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The coalescence of binary black holes (BBHs) provides a unique arena to test general relativity (GR) in the dynamical, strong-field regime. To this end, we present pSEOBNRv5PHM, a parametrized, multipolar, spin-precessing waveform model for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-24 Lorenzo Pompili , Elisa Maggio , Hector O. Silva , Alessandra Buonanno

Gravitational waveform (GW) models are a core ingredient for the analysis of compact binary mergers observed by current ground-based interferometers. We focus here on a specific class of such models known as PhenomX, which has gained…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-24 Marta Colleoni , Felip A. Ramis Vidal , Cecilio García-Quirós , Sarp Akçay , Sayantani Bera

We present gravitational waveforms for the last orbits and merger of black-hole-binary (BBH) systems along two branches of the BBH parameter space: equal-mass binaries with equal non-precessing spins, and nonspinning unequal-mass binaries.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-12-24 Mark Hannam , Sascha Husa , Frank Ohme , Doreen Mueller , Bernd Bruegmann

Extracting the properties of a binary system emitting gravitational waves relies on models describing the last stages of the compact binary coalescence. In this article, we study potential biases inherent to current tidal waveform…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-31 Anuradha Samajdar , Tim Dietrich

We provide the post-Newtonian (PN) waveform for binary systems in motion along generic planar orbits at 2.5PN accuracy, in terms of the dynamical variables of the effective one-body (EOB) formalism. In addition to the calculation of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-09 Andrea Placidi , Gianluca Grignani , Troels Harmark , Marta Orselli , Sara Gliorio , Alessandro Nagar

We derive formulae that resum, at a given order in the soft limit, the infinite series of Post-Minkowskian (small gravitational coupling) or Post-Newtonian (small velocities) corrections to the gravitational waveform produced by particles…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-27 Andrea Cipriani , Giorgio Di Russo , Francesco Fucito , José Francisco Morales , Hasmik Poghosyan , Rubik Poghossian

Upcoming observational runs of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration, and future gravitational-wave (GW) detectors on the ground and in space, require waveform models more accurate than currently available. High-precision waveform models can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-24 Mohammed Khalil , Alessandra Buonanno , Jan Steinhoff , Justin Vines

We study gravitational wave searches for merging binary neutron stars (NSs). We use nonspinning template waveforms towards the signals emitted from aligned-spin NS-NS binaries, in which the spins of the NSs are aligned with the orbital…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-14 Hee-Suk Cho , Chang-Hwan Lee

We present two new frequency-domain gravitational waveform models for the analysis of signals emitted by binary neutron star coalescences: IMRPhenomXAS_NRTidalv2 and IMRPhenomXP_NRTidalv2. Both models are available through the public…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-05 Marta Colleoni , Felip A. Ramis Vidal , Nathan K. Johnson-McDaniel , Tim Dietrich , Maria Haney , Geraint Pratten

The data analysis of the gravitational wave signals emitted by coalescing neutron star binaries requires the availability of an accurate analytical representation of the dynamics and waveforms of these systems. We propose an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-15 Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Alessandro Nagar , Tim Dietrich , Thibault Damour

A new scheme for computing dynamical evolutions and gravitational radiations for intermediate-mass-ratio inspirals (IMRIs) based on an effective one-body (EOB) dynamics plus Teukolsky perturbation theory is built in this paper. In the EOB…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-11-10 Wen-Biao Han , Zhoujian Cao

Compact binary systems with total masses between tens and hundreds of solar masses will produce gravitational waves during their merger phase that are detectable by second-generation ground-based gravitational-wave detectors. In order to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-30 Kipp Cannon , Chad Hanna , Drew Keppel

Angular momentum and spin precession are expected to be generic features of a significant fraction of binary black hole systems. As such, it is essential to have waveform models that faithfully incorporate the effects of precession. Here,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-13 Jake Mac Uilliam , Sarp Akcay , Jonathan E. Thompson

We present our 3.5PN computation of the (2,2) mode of the gravitational wave amplitude emitted by compact binaries, on quasi-circular orbits and in the absence of spins. We use the multipolar post-Newtonian wave generation formalism,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-10-09 Guillaume Faye , Sylvain Marsat , Luc Blanchet , Bala R. Iyer

We present the first analytical inspiral-merger-ringdown gravitational waveforms from binary black holes (BBHs) with non-precessing spins, that is based on a description of the late-inspiral, merger and ringdown in full general relativity.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-06-27 P. Ajith , M. Hannam , S. Husa , Y. Chen , B. Bruegmann , N. Dorband , D. Mueller , F. Ohme , D. Pollney , C. Reisswig , L. Santamaria , J. Seiler

We present an analytical waveform family describing gravitational waves (GWs) from the inspiral, merger and ringdown of non-spinning black-hole binaries including the effect of several non-quadrupole modes [($\ell = 2, m = \pm 1), (\ell =…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-20 Ajit Kumar Mehta , Chandra Kant Mishra , Vijay Varma , Parameswaran Ajith

Recent progress in gravitational self-force theory has led to the development of a first post-adiabatic (1PA) waveform model for nonspinning, quasicircular compact binaries [Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 241402 (2023)]. In this paper, we extend…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-28 Josh Mathews , Barry Wardell , Adam Pound , Niels Warburton

We compare results from numerical simulations of spinning binaries in the "orbital hangup" case, where the binary completes at least nine orbits before merger, with post-Newtonian results using the approximants TaylorT1, T4 and Et. We find…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Mark Hannam , Sascha Husa , Bernd Brügmann , Achamveedu Gopakumar

The construction of a model of the gravitational-wave (GW) signal from generic configurations of spinning-black-hole binaries, through inspiral, merger and ringdown, is one of the most pressing theoretical problems in the build-up to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-15 Mark Hannam , Patricia Schmidt , Alejandro Bohé , Leila Haegel , Sascha Husa , Frank Ohme , Geraint Pratten , Michael Pürrer

Within the context of the Effective Field Theory (EFT) framework to gravitational dynamics, we compute the Hamiltonian, source quadrupole moment, and gravitational-wave energy flux for (non-spinning) inspiralling compact binaries at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-27 Loris Amalberti , Zixin Yang , Rafael A. Porto