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The Effective-One-Body (EOB) formalism contains several flexibility parameters, notably $a_5$, $\vp$ and $\a$. We show here how to jointly constrain the values of these parameters by simultaneously best-fitting the EOB waveform to two,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Thibault Damour , Alessandro Nagar , Mark Hannam , Sascha Husa , Bernd Brugmann

We present a new, tunable effective-one-body (EOB) model of the motion and radiation of coalescing black hole binaries with arbitrary mass ratio and aligned spins. The most novel feature of our formalism is the introduction, and systematic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Thibault Damour , Alessandro Nagar

We calibrate an effective-one-body (EOB) model to numerical-relativity simulations of mass ratios 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6, by maximizing phase and amplitude agreement of the leading (2,2) mode and of the subleading modes (2,1), (3,3), (4,4) and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-29 Yi Pan , Alessandra Buonanno , Michael Boyle , Luisa T. Buchman , Lawrence E. Kidder , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Mark A. Scheel

As gravitational wave (GW) detector networks continue to improve in sensitivity, the demand on the accuracy of waveform models which predict the GW signals from compact binary coalescences is becoming more stringent. At high signal-to-noise…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-23 Ritesh Bachhar , Michael Pürrer , Stephen R. Green

We study the phenomenology of non-spinning eccentric binary black hole (BBH) mergers using numerical relativity (NR) waveforms and \texttt{EccentricIMR} waveform model, as presented in Ref. \cite{Hinder:2017sxy} (Hinder, Kidder, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-07 Tousif Islam

Gravitational wave astronomy pipelines rely on template waveform models for searches and parameter estimation purposes. For coalescing binary neutron stars (BNS), such models need to accurately reproduce numerical relativity (NR) up to…

We present a first complete implementation of an effective-one-body (EOB) model for extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) that incorporates aligned spins (on both the primary and the secondary) as well as orbital eccentricity. The model…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-20 Angelica Albertini , Rossella Gamba , Alessandro Nagar , Sebastiano Bernuzzi

We continue the program of constructing, within the Effective-One-Body (EOB) approach, high-accuracy analytic waveforms describing the signal emitted by inspiralling and coalescing black hole binaries. Here, we compare a recently derived,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Thibault Damour , Alessandro Nagar , Ernst Nils Dorband , Denis Pollney , Luciano Rezzolla

Spin precession is a generic feature of compact binary coalescences, which leaves clear imprints in the gravitational waveforms. Building on previous work, we present an efficient time domain inspiral-merger-ringdown effective-one-body…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-27 Rossella Gamba , Sarp Akçay , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Jake Williams

We use the open source, community-driven, numerical relativity software, the Einstein Toolkit to study the physics of eccentric, spinning, nonprecessing binary black hole mergers with mass-ratios $q=\{2, 4, 6\}$, individual dimensionless…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-22 Abhishek V. Joshi , Shawn G. Rosofsky , Roland Haas , E. A. Huerta

The effective one-body (EOB) theory provides an innovative framework for analyzing the dynamics of binary systems, as articulated by Hamilton's equations. This paper investigates a self-consistent EOB theory specifically tailored for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-09 Jiliang Jing , Sheng Long , Weike Deng , Jieci Wang

We discuss the properties of the effective-one-body (EOB) multipolar gravitational waveform emitted by nonspinning black-hole binaries of masses $\mu$ and $M$ in the extreme-mass-ratio limit, $\mu/M=\nu\ll 1$. We focus on the transition…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-03-22 Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Alessandro Nagar , Anil Zenginoglu

Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) observations will detect gravitational waves (GWs) from the early inspiral phase of supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) with orbital periods of weeks to years. Current PTA analyses generally assume circular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-26 Sara Manzini , Stanislav Babak

We present a prescription for computing gravitational waveforms for the inspiral, merger and ringdown of non-spinning eccentric binary black hole systems. The inspiral waveform is computed using the post-Newtonian expansion and the merger…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-15 Ian Hinder , Lawrence E. Kidder , Harald P. Pfeiffer

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

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

Tidal interactions in a coalescing binary neutron star (BNS) or neutron star-black hole (NSBH) system driven by gravitational wave (GW) radiation contain precious information about physics both at extreme density and in the highly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-11 Hang Yu , Shu Yan Lau

The Kerr nature of a compact-object-coalescence remnant can be unveiled by observing multiple quasi-normal modes (QNMs) in the post-merger signal. Current methods to achieve this goal rely on matching the data with a superposition of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-31 Richard Brito , Alessandra Buonanno , Vivien Raymond

Orbital eccentricity is a crucial physical effect to unveil the origin of compact-object binaries detected by ground- and spaced-based gravitational-wave (GW) observatories. Here, we perform for the first time a Bayesian inference study of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-28 Antoni Ramos-Buades , Alessandra Buonanno , Jonathan Gair

Building upon several recent advances in the development of effective-one-body models for spin-aligned eccentric binaries with individual masses $(m_1,m_2)$ we introduce a new EOB waveform model that aims at describing inspiralling binaries…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-12 Alessandro Nagar , Simone Albanesi