Binary Black Hole Grand Challenge Alliance

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Binary Black Hole Grand Challenge Alliance
Formation1993
Membership University of Texas at Austin
University of Illinois
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Cornell University
Syracuse University
University of Pittsburgh
Northwestern University
Penn State University
Lead PI
 Richard Matzner
Co-Is
J. Browne, M. Choptuik, E. Seidel, L. Smarr, P. Saylor, F. Saied, J. York, C. Evans, S. Shapiro, S. Teukolsky, G. Fox, J. Winicour, S. Finn, P. Laguna

The Binary Black Hole Grand Challenge Alliance (BBH Challenge Alliance) was a scientific collaboration of international physics institutes and research groups dedicated to simulating the sources and predicting the waveforms for gravitational waves, in anticipation of gravitational radiation experiments such as LIGO. [1] [2]

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History

The BBH Challenge Alliance was established in 1993. [3] This was an alliance of numerical relativity groups engaged in a friendly competition to tackle the grand challenge of simulating binary black hole collisions for the purpose of understanding gravitational wave signatures that would be detected by experiments such as LIGO. [4]

References

  1. ↑ Thorne, Kip (2018-12-18). "Nobel Lecture: LIGO and gravitational waves III". Rev. Mod. Phys. 90 (40503) 040503. Bibcode:2018RvMP...90d0503T. doi: 10.1103/RevModPhys.90.040503 . S2CID   125431568.
  2. ↑ Matzner, Richard; Seidel, H (1995-11-10). "Geometry of a Black Hole Collision" . Science. 270 (5238): 941–947. Bibcode:1995Sci...270..941M. doi:10.1126/science.270.5238.941. S2CID   121172545 . Retrieved 2023-09-24.
  3. ↑ Cook, G. B.; et al. (23 March 1998). "Boosted Three-Dimensional Black-Hole Evolutions with Singularity Excision". Physical Review Letters. 80 (12): 2512–2516. arXiv: gr-qc/9711078 . Bibcode:1998PhRvL..80.2512C. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.2512. S2CID   14040227.
  4. ↑ Jani, Karan (3 October 2017). "Exclusive: Interview With Kip Thorne, One of the Winners of 2017 Physics Nobel". The Wire. The Wire. Retrieved 6 November 2023.


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