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Efficient simulations of high-spin black holes with a new gauge

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arxiv 2108.02331 v2 pith:UIZN3QI5 submitted 2021-08-05 gr-qc

Efficient simulations of high-spin black holes with a new gauge

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We present a new choice of initial data for binary black hole simulations that significantly improves the efficiency of high-spin simulations. We use spherical Kerr-Schild coordinates, where the horizon of a rotating black hole is spherical, for each black hole. The superposed spherical Kerr-Schild initial data reduce the runtime by a factor of 2 compared to standard superposed Kerr-Schild for an intermediate resolution spin-0.99 binary-black-hole simulation. We also explore the possibility of delaying the transition from the initial data gauge to the evolution gauge, which produces an additional speed-up of 1.3.

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