Binary black hole evolutions of approximate puncture initial data
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Tanja Bode, Pablo Laguna, Deirdre M. Shoemaker, Ian Hinder, Frank Herrmann, and Birjoo Vaishnav Center for Gravitational Wave Physics The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802 Center for Relativistic Astrophysics and School of Physics Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332 Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, Albert-Einstein-Institut, Golm, Germany Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modeling, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Texas At Brownsville, Brownsville, TX 78520
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