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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

Gravitational wave astronomy pipelines rely on template waveform models for searches and parameter estimation purposes. For coalescing binary neutron stars (BNS), such models need to accurately reproduce numerical relativity (NR) up to…

Recent advances in post-Minkowskian (PM) gravity provide new avenues for the high precision modeling of compact binaries. In conjunction with the effective one body (EOB) formalism, highly accurate PM informed models of binary black holes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-01 Adam Clark , Geraint Pratten

We present a comprehensive comparison between numerical relativity (NR) angular momentum fluxes at infinity and the corresponding quantity entering the radiation reaction in TEOBResumS, an Effective-One-Body (EOB) waveform model for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-27 Angelica Albertini , Alessandro Nagar , Piero Rettegno , Simone Albanesi , Rossella Gamba

We present SEOB-TML, an enhanced effective-one-body (EOB) framework for the test-mass limit, optimized for quasi-circular, spin-aligned binary black holes. On the dynamical side, we introduce a quadrupole-factorized (Q-factorized)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-09 Nami Nishimura , Alessandra Buonanno , Guglielmo Faggioli , Maarten van de Meent , Gaurav Khanna

We present a new approach to the conservative dynamics of binary systems, within the effective one-body (EOB) framework, based on the use of a Lagrange multiplier to impose the mass-shell constraint. When applied to the post-Minkowskian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-03 Thibault Damour , Alessandro Nagar , Andrea Placidi , Piero Rettegno

We extend the description of gravitational waves emitted by binary black holes during the final stages of inspiral and merger by introducing in the third post-Newtonian (3PN) effective-one-body (EOB) templates seven new ``flexibility''…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Thibault Damour , Bala R. Iyer , Piotr Jaranowski , B. S. Sathyaprakash

Starting from the second post-Keplerian (2PK) Hamiltonian describing the conservative part of the two-body dynamics in massless scalar-tensor (ST) theories, we build an effective-one-body (EOB) Hamiltonian which is a $\nu$-deformation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-07 Félix-Louis Julié

Effective-one-body (EOB) waveforms employed by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration have primarily been developed by resumming the post-Newtonian expansion of the relativistic two-body problem. Given the recent significant advancements in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-28 Alessandra Buonanno , Gustav Uhre Jakobsen , Gustav Mogull

We study the chaotic signatures of the geodesic dynamics of a non-spinning test particle in the effective-one-body (EOB) formalism for the inspiral process of spinning binary black holes. We first show that the second order post-Newtonian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-09 Che-Yu Chen , Feng-Li Lin , Avani Patel

Driven by advances in scattering amplitudes and worldline-based methods, recent years have seen significant progress in our ability to calculate gravitational two-body scattering observables. These observables effectively encapsulate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-21 Alessandra Buonanno , Gustav Mogull , Raj Patil , Lorenzo Pompili

We compare recently computed waveforms from second-order gravitational self-force (GSF) theory to those generated by a new, GSF-informed, effective one body (EOB) waveform model for (spin-aligned, eccentric) inspiralling black hole binaries…

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

Effective-one-body (EOB) numerical-relativity (NR) waveform models for spin-aligned binary black holes (BBHs), known as the SEOBNR waveform models, are based on the EOB theoretical framework and NR simulations. SEOBNR models have played an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-04 Xiaolin Liu , Zhoujian Cao , Lijing Shao

Waveform models are essential for gravitational-wave (GW) detection and parameter estimation of coalescing compact-object binaries. More accurate models are required for the increasing sensitivity of current and future GW detectors. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-07 Mohammed Khalil , Alessandra Buonanno , Héctor Estellés , Deyan P. Mihaylov , Serguei Ossokine , Lorenzo Pompili , Antoni Ramos-Buades

While most binary inspirals are expected to have circularized before they enter the LIGO/Virgo frequency band, a small fraction of those binaries could have non-negligible orbital eccentricity depending on their formation channel. Hence, it…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-21 Mohammed Khalil , Alessandra Buonanno , Jan Steinhoff , Justin Vines

We present the first unified model for the general relativistic dynamics and gravitational radiation of generic compact binaries. TEOBResumS-Dal\'i is a model based on the effective-one-body framework incorporating tidal interactions,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-20 Simone Albanesi , Rossella Gamba , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Joan Fontbuté , Alejandra Gonzalez , Alessandro Nagar

Building on the recently computed next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) post-Newtonian (PN) spin-orbit Hamiltonian for spinning binaries \cite{Hartung:2011te} we extend the effective-one-body (EOB) description of the dynamics of two spinning…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-28 Alessandro Nagar

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

We present an updated version of the TEOBResumS-Dali effective-one-body (EOB) waveform model for spin aligned binaries on non-circularized orbits. Recently computed 4PN (nonspinning) terms are incorporated in the waveform and radiation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-18 Alessandro Nagar , Rossella Gamba , Piero Rettegno , Veronica Fantini , Sebastiano Bernuzzi

We present a new effective-one-body (EOB) Hamiltonian with next-to-leading order (NLO) spin-spin coupling for black hole binaries endowed with arbitrarily oriented spins. The Hamiltonian is based on the model for parallel spins and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-20 Simone Balmelli , Thibault Damour