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Recent years have witnessed tremendous progress in numerical relativity and an ever improving performance of ground-based interferometric gravitational wave detectors. In preparation for Advanced LIGO and a new era in gravitational wave…

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Despite recent progress in numerical simulations of the coalescence of binary black hole systems, highly asymmetric spinning systems and the construction of accurate physical templates remain challenging and computationally expensive. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 James Clark , Laura Cadonati , James Healy , Ik Siong Heng , Josh Logue , Nicholas Mangini , Lionel London , Larne Pekowsky , Deirdre Shoemaker

The subsequent observing runs of the advanced gravitational-wave detector network will likely provide us with various gravitational-wave observations of binary neutron star systems. For an accurate interpretation of these detections, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-17 Maximiliano Ujevic , Alireza Rashti , Henrique Gieg , Wolfgang Tichy , Tim Dietrich

We introduce a method to quantify the initial eccentricity, gravitational wave frequency, and mean anomaly of numerical relativity simulations that describe non-spinning black holes on moderately eccentric orbits. We demonstrate that this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-14 Sarah Habib , E. A. Huerta

This article studies sufficient accuracy criteria of hybrid post-Newtonian (PN) and numerical relativity (NR) waveforms for parameter estimation of strong binary black-hole sources in second- generation ground-based gravitational-wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-30 Ilana MacDonald , Abdul H. Mroue , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Michael Boyle , Lawrence E. Kidder , Mark A. Scheel , Bela Szilagyi , Nicholas W. Taylor

Binary black holes emit gravitational radiation with net linear momentum leading to a retreat of the final remnant black hole that can reach up to $\sim5,000$ km/s. Full numerical relativity simulations are the only tool to accurately…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-27 Carlos O. Lousto , James Healy

We revisit the scenario of small-mass-ratio (q) black-hole binaries; performing new, more accurate, simulations of mass ratios 10:1 and 100:1 for initially nonspinning black holes. We propose fitting functions for the trajectories of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-12-13 Hiroyuki Nakano , Yosef Zlochower , Carlos O. Lousto , Manuela Campanelli

Numerical relativity simulations provide a full description of the dynamics of binary systems, including gravitational radiation. The waveforms produced by these simulations have a number of applications in gravitational-wave detection and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-09 Taylor Knapp , Katerina Chatziioannou , Keefe Mitman , Mark A. Scheel , Michael Boyle , Lawrence E. Kidder , Harald Pfeiffer

Gravitational-wave observations of binary black holes allow new tests of general relativity to be performed on strong, dynamical gravitational fields. These tests require accurate waveform models of the gravitational-wave signal, otherwise…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-29 Christopher J. Moore , Eliot Finch , Riccardo Buscicchio , Davide Gerosa

We introduce a gravitational waveform inversion strategy that discovers mechanical models of binary black hole (BBH) systems. We show that only a single time series of (possibly noisy) waveform data is necessary to construct the equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-10 Brendan Keith , Akshay Khadse , Scott E. Field

We study dynamics and radiation generation in the last few orbits and merger of a binary black hole system, applying recently developed techniques for simulations of moving black holes. Our analysis of the gravitational radiation waveforms…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 John G. Baker , Joan Centrella , Dae-Il Choi , Michael Koppitz , James van Meter

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

Previous analytic and numerical calculations suggest that, at each instant, the emission from a precessing black hole binary closely resembles the emission from a nonprecessing analog. In this paper we quantitatively explore the validity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-09 Larne Pekowsky , Richard O'Shaughnessy , Jim Healy , Deirdre Shoemaker

We introduce deep learning models to estimate the masses of the binary components of black hole mergers, $(m_1,m_2)$, and three astrophysical properties of the post-merger compact remnant, namely, the final spin, $a_f$, and the frequency…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-21 Hongyu Shen , E. A. Huerta , Eamonn O'Shea , Prayush Kumar , Zhizhen Zhao

We analyze a new numerical relativity dataset of spinning but nonprecessing binary black holes on eccentric orbits, with eccentricities from approximately $0.1$ to $0.5$, with dimensionless spins up to $0.75$ included at mass ratios…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-14 Antoni Ramos-Buades , Sascha Husa , Geraint Pratten , Héctor Estellés , Cecilio García-Quirós , Maite Mateu-Lucena , Marta Colleoni , Rafel Jaume

We present the Computational Relativity CoRe collaboration's public database of gravitational waveforms from binary neutron star mergers. The database currently contains 367 waveforms from numerical simulations that are consistent with…

We present an exploratory investigation into using Simulation-based Inference techniques, specifically Flow-Matching Posterior Estimation, to construct a posterior density estimator trained using real gravitational-wave detector noise. Our…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-03 Vivien Raymond , Sama Al-Shammari , Alexandre Göttel

We present a comprehensive parameter-space study of binary black hole (BBH) mergers using the SEOBNRv4\_opt waveform model. Our analysis spans $\sim 10^6$ simulated waveforms across a broad range of mass ratios \( q = \frac{m_1}{m_2} \in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-19 İsmail Özbakır , Kadri Yakut

We present a reduced-order surrogate model of gravitational waveforms from non-spinning binary black hole systems with comparable to large mass-ratio configurations. This surrogate model, \texttt{BHPTNRSur1dq1e4}, is trained on waveform…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-23 Tousif Islam , Scott E. Field , Scott A. Hughes , Gaurav Khanna , Vijay Varma , Matthew Giesler , Mark A. Scheel , Lawrence E. Kidder , Harald P. Pfeiffer

Gravitational wave observations from merging compact objects are becoming commonplace, and as detectors improve and gravitational wave sources become more varied, it is increasingly important to have dense and expansive template banks of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-25 Deborah Ferguson