High-accuracy numerical simulation of black-hole binaries: Computation of the gravitational- wave energy flux and comparisons with post-Newtonian approximants
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Michael Boyle, Alessandra Buonanno, Lawrence E. Kidder, Abdul H. Mroué, Yi Pan, Harald P. Pfeiffer, and Mark A. Scheel Theoretical Astrophysics 130-33, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA Center for Radiophysics and Space Research, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 14853, USA (Received 25 April 2008; published 18 November 2008)
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