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GW200105 is the first gravitational wave detection to show signs of eccentricity, it also is a neutron star - blackhole binary. This raises the need for waveforms that incorporate tidal effects on quasi-elliptic orbits. We tackle the…

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Einstein Telescope (ET) is a project of third generation gravitational wave (GW) detector with a planned sensitivity 10 times better than current detectors such as Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo. The high rate of GW signals expected in…

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The coalescence of compact objects is one of the most promising sources of gravitational waves for ground-based interferometric detectors, such as advanced LIGO and Virgo. Generically, com- pact objects in binaries are expected to be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-16 Katerina Chatziioannou , Antoine Klein , Nicolas Yunes , Neil Cornish

Milli-second pulsars with highly stable periods can be considered as very precise clocks and can be used for pulsar timing array (PTA) which attempts to detect nanoheltz gravitational waves (GWs) directly. Main sources of nanoheltz GWs are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-22 Tomonosuke Kikunaga , Shinnosuke Hisano , Hiroki Kumamoto , Keitaro Takahashi

Since the initial discovery of gravitational-waves from merging black holes, the LIGO Scientific Collaboration together with Virgo and KAGRA have published 90 gravitational-wave observations of compact binary mergers in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-09 Vera Del Favero

The inspiral and merger of eccentric binaries leads to gravitational waveforms distinct from those generated by circularly merging binaries. Dynamical environments can assemble binaries with high eccentricity and peak frequencies within the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Johan Samsing , Morgan MacLeod , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

The measurement of orbital eccentricity in gravitational-wave (GW) signals will provide unique insights into the astrophysical origin of binary systems, while ignoring eccentricity in waveform models could introduce significant biases in…

We show that the gravitational waveform emitted by a binary on an eccentric orbit can be naturally decomposed into a series of harmonics. The frequencies of these harmonics depend upon the radial frequency, $f_{\mathrm{r}}$, determined by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-08 Ben G. Patterson , Sharon Mary Tomson , Stephen Fairhurst

Resolving the formation channel(s) of merging binary black holes is a key goal in gravitational-wave astronomy. The orbital eccentricity is believed to be a precious tracer of the underlying formation pathway, but is largely dissipated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-02 Giulia Fumagalli , Isobel Romero-Shaw , Davide Gerosa , Viola De Renzis , Konstantinos Kritos , Aleksandra Olejak

Binary neutron stars (BNSs) are the primary source of gravitational waves for the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and its international partners Virgo and KAGRA. Current BNS searches target field binaries whose…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-06-11 E. A. Huerta , Duncan A. Brown

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…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-14 Alan M. Knee , Isobel M. Romero-Shaw , Paul D. Lasky , Jess McIver , Eric Thrane

We report on recent results obtained in the post-Newtonian framework for the modelling of the gravitational waves emitted by binary systems of spinning compact objects (black holes and/or neutron stars). These new results are obtained at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-12-20 Sylvain Marsat , Luc Blanchet , Alejandro Bohe , Guillaume Faye

Future space-based gravitational wave (GW) observatories such as LISA will detect massive black hole binaries (MBHBs), which are expected to be accompanied by electromagnetic counterparts, thereby providing bright standard sirens for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-06 Jia-Hao Zhong , Jin-Zhao Yang , Tao Yang , Xu-Heng Ding , Xi-Long Fan , Kai Liao , Bei You

The article provides full-analytic gravitational wave (GW) forms for eccentric nonspinning compact binaries of arbitrary mass ratio in the time Fourier domain. The semi-analytical property of recent descriptions, i.e. the demand of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-03-25 Manuel Tessmer , Gerhard Schaefer

The article provides ready-to-use 1pN-accurate frequency-domain gravitational wave forms for eccentric nonspinning compact binaries of arbitrary mass ratio including the first post-Newtonian (1pN) point particle corrections to the far-zone…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-02-28 Manuel Tessmer , Gerhard Schaefer

We present $\texttt{ENIGMA}$, a time domain, inspiral-merger-ringdown waveform model that describes non-spinning binary black holes systems that evolve on moderately eccentric orbits. The inspiral evolution is described using a consistent…

As current gravitational wave (GW) detectors increase in sensitivity, and particularly as new instruments are being planned, there is the possibility that ground-based GW detectors will observe GWs from highly eccentric neutron star…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-14 Swami Vivekanandji Chaurasia , Tim Dietrich , Nathan K. Johnson-McDaniel , Maximiliano Ujevic , Wolfgang Tichy , Bernd Brügmann

Largely motivated by the development of highly sensitive gravitational-wave detectors, our understanding of merging compact binaries and the gravitational waves they generate has improved dramatically in recent years. Breakthroughs in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-15 Scott A. Hughes

We derive the tensor gravitational waveform generated by a binary of nonspinning compact objects (black holes or neutron stars) in a general class of scalar-tensor theories of gravity. The waveform is accurate to second post-Newtonian order…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-15 Ryan N. Lang

The mass transfer process is prevalent during the inspiral phase of compact binary systems. Our study focuses on systems comprising low-mass white dwarfs, particularly in neutron star-white dwarf binaries and double white dwarf binaries,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-28 Zi-Han Zhang , Tan Liu , Shenghua Yu , Zong-Kuan Guo