Are different approaches to constructing initial data for binary black hole simulations of the same astrophysical situation equivalent?

The NINJA-2 catalog of hybrid post-Newtonian/numerical-relativity waveforms for non-precessing black-hole binaries

(2012) P Ajith et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

High-accuracy gravitational waveforms for binary black hole mergers with nearly extremal spins

(2012) Geoffrey Lovelace et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

The status of black-hole binary merger simulations with numerical relativity

(2011) Sean T McWilliams   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

Reducing orbital eccentricity of precessing black-hole binaries

(2011) Alessandra Buonanno et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Simulating merging binary black holes with nearly extremal spins

(2011) Geoffrey Lovelace et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Black-hole binaries, gravitational waves, and numerical relativity

(2010) Joan Centrella et al.   REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS

Reducing spurious gravitational radiation in binary-black-hole simulations by using conformally curved initial data

(2009) Geoffrey Lovelace   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

Testing gravitational-wave searches with numerical relativity waveforms: results from the first Numerical INJection Analysis (NINJA) project

(2009) Benjamin Aylott et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

Extrapolating gravitational-wave data from numerical simulations

(2009) Michael Boyle et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Samurai project: Verifying the consistency of black-hole-binary waveforms for gravitational-wave detection

(2009) Mark Hannam et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

High-accuracy waveforms for binary black hole inspiral, merger, and ringdown

(2009) Mark A. Scheel et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Bowen-York trumpet data and black-hole simulations

(2009) Mark Hannam et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

LIGO: the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory

(2009) B P Abbott et al.   REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS

Status of the LIGO detectors

(2008) Daniel Sigg et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

High-accuracy numerical simulation of black-hole binaries: Computation of the gravitational-wave energy flux and comparisons with post-Newtonian approximants

(2008) Michael Boyle et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Binary-black-hole initial data with nearly extremal spins

(2008) Geoffrey Lovelace et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D