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#  GATECH BBH CATALOG  
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#  	The folders contain the information about gravitational-wave strain for GATech BBH Numerical Relativity simulations. There are total 421 distinct NR simulations in these folders. 
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#	The strain (t, h+, hx) have been computed in the frame of initial total angular momentum (J = L + S1 + S2). The strain is stated in code units that need to be scaled with total mass and distance. The strain for a given mode is averaged over all-sky, meaning they are NOT recomposed at a specific location of detector. 
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#	The nomenclature of the files in the simulation folders is "Strain_ll_mm_rr_jinit_runDir.asc" where (l,m) are the spherical modes, rr is extraction radii, jinit is the frame of extraction and runDir is the label of the simulation folder. Each simulation folder contains an asc files with strain information,  plots of strain vs. time and an table with the initial data.   
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#  CATALOG DETAILS
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#No.	SeriesName	TotalRuns	SeriesType
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#1	Eq-Series	24	Precession
#2	Lq-series	23	Precession
#3	Tp-series	21	Precession
#4	Tp2-series	20	Precession
#5	Sq-series	63	Precession
#6	RO3-series	22	Precession
#7	HR-series	115	Non-Precession
#8	HRq-series	45	Non-Precession
#9	S-series-v2	88	Precession (equal-mass)	
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#	TOTAL RUNS	421
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# Information about the initial parameters for each run is listed in the tables in series folder.
# The definitions of those initial paraemters is listed below.
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#  No. = sim run
#  RunDir = Label of the sim folder 	 	
#  D = Initial binary separation (in M)	 
#  q = mass-ratio m1/m2 >1	 
#  |a1| = dimensionless spin magnitude [0,1]  on BH-1
#  |a2|	= dimensionless spin magnitude on BH-2 
#  th1L = Polar angle between spin-1 and orbital angular momentum L at t=0 of NR run  	 
#  th2L = Polar angle between spin-1 and orbital angular momentum L at t=0 of NR run	
#  ph1 = Azimuthal angle between spin-1 and the +X-axis at t=0	 
#  ph2 = Azimuthal angle between spin-2 and the +X-asix at t=0	 
#  th12 = Angle between the two spins S1 and S2 at t=0 == acosd(S1_hat, S2_hat)	 
#  thSL = Angle beteen the total spin S=S1+S2 and orbital angular momentum L at t=0	 
#  thJL = Angle between total angular momentum J = L + S and orbital angular momentum L at t=0	 
#  Mmin(f=30Hz)	= The minimum mass to scale the NR run to begin at f=30Hz  
#  Mmin(f=10Hz) = The minimum mass to scale the NR run to begin at f=10Hz
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# OTHER NOTES
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# 1) For all the listed NR runs, at t=0 the orbital angular momentum L is pointing
# in +Z axis
# 2) For all the listed NR runs, at t=0 the bigger BH (labeled with 1) is
# placed on the +X axis while the smaller BH (labeled with 2) is on -X axis
# 3) All the angles are measured in degreees 




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# File Last edited on: July 14, 2015
# Author: Karan Jani (Georgia Tech)
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