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Recent measurements of gravitational-wave ringdown following the merger of binary black holes raise the prospect of precision black hole spectroscopy in the near future. To perform the most sensitive tests of the nature of black holes using…

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With better statistics and precision, eccentricity could prove to be a useful tool for understanding the origin and environment of binary black holes. Hierarchical triples in particular, which might be abundant in globular clusters and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-12 Lisa Randall , Zhong-Zhi Xianyu

Black hole spectroscopy is an important pillar when studying gravitational waves from black holes and enables tests of general relativity. Most of the gravitational-wave signals observed over the last decade originate from binary black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-09 Oliver Steppohn , Sebastian H. Völkel , Tim Dietrich

Detecting binary black holes in interferometer data requires an accurate knowledge of the orbital phase evolution of the system. From the point of view of data analysis one also needs fast algorithms to compute the templates that will…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Damour , B. R. Iyer , B. S. Sathyaprakash

Recent X-ray timing and spectral observations of black hole binaries in outburst have redefined methods for investigating the properties of Galactic black holes and the physics of accretion flows. High-frequency X-ray QPOs in 5 systems…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. A. Remillard

The quasi normal modes (QNMs) associated with gravitational-wave signals from binary black hole (BBH) mergers can provide deep insight into the remnant's properties. Once design sensitivity is achieved, present ground-based gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-08 C. F. Da Silva Costa , S. Tiwari , S. Klimenko , F. Salemi

The ringdown phase of a binary black-hole merger provides a clean probe of strong-field gravity, as it can be modeled with minimal assumptions. The quasi-normal-mode frequencies encode the mass and spin of the Kerr black-hole remnant, while…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-08 Chiara Anselmo , Costantino Pacilio , Davide Gerosa

We present a comprehensive parameter-space study of binary black hole (BBH) mergers using the SEOBNRv4\_opt waveform model. Our analysis spans $\sim 10^6$ simulated waveforms across a broad range of mass ratios \( q = \frac{m_1}{m_2} \in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-19 İsmail Özbakır , Kadri Yakut

We study the accretion flows from the circumbinary disks onto the supermassive binary black holes in a subparsec scale of the galactic center, using a smoothed particles hydrodynamics (SPH) code. Simulation models are presented in four…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Kimitake Hayasaki , Shin Mineshige , Hiroshi Sudou

We investigate the dynamics and gravitational-wave (GW) emission in the binary merger of equal-mass black holes as obtained from numerical relativity simulations. Results from the evolution of three sets of initial data are explored in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Alessandra Buonanno , Gregory B. Cook , Frans Pretorius

The dynamical assembly of binary black holes (BBHs) in dense star clusters (SCs) is one of the most promising pathways for producing observable gravitational wave (GW) sources, however several other formation scenarios likely operate as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-21 Johan Samsing , Tejaswi Venumadhav , Liang Dai , Irvin Martinez , Aldo Batta , Martin Lopez , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz , Kyle Kremer

We study the dynamical evolution of supermassive black holes, in the late stage of galaxy mergers, from kpc to pc scales. In particular, we capture the formation of the binary, a necessary step before the final coalescence, and trace back…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-30 Hugo Pfister , Alessandro Lupi , Pedro R. Capelo , Marta Volonteri , Jillian M. Bellovary , Massimo Dotti

We present results from the new Dendro-GR code. These include simulations of binary black hole mergers for mass ratios up to q=16. Dendro-GR uses Wavelet Adaptive Multi-Resolution (WAMR) to generate an unstructured grid adapted to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-22 Milinda Fernando , David Neilsen , Yosef Zlochower , Eric W. Hirschmann , Hari Sundar

Black-hole-binary coalescence is often divided into three stages: inspiral, merger and ringdown. The post-Newtonian (PN) approximation treats the inspiral phase, black-hole perturbation (BHP) theory describes the ringdown, and the nonlinear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-12-13 David A. Nichols , Yanbei Chen

Recent gravitational wave observations include possible detections of black hole - neutron star binary mergers. As with binary black hole mergers, numerical simulations help characterize the sources. For binary systems with neutron star…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-16 Bing-Jyun Tsao , Bhavesh Khamesra , Miguel Gracia-Linares , Pablo Laguna

We present preliminary results from self-consistent, high resolution direct {\it N}-body simulations of massive black hole binaries in mergers of galactic nuclei. The dynamics of the black hole binary includes the full Post-Newtonian…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-19 Miguel Preto , Ingo Berentzen , Peter Berczik , David Merritt , Rainer Spurzem

Accurate modeling of gravitational waves from binary black hole mergers is essential for extracting their rich physics. A key detail for understanding the physics of mergers is predicting the precise time when the amplitude of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-17 Anuj Kankani , Sean T. McWilliams

We present a comprehensive analysis of late-time tails in gravitational radiation from merging spin-aligned eccentric binary black holes, using high-accuracy point-particle black hole perturbation theory simulations. We simulate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-01 Tousif Islam , Guglielmo Faggioli , Gaurav Khanna

Gravitational waves radiated during binary black hole coalescence is a perfect probe for studying the characteristics of strong gravity. Advanced techniques for creating numerical relativity substitute models for eccentric binary black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-08 Sourav Roy Chowdhury , Maxim Khlopov

We present a prescription for computing gravitational waveforms for the inspiral, merger and ringdown of non-spinning eccentric binary black hole systems. The inspiral waveform is computed using the post-Newtonian expansion and the merger…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-15 Ian Hinder , Lawrence E. Kidder , Harald P. Pfeiffer