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The Final Merger of Comparable Mass Binary Black Holes

Joan M. Centrella

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0609172

Abstract

A remarkable series of breakthroughs in numerical relativity modeling of black hole binary mergers has occurred over the past few years. This paper provides a general overview of these exciting developments, focusing on recent progress in merger simulations and calculations of the resulting gravitational waveforms.

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