A new gravitational wave generation algorithm for particle perturbations of the Kerr spacetime

Classical and Quantum Gravity

Volumn 31, Issue 24, 2014, Pages

  Harms, Enno ^a   Bernuzzi, Sebastiano ^a   Nagar, Alessandro ^b   Zenginoʇlu, Anil ^c  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT DES HAUTES ÉTUDES SCIENTIFIQUES   (France)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

energy flux; Kerr foliations; numerical relativity; perturbation theory; point particle; Teukolsky equation; wave generation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84915747045     PISSN: 02649381     EISSN: 13616382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/31/24/245004     Document Type: Article

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