Waveform propagation in black hole spacetimes: Evaluating the quality of numerical solutions

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 1084-1091

  Rezzolla, L ^a   Abrahams, A M ^a   Baumgarte, T W ^a   Cook, G B ^a   Scheel, M A ^a   Shapiro, S L ^a   Teukolsky, S A ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

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EID: 0003188262     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.57.1084     Document Type: Article

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