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General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-17 Alessandro Nagar , Piero Rettegno , Rossella Gamba , Sebastiano Bernuzzi

We improve the effective-one-body (EOB) description of nonspinning coalescing black hole binaries by incorporating several recent analytical advances, notably: (i) logarithmic contributions to the conservative dynamics; (ii) resummed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-04-17 Thibault Damour , Alessandro Nagar , Sebastiano Bernuzzi

Effective-one-body (EOB) models are based on analytical building blocks that, mathematically, are truncated Taylor series with logarithms. These functions are usually resummed using Pad\'e approximants obtained first assuming that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-23 Alessandro Nagar , Danilo Chiaramello , Rossella Gamba , Simone Albanesi , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Veronica Fantini , Mattia Panzeri , Piero Rettegno

Building upon several recent advances in the development of effective-one-body models for spin-aligned eccentric binaries with individual masses $(m_1,m_2)$ we introduce a new EOB waveform model that aims at describing inspiralling binaries…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-12 Alessandro Nagar , Simone Albanesi

The effective one-body (EOB) theory provides an innovative framework for analyzing the dynamics of binary systems, as articulated by Hamilton's equations. This paper investigates a self-consistent EOB theory specifically tailored for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-09 Jiliang Jing , Sheng Long , Weike Deng , Jieci Wang

We introduce \TEOBiResumSM{}, a nonspinning inspiral-merger-ringdown waveform model built within the effective one body (EOB) framework that includes gravitational waveform modes beyond the dominant quadrupole $(\ell,|m|) = (2,2)$. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-29 Alessandro Nagar , Geraint Pratten , Gunnar Riemenschneider , Rossella Gamba

We improve the accuracy of the effective-one-body (EOB) waveforms that were employed during the first observing run of Advanced LIGO for binaries of spinning, nonprecessing black holes by calibrating them to a set of 141…

In Ref. [1], the properties of the first gravitational wave detected by LIGO, GW150914, were measured by employing an effective-one-body (EOB) model of precessing binary black holes whose underlying dynamics and waveforms were calibrated to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-01-11 Stanislav Babak , Andrea Taracchini , Alessandra Buonanno

Building upon recent work, we present an improved effective-one-body (EOB) model for spin-aligned, coalescing, black hole binaries with generic orbital configurations, i.e. quasi-circular, eccentric or hyperbolic orbits. The model relies on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-19 Alessandro Nagar , Alice Bonino , Piero Rettegno

Waveform models are important to gravitational wave data analysis. People recently pay much attention to the waveform model construction for eccentric binary black hole coalescence. Several Effective-One-Body Numerical-Relativity waveform…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-10 Xiaolin Liu , Zhoujian Cao , Zong-Hong Zhu

A new analytical approach to the motion and radiation of (comparable mass) binary systems has been introduced in 1999 under the name of Effective One Body (EOB) formalism. We review the basic elements of this formalism, and discuss some of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-27 Thibault Damour

We present an improved numerical relativity (NR) calibration of the new effective-one-body (EOB) model for coalescing non precessing spinning black hole binaries recently introduced by Damour and Nagar [Physical Review D 90, 044018 (2014)].…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-24 Alessandro Nagar , Thibault Damour , Christian Reisswig , Denis Pollney

Complete waveform models able to account for arbitrary non-planar orbits represent a holy grail in current gravitational-wave astronomy. Here, we take a step towards this direction and present a simple yet efficient prescription to obtain…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-27 Rossella Gamba , Danilo Chiaramello , Sayan Neogi

Spin precession is a generic feature of compact binary coalescences, which leaves clear imprints in the gravitational waveforms. Building on previous work, we present an efficient time domain inspiral-merger-ringdown effective-one-body…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-27 Rossella Gamba , Sarp Akçay , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Jake Williams

Coalescing binaries of neutron stars (NS) and black holes (BH) are one of the most important sources of gravitational waves for the upcoming network of ground based detectors. Detection and extraction of astrophysical information from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-08 Prayush Kumar , Kevin Barkett , Swetha Bhagwat , Nousha Afshari , Duncan A. Brown , Geoffrey Lovelace , Mark A. Scheel , Béla Szilágyi

High-fidelity gravitational waveform models are essential for realizing the scientific potential of next-generation gravitational-wave observatories. While highly accurate, state-of-the-art models often rely on extensive phenomenological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-03 Siddharth Mahesh , Sean T. McWilliams , Zachariah Etienne

We present SEOBNRv5HM, a more accurate and faster inspiral-merger-ringdown gravitational waveform model for quasi-circular, spinning, nonprecessing binary black holes within the effective-one-body (EOB) formalism. Compared to its…

We develop the foundations of an effective-one-body (EOB) model for eccentric binary coalescences that includes the conservative dynamics, radiation reaction, and gravitational waveform modes from the inspiral and the merger-ringdown…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-08 Tanja Hinderer , Stanislav Babak

We present the first systematic comparison between gravitational waveforms emitted by inspiralling, quasi-circular and nonspinning black hole binaries computed with three different approaches: second-order gravitational self-force (2GSF)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-03 Angelica Albertini , Alessandro Nagar , Adam Pound , Niels Warburton , Barry Wardell , Leanne Durkan , Jeremy Miller

We present the first comparison of waveforms evaluated using the effective-one-body (EOB) approach and gravitational self-force (GSF) theory for inspiralling black hole binaries with a non-spinning primary and a spinning secondary. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-07 Angelica Albertini , Alessandro Nagar , Josh Mathews , Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos