Research Article

Analysis of the Conformally Flat Approximation for Binary Neutron Star Initial Conditions

Figure 5

Contours of the lapse function (left) and central density (right) at cycle numbers 0 (a), 5,200 (b), and 25,800 (c) corresponding to roughly 0, 5, and 19 orbits.
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