Yosef Zlochower

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors have simulated the MHD evolution of a circumbinary disk surrounding an equal-mass non-spinning binary and showed that the structure of the disk is predicted well by extrapolation from Newtonian results.

TL;DR: This work presents techniques for successfully performing numerical relativity simulations of binary black holes with fourth-order accuracy, and applies this approach to binary black hole head-on collisions, calculating the waveforms of gravitational radiation generated and demonstrating significant improvements in waveform accuracy over second-order methods with typically achievable numerical resolution.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the newly discovered ''hangup-kick'' effect, which greatly amplifies the recoil for configurations with partial spin/orbital angular momentum alignment, by studying a set of 48 new simulations of equal-mass, spinning black-hole binaries.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the moving puncture approach to perform fully non-linear evolutions of spinning quasicircular black-hole binaries with individual spins unaligned with the orbital angular momentum.

TL;DR: The Numerical InJection Analysis (NINJA) project as mentioned in this paper is a collaborative effort between members of the numerical relativity and gravitational-wave data analysis communities to study the sensitivity of existing search algorithms using numerically generated waveforms.