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In this paper, we present 52 new numerical-relativity (NR) simulations of black-hole-neutron-star merger (BHNS) mergers and employ the data to inform TEOBResumS-Dal\'i: a multipolar effective-one-body model also including precession and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-02 Alejandra Gonzalez , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Alireza Rashti , Francesco Brandoli , Rossella Gamba

We present pySEOBNR, a Python package for gravitational-wave (GW) modeling developed within the effective-one-body (EOB) formalism. The package contains an extensive framework to generate state-of-the-art inspiral-merger-ringdown waveform…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-03 Deyan P. Mihaylov , Serguei Ossokine , Alessandra Buonanno , Hector Estelles , Lorenzo Pompili , Michael Pürrer , Antoni Ramos-Buades

We used two numerical models, namely the \texttt{CBwaves} and \texttt{SEOBNRE} algorithms, based on the post-Newtonian and effective-one-body approaches for binary black holes evolving on eccentric orbits. We performed 20.000 new…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-06 Balázs Kacskovics , Dániel Barta

For the first time, we construct an inspiral-merger-ringdown waveform model within the effective-one-body formalism for spinning, nonprecessing binary black holes that includes gravitational modes beyond the dominant $(\ell,|m|) = (2,2)$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-22 Roberto Cotesta , Alessandra Buonanno , Alejandro Bohé , Andrea Taracchini , Ian Hinder , Serguei Ossokine

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 present a frequency domain reduced order model (ROM) for the aligned-spin effective-one-body (EOB) model for binary black holes (BBHs) SEOBNRv4HM that includes the spherical harmonics modes $(\ell, |m|) = (2,1),(3,3),(4,4),(5,5)$ beyond…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-01 Roberto Cotesta , Sylvain Marsat , Michael Pürrer

We present SEOBNRv5THM, an accurate and fast gravitational-waveform model for quasi-circular, spinning, non-precessing binary neutron stars (BNS) within the effective-one-body (EOB) formalism. It builds on the binary-black-hole approximant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-10 Marcus Haberland , Alessandra Buonanno , Jan Steinhoff

We present the first comparison of waveforms evaluated using the effective-one-body (EOB) approach and gravitational self-force (GSF) theory for inspiralling black hole binaries with a non-spinning primary and a spinning secondary. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-07 Angelica Albertini , Alessandro Nagar , Josh Mathews , Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos

We propose a new way of analyzing, and analytically representing, the ringdown part of the gravitational wave signal emitted by coalescing black hole binaries.By contrast with the usual {\it linear} decomposition of the multipolar complex…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Thibault Damour , Alessandro Nagar

We introduce \texttt{TEOBResumSP}: an efficient, accurate hybrid scheme for generating gravitational waveforms from spin-precessing compact binaries. The precessing waveforms are generated via the established technique of Euler rotating the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-13 Sarp Akcay , Rossella Gamba , Sebastiano Bernuzzi

Waveform models are important to gravitational wave data analysis. People recently pay much attention to the waveform model construction for eccentric binary black hole coalescence. Several Effective-One-Body Numerical-Relativity waveform…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-10 Xiaolin Liu , Zhoujian Cao , Zong-Hong Zhu

In the effective-one-body (EOB) approach the dynamics of two compact objects of masses m1 and m2 and spins S1 and S2 is mapped into the dynamics of one test particle of mass mu = m1 m2/(m1+m2) and spin S* moving in a deformed Kerr metric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-12-01 Enrico Barausse , Alessandra Buonanno

Building on a recent paper in which we computed the canonical Hamiltonian of a spinning test particle in curved spacetime, at linear order in the particle's spin, we work out an improved effective-one-body (EOB) Hamiltonian for spinning…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-12 Enrico Barausse , Alessandra Buonanno

Gravitational waves emitted by black-hole binary systems have the highest signal-to-noise ratio in LIGO and Virgo detectors when black-hole spins are aligned with the orbital angular momentum and extremal. For such systems, we extend the…

We conduct a descriptive analysis of the multipolar structure of gravitational-radiation waveforms from equal-mass aligned-spin mergers, following an approach first presented in the complementary context of nonspinning black holes of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-29 Bernard J. Kelly , John G. Baker , William D. Boggs , Sean T. McWilliams , Joan Centrella

The use of effective-one-body (EOB) waveforms for black hole binaries analysis in gravitational-wave astronomy requires faithful models and fast generation times. A key aspect to achieve faithfulness is the inclusion of numerical-relativity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-20 Gunnar Riemenschneider , Piero Rettegno , Matteo Breschi , Angelica Albertini , Rossella Gamba , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Alessandro Nagar

Coalescing binary black holes are among the primary science targets for second generation ground-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors. Reliable GW models are central to detection of such systems and subsequent parameter estimation. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-01 Prayush Kumar , Tony Chu , Heather Fong , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Michael Boyle , Daniel A. Hemberger , Lawrence E. Kidder , Mark A. Scheel , Bela Szilagyi

Gravitational waves from binary black hole (BBH) mergers allow us to test general relativity in the strong-field, high-curvature regime. However, existing gravitational wave-based tests have so far assumed non-eccentric signal sources,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-26 Danilo Chiaramello , Nicolò Cibrario , Jacob Lange , Koustav Chandra , Rossella Gamba , Raffaella Bonino , Alessandro Nagar

The detection of gravitational waves and the extraction of physical information from them requires the prediction of accurate waveforms to be used in template banks. For that purpose, the accuracy of effective-one-body (EOB) waveforms has…

Gravitational-wave observations of binary black holes currently rely on theoretical models that predict the dominant multipoles (l,m) of the radiation during inspiral, merger and ringdown. We introduce a simple method to include the…