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Advances in Simulations of Generic Black-Hole Binaries
By Manuela Campanelli, Carlos O. Lousto, Bruno C. Mundim, Hiroyuki Nakano, Yosef Zlochower, and Hans-Peter Bischof
Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity 27, 084034 (Monday, April 5, 2010)

Abstract

We review some of the recent dramatic developments in the fully nonlinear simulation of generic, highly-precessing, black-hole binaries, and introduce a new approach for generating hybrid post-Newtonian / Numerical waveforms for these challenging systems.