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One of the most promising sources of gravitational radiation is coalescence of binary neutron stars or black holes. In order to study gravitational radiation at the merging phase of coalescing binary neutron stars which is called the last…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Takashi Nakamura , Ken-ichi Oohara

The coalescence of two black holes generates gravitational waves that carry detailed information about the properties of those black holes and their binary configuration. The final coalescence cycles are in the form of a {\it ringdown}: a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-18 Scott A. Hughes , Anuj Apte , Gaurav Khanna , Halston Lim

Binaries occur in many astrophysical systems, from young protostellar binaries in star forming regions to supermassive black hole binaries in galaxy centers. In many cases, a circumbinary disk of gas forms around the binary with an orbit…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-12 Cheng Chen , Philip J. Armitage , C. J. Nixon

We have investigated, both analytically and numerically, accreting supermassive black hole binaries as they inspiral due to gravitational radiation to elucidate the decoupling of binaries from their disks and inform future multi-messenger…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-27 Alexander J. Dittmann , Geoffrey Ryan , M. Coleman Miller

Massive black hole binary coalescences are prime targets for space-based gravitational wave (GW) observatories such as {\it LISA}. GW measurements can localize the position of a coalescing binary on the sky to an ellipse with a major axis…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-05-28 Ryan N. Lang , Scott A. Hughes

Gravitational-wave interferometers are expected to monitor the last three minutes of inspiral and final coalescence of neutron star and black hole binaries at distances approaching cosmological, where the event rate may be many per year.…

During a galaxy merger, the supermassive black hole (SMBH) in each galaxy is thought to sink to the center of the potential and form a supermassive black hole binary; this binary can eject stars via 3-body scattering, bringing the SMBHs…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-23 Kelly Holley-Bockelmann , Fazeel Mahmood Khan

We investigate the orbits of compact binary systems during the final inspiral period before coalescence by integrating numerically the second-order post-Newtonian equations of motion. We include spin-orbit and spin-spin coupling terms,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Jeremy D. Schnittman , Frederic A. Rasio

The secular stellar mass-loss causes an amplification of the orbital separation in fragile, common proper motion, binary systems with separations of the order of 1000 A.U. In these systems, companions evolve as two independent coeval stars…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-26 Kyle B. Johnston , Terry D. Oswalt , David Valls-Gabaud

Dark matter overdensities around black holes can alter the dynamical evolution of a companion object orbiting around it, and cause a dephasing of the gravitational waveform. Here, we present a refined calculation of the co-evolution of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-10 Theophanes K. Karydas , Bradley J. Kavanagh , Gianfranco Bertone

The recent discoveries of circumbinary planets by $\it Kepler$ raise questions for contemporary planet formation models. Understanding how these planets form requires characterizing their formation environment, the circumbinary…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-20 David P. Fleming , Thomas R. Quinn

Post-common envelope binaries (PCEBs) consisting of a white dwarf (WD) plus a main-sequence (MS) star can constrain current prescriptions of common envelope evolution (CEE) and calibrate theoretical models of binary formation and evolution.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-20 Jie Lin , Hailiang Chen , Bojun Wang , Yudong Luo , Wenshi Tang , Bo Huang

We conduct a population synthesis study using the binary population synthesis code compas to explore the formation of circumbinary disks (CBDs) following the common envelope evolution (CEE) phase of a giant star and a neutron star (NS) or…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-19 Lotem Unger , Aldana Grichener , Noam Soker

The precise modeling of binary black hole coalescences in generic planar orbits is a crucial step to disentangle dynamical and isolated binary formation channels through gravitational-wave observations. The merger regime of such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-26 Gregorio Carullo , Simone Albanesi , Alessandro Nagar , Rossella Gamba , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Tomas Andrade , Juan Trenado

In addition to their possible relevance to gamma-ray bursts, coalescing binary neutron stars have long been recognized as important sources of gravitational radiation that should become detectable with the new generation of laser…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. A. Rasio , S. L. Shapiro

We develop a 3 dimensional computer code to study a coalescing neutron star binary. The code can currently follow the evolution up to two stars begin to merge from two spherical stars of mass 1 solar mass and radius 8.9km with separation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Ken-ichi Oohara , Takashi Nakamura

In this paper, we have reviewed the present status of the theory of equilibrium configurations of compact binary star systems in Newtonian gravity. Evolutionary processes of compact binary star systems due to gravitational wave emission can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Yoshiharu Eriguchi , Koji Uryu

In a recent work, coalescing compact binaries (CCBs) were modeled as a rotating and contracting compact mass shell, providing an alternative effective representation to the state-of-the-art effective-one-body approach. Using a variational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-27 Noah M. MacKay

The relativistic multipole moments provide a key ingredient to characterize the gravitational field around compact astrophysical objects. They play a crucial role in the description of the orbital evolution of coalescing binary systems and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-22 Massimo Vaglio , Costantino Pacilio , Andrea Maselli , Paolo Pani

The second post-Newtonian (2PN) contribution to the `plus' and `cross' gravitational wave polarizations associated with gravitational radiation from non-spinning, compact binaries moving in elliptic orbits is computed. The computation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Gopakumar , Bala R. Iyer