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Gravitational waves are perturbations in the spacetime that propagate at the speed of light. The study of such phenomenon is interesting because many cosmological processes and astrophysical objects, such as binary systems, are potential…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-27 E. F. D. Evangelista , J. C. N. de Araujo

We present a highly accurate, fully analytical model for the late inspiral, merger, and ringdown of black-hole binaries with arbitrary mass ratios and spin vectors, including the contributions of harmonics beyond the fundamental mode. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-22 Sean T. McWilliams

The orbital evolution of a binary system consisting of two primordial black hole clusters is investigated. Such clusters are predicted in some theoretical models with broken symmetry in the inflation Lagrangian. A cluster consists of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-07 Yury Eroshenko , Viktor Stasenko

Ten short years ago, we had the rare privilege of witnessing the onset of a renaissance in science: humanity finally succeeded in its arduous quest to directly detect gravitational waves. This breakthrough did not occur in a vacuum: it was…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-20 Vitor Cardoso , Shauvik Biswas , Subhodeep Sarkar

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

An extreme mass ratio inspiral takes place when a compact stellar object is inspiraling into a supermassive black hole due to gravitational radiation reaction. Gravitational waves (GWs) from this system can be calculated using the Teukolsky…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-14 Viktor Skoupý , Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos

The waveform templates of the matched filtering-based gravitational-wave search ought to cover wide range of parameters for the prosperous detection. Numerical relativity (NR) has been widely accepted as the most accurate method for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 Joongoo Lee , Sang Hoon Oh , Kyungmin Kim , Gihyuk Cho , John J. Oh , Edwin J. Son , Hyung Mok Lee

Gravitational waves from binary neutron stars in quasiequilibrium circular orbits are computed using an approximate method which we propose in this paper. In the first step of this method, we prepare general relativistic irrotational binary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Masaru Shibata , Koji Uryu

Gravitational wave observations will probe non-linear gravitational interactions and thus enable strong tests of Einstein's theory of general relativity. We present a numerical relativity study of the late inspiral and merger of binary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 James Healy , Tanja Bode , Roland Haas , Enrique Pazos , Pablo Laguna , Deirdre M. Shoemaker , Nicolás Yunes

We present further evidence that the second post-Newtonian (pN) approximation to the gravitational waves emitted by inspiraling compact binaries is sufficient for the detection of these systems. This is established by comparing the 2-pN…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-25 Serge Droz

The population of stellar-mass, compact object binaries that merge with non-negligible eccentricity may be large enough to motivate searches with ground-based gravitational wave detectors. Such events could be exceptional laboratories to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-11 Nicholas Loutrel , Nicolas Yunes , Frans Pretorius

The two independent ``plus" and ``cross" polarization waveforms associated with the gravitational waves emitted by inspiralling, non-spinning, compact binaries are presented, ready for use in the data analysis of signals received by future…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Luc Blanchet , Bala R. Iyer , Clifford M. Will , Alan G. Wiseman

Gravitational waves from binary neutron star (BNS) and black hole/neutron star (BHNS) inspirals are primary sources for detection by the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. The tidal forces acting on the neutron…

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

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

We model the inspiral and merger dynamics of two co-planar rings in Newtonian mechanics with GR motivated corrections and illustrate their similarity with those of black hole binary systems on the orbital plane. Our simulation reveals a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-13 Qi Su , Baicheng Zhang , Ding-Fang Zeng

Gravitational waves from compact binary inspirals offer a new opportunity to constrain the cosmological time dependence of gravitational coupling parameters, due to the high precision of the observations themselves as well as the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-13 Oliver Pitt , Timothy Clifton

Space-born gravitational-wave interferometers such as {\it LISA} will detect the gravitational wave (GW) signal from the inspiral, plunge and ringdown phases of massive black hole binary mergers at cosmological distances. From the inspiral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Scott A. Hughes , Kristen Menou

A method is presented to construct initial data for Einstein's equations as a superposition of a gravitational wave perturbation on an arbitrary stationary background spacetime. The method combines the conformal thin sandwich formalism with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Harald P. Pfeiffer , Lawrence E. Kidder , Mark A. Scheel , Deirdre Shoemaker

Boson stars have attracted much attention in recent decades as simple, self-consistent models of compact objects and also as self-gravitating structures formed in some dark-matter scenarios. Direct detection of these hypothetical objects…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-20 Miguel Bezares , Mateja Bošković , Steven Liebling , Carlos Palenzuela , Paolo Pani , Enrico Barausse