Critical phenomena in the collapse of gravitational waves
Critical phenomena in the collapse of gravitational waves
Fine-tuning generic but smooth spherically-symmetric initial data for general relativity to the threshold of dynamical black hole formation creates arbitrarily large curvatures, mediated by a universal self-similar solution that acts as an intermediate attractor. For vacuum gravitational waves, however, these critical phenomena have been elusive. We present, for the first time, excellent agreement among three independent numerical simulations of this collapse. Surprisingly, we find no universality, and observe approximate self-similarity for some families of initial data but not for others.
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Baumgarte, Thomas W.
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Brügmann, Bernd
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Cors, Daniela
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Hilditch, David
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Khirnov, Anton
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Ledvinka, Tomáš
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Fernández, Isabel Suárez
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Cors, Daniela
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Gundlach, Carsten
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Hilditch, David
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Khirnov, Anton
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Ledvinka, Tomáš
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Renkhoff, Sarah
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Fernández, Isabel Suárez
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Baumgarte, Thomas W., Brügmann, Bernd, Cors, Daniela, Gundlach, Carsten, Hilditch, David, Khirnov, Anton, Ledvinka, Tomáš, Renkhoff, Sarah and Fernández, Isabel Suárez
(2023)
Critical phenomena in the collapse of gravitational waves.
Physical Review Letters, 131 (18), [181401].
(doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.181401).
Abstract
Fine-tuning generic but smooth spherically-symmetric initial data for general relativity to the threshold of dynamical black hole formation creates arbitrarily large curvatures, mediated by a universal self-similar solution that acts as an intermediate attractor. For vacuum gravitational waves, however, these critical phenomena have been elusive. We present, for the first time, excellent agreement among three independent numerical simulations of this collapse. Surprisingly, we find no universality, and observe approximate self-similarity for some families of initial data but not for others.
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Accepted/In Press date: 22 September 2023
e-pub ahead of print date: 30 October 2023
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