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We describe ongoing work towards construction—via multidomain, modal, spectral methods—of helically symmetric spacetimes representing binary neutron stars. In particular, we focus on the influence of both the helically reduced wave operator and boundary conditions on the self-consistent field method, a widely used iterative scheme for the construction of stellar models.
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We gratefully acknowledge support by NSF grant no. DMS-1216866.
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Lau, S.R., Price, R.H. (2017). Helically Reduced Wave Equations and Binary Neutron Stars. In: Bittencourt, M., Dumont, N., Hesthaven, J. (eds) Spectral and High Order Methods for Partial Differential Equations ICOSAHOM 2016. Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering, vol 119. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65870-4_26
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