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We study the transition from inspiral to plunge in general relativity by computing gravitational waveforms of non-spinning, equal-mass black-hole binaries. We consider three sequences of simulations, starting with a quasi-circular inspiral…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 U. Sperhake , E. Berti , V. Cardoso , J. A. Gonzalez , B. Bruegmann , M. Ansorg

We numerically solve the Teukolsky equation in the time domain to obtain the gravitational-wave emission of a small mass inspiraling and plunging into the equatorial plane of a Kerr black hole. We account for the dissipation of orbital…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-22 Andrea Taracchini , Alessandra Buonanno , Gaurav Khanna , Scott A. Hughes

Gravitational self-force (GSF) theory is a strong-gravity perturbative approach to the relativistic two-body problem, primarily developed to model extreme-mass-ratio inspirals, where one compact object is significantly more massive than the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-25 Benjamin Leather , Alessandra Buonanno , Maarten van de Meent

Starting with a post-Newtonian description of compact binary systems, we derive a set of equations that describes the evolution of the orbital angular momentum and both spin vectors during inspiral. We find regions of phase space that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jeremy D. Schnittman

We present a first complete implementation of an effective-one-body (EOB) model for extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) that incorporates aligned spins (on both the primary and the secondary) as well as orbital eccentricity. The model…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-20 Angelica Albertini , Rossella Gamba , Alessandro Nagar , Sebastiano Bernuzzi

A large number of theoretically predicted waveforms are required by matched-filtering searches for the gravitational-wave signals produced by compact binary coalescence. In order to substantially alleviate the computational burden in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-11 Dániel Barta , Mátyás Vasúth

We analyze 192 sets of binary black hole merger data in eccentric orbits obtained from RIT, decomposing the radiation energy into three distinct phases through time: inspiral, late inspiral to merger, and ringdown. Our investigation reveals…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-22 Hao Wang , Yuan-Chuan Zou , Qing Wen Wu

Gravitational waves from binary neutron star mergers provide critical insights into dense matter physics and strong-field gravity, yet accurate waveform modeling remains computationally intensive. We present a deep generative model for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-14 Mengfei Sun , Jie Wu , Jin Li , Brendan Mccane , Nan Yang , Xianghe Ma , Borui Wang , Minghui Zhang

[Abridged] We introduce an improved version of the Eccentric, Non-spinning, Inspiral-Gaussian-process Merger Approximant (ENIGMA) waveform model. We find that this ready-to-use model can: (i) produce physically consistent signals when…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-15 Zhuo Chen , E. A. Huerta , Joseph Adamo , Roland Haas , Eamonn O'Shea , Prayush Kumar , Chris Moore

The waveforms from binary black hole mergers include inspiral, merger, and ringdown parts. Usually, the inspiral waveform can be obtained by calibrating from post-Newtonian approximation; The merger and ringdown ones can be gotten from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-15 Song Li , Wen-Biao Han

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 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

We adapt a method of matching post-Newtonian and black-hole-perturbation theories on a timelike surface (which proved useful for understanding head-on black-hole-binary collisions) to treat equal-mass, inspiralling black-hole binaries. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-02-22 David A. Nichols , Yanbei Chen

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…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-01-30 Geoffrey Lovelace , Michael Boyle , Mark A. Scheel , Bela Szilagyi

Observations of gravitational-wave signals emitted by compact binary inspirals provide unique insights into their properties, but their analysis requires accurate and efficient waveform models. Intermediate- and extreme-mass-ratio inspirals…

We introduce a novel approach to describe real-valued $m=0$ modes from inspiral to merger and ringdown in effective-one-body models, including both oscillatory and null memory contributions. A crucial aspect of the modelization of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-30 Simone Albanesi

We present IMRPhenomTPHM, a phenomenological model for the gravitational wave signals emitted by the coalescence of quasi-circular precessing binary black holes systems. The model is based on the "twisting up" approximation, which maps…

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), comprising a stellar-mass compact object (CO) orbiting a supermassive black hole (BH), are key targets for future space-based gravitational-wave (GW) observatories. Incorporating the spin of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-26 Qiuxin Cui , Wen-Biao Han

We introduce IMRPhenomTEHM, a new phenomenological time-domain model for eccentric aligned-spin binary black holes. Building upon the accurate quasi-circular IMRPhenomTHM model, IMRPhenomTEHM integrates the eccentric post-Newtonian (PN)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-15 Maria de Lluc Planas , Antoni Ramos-Buades , Cecilio García-Quirós , Héctor Estellés , Sascha Husa , Maria Haney

We engage with the challenge of calculating the waveforms of gravitational waves emitted by spinless binary black hole merger in extreme mass-ratio limit. We model the stellar-mass black hole as a test-particle, initially on a circular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-14 Ilan Strusberg , Barak Rom , Re'em Sari