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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

In recent years, significant progress has been made in the computation of conservative and dissipative scattering observables using the post-Minkowskian approach to gravitational dynamics. However, for accurate modeling of unbound orbits,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-18 Karthik Rajeev , S. Shankaranarayanan

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

Dynamical capture is a possible formation channel for BBH mergers leading to highly eccentric merger dynamics and to gravitational wave (GW) signals that are morphologically different from those of quasi-circular mergers. The future…

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

We discuss the properties of the effective-one-body (EOB) multipolar gravitational waveform emitted by nonspinning black-hole binaries of masses $\mu$ and $M$ in the extreme-mass-ratio limit, $\mu/M=\nu\ll 1$. We focus on the transition…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-03-22 Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Alessandro Nagar , Anil Zenginoglu

We explore the performance of an updated effective-one-body (EOB) model for spin-aligned coalescing black hole binaries designed to deal with any orbital configuration. The model stems from previous work involving the \TEOBResumS{} waveform…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-10 Alessandro Nagar , Piero Rettegno

Dynamical captures of black holes may take place in dense stellar media due to the emission of gravitational radiation during a close passage. Detection of such events requires detailed modelling, since their phenomenology qualitatively…

We describe a general procedure to generate spinning, precessing waveforms that include inspiral, merger and ringdown stages in the effective-one-body (EOB) approach. The procedure uses a precessing frame in which precession-induced…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-23 Yi Pan , Alessandra Buonanno , Andrea Taracchini , Lawrence E. Kidder , Abdul H. Mroue , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Mark A. Scheel , Bela Szilagyi

Building on a recent paper in which we computed the canonical Hamiltonian of a spinning test particle in curved spacetime, at linear order in the particle's spin, we work out an improved effective-one-body (EOB) Hamiltonian for spinning…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-12 Enrico Barausse , Alessandra Buonanno

In the effective-one-body (EOB) approach the dynamics of two compact objects of masses m1 and m2 and spins S1 and S2 is mapped into the dynamics of one test particle of mass mu = m1 m2/(m1+m2) and spin S* moving in a deformed Kerr metric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-12-01 Enrico Barausse , Alessandra Buonanno

We present a new effective-one-body (EOB) waveform for eccentric, nonspinning, binaries in the extreme mass ratio limit, with initial eccentricities up to $0.95$. The EOB analytical waveform, that includes noncircular corrections up to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-24 Simone Albanesi , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Thibault Damour , Alessandro Nagar , Andrea Placidi

We provide a systematic analysis of the multipolar gravitational waveform, energy and angular momentum fluxes emitted by a nonspinning test particle orbiting a Kerr black hole along equatorial, eccentric orbits. These quantities are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-31 Simone Albanesi , Alessandro Nagar , Sebastiano Bernuzzi

Binary black hole systems are among the most important sources for gravitational wave detection. And also they are good objects for theoretical research for general relativity. Gravitational waveform template is important to data analysis.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-30 Zhoujian Cao , Wen-Biao Han

The success of analytic waveform modeling within the effective-one-body (EOB) approach relies on the precise understanding of the physical importance of each technical element included in the model. The urgency of constructing progressively…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-12 Alessandro Nagar , Piero Rettegno , Rossella Gamba , Simone Albanesi , Angelica Albertini , Sebastiano Bernuzzi

We construct a new factorized waveform including $(l,|m|)=(2,2),(2,1),(3,3),(4,4)$ modes based on effective-one-body (EOB) formalism, which is valid for spinning binary black holes (BBH) in general equatorial orbit. When combined with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-02 Xiaolin Liu , Zhoujian Cao , Zong-Hong Zhu

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

Accurate waveform models for coalescing binaries on eccentric orbits are crucial for avoiding biases in the analysis of eccentric gravitational-wave signals. The effective-one-body (EOB) formalism combines various analytical approximation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-25 Aldo Gamboa , Mohammed Khalil , Alessandra Buonanno

We calibrate the effective-one-body (EOB) model to an accurate numerical simulation of an equal-mass, non-spinning binary black-hole coalescence produced by the Caltech-Cornell collaboration. Aligning the EOB and numerical waveforms at low…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-08-03 Alessandra Buonanno , Yi Pan , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Mark A. Scheel , Luisa T. Buchman , Lawrence E. Kidder

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

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