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We present a numerical-relativity simulation of a black hole - neutron star merger in scalar-tensor (ST) gravity with binary parameters consistent with the gravitational wave event GW200115. In this exploratory simulation, we consider the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-29 Sizheng Ma , Vijay Varma , Leo C. Stein , Francois Foucart , Matthew D. Duez , Lawrence E. Kidder , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Mark A. Scheel

In this article, we focus on the effects of mass transfer between binary stars and stellar spin on the post-Newtonian (PN) orbital evolution and gravitational waveforms of compact binary systems. We employ the 2.5PN approximation and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-24 Yifan He , Jie Yang

In the past few decades, the waveform community has made advances in producing waveforms that span the inspiral-merger-ringdown of comparable-mass-ratio black hole binaries using advances in post-Newtonian and numerical relativity (NR)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-14 Hector Iglesias , Leanne Durkan , Deirdre Shoemaker

We present PhenomPNR, a frequency-domain phenomenological model of the gravitational-wave (GW) signal from binary-black-hole mergers that is tuned to numerical relativity (NR) simulations of precessing binaries. In many current waveform…

Motivated by the search for gravitational waves emitted by binary black holes, we investigate the gravitational radiation field of point particles with spins within the framework of the multipolar-post-Newtonian wave generation formalism.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Luc Blanchet , Alessandra Buonanno , Guillaume Faye

The orbital motion of inspiralling and coalescing black hole binaries can be investigated using a variety of approximation schemes and numerical methods within general relativity: post-Newtonian expansions, black hole perturbation theory,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-10-03 Alexandre Le Tiec

Gravitational wave observations of black hole-neutron star binaries, particularly those where the black hole has a lower mass compared to other observed systems, have the potential to place strong constraints on modifications to general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-19 Maxence Corman , William E. East

Higher-order gravitational wave modes from quasi-circular, spinning, non-precessing binary black hole mergers encode key information about these systems' nonlinear dynamics. We model these waveforms using transformer architectures,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-21 Victoria Tiki , Kiet Pham , Eliu Huerta

We present results from a new code for binary black hole evolutions using the moving-puncture approach, implementing finite differences in generalised coordinates, and allowing the spacetime to be covered with multiple communicating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-03-23 Denis Pollney , Christian Reisswig , Erik Schnetter , Nils Dorband , Peter Diener

We report results of a numerical-relativity simulation for the merger of a black hole-neutron star binary with a variety of equations of state (EOSs) modeled by piecewise polytropes. We focus in particular on the dependence of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-27 Koutarou Kyutoku , Masaru Shibata , Keisuke Taniguchi

We used two numerical models, namely the \texttt{CBwaves} and \texttt{SEOBNRE} algorithms, based on the post-Newtonian and effective-one-body approaches for binary black holes evolving on eccentric orbits. We performed 20.000 new…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-06 Balázs Kacskovics , Dániel Barta

We measure the gravitational recoil for unequal-mass-black- hole-binary mergers, with the larger BH having spin a/m^H=0.8, and the smaller BH non-spinning. We choose our configurations such that, initially, the spins lie on the orbital…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 Carlos O. Lousto , Yosef Zlochower

We model the inspiral and merger dynamics of two co-planar rings in Newtonian mechanics with GR motivated corrections and illustrate their similarity with those of black hole binary systems on the orbital plane. Our simulation reveals a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-13 Qi Su , Baicheng Zhang , Ding-Fang Zeng

We explore spinning, precessing, unequal mass binary black holes to display the long term orbital angular momentum, $\vec{L}$, flip dynamics. We study two prototypical cases of binaries with mass ratios $q=1/7$ and $q=1/15$ and a misaligned…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-27 Carlos O. Lousto , James Healy

Black hole-neutron star mergers resulting in the disruption of the neutron star and the formation of an accretion disk and/or the ejection of unbound material are prime candidates for the joint detection of gravitational-wave and…

Gravitational waves from coalescing binary black holes encode the evolution of their spins prior to merger. In the post-Newtonian regime and on the precession timescale, this evolution has one of three morphologies, with the spins either…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-02 Daniele Trifirò , Richard O'Shaughnessy , Davide Gerosa , Emanuele Berti , Michael Kesden , Tyson Littenberg , Ulrich Sperhake

There is a high level of interest in black hole-neutron star binaries, not only because their mergers may be detected by gravitational wave observatories in the coming years, but also because of the possibility that they could explain a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-06-06 William E. East , Frans Pretorius , Branson C. Stephens

We present BHPTNRSur2dq1e3, a reduced order surrogate model of gravitational waves emitted from binary black hole (BBH) systems in the comparable to large mass ratio regime with aligned spin ($\chi_1$) on the heavier mass ($m_1$). We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-19 Katie Rink , Ritesh Bachhar , Tousif Islam , Nur E. M. Rifat , Kevin Gonzalez-Quesada , Scott E. Field , Gaurav Khanna , Scott A. Hughes , Vijay Varma

We use post-Newtonian (PN) approximations to determine the initial orbital and spin parameters of black hole binaries that lead to low-eccentricity inspirals when evolved with numerical relativity techniques. In particular, we seek initial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-10 James Healy , Carlos O. Lousto , Hiroyuki Nakano , Yosef Zlochower

We present the first numerical-relativity simulation of a compact-object binary whose gravitational waveform is long enough to cover the entire frequency band of advanced gravitational-wave detectors, such as LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA, for mass…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-07-22 Bela Szilagyi , Jonathan Blackman , Alessandra Buonanno , Andrea Taracchini , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Mark A. Scheel , Tony Chu , Lawrence E. Kidder , Yi Pan