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The events detected by the LIGO Virgo KAGRA collaboration over a period of 10 years have yielded a treasure trove of signals from compact binary coalescences. None of these events have shown a confident signature of eccentricity. With…

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Most gravitational wave (GW) events observed by the LIGO and Virgo detectors are consistent with mergers of binary black holes (BBHs) on quasi-circular orbits. However, some events are also consistent with non-zero orbital eccentricity,…

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We probe the ability of various types of post-Newtonian(PN)-accurate circular templates to capture inspiral gravitational-wave (GW) signals from compact binaries having tiny orbital eccentricities. The GW signals are constructed by adapting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-02-29 Manuel Tessmer , Achamveedu Gopakumar

We describe a novel, very fast and robust, directed search incoherent method for periodic gravitational waves (GWs) from neutron stars in binary systems. As directed search, we assume the source sky position to be known with enough…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-07 Paola Leaci , Pia Astone , Sabrina D'Antonio , Sergio Frasca , Cristiano Palomba , Ornella Piccinni , Simone Mastrogiovanni

Characterizing eccentricity in gravitational waveforms in a consistent manner is crucial to facilitate parameter estimation, astrophysical population studies, as well as searches for these rare systems. We present a framework to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-06 Tousif Islam , Tejaswi Venumadhav

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

Compact binaries that emit gravitational waves in the sensitivity band of ground-based detectors can have non-negligible eccentricities just prior to merger, depending on the formation scenario. We develop a purely analytic,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-15 E. A. Huerta , Prayush Kumar , Sean T. McWilliams , Richard O'Shaughnessy , Nicolas Yunes

[abridged] Although gravitational radiation causes inspiralling compact binaries to circularize, a variety of astrophysical scenarios suggest that binaries might have small but nonnegligible orbital eccentricities when they enter the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-30 Blake Moore , Marc Favata , K. G. Arun , Chandra Kant Mishra

We provide a method for analytically constructing high-accuracy templates for the gravitational wave signals emitted by compact binaries moving in inspiralling eccentric orbits. By contrast to the simpler problem of modeling the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Thibault Damour , Achamveedu Gopakumar , Bala R. Iyer

Detection of gravitational waves from compact binaries involving at least one intermediate mass black hole, and component mass ratios in the range $0.1$-$10^{-4}$, are among the primary sources for future space detectors with target strain…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-25 M Laxman , Ryuichi Fujita , Chandra Kant Mishra

Inspiraling compact binaries have been identified as one of the most promising sources of gravitational waves for interferometric detectors. Most of these binaries are expected to have circularized by the time their gravitational waves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Karl Martel , Eric Poisson

Direct detections of gravitational waves offer a unique opportunity to test gravity in the highly dynamical and strong field regime. Current tests are typically performed assuming signals from quasicircular binaries. However, the complex…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-28 Soumen Roy , Justin Janquart

This paper is to introduce a new software called CBwaves which provides a fast and accurate computational tool to determine the gravitational waveforms yielded by generic spinning binaries of neutron stars and/or black holes on eccentric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-02-13 Péter Csizmadia , Gergely Debreczeni , István Rácz , Mátyás Vasúth

The increasing sensitivity of current and upcoming gravitational-wave (GW) detectors poses stringent requirements on the accuracy of the GW models used for data analysis. If these requirements are not met, systematic errors could dominate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-29 Lorenzo Pompili , Alessandra Buonanno , Michael Pürrer

Eccentricity of compact binaries can improve the parameter estimation of gravitational waves (GWs). In this paper, we first investigate the parameter estimation of eccentric GWs with decihertz observatory. We consider two scenarios for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-02 Tao Yang , Rong-Gen Cai , Zhoujian Cao , Hyung Mok Lee

Extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are promising gravitational-wave (GW) sources for space-based GW detectors. EMRI signals typically have long durations, ranging from several months to several years, necessitating highly accurate GW…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-27 Lu-Jia Xu , Shu-Cheng Yang , Wen-Biao Han , Xing-Yu Zhong , Run-Dong Tang , Yuan-Hao Zhang

The early inspiral from stellar-mass binary black holes (sBBHs) can emit milli-Hertz gravitational wave signals, making them detectable sources for space-borne gravitational wave missions like TianQin. However, the traditional matched…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-08 Xue-Ting Zhang , Natalia Korsakova , Man Leong Chan , Chris Messenger , Yi-Ming Hu

The origin and formation of stellar-mass binary black holes remains an open question that can be addressed by precise measurements of the binary and orbital parameters from their gravitational-wave signal. Such binaries are expected to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-29 Alice Bonino , Rossella Gamba , Patricia Schmidt , Alessandro Nagar , Geraint Pratten , Matteo Breschi , Piero Rettegno , Sebastiano Bernuzzi

Accurate modeling of gravitational-wave signals is essential for reliable inference of compact-binary source parameters, particularly for future space-based detectors operating in the milli- and deci-Hertz bands. In this work, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-13 Jin-Zhao Yang , Jia-Hao Zhong , Tao Yang

Most of compact binary systems are expected to circularize before the frequency of emitted gravitational waves (GWs) enters the sensitivity band of the ground based interferometric detectors. However, several mechanisms have been proposed…