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Gravitational waves from comparable-mass binary-black-hole mergers are often described in terms of three stages: inspiral, merger and ringdown. Post-Newtonian and black-hole perturbation theories are used to model the inspiral and ringdown…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-14 Nur E. M. Rifat , David A. Nichols , Kent Yagi

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

We present a highly accurate, fully analytical model for the late inspiral, merger, and ringdown of black-hole binaries with arbitrary mass ratios and spin vectors, including the contributions of harmonics beyond the fundamental mode. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-22 Sean T. McWilliams

We study the inspiral, merger and ringdown of unequal mass black hole binaries by analyzing a catalogue of numerical simulations for seven different values of the mass ratio (from q=M2/M1=1 to q=4). We compare numerical and Post-Newtonian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Emanuele Berti , Vitor Cardoso , Jose A. Gonzalez , Ulrich Sperhake , Mark Hannam , Sascha Husa , Bernd Bruegmann

We present the first analytical inspiral-merger-ringdown gravitational waveforms from binary black holes (BBHs) with non-precessing spins, that is based on a description of the late-inspiral, merger and ringdown in full general relativity.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-06-27 P. Ajith , M. Hannam , S. Husa , Y. Chen , B. Bruegmann , N. Dorband , D. Mueller , F. Ohme , D. Pollney , C. Reisswig , L. Santamaria , J. Seiler

The waveforms from binary black hole mergers include inspiral, merger, and ringdown parts. Usually, the inspiral waveform can be obtained by calibrating from post-Newtonian approximation; The merger and ringdown ones can be gotten from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-15 Song Li , Wen-Biao Han

We conduct a descriptive analysis of the multipolar structure of gravitational-radiation waveforms from equal-mass aligned-spin mergers, following an approach first presented in the complementary context of nonspinning black holes of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-29 Bernard J. Kelly , John G. Baker , William D. Boggs , Sean T. McWilliams , Joan Centrella

Modeling the late inspiral and merger of supermassive black holes is central to understanding accretion processes and the conditions under which electromagnetic emission accompanies gravitational waves. We use fully general relativistic,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-27 Tanja Bode , Tamara Bogdanovic , Roland Haas , James Healy , Pablo Laguna , Deirdre Shoemaker

Motivated by the possibility of observing gravitational waves from merging black holes whose spins are nearly extremal (i.e., 1 in dimensionless units), we present numerical waveforms from simulations of merging black holes with the highest…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-01-30 Geoffrey Lovelace , Michael Boyle , Mark A. Scheel , Bela Szilagyi

Spectacular breakthroughs in numerical relativity now make it possible to compute spacetime dynamics in almost complete generality, allowing us to model the coalescence and merger of binary black holes with essentially no approximations.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-25 Pranesh A. Sundararajan , Gaurav Khanna , Scott A. Hughes

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

We numerically solve the Teukolsky equation in the time domain to obtain the gravitational-wave emission of a small mass inspiraling and plunging into the equatorial plane of a Kerr black hole. We account for the dissipation of orbital…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-22 Andrea Taracchini , Alessandra Buonanno , Gaurav Khanna , Scott A. Hughes

Multiple approaches are required to study the evolution of black-hole binaries. While the post-Newtonian approximation is sufficient to describe the early inspiral (even from infinitely large orbital separation), only numerical relativity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-21 Luca Reali , Matthew Mould , Davide Gerosa , Vijay Varma

Accreting supermassive black hole binaries are powerful multimessenger sources emitting both gravitational and EM radiation. Understanding the accretion dynamics of these systems and predicting their distinctive EM signals is crucial to…

We compute the gravitational waveform emitted during the transition from quasi-spherical inspiral to plunge, merger and ringdown for a system of two black holes in the extreme mass ratio limit, where the primary is spinning and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-23 Luca Nagni , Alessandro Nagar , Rossella Gamba , Simone Albanesi , Sebastiano Bernuzzi

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

We explore the gravitational-wave phenomenology of equal-mass inspiralling boson-star binaries using numerical relativity simulations. In particular, we characterise the waveform differences between binary boson-star and black-hole systems…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-29 Tamara Evstafyeva , Antonia Seifert , Ulrich Sperhake , Christopher J. Moore , Tamanna Jain

We present fully general relativistic simulations of the quasi-circular inspiral and merger of charged, non-spinning, binary black holes with charge-to-mass ratio $\lambda \le 0.3$. We discuss the key features that enabled long term and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-12 Gabriele Bozzola , Vasileios Paschalidis

Because they are likely to accrete substantial amounts of interstellar gas, merging supermassive binary black holes are expected to be strong multimessenger sources, radiating gravitational waves, photons from thermal gas, and photons from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-04 Lorenzo Ennoggi , Manuela Campanelli , Julian Krolik , Scott C. Noble , Yosef Zlochower , Maria Chiara de Simone

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
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