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Combining Post-Circular and Pad\'e approximations to compute Fourier domain templates for eccentric inspirals

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2020-10-28 v1

Abstract

Observations of transient gravitational wave (GW) events with non-negligible orbital eccentricity can be highly rewarding from astrophysical considerations. Ready-to-use fully analytic frequency domain inspiral GW templates are crucial ingredients to construct eccentric inspiral-merger-ringdown waveform families, required for the detection of such GW events. It turns out that a fully analytic, post-Newtonian (PN) accurate frequency domain inspiral template family, which uses certain post-circular approximation, may only be suitable to model events with initial eccentricities e00.2e_0 \leq 0.2.We here explore the possibility of combining Post-Circular and Pad\'e approximations to obtain fully analytic frequency domain eccentric inspiral templates. The resulting 1PN-accurate approximant is capable of faithfully capturing eccentric inspirals having e00.6e_0 \leq 0.6 while employing our 1PN extension of a frequency domain template family that does not use post-circular approximation, detailed in Moore, B., et al.\ 2018, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 35, 235006. We also discuss subtleties that arise while combining post-circular and Pad\'e approximations to obtain higher PN order templates for eccentric inspirals.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2009.11333,
  title  = {Combining Post-Circular and Pad\'e approximations to compute Fourier domain templates for eccentric inspirals},
  author = {Srishti Tiwari and Achamveedu Gopakumar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.11333},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

25 pages, 6 figures, 1 table; Accepted in Physical Review D