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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…

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The inference of binary neutron star properties from gravitational-wave observations requires the generation of millions of waveforms, each one spanning about three order of magnitudes in frequency range. Thus, waveform models must be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-27 Rossella Gamba , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Alessandro Nagar

Gravitational wave measurements of binary neutron star coalescences offer information about the properties of the extreme matter that comprises the stars. Despite our expectation that all neutron stars in the Universe obey the same equation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-30 Katerina Chatziioannou , Carl-Johan Haster , Aaron Zimmerman

We reanalyze the binary-neutron-star signals, GW170817 and GW190425, focusing on the inspiral regime to avoid uncertainties on waveform modeling in the postinspiral regime. We use post-Newtonian waveform models as templates, which are…

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We study how to extract information on the neutron star equation of state from the gravitational wave signal emitted during the coalescence of a binary system composed of two neutron stars or a neutron star and a black hole. We use…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-17 Andrea Maselli , Leonardo Gualtieri , Valeria Ferrari

Within scalar-tensor (ST) theories, neutron stars in binary systems experience tidal deformations caused by both their companion and the scalar field. These deformations are strongly correlated to the star's internal structure and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-20 Eve Dones , Laura Bernard

A new analytical approach to the motion and radiation of (comparable mass) binary systems has been introduced in 1999 under the name of Effective One Body (EOB) formalism. We review the basic elements of this formalism, and discuss some of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-27 Thibault Damour

Gravitational waves from the coalescence of two neutron stars were recently detected for the first time by the LIGO-Virgo collaboration, in event GW170817. This detection placed an upper limit on the effective tidal deformability of the two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-02 Carolyn Raithel , Feryal Özel , Dimitrios Psaltis

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

The use of effective-one-body (EOB) waveforms for black hole binaries analysis in gravitational-wave astronomy requires faithful models and fast generation times. A key aspect to achieve faithfulness is the inclusion of numerical-relativity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-20 Gunnar Riemenschneider , Piero Rettegno , Matteo Breschi , Angelica Albertini , Rossella Gamba , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Alessandro Nagar

Tidal interaction is a unique, detectable signature in gravitational wave signals from inspiraling binary neutron stars (BNSs), which can be used to constrain the neutron star (NS) equation of state (EoS). The tidal interaction is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-06 Joseph Bretz , Hang Yu

Gravitational waves emitted by binary neutron stars (BNS) provide information about the internal structure of neutron stars (NSs), helping to verify dense matter equations of state. We investigate how the measurement accuracy of NS's tidal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-10 Gyeongbin Park , Chang-Hwan Lee , Hee-Suk Cho

We consider the motion of nonspinning, compact objects orbiting around a Kerr black hole with tidal couplings. The tide-induced quadrupole moment modifies both the orbital energy and outgoing fluxes, so that over the inspiral timescale…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-01 Xuefeng Feng , Zhenwei Lyu , Huan Yang

Effective-one-body (EOB) models are based on analytical building blocks that, mathematically, are truncated Taylor series with logarithms. These functions are usually resummed using Pad\'e approximants obtained first assuming that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-23 Alessandro Nagar , Danilo Chiaramello , Rossella Gamba , Simone Albanesi , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Veronica Fantini , Mattia Panzeri , Piero Rettegno

Gravitational-wave observations of binary neutron star systems can provide information about the masses, spins, and structure of neutron stars. However, this requires accurate and computationally efficient waveform models that take <1s to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-07 Benjamin D. Lackey , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Chad R. Galley , Jeroen Meidam , Chris Van Den Broeck

In Ref. [1], the properties of the first gravitational wave detected by LIGO, GW150914, were measured by employing an effective-one-body (EOB) model of precessing binary black holes whose underlying dynamics and waveforms were calibrated to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-01-11 Stanislav Babak , Andrea Taracchini , Alessandra Buonanno

Dynamical capture is a possible formation channel for BBH mergers leading to highly eccentric merger dynamics and to gravitational wave (GW) signals that are morphologically different from those of quasi-circular mergers. The future…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-17 Alessandro Nagar , Piero Rettegno , Rossella Gamba , Sebastiano Bernuzzi

Accurate and fast gravitational waveform (GW) models are essential to extract information about the properties of compact binary systems that generate GWs. Building on previous work, we present an extension of the NRTidal model for binary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-07 Tim Dietrich , Anuradha Samajdar , Sebastian Khan , Nathan K. Johnson-McDaniel , Reetika Dudi , Wolfgang Tichy

Dissipative tidal interactions can be used to probe the out-of-equilibrium physics of neutron stars using gravitational wave observations. In this paper, we present the first post-Newtonian (PN) corrections to the orbital dynamics of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-15 Abhishek Hegade K. R. , Justin L. Ripley , Nicolás Yunes

Binary neutron star mergers are studied using nonlinear 3+1 numerical relativity simulations and the analytical effective-one-body (EOB) model. The EOB model predicts quasiuniversal relations between the mass-rescaled gravitational wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-15 Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Alessandro Nagar , Simone Balmelli , Tim Dietrich , Maximiliano Ujevic