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We develop new strategies to build numerical relativity surrogate models for eccentric binary black hole systems, which are expected to play an increasingly important role in current and future gravitational-wave detectors. We introduce a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-26 Tousif Islam , Vijay Varma , Jackie Lodman , Scott E. Field , Gaurav Khanna , Mark A. Scheel , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Davide Gerosa , Lawrence E. Kidder

We present the first surrogate model for gravitational waveforms from the coalescence of precessing binary black holes. We call this surrogate model NRSur4d2s. Our methodology significantly extends recently introduced reduced-order and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-24 Jonathan Blackman , Scott E. Field , Mark A. Scheel , Chad R. Galley , Daniel A. Hemberger , Patricia Schmidt , Rory Smith

Numerical-relativity surrogate models for both black-hole merger waveforms and remnants have emerged as important tools in gravitational-wave astronomy. While producing very accurate predictions, their applicability is limited to the region…

Surrogate models of numerical relativity simulations of merging black holes provide the most accurate tools for gravitational-wave data analysis. Neural network-based surrogates promise evaluation speedups, but their accuracy relies on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-21 Lucy M. Thomas , Katerina Chatziioannou , Vijay Varma , Scott E. Field

A generic, non-eccentric binary black hole (BBH) system emits gravitational waves (GWs) that are completely described by 7 intrinsic parameters: the black hole spin vectors and the ratio of their masses. Simulating a BBH coalescence by…

Numerical relativity (NR) simulations provide the most accurate binary black hole gravitational waveforms, but are prohibitively expensive for applications such as parameter estimation. Surrogate models of NR waveforms have been shown to be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-03 Vijay Varma , Scott E. Field , Mark A. Scheel , Jonathan Blackman , Lawrence E. Kidder , Harald P. Pfeiffer

Accurate models of merger remnants are increasingly important for gravitational-wave science, including precision tests of gravity with ringdown, inference of black-hole populations, and modeling hierarchical mergers. For eccentric…

During binary black hole (BBH) mergers, energy and momenta are carried away from the binary system as gravitational radiation. Access to the radiated energy and momenta allows us to predict the properties of the remnant black hole. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-14 Tousif Islam , Scott E. Field , Gaurav Khanna

Gravitational-wave detectors have begun to observe coalescences of heavy black holes at a consistent pace for the past few years. Accurate models of gravitational waveforms are essential for unbiased and precise estimation of source…

Simulating a binary black hole (BBH) coalescence by solving Einstein's equations is computationally expensive, requiring days to months of supercomputing time. Using reduced order modeling techniques, we construct an accurate surrogate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-09 Jonathan Blackman , Scott E. Field , Chad R. Galley , Bela Szilagyi , Mark A. Scheel , Manuel Tiglio , Daniel A. Hemberger

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

We present the results of 14 simulations of nonspinning black hole binaries with mass ratios $q=m_1/m_2$ in the range $1/100\leq q\leq1$. For each of these simulations we perform three runs at increasing resolution to assess the finite…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-07-26 James Healy , Carlos O. Lousto , Yosef Zlochower

Highly precise and robust waveform models are required as improvements in detector sensitivity enable us to test general relativity with more precision than ever before. In this work, we introduce a spin-aligned surrogate ringdown model.…

We present accurate fits for the remnant properties of generically precessing binary black holes, trained on large banks of numerical-relativity simulations. We use Gaussian process regression to interpolate the remnant mass, spin, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-16 Vijay Varma , Davide Gerosa , Leo C. Stein , François Hébert , Hao Zhang

Gravitational-wave approximants are essential for gravitational-wave astronomy, allowing the coverage binary black hole parameter space for inference or match filtering without costly numerical relativity (NR) simulations, but generally…

The third Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC-3) contains 90 binary coalescence candidates detected by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration (LVK). We provide a re-analysis of binary black hole (BBH) events using a recently developed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-14 Tousif Islam , Avi Vajpeyi , Feroz H. Shaik , Carl-Johan Haster , Vijay Varma , Scott E. Field , Jacob Lange , Richard O'Shaughnessy , Rory Smith

The remnant black hole from a binary coalescence emits ringdown gravitational waves characterized by quasinormal modes, which depend solely on the remnant's mass and spin. In contrast, the ringdown amplitudes and phases are determined by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-04 Costantino Pacilio , Swetha Bhagwat , Francesco Nobili , Davide Gerosa

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

Gravitational wave signals from compact astrophysical sources such as those observed by LIGO and Virgo require a high-accuracy, theory-based waveform model for the analysis of the recorded signal. Current inspiral-merger-ringdown models are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-29 Nur E. M. Rifat , Scott E. Field , Gaurav Khanna , Vijay Varma

Identifying weak gravitational wave signals in noise and estimating the source properties require high-precision waveform templates. Numerical relativity (NR) simulations can provide the most accurate waveforms. However, it is challenging…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-07 Xing-Yu Zhong , Wen-Biao Han , Ling Sun
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