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Eccentricity of the inspiraling compact binaries can greatly improve the distance inference and source localization of dark sirens. In this paper, we continue the research for the space-borne atom interferometric gravitational-wave detector…

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Although gravitational waves tend to erase eccentricity of an inspiraling binary system, ellipticity can be generated in the presence of surrounding matter. We present a semi-analytical method for understanding the eccentricity distribution…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-31 Lisa Randall , Zhong-Zhi Xianyu

GW230814 was detected by the LIGO Livingston observatory with a signal-to-noise ratio of 42.4 making it the loudest gravitational-wave signal in the GWTC-4.0 catalog. The source is consistent with a binary black hole coalescence similar to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-10 The LIGO Scientific Collaboration , The Virgo Collaboration , The Kagra Collaboration , Others

Peculiar velocity encodes rich information about the formation, dynamics, evolution, and merging history of binary black holes. In this work, we employ a hierarchical Bayesian model to infer the peculiar velocity distribution of binary…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-28 Zhi-Qiang You , Zu-Cheng Chen , Lang Liu , Zhu Yi , Xiao-Jin Liu , You Wu , Yi Gong

Current templated searches for gravitational waves (GWs) emanated from compact binary coalescences (CBCs) assume that the binaries have circularized by the time they enter the sensitivity band of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) network. However,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-03 Adhrit Ravichandran , Aditya Vijaykumar , Shasvath J. Kapadia , Prayush Kumar

Gravitational wave observations of eccentric binary black hole mergers will provide unequivocal evidence for the formation of these systems through dynamical assembly in dense stellar environments. The study of these astrophysically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-06 E. A. Huerta , Roland Haas , Sarah Habib , Anushri Gupta , Adam Rebei , Vishnu Chavva , Daniel Johnson , Shawn Rosofsky , Erik Wessel , Bhanu Agarwal , Diyu Luo , Wei Ren

We model the inspiral of a compact stellar-mass object into a massive nonrotating black hole including all dissipative and conservative first-order-in-the-mass-ratio effects on the orbital motion. The techniques we develop allow inspirals…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-22 Thomas Osburn , Niels Warburton , Charles R. Evans

Eccentric binary black holes (BBHs) formed through dynamical interactions can significantly contribute to gravitational wave (GW) detections. In this work, we present a simulated catalog of dynamically-formed, stellar-mass BBHs in the local…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-28 Zeyuan Xuan , Smadar Naoz , Kyle Kremer , Michael L. Katz , Bence Kocsis , Erez Michaely

On the basis of GWTC-3, we discuss the detection prospect of extra-Galactic binary black holes (BBHs) by space gravitational-wave interferometers. In particular, targeting BBHs with component masses around 5-100$M_\odot$, we directly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-22 Naoki Seto , Koutarou Kyutoku

Dynamical interactions in star clusters are an efficient mechanism to produce the coalescing binary black holes (BBHs) that have been detected with gravitational waves (GWs). We want to understand how BBH coalescence can occur during - or…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-21 Bruno Rando Forastier , Daniel Marín Pina , Mark Gieles , Simon Portegies Zwart , Fabio Antonini

We investigate the problem of detecting gravitational waves from binaries of nonspinning black holes with masses m = 5--20 Msun, moving on quasicircular orbits, which are arguably the most promising sources for first-generation ground-based…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Alessandra Buonanno , Yanbei Chen , Michele Vallisneri

Globular clusters (GCs) are crucial for studying stellar dynamics and galactic structure, yet precise measurements of their distances and masses are often limited by uncertainties in electromagnetic (EM) observations. We present a novel…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-07 Jie Wu , Yao Xiao , Mengfei Sun , Jin Li

Recent detections of a low-frequency gravitational wave background (GWB) from various pulsar-timing-array (PTA) observations have renewed the interest in the inspiraling supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs), whose population is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-05 Li Hu , Rong-Gen Cai , Shao-Jiang Wang

We investigate features of Gravitational Waves (GWs) induced by primordial density fluctuations with a large amplitude peak associated with formation of Primordial Black Holes (PBHs). It is shown that the spectrum of induced GW is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-06 Ryo Saito , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

Resolving the formation channel(s) of merging binary black holes is a key goal in gravitational-wave astronomy. The orbital eccentricity is believed to be a precious tracer of the underlying formation pathway, but is largely dissipated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-02 Giulia Fumagalli , Isobel Romero-Shaw , Davide Gerosa , Viola De Renzis , Konstantinos Kritos , Aleksandra Olejak

Spherical harmonic modes of gravitational waveforms for inspiraling compact binaries in eccentric orbits from post-Newtonian (PN) theory accurate to third post-Newtonian order, and those extracted from numerical relativity (NR) simulations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-07 Abhishek Chattaraj , Tamal RoyChowdhury , Divyajyoti , Chandra Kant Mishra , Anshu Gupta

Our current understanding is that an environment - mainly consisting of gas or stars - is required to bring massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) with total redshifted mass $M_z\sim[10^{4},10^7]~{\rm M}_\odot$ to the LISA band from parsec…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-15 Mudit Garg , Laura Sberna , Lorenzo Speri , Francisco Duque , Jonathan Gair

In the last five years, gravitational-wave astronomy has gone from a purely theoretical field into a thriving experimental science. Many gravitational-wave signals, emitted by stellar-mass binary black holes and binary neutron stars, have…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-11 Roberto Cotesta

Extreme-mass-ratio inspiral (EMRI) is an important gravitational-wave (GW) source and it normally consists of one stellar-mass black hole (BH) whirling closely around a supermassive black hole (SMBH). In this Letter, we demonstrate that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-02 Xian Chen , Wen-Biao Han