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IMRPhenomXHM: A multi-mode frequency-domain model for the gravitational wave signal from non-precessing black-hole binaries

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2020-11-04 v2

Abstract

We present the IMRPhenomXHM frequency domain phenomenological waveform model for the inspiral, merger and ringdown of quasi-circular non-precessing black hole binaries. The model extends the IMRPhenomXAS waveform model, which describes the dominant quadrupole modes =m=2\ell = |m| = 2, to the harmonics (,m)=(2,1),(3,3),(3,2),(4,4)(\ell, |m|)=(2,1), (3,3), (3,2), (4,4), and includes mode mixing effects for the (3,2)(3,2) spherical harmonic. IMRPhenomXHM is calibrated against hybrid waveforms, which match an inspiral phase described by the effective-one-body model and post-Newtonian amplitudes for the subdominant harmonics to numerical relativity waveforms and numerical solutions to the perturbative Teukolsky equation for large mass ratios up to 1000. A computationally efficient implementation of the model is available as part of the LSC Algorithm Library Suite.

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@article{arxiv.2001.10914,
  title  = {IMRPhenomXHM: A multi-mode frequency-domain model for the gravitational wave signal from non-precessing black-hole binaries},
  author = {Cecilio García-Quirós and Marta Colleoni and Sascha Husa and Héctor Estellés and Geraint Pratten and Antoni Ramos-Buades and Maite Mateu-Lucena and Rafel Jaume},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.10914},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

30 pages, 23 figures. Updated to match published version