Survey of aligned-spin binary black holes

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Created on Wednesday, 20 January 2016 19:37

The SXS collaboration has produced a catalog of about 90 simulations of binary black holes with spins aligned with the orbital angular momentum.  We sample systems with both spins co-rotating, one co-rotating and one counter-rotating, or both counter-rotating.  We compare these simulations with several waveform models in use by LIGO, and find generally excellent agreement.  The papers can be accessed arXiv:1512.06800  and arXiv:1601.05396.

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