Comparing gravitational waveform extrapolation to Cauchy-characteristic extraction in binary black hole simulations
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Nicholas W. Taylor, Michael Boyle, Christian Reisswig, Mark A. Scheel, Tony Chu, Lawrence E. Kidder, and Béla Szilágyi Theoretical Astrophysics 350-17, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA Center for Radiophysics and Space Research, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Toronto, 60 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H8, Canada (Received 13 September 2013; published 3 December 2013)
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