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We present Lenstronomy, a multi-purpose open-source gravitational lens modeling python package. Lenstronomy is able to reconstruct the lens mass and surface brightness distributions of strong lensing systems using forward modelling.…

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We present a new public package "EFTofPNG" for high precision computation in the effective field theory of post-Newtonian (PN) Gravity, including spins. We created this package in view of the timely need to publicly share automated…

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Current gravitational wave (GW) detections rely on the existence of libraries of theoretical waveforms. Consequently, finding new physics with GWs requires libraries of non-standard models, which are computationally demanding. We discuss…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-03 Felipe F. Freitas , Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , António P. Morais , António Onofre , Roman Pasechnik , Eugen Radu , Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , Rui Santos

The detection of gravitational waves from binary black hole and neutron star mergers by ground-based interferometers, as well as the evidence for a gravitational wave background from pulsar timing array experiments, has marked a new era in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-26 Vedran Brdar , Marco Finetti , Marco Matteini , António P. Morais , Miha Nemevšek

Characterizing eccentricity in gravitational waveforms in a consistent manner is crucial to facilitate parameter estimation, astrophysical population studies, as well as searches for these rare systems. We present a framework to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-06 Tousif Islam , Tejaswi Venumadhav

We developed a Python based framework for astronomical image processing and analysis. Astronomical image loading, normalizing, stacking, and filtering processes represent visible range images from grayscale. Besides, the blending process…

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The gravitational waves produced by binary neutron star mergers offer a unique window into matter behavior under extreme conditions. In this context, we model analytically the effect of matter on the gravitational waves from binary neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-06 Alexander O'Dell , Maria C. Babiuc Hamilton

This document proposes data formats to exchange numerical relativity results, in particular gravitational waveforms. The primary goal is to further the interaction between gravitational-wave source modeling groups and the gravitational-wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-02-28 P. Ajith , M. Boyle , D. A. Brown , S. Fairhurst , M. Hannam , I. Hinder , S. Husa , B. Krishnan , R. A. Mercer , F. Ohme , C. D. Ott , J. S. Read , L. Santamaria , J. T. Whelan

Gravitational waves provide a novel and powerful way to test astrophysical models of compact objects, early universe processes, beyond the Standard Model particle physics, dark matter candidates, Einstein's theory of General Relativity and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-03 Mairi Sakellariadou

The recent detection of gravitational waves and electromagnetic counterparts emitted during and after the collision of two neutron stars marks a breakthrough in the field of multi-messenger astronomy. Numerical relativity simulations are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-22 Tim Dietrich , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Bernd Bruegmann , Wolfgang Tichy

Multimessenger observations may hold the key to learn about the most energetic sources in the universe. The recent construction of large scale observatories opened new possibilities in testing non thermal cosmic processes with alternative…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-05 Dafne Guetta

X-ray astronomy is an important tool in the astrophysicist's toolkit to investigate high-energy astrophysical phenomena. Theoretical numerical simulations of astrophysical sources are fully three-dimensional representations of physical…

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We present convergent gravitational waveforms extracted from three-dimensional, numerical simulations in the wave zone and with causally disconnected boundaries. These waveforms last for multiple periods and are very accurate, showing a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 David R. Fiske , John G. Baker , James R. van Meter , Dae-Il Choi , Joan M. Centrella

The main aim of this study is the comparison of gravitational waveforms obtained from numerical simulations which employ different numerical evolution approaches and different wave-extraction techniques. For this purpose, we evolve an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-03-11 Luca Baiotti , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Giovanni Corvino , Roberto De Pietri , Alessandro Nagar

The measurement of spin-precession and orbital eccentricity in gravitational-wave (GW) signals is a key priority in GW astronomy, as these effects not only provide insights into the astrophysical formation and evolution of compact binaries…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-22 Gonzalo Morras , Geraint Pratten , Patricia Schmidt

We apply common gravitational wave inference procedures on binary black hole merger waveforms beyond general relativity. We consider dynamical Chern-Simons gravity, a modified theory of gravity with origins in string theory and loop quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-02 Maria Okounkova , Maximiliano Isi , Katerina Chatziioannou , Will M. Farr

In the field of computational fluid dynamics, direct numerical simulations generate highly detailed data for the analysis of turbulent flows by resolving all relevant physical scales. Yet their large size, complexity, and heterogeneity make…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-26 Lorenzo Piu , Heinz Pitsch , Alessandro Parente

We study gravitational waves emitted by a binary system of non-spinning bodies in a quasi-circular inspiral within the framework of Einstein-aether theory. In particular, we compute explicitly and analytically the expressions for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-22 Chao Zhang , Xiang Zhao , Anzhong Wang , Bin Wang , Kent Yagi , Nicolas Yunes , Wen Zhao , Tao Zhu

We revisit the problem of gravitational-wave extraction in numerical relativity with gauge-invariant metric perturbation theory of spherical spacetimes. Our extraction algorithm allows the computation of even-parity (Zerilli-Moncrief) and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-07 Joan Fontbuté , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Simone Albanesi , David Radice , Alireza Rashti , William Cook , Boris Daszuta , Alessandro Nagar

The theoretical modeling of gravitational waveforms from binary neutron star mergers requires precise numerical relativity simulations. Assessing convergence of the numerical data and building the error budget is currently challenging due…

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