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Does SXS catalog for NR simulations have non-spinning, non-eccentric blackholes?

I am looking for NR waveform for two non-spinning and non-eccentric black hole binary merger for small mass ratio. Somehow, on the SXS catalog website, I don't see any such description. Thanks
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Black holes: Is merger inevitable when horizons touch?

I watched a simulation of the binary black hole merger of 2019 April 12 https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/video/ligo20200420v1 When the "apparent horizons" (their terminology; are those ...
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