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The precise knowledge of the gravitational phase evolution of compact binaries is crucial to the data analysis for gravitational waves. Until recently, it was known analytically (for non-spinning systems) up to the 3.5 post-Newtonian (PN)…

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Orbital eccentricity is a key signature of dynamical binary black hole formation. The gravitational waves from a coalescing binary contain information about its orbital eccentricity, which may be measured if the binary retains sufficient…

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The accuracy of the post-Newtonian waveforms, both in standard and Pade form, is determined by computing their matched-filtering overlap integral with a reference waveform obtained from black-hole perturbation theory.

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Eccentricity of binary systems is not a gauge invariant quantity, but has an important impact on the observed gravitational wave signal of such systems, generating power in all possible harmonics of the orbital period. We here clarify the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-21 Nicholas Loutrel , Samuel Liebersbach , Nicolas Yunes , Neil Cornish

Compact binaries can have non-negligible orbital eccentricities in the frequency band of ground-based gravitational-wave detectors, depending on their astrophysical formation channels. To accurately determine the parameters of such systems,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-17 Quentin Henry , Mohammed Khalil

For the analysis of gravitational-wave signals, fast and accurate gravitational-waveform models are required. These enable us to obtain information on the system properties from compact binary mergers. In this article, we introduce the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-17 Adrian Abac , Tim Dietrich , Alessandra Buonanno , Jan Steinhoff , Maximiliano Ujevic

We present a new analytical framework for describing the dynamics of a gravitational binary system with unequal masses moving with arbitrary relative velocity, taking into account the backreaction from both compact objects in the form of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-06-05 Chad R. Galley , Bei-Lok Hu

With recent advances in post-Newtonian (PN) theory and numerical relativity (NR) it has become possible to construct inspiral-merger-ringdown waveforms by combining both descriptions into one hybrid signal. While addressing the reliability…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-30 Frank Ohme , Mark Hannam , Sascha Husa

Using an energy variational method, we calculate quasi-equilibrium configurations of binary neutron stars modeled as compressible triaxial ellipsoids obeying a polytropic equation of state. Our energy functional includes terms both for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 James C. Lombardi , Frederic A. Rasio , Stuart L. Shapiro

The population of stellar-mass, compact object binaries that merge with non-negligible eccentricity may be large enough to motivate searches with ground-based gravitational wave detectors. Such events could be exceptional laboratories to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-11 Nicholas Loutrel , Nicolas Yunes , Frans Pretorius

The two independent ``plus" and ``cross" polarization waveforms associated with the gravitational waves emitted by inspiralling, non-spinning, compact binaries are presented, ready for use in the data analysis of signals received by future…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Luc Blanchet , Bala R. Iyer , Clifford M. Will , Alan G. Wiseman

We investigate the (conservative) dynamics of binary black holes using the Hamiltonian formulation of the post-Newtonian (PN) equations of motion. The Hamiltonian we use includes spin-orbit coupling, spin-spin coupling, and mass…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 Michael D. Hartl , Alessandra Buonanno

Abbreviated: We investigate the potential of detecting the gravitational wave from individual binary black hole systems using pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) and calculate the accuracy for determining the GW properties. This is done in a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 K. J. Lee , N. Wex , M. Kramer , B. W. Stappers , C. G. Bassa , G. H. Janssen , R. Karuppusamy , R. Smits

As gravitational wave astronomy has entered an era of routine detections, it becomes increasingly important to precisely measure the physical parameters of individual events and infer population properties. Eccentricity is a key observable,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-10 Yi-Fan Wang , Alexander H. Nitz

Detection template families (DTFs) are built to capture the essential features of true gravitational waveforms using a small set of phenomenological waveform parameters. Buonanno, Chen, and Vallisneri [Phys. Rev. D 67, 104025 (2003)]…

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In the study of gravitational waves (GWs), the stochastic background generated by compact binary systems are among the most important kinds of signals. The reason for such an importance has to do with their probable detection by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-17 E. F. D. Evangelista , J. C. N. de Araujo

In this paper, we focus on the effect of mass-transfer between compact binaries like neutron-star-neutron-star (NS-NS) systems and neutron-star-white-dwarf (NS-WD) systems on gravitational waves (GWs). We adopt the mass quadrupole formula…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-14 Zi-han Zhang , Bin Liu , Sheng-hua Yu , Jie Yang

Gravitational waves from binary black hole mergers have allowed us to directly observe stellar-mass black hole binaries for the first time, and therefore explore their formation channels. One of the ways to infer how a binary system is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-26 Teagan A. Clarke , Isobel M. Romero-Shaw , Paul D. Lasky , Eric Thrane

Binary black hole systems are among the most important sources for gravitational wave detection. And also they are good objects for theoretical research for general relativity. Gravitational waveform template is important to data analysis.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-30 Zhoujian Cao , Wen-Biao Han

Compact binary coalescences are the most promising sources of gravitational waves (GWs) for ground based detectors. Binary systems containing one or two spinning black holes are particularly interesting due to spin-orbit (and eventual…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-02 Salvatore Vitale , Ryan Lynch , John Veitch , Vivien Raymond , Riccardo Sturani