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We present a new phenomenological gravitational waveform model for the inspiral and coalescence of non-precessing spinning black hole binaries. Our approach is based on a frequency domain matching of post-Newtonian inspiral waveforms with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-17 L. Santamaria , F. Ohme , P. Ajith , B. Bruegmann , N. Dorband , M. Hannam , S. Husa , P. Moesta , D. Pollney , C. Reisswig , E. L. Robinson , J. Seiler , B. Krishnan

With the improvement in sensitivity of gravitational wave (GW) detectors and the increasing diversity of GW sources, there is a strong need for accurate GW waveform models for data analysis. While the current model accuracy assessments…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-22 Qian Hu , John Veitch

We perform new longterm (15-16 orbits) simulations of coalescing binary neutron stars in numerical relativity using an updated Einstein's equation solver, employing low-eccentricity initial data, and modeling the neutron stars by a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-01 Kenta Hotokezaka , Koutarou Kyutoku , Hirotada Okawa , Masaru Shibata

Expressions for the gravitational wave (GW) energy flux and center-of-mass energy of a compact binary are integral building blocks of post-Newtonian (PN) waveforms. In this paper, we compute the GW energy flux and GW frequency derivative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-02-23 Michael Boyle , Alessandra Buonanno , Lawrence E. Kidder , Abdul H. Mroué , Yi Pan , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Mark A. Scheel

We present a new frequency-domain phenomenological model of the gravitational-wave signal from the inspiral, merger and ringdown of non-precessing (aligned-spin) black-hole binaries. The model is calibrated to 19 hybrid…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-10 Sebastian Khan , Sascha Husa , Mark Hannam , Frank Ohme , Michael Pürrer , Xisco Jiménez Forteza , Alejandro Bohé

We estimate the probability of detecting a gravitational wave signal from coalescing compact binaries in simulated data from a ground-based interferometer detector of gravitational radiation using Bayesian model selection. The simulated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Umstaetter , M. Tinto

We present various post-Newtonian (PN) models for the phase evolution of compact objects moving along quasi-spherical orbits in Kerr spacetime derived by using the 12PN analytic formulas of the energy, angular momentum and their averaged…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-28 Norichika Sago , Ryuichi Fujita , Hiroyuki Nakano

We develop a model for frequency-domain gravitational waveforms from inspiraling binary neutron stars. Our waveform model is calibrated by comparison with hybrid waveforms constructed from our latest high-precision numerical-relativity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-04 Kyohei Kawaguchi , Kenta Kiuchi , Koutarou Kyutoku , Yuichiro Sekiguchi , Masaru Shibata , Keisuke Taniguchi

We present results from three-dimensional general relativistic simulations of binary neutron star coalescences and mergers using public codes. We considered equal mass models where the baryon mass of the two Neutron Stars (NS) is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-09 Francesco Maione , Roberto De Pietri , Alessandra Feo , Frank Löffler

Several scenarios have been proposed in which the orbits of binary black holes enter the band of a gravitational wave detector with significant eccentricity. To avoid missing these signals or biasing parameter estimation it is important…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-17 Neil J. Cornish , Joey Shapiro Key

We analyze the spherical harmonic mode amplitudes of quasicircular, nonprecessing binary black hole mergers using 275 numerical relativity simulations from the SXS, RIT, and MAYA catalogs. We construct fits using the leading-order…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-16 Viviana A. Cáceres-Barbosa

Extending our previous studies, we perform high-resolution simulations of inspiraling binary neutron stars in numerical relativity. We thoroughly carry through a convergence study in our currently available computational resources with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-01 Kenta Kiuchi , Kyohei Kawaguchi , Koutarou Kyutoku , Yuichiro Sekiguchi , Masaru Shibata , Keisuke Taniguchi

We derive a point-mass (nonspinning) frequency-domain TaylorF2 phasing approximant at quasi-5.5 post-Newtonian (PN) accuracy for the gravitational wave from coalescing compact binaries. The new approximant is obtained by Taylor-expanding…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-03 Francesco Messina , Reetika Dudi , Alessandro Nagar , Sebastiano Bernuzzi

We reanalyze gravitational waves from binary-neutron-star mergers GW170817 and GW190425 using a numerical-relativity (NR) calibrated waveform model, the TF2+_Kyoto model, which includes nonlinear tidal terms. For GW170817, by imposing a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-14 Tatsuya Narikawa , Nami Uchikata , Kyohei Kawaguchi , Kenta Kiuchi , Koutarou Kyutoku , Masaru Shibata , Hideyuki Tagoshi

The precise knowledge of the gravitational phase evolution of compact binaries is crucial to the data analysis for gravitational waves. Until recently, it was known analytically (for non-spinning systems) up to the 3.5 post-Newtonian (PN)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-23 L. Blanchet , G. Faye , Q. Henry , F. Larrouturou , D. Trestini

In the adiabatic post-Newtonian (PN) approximation, the phase evolution of gravitational waves (GWs) from inspiralling compact binaries in quasicircular orbits is computed by equating the change in binding energy with the GW flux. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-13 Shasvath J. Kapadia , Nathan K. Johnson-McDaniel , Parameswaran Ajith

Using our new numerical-relativity code SACRA, long-term simulations for inspiral and merger of black hole (BH)-neutron star (NS) binaries are performed, focusing particularly on gravitational waveforms. As the initial conditions, BH-NS…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-07-24 Masaru Shibata , Koutarou Kyutoku , Tetsuro Yamamoto , Keisuke Taniguchi

We demonstrate Bayesian analyses of the complete gravitational-wave spectrum of binary neutron star mergers events with the next-generation detector Einstein Telescope. Our mock analyses are performed for 20 different signals using the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-12 Giulia Huez , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Matteo Breschi , Rossella Gamba

We quantify the consistency of numerical-relativity black-hole-binary waveforms for use in gravitational-wave (GW) searches with current and planned ground-based detectors. We compare previously published results for the $(\ell=2,| m | =2)$…

Upcoming observational runs of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration, and future gravitational-wave (GW) detectors on the ground and in space, require waveform models more accurate than currently available. High-precision waveform models can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-24 Mohammed Khalil , Alessandra Buonanno , Jan Steinhoff , Justin Vines