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EFPE: Efficient fully precessing eccentric gravitational waveforms for binaries with long inspirals

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2021-06-22 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

In this paper, we derive a set of equations of motions for binaries on eccentric orbits undergoing spin-induced precession that can efficiently be integrated on the radiation-reaction timescale. We find a family of solutions with a computation cost improved by a factor 1010 - 5050 down to 10\sim 10 ms per waveform evaluation compared to waveforms obtained by directly integrating the precession equations, that maintain a mismatch of the order 10410^{-4} - 10610^{-6} for waveforms lasting a million orbital cycles and a thousand spin-induced precession cycles. We express it in terms of parameters that make the solution regular in the equal-mass limit, thus bypassing a problem of previous similar solutions. We point to ways in which the solution presented in this paper can be perturbed to take into account effects such as general quadrupole momenta and post-Newtonian corrections to the precession equations. This new waveform, with its improved efficiency and its accuracy, makes possible Bayesian parameter estimation using the full spin and eccentricity parameter volume for long lasting inspiralling signals such as stellar-origin black hole binaries observed by LISA.

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@article{arxiv.2106.10291,
  title  = {EFPE: Efficient fully precessing eccentric gravitational waveforms for binaries with long inspirals},
  author = {Antoine Klein},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.10291},
  year   = {2021}
}

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18 pages, 3 tables, 4 figures

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