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We compare different methods of computing the orbital eccentricity of quasi-circular binary black hole systems using the orbital variables and gravitational wave phase and frequency. For eccentricities of about a per cent, most methods work…

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The gravitational waveforms emitted during the adiabatic inspiral of precessing binaries with two spinning compact bodies of comparable masses, evaluated within the post-Newtonian approximation, can be reproduced rather accurately by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Alessandra Buonanno , Yanbei Chen , Yi Pan , Michele Vallisneri

We here present the first analytic effective fly-by (EFB) waveforms designed to accurately capture the burst of gravitational radiation from the closest approach of highly eccentric compact binaries. The waveforms are constructed by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-01 Nicholas Loutrel

Inspiraling supermassive black hole binary systems with high orbital eccentricity are important sources for space-based gravitational wave (GW) observatories like the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). Eccentricity adds orbital…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-30 Balázs Mikóczi , Bence Kocsis , Péter Forgács , Mátyás Vasúth

One of the greatest theoretical challenges in the build-up to the era of second-generation gravitational-wave detectors is the modeling of generic binary waveforms. We introduce an approximation that has the potential to significantly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-03-12 Patricia Schmidt , Mark Hannam , Sascha Husa

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

Building initial conditions for generic binary black-hole evolutions without initial spurious eccentricity remains a challenge for numerical-relativity simulations. This problem can be overcome by applying an eccentricity-removal procedure…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-17 Alessandra Buonanno , Lawrence E. Kidder , Abdul H. Mroué , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Andrea Taracchini

Compact object binaries formed from dynamics interactions will generically have non-zero orbital eccentricity. The gravitational waves from such binaries can change drastically depending on how large the eccentricity is, ranging from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-31 Nicholas Loutrel

We present a time domain waveform model that describes the inspiral-merger-ringdown (IMR) of compact binary systems whose components are non-spinning, and which evolve on orbits with low to moderate eccentricity. The inspiral evolution is…

The inspiral and merger of supermassive black hole binary systems with high orbital eccentricity are among the promising sources of the advanced gravitational wave observatories. In this paper we derive analytic ready-to-use first…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-26 Balázs Mikóczi , Péter Forgács , Mátyás Vasúth

We consider the presence of oscillations in the primordial bispectrum, inspired by three different cosmological models; features in the primordial potential, resonant type non-Gaussianities and deviation from the standard Bunch Davies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-03 P. Daniel Meerburg

One of the promising sources of gravitational radiation is a binary system composed of compact stars. It is an important question how the rotation of the bodies and the eccentricity of the orbit affect the detectable signal. Here we present…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-10-27 Mátyás Vasúth , János Majár

In this work, we developed analytic asymptotic methods for computing the Fourier modes of gravitational waves from post-Newtonian binary systems in the quasi-Keplerian parametrization in the high eccentricity regime. We have also derived…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-29 Xiaolin Liu , Zhoujian Cao

We prove that the oft-used stationary-phase method gives a very accurate expression for the Fourier transform of the gravitational-wave signal produced by an inspiraling compact binary. We give three arguments. First, we analytically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Serge Droz , Daniel J. Knapp , Eric Poisson , Benjamin J. Owen

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

Gravitational waves from binary black hole mergers have allowed us to directly observe stellar-mass black hole binaries for the first time, and therefore explore their formation channels. One of the ways to infer how a binary system is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-26 Teagan A. Clarke , Isobel M. Romero-Shaw , Paul D. Lasky , Eric Thrane

Complete waveform models able to account for arbitrary non-planar orbits represent a holy grail in current gravitational-wave astronomy. Here, we take a step towards this direction and present a simple yet efficient prescription to obtain…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-27 Rossella Gamba , Danilo Chiaramello , Sayan Neogi

Several scenarios have been proposed in which the orbits of binary black holes enter the band of a gravitational wave detector with significant eccentricity. To avoid missing these signals or biasing parameter estimation it is important…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-17 Neil J. Cornish , Joey Shapiro Key

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are expected to have considerable eccentricity when emitting gravitational waves (GWs) in the LISA band. Developing GW templates that remain phase accurate over these long inspirals requires the use of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-25 Benjamin Leather , Niels Warburton

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.…