Data formats for numerical relativity waves
@article{Ajith2007DataFF,
title={Data formats for numerical relativity waves},
author={Parameswaran Ajith and Michael Boyle and D. A. Brown and Stephen Fairhurst and Mark Hannam and Ian Hinder and Sascha Husa and Badri Krishnan and R. A. Mercer and Frank Ohme and Christian D. Ott and Jocelyn Read and Luc{\'i}a Santamar{\'i}a and John T. Whelan},
journal={arXiv: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology},
year={2007}
}This document proposes data formats to exchange numerical relativity results, in particular gravitational waveforms. The primary goal is to further the interaction between gravitational-wave source modeling groups and the gravitational-wave data-analysis community. We present a simple and extendable format which is applicable to various kinds of gravitational wave sources including binaries of compact objects and systems undergoing gravitational collapse, but is nevertheless sufficiently…
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