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Orbital eccentricity is a crucial physical effect to unveil the origin of compact-object binaries detected by ground- and spaced-based gravitational-wave (GW) observatories. Here, we perform for the first time a Bayesian inference study of…

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We investigate the dynamics and gravitational-wave (GW) emission in the binary merger of equal-mass black holes as obtained from numerical relativity simulations. Results from the evolution of three sets of initial data are explored in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Alessandra Buonanno , Gregory B. Cook , Frans Pretorius

Observation and characterisation of gravitational waves from binary black holes requires accurate knowledge of the expected waveforms. The late inspiral and merger phase of the waveform is obtained through direct numerical integration of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-27 Ian Hinder , Serguei Ossokine , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Alessandra Buonanno

One way to produce complete inspiral-merger-ringdown gravitational waveforms from black-hole-binary systems is to connect post-Newtonian (PN) and numerical-relativity (NR) results to create "hybrid" waveforms. Hybrid waveforms are central…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-01-17 Mark Hannam , Sascha Husa , Frank Ohme , P. Ajith

We improve the accuracy of the effective-one-body (EOB) waveforms that were employed during the first observing run of Advanced LIGO for binaries of spinning, nonprecessing black holes by calibrating them to a set of 141…

Using publicly available numerical relativity (NR) simulations for non-spinning eccentric binary black hole (BBH) mergers, Ref \cite{Islam:2024rhm} demonstrated that the eccentricity-induced modulations in the amplitudes and frequencies of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-28 Tousif Islam , Tejaswi Venumadhav

We describe a general procedure to generate spinning, precessing waveforms that include inspiral, merger and ringdown stages in the effective-one-body (EOB) approach. The procedure uses a precessing frame in which precession-induced…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-23 Yi Pan , Alessandra Buonanno , Andrea Taracchini , Lawrence E. Kidder , Abdul H. Mroue , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Mark A. Scheel , Bela Szilagyi

We explore the gravitational-wave phenomenology of equal-mass inspiralling boson-star binaries using numerical relativity simulations. In particular, we characterise the waveform differences between binary boson-star and black-hole systems…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-29 Tamara Evstafyeva , Antonia Seifert , Ulrich Sperhake , Christopher J. Moore , Tamanna Jain

Detection of gravitational waves from compact binaries involving at least one intermediate mass black hole, and component mass ratios in the range $0.1$-$10^{-4}$, are among the primary sources for future space detectors with target strain…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-25 M Laxman , Ryuichi Fujita , Chandra Kant Mishra

Higher-order gravitational wave modes from quasi-circular, spinning, non-precessing binary black hole mergers encode key information about these systems' nonlinear dynamics. We model these waveforms using transformer architectures,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-21 Victoria Tiki , Kiet Pham , Eliu Huerta

In the past few decades, the waveform community has made advances in producing waveforms that span the inspiral-merger-ringdown of comparable-mass-ratio black hole binaries using advances in post-Newtonian and numerical relativity (NR)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-14 Hector Iglesias , Leanne Durkan , Deirdre Shoemaker

We present results from a new code for binary black hole evolutions using the moving-puncture approach, implementing finite differences in generalised coordinates, and allowing the spacetime to be covered with multiple communicating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-03-23 Denis Pollney , Christian Reisswig , Erik Schnetter , Nils Dorband , Peter Diener

We used two numerical models, namely the \texttt{CBwaves} and \texttt{SEOBNRE} algorithms, based on the post-Newtonian and effective-one-body approaches for binary black holes evolving on eccentric orbits. We performed 20.000 new…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-06 Balázs Kacskovics , Dániel Barta

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

We describe in detail full numerical and perturbative techniques to compute the gravitational radiation from intermediate-mass-ratio black-hole-binary inspirals and mergers. We perform a series of full numerical simulations of nonspinning…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-12-23 Carlos O. Lousto , Hiroyuki Nakano , Yosef Zlochower , Manuela Campanelli

We perform a systematic study of eccentric orbiting nonspinning black hole binaries. We first make a technical study of the optimal full numerical techniques to apply to these studies. We choose different gauge parameters and Courant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-17 Giuseppe Ficarra , Carlos O. Lousto

We compare waveforms and orbital dynamics from the first long-term, fully non-linear, numerical simulations of a generic black-hole binary configuration with post-Newtonian predictions. The binary has mass ratio q~0.8 with arbitrarily…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 Manuela Campanelli , Carlos O. Lousto , Hiroyuki Nakano , Yosef Zlochower

The gravitational wave event GW200105 was the first confident neutron star-black hole (NSBH) merger identified by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration. A recent analysis by Morras et al. with an eccentric precessing waveform model that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-15 Maria de Lluc Planas , Sascha Husa , Antoni Ramos-Buades , Jorge Valencia

The inspiral-merger-ringdown (IMR) consistency test checks the consistency of the final mass and final spin of a binary black hole merger remnant, independently inferred via the inspiral and merger-ringdown parts of the waveform. As…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-07 Sajad A. Bhat , Pankaj Saini , Marc Favata , K. G. Arun

Mounting evidence indicates that some of the gravitational wave signals observed by the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA observatories might arise from eccentric compact object binaries, increasing the urgency for accurate waveform models for such systems.…