Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: We revisit the construction of puncture black hole initial data in the conformal thin-sandwich (CTS) decomposition of Einstein's constraint equations. It has been shown previously that this approach cannot yield quasiequilibrium wormhole data, which connect two asymptotically flat spatial infinities. This argument does not apply to trumpet data, which connect the spatial infinity in one universe with the future timelike infinity of another. As a numerical demonstration, we present results for a single boosted trumpet-puncture black hole, constructed in the original version of the CTS formalism.
Source: Classical and Quantum Gravity
Author: Thomas W Baumgarte
Institutions: Bowdoin College, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Language: English
Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2085267641