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Robustness of Binary Black Hole Mergers in the Presence of Spurious Radiation
We present an investigation into how sensitive the last orbits and merger of
binary black hole systems are to the presence of spurious radiation in the
initial data. Our numerical experiments consist of a binary black hole system
starting the last couple of orbits before merger with additional spurious
radiation centered at the origin and fixed initial angular momentum. As the
energy in the added spurious radiation increases, the binary is invariably
hardened for the cases we tested, i.e. the merger of the two black holes is
hastened. The change in merger time becomes significant when the additional
energy provided by the spurious radiation increases the Arnowitt-Deser-Misner
(ADM) mass of the spacetime by about 1%. While the final masses of the black
holes increase due to partial absorption of the radiation, the final spins
remain constant to within our numerical accuracy. We conjecture that the
spurious radiation is primarily increasing the eccentricity of the orbit and
secondarily increasing the mass of the black holes while propagating out to
infinity.Comment: 12 pages, 12 figure
Explicit solution of the linearized Einstein equations in TT gauge for all multipoles
We write out the explicit form of the metric for a linearized gravitational
wave in the transverse-traceless gauge for any multipole, thus generalizing the
well-known quadrupole solution of Teukolsky. The solution is derived using the
generalized Regge-Wheeler-Zerilli formalism developed by Sarbach and Tiglio.Comment: 9 pages. Minor corrections, updated references. Final version to
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Modelling RF sources using 2-D PIC codes
In recent years, many types of RF sources have been successfully modelled using 2-D PIC codes. Both cross field devices (magnetrons, cross field amplifiers, etc.) and pencil beam devices (klystrons, gyrotrons, TWT'S, lasertrons, etc.) have been simulated. All these devices involve the interaction of an electron beam with an RF circuit. For many applications, the RF structure may be approximated by an equivalent circuit, which appears in the simulation as a boundary condition on the electric field ( port approximation''). The drive term for the circuit is calculated from the energy transfer between beam and field in the drift space. For some applications it may be necessary to model the actual geometry of the structure, although this is more expensive. One problem not entirely solved is how to accurately model in 2-D the coupling to an external waveguide. Frequently this is approximated by a radial transmission line, but this sometimes yields incorrect results. We also discuss issues in modelling the cathode and injecting the beam into the PIC simulation
Intrapopulation Sex Ratio Variation in the Salt Grass Distichlis spicata
In many dioecious plant populations, males and females appear to be spatially segregated, a pattern that is difficult to explain given its potentially high costs. However, in asexually propagating species, spatial segregation of the sexes may be indistinguishable from superficially similar patterns generated by random establishment of a few genets followed by extensive clonal spread and by gender-specific differences in rates of clonal spread. In populations where a significant fraction of individuals are not flowering and gender cannot be assigned to this fraction, apparent spatial segregation of the sexes may be due to differential flowering between the sexes. We confirm reports that flowering ramets of the clonal, perennial grass Distichlis spicata are spatially segregated by sex. We extend these studies in two fundamental ways and demonstrate that this species exhibits true spatial segregation of the sexes. First, using RAPD markers, we estimated that at least 50% of ramets in patches with biased sex ratios represent distinct genotypes. Second, we identified a RAPD marker linked to female phenotype (eliminating the possibility that gender is environmentally determined) and used it to show that the majority of patches exhibit significantly biased sex ratios for both ramets and genets, regardless of flowering status
Optimization of a lasertron double output cavity
Double output cavities have been used experimentally to increase the efficiency of high-power klystrons. We have used particle-in-cell simulations with the 2 + 1/2 dimensional code MASK to optimize the design of double output cavities for the lasertron under development at SLAC. We discuss design considerations for double output cavities (e.g., optimum choice of voltages and phases, efficiency, wall interception, breakdown). We describe how one calculates the cavity impedance matrix from the gap voltages and phases. Some results of the effect of varying voltage, perveance, and pulse are reported
Black hole head-on collisions and gravitational waves with fixed mesh-refinement and dynamic singularity excision
We present long-term-stable and convergent evolutions of head-on black hole
collisions and extraction of gravitational waves generated during the merger
and subsequent ring-down. The new ingredients in this work are the use of fixed
mesh-refinement and dynamical singularity excision techniques. We are able to
carry out head-on collisions with large initial separations and demonstrate
that our excision infrastructure is capable of accommodating the motion of the
individual black holes across the computational domain as well as their their
merger. We extract gravitational waves from these simulations using the
Zerilli-Moncrief formalism and find the ring-down radiation to be, as expected,
dominated by the l=2, m=0 quasi-normal mode. The total radiated energy is about
0.1 % of the total ADM mass of the system.Comment: Revised version, 1 figure added, accepted for publication in
Phys.Rev.D, 15 pages, 10 figures, revtex 4.
The Near-Linear Regime of Gravitational Waves in Numerical Relativity
We report on a systematic study of the dynamics of gravitational waves in
full 3D numerical relativity. We find that there exists an interesting regime
in the parameter space of the wave configurations: a near-linear regime in
which the amplitude of the wave is low enough that one expects the geometric
deviation from flat spacetime to be negligible, but nevertheless where
nonlinearities can excite unstable modes of the Einstein evolution equations
causing the metric functions to evolve out of control. The implications of this
for numerical relativity are discussed.Comment: 10 pages, 2 postscript figures, revised tex
Implementing an apparent-horizon finder in three dimensions
Locating apparent horizons is not only important for a complete understanding
of numerically generated spacetimes, but it may also be a crucial component of
the technique for evolving black-hole spacetimes accurately. A scheme proposed
by Libson et al., based on expanding the location of the apparent horizon in
terms of symmetric trace-free tensors, seems very promising for use with
three-dimensional numerical data sets. In this paper, we generalize this scheme
and perform a number of code tests to fully calibrate its behavior in
black-hole spacetimes similar to those we expect to encounter in solving the
binary black-hole coalescence problem. An important aspect of the
generalization is that we can compute the symmetric trace-free tensor expansion
to any order. This enables us to determine how far we must carry the expansion
to achieve results of a desired accuracy. To accomplish this generalization, we
describe a new and very convenient set of recurrence relations which apply to
symmetric trace-free tensors.Comment: 14 pages (RevTeX 3.0 with 3 figures
Beam energy dependence of moments of the net-charge multiplicity distributions in Au+Au collisions at RHIC
We report the first measurements of the moments -- mean (), variance
(), skewness () and kurtosis () -- of the net-charge
multiplicity distributions at mid-rapidity in Au+Au collisions at seven
energies, ranging from = 7.7 to 200 GeV, as a part of the
Beam Energy Scan program at RHIC. The moments are related to the thermodynamic
susceptibilities of net-charge, and are sensitive to the proximity of the QCD
critical point. We compare the products of the moments, ,
and with the expectations from Poisson and
negative binomial distributions (NBD). The values deviate from
Poisson and are close to NBD baseline, while the values tend
to lie between the two. Within the present uncertainties, our data do not show
non-monotonic behavior as a function of collision energy. These measurements
provide a distinct way of determining the freeze-out parameters in heavy-ion
collisions by comparing with theoretical models.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figures, Accepted by PR
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