[Users] Unexpectedly asymmetric WFs from WeylScal4 + Multipole?

Kelly, Bernard J. (GSFC-660.0)[UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY] bernard.j.kelly at nasa.gov
Thu Jun 21 09:37:16 CDT 2012


Just confirming that the ReflectionSymmetry update fixed my problem.
Thanks again,

Bernard




On 6/20/12 5:00 PM, "Kelly, Bernard J. (GSFC-660.0)[UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
BALTIMORE COUNTY]" <bernard.j.kelly at nasa.gov> wrote:

>Hmm. That *does* sound likely. I'm pretty sure I haven't updated since
>long before then.
>
>Thanks, Tanja!
>
>
>Bernard
>
>
>On 6/20/12 4:48 PM, "Tanja Bode" <tanja.bode at physics.gatech.edu> wrote:
>
>>Hi Bernard,
>>
>>Have you updated your Maxwell code recently?  There was a bug (#851)
>>having to do
>>with pseudoscalar treatment in ReflectionSymmetry which, having affected
>>interpolations for Psi4i, manifested in a way like you described. The fix
>>was
>>backported to the Maxwell release on May 2nd.
>>
>>https://trac.einsteintoolkit.org/ticket/851
>>
>>-Tanja
>>
>>On 06/20/12 16:36, Kelly, Bernard J. (GSFC-660.0)[UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
>>BALTIMORE
>>COUNTY] wrote:
>>> Hi all.
>>> 
>>> I was post-processing a BHB merger run, and noticed a problem with my
>>> waveforms, extracted using WeylScal4 and Multipole: the (2,2) mode
>>>looks
>>> fine, but the (2,-2) mode is highly suppressed (by about an order of
>>> magnitude). Ditto the (3,+/-3) modes etc, though the amplitude mismatch
>>>is
>>> different for each (l,m) case.
>>> 
>>> I thought I was post-processing incorrectly, but the problem is in the
>>> "mp_psi4_lX_mY_rZ.asc" files. The negative-m data is also considerably
>>> noisier than the positive-m data.
>>> 
>>> I assume I'm missing something in my parameter file. Some subtle (or
>>> not-too-subtle) symmetry setting relevant to Multipole. Can someone
>>>help,
>>> please? I'm attaching my parameter file. It's adapted from the ETK
>>> BBHLowRes.par file (and a brief run of that appears to have the same
>>> issues for me).
>>> 
>>> I'm using Maxwell, by the way. Any help appreciated.
>>> 
>>> Bernard
>>> 
>>> 
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