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Inferring additional physics through unmodelled signal reconstructions

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2025-08-11 v3 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

Parameter estimation of gravitational wave data is often computationally expensive, requiring simplifying assumptions such as circularisation of binary orbits. Although, if included, the sub-dominant effects like orbital eccentricity may provide crucial insights into the formation channels of compact binary mergers. To address these challenges, we present a pipeline strategy leveraging minimally modelled waveform reconstruction to identify the presence of eccentricity in real time. Using injected signals, we demonstrate that ignoring eccentricity (e20Hz0.1e_{\rm 20Hz} \gtrsim 0.1) leads to significant biases in parameter recovery, including chirp mass estimates falling outside the 90% credible interval. Waveform reconstruction shows inconsistencies increase with eccentricity, and this behaviour is consistent for different mass ratios. Our method enables low-latency inferences of binary properties supporting targeted follow-up analyses and can be applied to identify any physical effect of measurable strength.

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@article{arxiv.2412.11749,
  title  = {Inferring additional physics through unmodelled signal reconstructions},
  author = {Rimo Das and V. Gayathri and Divyajyoti and Sijil Jose and Imre Bartos and Sergey Klimenko and Chandra Kant Mishra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.11749},
  year   = {2025}
}

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Resubmission of the pulished version

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