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Next-generation ground-based gravitational-wave detectors, such as Cosmic Explorer (CE), are expected to be sensitive to gravitational-wave signals with frequencies as low as 5 Hz, allowing signals to spend a significant amount of time in…

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We study the coalescence of non-spinning binary black holes from near the innermost stable circular orbit down to the final single rotating black hole. We use a technique that combines the full numerical approach to solve Einstein…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-25 J. Baker , B. Bruegmann , M. Campanelli , C. O. Lousto , R. Takahashi

Gravitational waves from merging binary neutron stars carry characteristic information about their astrophysical properties, including masses and tidal deformabilities, that are needed to infer their radii. In this study, we use Bayesian…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-06 Sanika Khadkikar , Ish Gupta , Rahul Kashyap , Koustav Chandra , Rossella Gamba , Bangalore Sathyaprakash

High-accuracy binary black hole simulations are presented for black holes with spins anti-aligned with the orbital angular momentum. The particular case studied represents an equal-mass binary with spins of equal magnitude S/m^2=0.43757 \pm…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-08 Tony Chu , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Mark A. Scheel

We compute here the spin-orbit and spin-spin couplings needed for an accurate computation of the phasing of gravitational waves emitted by comparable-mass binaries on eccentric orbits at the second post-Newtonian (PN) order. We use a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-17 Antoine Klein , Philippe Jetzer

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…

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We compare different methods of computing the orbital eccentricity of quasi-circular binary black hole systems using the orbital variables and gravitational wave phase and frequency. For eccentricities of about a per cent, most methods work…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-12-24 Abdul H. Mroué , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Lawrence E. Kidder , Saul A. Teukolsky

The availability of accurate numerical waveforms is an important requirement for the creation and calibration of reliable waveform models for gravitational wave astrophysics. For black hole-neutron star binaries, very few accurate waveforms…

We present a new numerical scheme for solving the initial value problem for quasiequilibrium binary neutron stars allowing for arbitrary spins. We construct sequences of circular-orbit binaries of varying separation, keeping the rest mass…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-09 P. Marronetti , S. L. Shapiro

We present Keplerian-type parametrization for the solution of third post-Newtonian (3PN) accurate equations of motion for two non-spinning compact objects moving in an eccentric orbit. The orbital elements of the parametrization are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Raoul-Martin Memmesheimer , Achamveedu Gopakumar , Gerhard Schäfer

We introduce pyEFPEHM, a post-Newtonian (PN) inspiral waveform model for eccentric and spin-precessing compact binaries that includes higher-order modes and matter effects. Accurate and efficient waveform models capturing these effects are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-15 Gonzalo Morras , Geraint Pratten , Patricia Schmidt , Alessandra Buonanno

The stochastic gravitational wave background from compact binary coalescences is expected to be the first detectable stochastic signal via cross-correlation searches with terrestrial detectors. It encodes the cumulative merger history of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-17 Michael Ebersold , Tania Regimbau

Relativistic spin-orbit and spin-spin couplings has been shown to modify the gravitational waveforms expected from inspiraling binaries with a black hole and a neutron star. As a result inspiral signals may be missed due to significant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Philippe Grandclement , Mia Ihm , Vassiliki Kalogera , Krzystof Belczynski

We used two numerical models, namely the \texttt{CBwaves} and \texttt{SEOBNRE} algorithms, based on the post-Newtonian and effective-one-body approaches for binary black holes evolving on eccentric orbits. We performed 20.000 new…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-06 Balázs Kacskovics , Dániel Barta

In a regime where data are only mildly informative, prior choices can play a significant role in Bayesian statistical inference, potentially affecting the inferred physics. We show this is indeed the case for some of the parameters inferred…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-19 Salvatore Vitale , Davide Gerosa , Carl-Johan Haster , Katerina Chatziioannou , Aaron Zimmerman

Weakly-modelled searches for gravitational waves are essential for ensuring that all potential sources are accounted for in detection efforts, as they make minimal assumptions regarding source morphology. While these searches primarily…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-06 Leigh Smith , Matteo Scialpi , Francesco di Clemente , Michał Bejger

We consider LISA observations of in-spiral signals emitted by massive black hole binary systems in circular orbit and with negligible spins. We study the accuracy with which the source parameters can be extracted from the data stream. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 A. M. Sintes , A. Vecchio

We study the parameter estimation of gravitational waves for aligned-spin binary black hole (BBH) signals and assess the impact of bias that can be produced by using nonspinning template waveforms. We employ simple methods to calculate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-12 Hee-Suk Cho

Merger rates of binary black holes, binary neutron stars, and neutron star-black hole binaries in the local Universe (i.e., redshift $z=0$), inferred from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) and Virgo, are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-16 Elia Pizzati , Surabhi Sachdev , Anuradha Gupta , Bangalore Sathyaprakash

We introduce deep learning models to estimate the masses of the binary components of black hole mergers, $(m_1,m_2)$, and three astrophysical properties of the post-merger compact remnant, namely, the final spin, $a_f$, and the frequency…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-21 Hongyu Shen , E. A. Huerta , Eamonn O'Shea , Prayush Kumar , Zhizhen Zhao