical & digital resources
See catalog results