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Constructing EOB dynamics with numerical energy flux for intermediate-mass-ratio inspirals
A new scheme for computing dynamical evolutions and gravitational radiations for intermediatemass-ratio inspirals (IMRIs) based on an effective one-body (EOB) dynamics plus Teukolsky perturbation theory is built in this paper. In the EOB framework, the dynamics essentially affects the resulted gravitational waveform for binary compact star system. This dynamics includes two parts. One is the conservative part which comes from effective one-body reduction. The other part is the gravitational back reaction which contributes to the shrinking process of the inspiral of binary compact star system. Previous works used analytical waveform to construct this back reaction term. Since the analytical form is based on post-Newtonian expansion, the consistency of this term is always checked by numerical energy flux. Here we directly use numerical energy flux by solving the Teukolsky equation via the frequency-domain method to construct this back reaction term. And the conservative correction to the leading order terms in mass-ratio is included in the deformed-Kerr metric and the EOB Hamiltonian. We try to use this method to simulate not only quasi-circular adiabatic inspiral but also the nonadiabatic plunge phase. For several different spinning black holes, we demonstrate and compare the resulted dynamical evolutions and gravitational waveforms.
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From binary black hole simulation to triple black hole simulation
Black hole systems are among the most promising sources for a gravitational wave detection project. Now, China is planning to construct a space-based laser interferometric detector as a follow-on mission of LISA in the near future. Aiming to provide some theoretical support to this detection project on the numerical relativity side, we focus on black hole systems simulation in this work. Considering the globular galaxy, multiple black hole systems also likely to exist in our universe and play a role as a source for the gravitational wave detector we are considering. We will give a progress report in this paper on our black hole system simulation. More specifically, we will present triple black hole simulation together with binary black hole simulation. On triple black hole simulations, one novel perturbational method is proposed.
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Numerical evolution of multiple black holes with accurate initial data
We present numerical evolutions of three equal-mass black holes using the moving puncture approach. We calculate puncture initial data for three black holes solving the constraint equations by means of a high-order multigrid elliptic solver. Using these initial data, we show the results for three black hole evolutions with sixth-order waveform convergence. We compare results obtained with the BAM and AMSS- N C KU codes with previous results. The approximate analytic solution to the Hamiltonian constraint used in previous simulations of three black holes leads to different dynamics and waveforms. We present some numerical experiments showing the evolution of four black holes and the resulting gravitational waveform.
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SPIN EXPANSION FOR HEAD-ON COLLISION OF TWO BLACK HOLES
The spin expansion technique proposed in [L. Boyel, M. Kesden and S. Nissanke, Phys. Rev. Lett.100 (2008) 151101] is very powerful to analyze the relation between the initial state of binary black hole and the final state of the merged black hole. But this technique needs orbital angular momentum to determine the third direction of a triad. Without this triad we cannot get the decomposed components of the involved quantities, and the spin expansion breaks down. The head-on collision of two black holes, whose orbital angular momentum vanishes, falls into this case. In this paper we propose a new method to construct a triad for spin expansion technique. With this new method, we get the same set of equations as in the above-mentioned paper. Furthermore, we use numerical simulations to illustrate the validity of our new method for the head-on collision of two black holes.
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The Performance of CRTNT Fluorescence Light Detector for Sub-EeV Cosmic Ray Observation
Cosmic Ray Tau Neutrino Telescopes (CRTNT) using for sub-EeV cosmic ray measurement is discussed. Performances of a stereoscope configuration with a tower of those telescopes plus two side-triggers are studied. This is done by using a detailed detector simulation driven by Corsika. Detector aperture as a function of shower energy above 10^17 eV is calculated. Event rate of about 20k per year for the second knee measurement is estimated. Event rate for cross calibration with detectors working on higher energy range is also estimated. Different configurations of the detectors are tried for optimization.
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Cosmic Ray Experiments in the Era of LHC
Many uncertainties in cosmic ray experiments will be eliminated with more measurements about interaction between nucleons in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment. Cosmic ray experiments will enter an era marked by the high precision of measurements carried out by combining multipurpose instruments on very large scales. They have been putting strict constraints on models of cosmic ray acceleration at sources and propagation through the universe. Measurements of electrons, all kinds of nuclei, even gamma rays and neutrinos will enhance the opportunity of breakthrough in solving the mystery of origin of cosmic rays or even finding the source of the dark matter. A fundamental problem in cosmic ray experiments is the energy scale of ground based experiments for ultra high energy cosmic rays. A unique and straightforward approach is to match the energy spectra of nuclei measured by space or balloon borne experiments with what measured by ground based detectors at high altitudes and propagate the scale up ...
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The Physics Results from HiRes Fly's Eye Experiment
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Scaling properties of hadron production in the Ising model for quark-hadron phase transition
Earlier study of quark-hadron phase transition in the Ginzberg-Landau theory is reexamined in the Ising model, so that spatial fluctuations during the transition can be taken into account. Although the dimension of the physical system is 2, as will be argued, bothd=2 andd=4 Ising systems are studied, the latter being theoretically closer to the Ginzberg-Landau theory. The normalized factorial momentsFq are used to quantify multiplicity fluctuations, and the scaling exponentν is used to characterize the scaling properties. It is found by simulation on the Ising lattice thatν becomes a function of the temperatureT nearTc. The average value ofν over a range ofT<Tc agrees with the value of 1.3 derived analytically from the Ginzberg-Landau theory. Thus the implications of the mean-field theory are not invalidated by either the introduction of spatial fluctuations or the restriction to a 2D system.
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The Correlated Multi-color Optical Variations of BL Lac Object S5 0716+714
S5 0716+714 is a well-studied BL Lac object in the sky. Verifying the existence of correlations among the flux variations in different bands serves as an important tool to investigate the emission processes. To examine the possible existence of a lag between variations in different optical bands on this source, we employ a discrete correlation function analysis on the light curves. In order to obtain statistically meaningful values for the cross-correlation time lags and their related uncertainties, we perform Monte Carlo simulations called 'flux redistribution/random subset selection'. Our analysis confirms that the variations in different optical light curves are strongly correlated. The time lags show a hint of the variations in high frequency band leading those in low frequency band of the order of a few minutes.