http://arxiv.org/abs/1911.10219
Observations of gravitational waves provide new opportunities to study our Universe. In particular, mergers of stellar black holes are the main targets of the current gravitational wave experiments. In order to make accurate predictions, it is however necessary to simulate the mergers in numerical general relativity, which requires high performance computing. Yet numerical simulation codes are optimized for specific mass scales, and may not be adapted to the study of other mass scales. In particular, primordial black holes can have masses ranging from the Planck mass to millions of solar masses, and simulations of primordial black hole mergers over the whole mass range are currently beyond the capabilities of the numerical codes. In this letter, we derive scaling relations, which can be used to rescale simulations of stellar black hole mergers and gravitational waves to any mass scale, hence allowing to perform precise simulations at any mass scale. In addition we study the domain of validity of the rescaling.
A. Arbey and J. Coupechoux
Tue, 26 Nov 19
13/66
Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures
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