Abstract
We apply the puncture approach to conformal thin-sandwich black-hole initial data. We solve numerically the conformal thin-sandwich puncture (CTSP) equations for a single black hole with nonzero linear momentum. We show that conformally-flat solutions for a boosted black hole have the same maximum gravitational radiation content as the corresponding Bowen-York solution in the conformal transverse-traceless decomposition. We find that the physical properties of these data are independent of the free slicing parameter.
4 More- Received 15 February 2005
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.71.084023
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