The Third RIT binary black hole simulations catalog

TL;DR

This paper introduces the third release of the RIT binary black hole simulation catalog, containing 777 waveforms with detailed parameters, corrections, and initial analyses of radiation and remnant properties for astrophysical applications.

Contribution

The paper provides a comprehensive, corrected, and extrapolated catalog of 777 black hole binary waveforms, including new correlations among key properties for astrophysical use.

Findings

Successful correction for center of mass drift

Catalog includes 300 precessing and 477 nonprecessing systems

New correlations among radiation and remnant properties

Abstract

The third release of the RIT public catalog of numerical relativity black-hole-binary waveforms \url{http://ccrg.rit.edu/~RITCatalog} consists of 777 accurate simulations that include 300 precessing and 477 nonprecessing binary systems with mass ratios $q=m_1/m_2$ in the range $1/15\leq q\leq1$ and individual spins up to $s/m^2=0.95$. The catalog also provides initial parameters of the binary, trajectory information, peak radiation, and final remnant black hole properties. The waveforms are corrected for the center of mass drifting and are extrapolated to future null infinity. We successfully test this correction comparing with simulations of low radition content initial data. As an initial application of this waveform catalog we reanalyze all the peak radiation and remnant properties to find new, simple, correlations among them for practical astrophysical usage.