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The order of the post-Newtonian expansion needed, to extract in a reliable and accurate manner the fully general relativistic gravitational wave signal from inspiralling compact binaries, is explored. A class of approximate wave forms,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Thibault Damour , Bala R. Iyer , B. S. Sathyaprakash

We explore the performance of an updated effective-one-body (EOB) model for spin-aligned coalescing black hole binaries designed to deal with any orbital configuration. The model stems from previous work involving the \TEOBResumS{} waveform…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-10 Alessandro Nagar , Piero Rettegno

For black-hole binaries whose spins are (anti-) aligned with respect to the orbital angular momentum of the binary, we compute the frequency domain phasing coefficients including the quadratic-in-spin terms up to the third post-Newtonian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-04 Chandra Kant Mishra , Aditya Kela , K. G. Arun , Guillaume Faye

Coalescing binaries of neutron stars (NS) and black holes (BH) are one of the most important sources of gravitational waves for the upcoming network of ground based detectors. Detection and extraction of astrophysical information from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-08 Prayush Kumar , Kevin Barkett , Swetha Bhagwat , Nousha Afshari , Duncan A. Brown , Geoffrey Lovelace , Mark A. Scheel , Béla Szilágyi

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals are among the key sources of gravitational waves for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna space-based gravitational-wave detector. Achieving sufficient accuracy in the gravitational-wave template for these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-14 Gabriel Andres Piovano , Christiana Pantelidou , Jake Mac Uilliam , Vojtěch Witzany

The detection of gravitational waves from inspiraling compact binaries using matched filtering depends crucially on the availability of accurate template waveforms. We determine whether the accuracy of the templates' phasing can be improved…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Wolfgang Tichy , Eanna E. Flanagan , Eric Poisson

We report on recent results obtained in the post-Newtonian framework for the modelling of the gravitational waves emitted by binary systems of spinning compact objects (black holes and/or neutron stars). These new results are obtained at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-12-20 Sylvain Marsat , Luc Blanchet , Alejandro Bohe , Guillaume Faye

We derive the gravitational waveform and gravitational-wave energy flux generated by a binary star system of compact objects (neutron stars or black holes), accurate through second post-Newtonian order ($O[(v/c)^4] \sim O[(Gm/rc^2)^2]$)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Clifford M. Will , Alan G. Wiseman

Using the multipolar post-Minkowskian and matching formalism we compute the gravitational waveform of inspiralling compact binaries moving in quasi-circular orbits at the second and a half post-Newtonian (2.5PN) approximation to general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 K G Arun , Luc Blanchet , Bala R Iyer , Moh'd S S Qusailah

We investigate the non-adiabatic dynamics of spinning black hole binaries by using an analytical Hamiltonian completed with a radiation-reaction force, containing spin couplings, which matches the known rates of energy and angular momentum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 Alessandra Buonanno , Yanbei Chen , Thibault Damour

This paper is motivated by the need to improve the post-Newtonian (PN) amplitude accuracy of waveforms for gravitational waves generated by inspiralling compact binaries, both for use in data analysis and in the comparison between…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Guillaume Faye , Luc Blanchet , Bala R. Iyer

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 present the analytic evaluation of the gravitational energy and of the angular momentum flux with tidal effects for inspiraling compact binaries, at next-to-next-to-leading post-Newtoian (2PN) order, within the effective field theory…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-22 Manoj K. Mandal , Pierpaolo Mastrolia , Raj Patil , Jan Steinhoff

We present numerically-informed closed-form expressions for the dominant $(\ell,m)=(2,2)$ waveform harmonic of the post-merger emission from mergers of non-spinning binary black holes with comparable masses on highly eccentric orbits. Using…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-20 Nishkal Rao , Gregorio Carullo

A quasi-Keplerian parameterisation for the solutions of second post-Newtonian (PN) accurate equations of motion for spinning compact binaries is obtained including leading order spin-spin and next-to-leading order spin-orbit interactions.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-13 Manuel Tessmer , Johannes Hartung , Gerhard Schaefer

We extend our previous work devoted to the computation of the next-to-next-to-leading order spin-orbit correction (corresponding to 3.5PN order) in the equations of motion of spinning compact binaries, by: (i) Deriving the corresponding…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-04-03 Alejandro Bohé , Sylvain Marsat , Guillaume Faye , Luc Blanchet

We present initial results of our study of numerical methods for modeling neutron star mergers (NSMs) with simulations that perform the full hydrodynamic evolution required to capture tidal effects, particularly in the last several orbits.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alan C. Calder , F. Douglas Swesty , Edward Y. M. Wang

General relativity predicts the gravitational wave signatures of coalescing binary black holes. Explicit waveform predictions for such systems, required for optimal analysis of observational data, have so far been achieved using the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 John G. Baker , James R. van Meter , Sean T. McWilliams , Joan Centrella , Bernard J. Kelly

Many relevant applications in gravitational wave physics share a significant common problem: the seven-dimensional parameter space of gravitational waveforms from precessing compact binary inspirals and coalescences is large enough to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-16 Jonathan Blackman , Bela Szilagyi , Chad R. Galley , Manuel Tiglio

Effective-one-body (EOB) waveforms employed by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration have primarily been developed by resumming the post-Newtonian expansion of the relativistic two-body problem. Given the recent significant advancements in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-28 Alessandra Buonanno , Gustav Uhre Jakobsen , Gustav Mogull