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We have introduced a new method for computing gravitational-wave emission from nonspinning binaries which systematically unifies the various integrals arising in the Fourier expansions of post-Newtonian dynamics, providing a simple,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-16 Xiaolin Liu , Zhoujian Cao

Gravitational waves from inspiralling binaries are expected to be detected using a data analysis technique known as {\it matched filtering.} This technique is applicable whenever the form of the signal is known accurately. Though we know…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-06 B. S. Sathyaprakash

Next-generation gravitational-wave detectors will provide unprecedented sensitivity to inspiraling binary neutron stars and black holes, enabling detections at the peak of star formation and beyond. However, the signals from these systems…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-22 Andrew L. Miller , Neha Singh , Cristiano Palomba

Gravitational wave source localization problem is important in gravitational wave astronomy. Regarding ground-based detector, almost all of the previous investigations only considered the difference of arrival time among the detector…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-22 Sizheng Ma , Zhoujian Cao , Chun-Yu Lin , Hsing-Po Pan , Hwei-Jang Yo

Standardizing the definition of eccentricity is necessary for unambiguous inference of the orbital eccentricity of compact binaries from gravitational wave observations. In previous works, we proposed a definition of eccentricity for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-30 Md Arif Shaikh , Vijay Varma , Antoni Ramos-Buades , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Michael Boyle , Lawrence E. Kidder , Mark A. Scheel

Using equations of motion accurate to the third post-Newtonian (3PN) order (O(v/c)^6 beyond Newtonian gravity), we derive expressions for the total energy E and angular momentum J of the orbits of compact binary systems (black holes or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Thierry Mora , Clifford M. Will

Gravitational waves emitted by black hole binary inspiral and mergers enable unprecedented strong-field tests of gravity, requiring accurate theoretical modelling of the expected signals in extensions of General Relativity. In this paper we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-02 Banafsheh Shiralilou , Tanja Hinderer , Samaya Nissanke , Néstor Ortiz , Helvi Witek

This paper presents a post-Newtonian (PN) template family of gravitational waveforms from inspiralling compact binaries with non-precessing spins, where the spin effects are described by a single "reduced-spin" parameter. This template…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-10-20 P. Ajith

This dissertation consists of four parts. In Part I, we briefly review fundamental theories of gravity, performed experimental tests, and gravitational waves. The framework and the methods that we use in our calculations are discussed in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-27 Saeed Mirshekari

We provide ready-to-use time-domain gravitational waveforms for spinning compact binaries with precession effects through 1.5PN order in amplitude and compute their mode decomposition using spin-weighted -2 spherical harmonics. In the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-13 K. G. Arun , Alessandra Buonanno , Guillaume Faye , Evan Ochsner

While there has been much success in understanding the orbital dynamics and gravitational wave emission of eccentric compact binaries in the post-Newtonian formalism, some problems still remain. The largest of these concerns hereditary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-18 Nicholas Loutrel , Nicolas Yunes

Gravitational waves (GWs) from merging black holes allow for unprecedented probes of strong-field gravity. Testing gravity in this regime requires accurate predictions of gravitational waveform templates in viable extensions of General…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-30 Banafsheh Shiralilou , Tanja Hinderer , Samaya Nissanke , Néstor Ortiz , Helvi Witek

Individual supermassive black hole binaries in non-circular orbits are possible nanohertz gravitational wave sources for the rapidly maturing Pulsar Timing Array experiments. We develop an accurate and efficient approach to compute Pulsar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-11 Abhimanyu Susobhanan , Achamveedu Gopakumar , George Hobbs , Stephen R. Taylor

It is customary to use a precessing convention, based on Newtonian orbital angular momentum ${\bf L}_{\rm N}$, to model inspiral gravitational waves from generic spinning compact binaries. A key feature of such a precessing convention is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-17 Anuradha Gupta , Achamveedu Gopakumar

We derive the metric on the parameter space of 3.5 post-Newtonian (3.5PN) stationary phase compact binary inspiral waveforms for a single detector, neglecting spin, eccentricity, and finite-body effects. We demonstrate that this leads to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-09-11 Drew Keppel , Andrew P. Lundgren , Benjamin J. Owen , Hanyuan Zhu

We compute the gravitational waves generated by compact binary systems in a class of massless scalar-tensor (ST) theories to the 1.5 post-Newtonian (1.5PN) order beyond the standard quadrupole radiation in general relativity (GR). Using and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-02 David Trestini

We compute the gravitational waves generated by compact binary systems in a class of massless scalar-tensor (ST) theories to the 1.5 post-Newtonian (1.5PN) order beyond the standard quadrupole radiation in general relativity (GR). Using and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-30 Laura Bernard , Luc Blanchet , David Trestini

The gravitational-wave signal from the neutron star-black hole (NSBH) merger GW200105 is consistent with this binary having significant orbital eccentricity close to merger. This raises the question of how eccentric NSBHs form. Compact…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-11 Isobel Romero-Shaw , Jakob Stegmann , Gonzalo Morras , Andris Dorozsmai , Michael Zevin

We study generic tests of strong-field General Relativity using gravitational waves emitted during the inspiral of compact binaries. Previous studies have considered simple extensions to the standard post-Newtonian waveforms that differ by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-22 Laura Sampson , Neil Cornish , Nicolas Yunes

Gravitational-wave observations of quasicircular compact binary mergers imply complicated posterior measurements of their parameters. Though Gaussian approximations to the pertinent likelihoods have decades of history in the field, the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-08 Vera Delfavero , Richard O'Shaughnessy , Daniel Wysocki , Anjali Yelikar