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Direct detections of gravitational waves offer a unique opportunity to test gravity in the highly dynamical and strong field regime. Current tests are typically performed assuming signals from quasicircular binaries. However, the complex…

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Eccentric binaries are key targets for current and future gravitational wave (GW) detectors, offering unique insights into the formation and environments of compact binaries. However, accurately and efficiently modeling eccentric waveforms…

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In numerical evolutions of binary black holes (BBH) it is desirable to easily control the orbital eccentricity of the BBH, and the number of orbits completed by the binary through merger. This paper presents fitting formulae that allow to…

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It was recently suggested that the merger of $\sim30\,M_\odot$ primordial black holes (PBHs) may provide a significant number of events in gravitational-wave observatories over the next decade, if they make up an appreciable fraction of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-12 Ilias Cholis , Ely D. Kovetz , Yacine Ali-Haïmoud , Simeon Bird , Marc Kamionkowski , Julian B. Muñoz , Alvise Raccanelli

We use equations of motion containing gravitational radiation-reaction terms through 4.5 post-Newtonian order to calculate the late-time eccentricities of inspiraling binary systems of non-spinning compact bodies as they cross the detection…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-16 Alexandria Tucker , Clifford M. Will

Accurate waveform templates of binary black holes (BBHs) with eccentric orbits are essential for the detection and precise parameter estimation of gravitational waves (GWs). While SEOBNRE produces accurate time-domain waveforms for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-25 Ruijun Shi , Yue Zhou , Tianyu Zhao , Zhixiang Ren , Zhoujian Cao

Eccentric compact binary mergers are significant scientific targets for current and future gravitational wave observatories. To detect and analyze eccentric signals, there is an increasing effort to develop waveform models, numerical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-10 Md Arif Shaikh , Vijay Varma , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Antoni Ramos-Buades , Maarten van de Meent

We present the first systematic study of strong binary-single and binary-binary black hole interactions with the inclusion of general relativity. When including general relativistic effects in strong encounters, dissipation of orbital…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-18 Michael Zevin , Johan Samsing , Carl Rodriguez , Carl-Johan Haster , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

The possible formation of stellar-mass binary black holes through dynamical interactions in dense stellar environments predicts the existence of binaries with non-negligible eccentricity in the frequency band of ground-based gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-19 Antoni Ramos-Buades , Shubhanshu Tiwari , Maria Haney , Sascha Husa

Gravitational waves (GWs) from compact binary coalescences provide an independent probe of the cosmic expansion history other than electromagnetic waves. In this work, we assume the binary black holes (BBHs) detected by LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-28 Zu-Cheng Chen , Shen-Shi Du , Qing-Guo Huang , Zhi-Qiang You

Newtonian and post-Newtonian (PN) calculations indicate that the phenomenology of eccentric binary black hole (BBH) merger waveforms is significantly more complex than that of their quasi-circular counterparts. Each spherical harmonic mode…

Gravitational waves allow us to test general relativity in the highly dynamical regime. While current observations have been consistent with waves emitted by quasi-circular binaries, eccentric binaries may also produce detectable signals in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-26 Blake Moore , Nicolás Yunes

The stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) in the nanohertz (nHz) regime, detectable by pulsar timing arrays (PTAs), provides a promising probe of the cosmic population of supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs). These binaries…

We perform a systematic study to explore the accuracy with which the parameters of intermediate-mass black-hole binary systems can be measured from their gravitational wave (GW) signatures using second-generation GW detectors. We make use…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-17 John Veitch , Michael Pürrer , Ilya Mandel

In modified gravity models that allow for additional non-compact spacetime dimensions, energy from gravitational waves can leak into these extra spacetime dimensions, leading to a reduction in the amplitude of the observed gravitational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-15 Ignacio Magana Hernandez

Wide, highly eccentric ($e>0.9$) compact binaries can naturally arise as progenitors of gravitational wave (GW) mergers. These systems are expected to have a significant population in the mHz band (e.g., $\sim 3-45$ detectable stellar-mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-28 Zeyuan Xuan , Smadar Naoz , Alvin K. Y. Li , Bence Kocsis , Erik Petigura , Alan M. Knee , Jess McIver , Kyle Kremer , Will M. Farr

We investigate the prospects of observing residual eccentricity in a population of compact binaries by calculating the power in the eccentric harmonics, following the methodology in arXiv:2411.04187. Although most observed compact binary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-09 Mukesh Kumar Singh , Ben G. Patterson , Stephen Fairhurst

The observation of gravitational waves from merging black holes and neutron stars provides a unique opportunity to discern information about their astrophysical environment. Two signatures that are considered powerful tracers to distinguish…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-18 Gonzalo Morras , Geraint Pratten , Patricia Schmidt

Gravitational waves radiated by the coalescence of compact-object binaries containing a neutron star and a black hole are one of the most interesting sources for the ground-based gravitational-wave observatories Advanced LIGO and Advanced…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-05-21 Alexander H. Nitz , Andrew Lundgren , Duncan A. Brown , Evan Ochsner , Drew Keppel , Ian W. Harry

Compact binary systems with black holes are the primary sources of interferometric advanced gravitational wave detectors. Astrophysical models suggest finite possibility of binary systems with appreciable non-zero eccentricity in the dense…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-15 Nirban Bose , Archana Pai