Equal-mass zero-spin binary: 15-orbit inspiral
The 15-orbit inspiral waveform presented in the paper
Boyle et. al., Phys Rev. D 76, 124038 (2007)
can be found in this file.
This is an ordinary text file containing r*m*Psi_4^{22} versus
(retarded) time. Here r is the radius, m is the total irreducible
mass as defined in our paper, and Psi_4^{22} is the l=2, m=2 component
of the Newman-Penrose quantity Psi_4 as measured by an observer at
infinity. This is the highest-quality extrapolated-to-infinity
numerical waveform underlying all our results in Section VI of the
paper. The file contains some
comments at the top (starting with a '#' character), and then three
columns of numbers. If we write r*m*Psi_4^{22} = A exp(-i \phi), then
the columns in the file are (t-r^\star)/m, phi, and A. The overall
phase offset and time offset are arbitrary.
Permission to use this waveform is granted as long as the user acknowleges the source of the waveform and cites the paper Boyle et. al., Phys Rev. D 76, 124038 (2007).
(This paper can also be found here.)
Equal-mass zero-spin binary: 16 orbits+merger+ringdown
The 16-orbit Psi4 waveform for a zero-spin equal mass binary,
as presented in the paper
Scheel et. al., Phys Rev. D 79, 024003 (2009)
can be found in this file.
This is an ordinary text file containing r*m*Psi_4^{22} versus (retarded) time. Here r is the radius, m is the total initial irreducible mass as defined in our paper, and Psi_4^{22} is the l=2, m=2 component of the Newman-Penrose quantity Psi_4 as measured by an observer at infinity. The file contains some comments at the top (starting with a '#' character), and then three columns of numbers: (t-r^\star)/m, Re(r*m*Psi_4^{22}), and Im(r*m*Psi_4^{22}). The overall time shift and phase shift are arbitrary. This waveform corresponds to the highest-resolution (30c/N6 in the paper) Psi4 waveform, extrapolated to infinity (using extrapolation order n=3). This is the same waveform shown in Fig. 11 in the paper.
Permission to use this waveform is granted as long as the user acknowleges the source of the waveform and cites the paper Scheel et. al., Phys Rev. D 79, 024003 (2009) (This paper can also be found here).
