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Phys. Rev. D 70, 044038 (2004) [5 pages]

Radiation tails and boundary conditions for black hole evolutions

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Elspeth W. Allen, Elizabeth Buckmiller, Lior M. Burko, and Richard H. Price
Department of Physics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, USA

Received 21 January 2004; published 25 August 2004

In numerical evolution of Einstein’s equations for black hole spacetimes, it will be necessary to use approximate boundary conditions at a finite distance from the holes. One interesting feature of numerical evolutions is a “tail,” the inverse power-law decrease of the late-time field. Here we discuss and present numerical evidence about the effect of approximate boundary conditions on the late-time behavior of evolved fields.

© 2004 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.70.044038
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.70.044038
PACS:
04.25.Dm, 02.60.Cb, 04.70.Bw