Session X7: Numerical Relativity Meets the Post Newtonian Approximation

1:30 PM–3:18 PM, Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), - Rose Garden

Sponsoring Unit: GGR
Chair: Clifford Will, Washington University

Abstract ID: BAPS.2008.APR.X7.3

Abstract: X7.00003 : Developing templates for binary black hole coalescences using analytical and numerical relativity

2:42 PM–3:18 PM

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Author:

  Yi Pan
    (University of Maryland)

We shall review the comparisons between analytical and numerical relativity waveforms with the goal of building an analytical template family for inspiral, merger and ring-down phases. The new analytical template family which combines the Post-Newtonian re-summed dynamics a la effective-one-body and non-perturbative numerical relativity information may already be employed for coherent searches and parameter estimation of gravitational waves emitted by non-spinning coalescing binary black holes, and can be extended to binaries with spinning black holes.

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