SpECTRE Cauchy-characteristic evolution system for rapid, precise waveform extraction

Jordan Moxon, Mark A. Scheel, Saul A. Teukolsky, Nils Deppe, Nils Vu, Francois Hébert, Lawrence E. Kidder, William Throwe

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Abstract

We give full details regarding the new Cauchy-characteristic evolution (CCE) system in spectre. The implementation is built to provide streamlined flexibility for either extracting waveforms during the process of a spectre binary compact object simulation or as a stand-alone module for extracting waveforms from worldtube data provided by another code base. Using our recently presented improved analytic formulation, the CCE system is free of pure-gauge logarithms that would spoil the spectral convergence of the scheme. It gracefully extracts all five Weyl scalars, in addition to the news and the strain. The spectre CCE system makes significant improvements on previous implementations in modularity, ease of use, and speed of computation.

Original languageEnglish
Article number064013
JournalPhysical Review D
Volume107
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 15 2023

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