- 09 Jan. 2019
- Added 20 new catalog entries
(SXS:BBH:1389 through SXS:BBH:1408) from very long
simulations of precessing binary black hole systems,
as presented in
arXiv:1809.09125
("High-accuracy mass, spin, and recoil predictions of
generic black-hole merger remnants").
- 08 Jan. 2019
- Added 91 new catalog entries
(SXS:BBH:1419 through SXS:BBH:1509) from simulations
of nonprecessing binary black hole systems with mass ratios
up to 8, and 7 new catalog entries
(SXS:BBH:1412 through SXS:BBH:1418) from very long
simulations of nonprecessing binary black hole systems,
as presented in
arXiv:1812.07865
("Surrogate model of hybridized numerical relativity
binary black hole waveforms").
- 16 Jan. 2017
- Updated the eccentricity measurements in the metadata. The
'relaxed-eccentricity' value has changed because the previous
measurement was not performed exactly at the
'relaxed-measurement-time'. A new field, 'relaxed-mean-anomaly',
has been added so that the orbital parameters are uniquely
determined.
- 31 Oct. 2016
- Added 96 new catalog entries (SXS:BBH:0209 through SXS:BBH:0304) from
simulations presented in
arXiv:1512.06800 ("On the
accuracy and precision of numerical waveforms: Effect of waveform extraction
methodology").
- 15 Aug. 2016
- Added two new catalog entries (SXS:BBH:0307 and SXS:BBH:0308) from simulations
with GW150914-like parameters, which are presented in
arXiv:1606.01262 ("Directly
comparing GW150914 with numerical solutions of Einstein's equations for binary
black hole coalescence").
- 15 Jun. 2016
- Added one new catalog entry (SXS:BBH:0317) corresponding to the data shown in
Fig. 5 of
GW151226:
Observation of Gravitational Waves from a 22-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole
Coalescence. This simulation was performed with credible parameters for
GW151226.
- 14 Apr. 2016
- Added 7 new catalog entries (SXS:BBH:0202 through SXS:BBH:0208) from unequal
mass, aligned-spin simulations presented in
arXiv:1507.00103.
- 17 Feb. 2016
- Removed Lev6 of SXS:BBH:0005. A numerical glitch was found in the gravitational
wave strain data. The remaining data for this simulation (Lev4 and Lev5) are
unaffected.
- 11 Feb. 2016
- Added one new catalog entry (SXS:BBH:0305) corresponding to the data shown in
Figs. 1 and 2 of
Observation
of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger. This simulation was
performed with the most likely parameters of GW150914.
- 04 Mar. 2015
- Added 22 new catalog entries (SXS:BBH:0180 through SXS:BBH:0201) from unequal
mass, non-spinning simulations presented in
arXiv:1502.07758.
- 04 Dec. 2014
- Added five new catalog entries (SXS:BBH:0175 through SXS:BBH:0179) from
high-spin simulations presented in
arXiv:1411.7297 and
arXiv:1412.1803.
- 16 Jan. 2014
- All asymptotic waveforms updated after fixing a minor mass scaling bug. Waveform
amplitude changes are 0.04% on average, and no larger than 0.1%.
- 31 Oct. 2013
- Initial release of the catalog (SXS:BBH:0001 through SXS:BBH:0174)