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This fourth release of the RIT public catalog of numerical relativity black-hole-binary waveforms \url{http://ccrg.rit.edu/~RITCatalog} consists of 1881 accurate simulations that include 446 precessing and 611 nonprecessing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-22 James Healy , Carlos O. Lousto

The RIT numerical relativity group is releasing the second public catalog of black-hole-binary waveforms \url{http://ccrg.rit.edu/~RITCatalog}. This release consists of 320 accurate simulations that include 46 precessing and 274…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-17 James Healy , Carlos O. Lousto , Jacob Lange , Richard O'Shaughnessy , Yosef Zlochower , Manuela Campanelli

The RIT numerical relativity group is releasing a public catalog of black-hole-binary waveforms. The initial release of the catalog consists of 126 recent simulations that include precessing and non precessing systems with mass ratios…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-22 James Healy , Carlos O. Lousto , Yosef Zlochower , Manuela Campanelli

This paper presents a publicly available catalog of 174 numerical binary black-hole simulations following up to 35 orbits. The catalog includes 91 precessing binaries, mass ratios up to 8:1, orbital eccentricities from a few percent to…

We present a public catalogue of numerical-relativity binary-black-hole simulations. The catalogue contains datasets from 80 distinct configurations of precessing binary-black-hole systems, with mass ratios up to $m_2/m_1 = 8$,…

Numerical relativity waveforms are a critical resource in the quest to deepen our understanding of the dynamics of, and gravitational waves emitted from, merging binary systems. We present 181 new numerical relativity simulations as the…

This paper introduces a catalog of gravitational waveforms from the bank of simulations by the numerical relativity effort at Georgia Tech. Currently, the catalog consists of 452 distinct waveforms from more than 600 binary black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-05 Karan Jani , James Healy , James A. Clark , Lionel London , Pablo Laguna , Deirdre Shoemaker

We present the results of 14 simulations of nonspinning black hole binaries with mass ratios $q=m_1/m_2$ in the range $1/100\leq q\leq1$. For each of these simulations we perform three runs at increasing resolution to assess the finite…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-07-26 James Healy , Carlos O. Lousto , Yosef Zlochower

Using exclusively the 777 full numerical waveforms of the third Binary Black Holes RIT catalog, we reanalyze the ten black hole merger signals reported in LIGO/Virgo's O1/O2 observation runs. We obtain binary parameters, extrinsic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-04 James Healy , Carlos O. Lousto , Jacob Lange , Richard O'Shaughnessy

We present the results of 61 new simulations of nonprecessing spinning black hole binaries with mass ratios $q=m_1/m_2$ in the range $1/3\leq q\leq1$ and individual spins covering the parameter space $-0.85\leq\alpha_{1,2}\leq0.85$. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-08 James Healy , Carlos O. Lousto

We present a new set of 95 numerical relativity simulations of non-precessing binary black holes (BBHs). The simulations sample comprehensively both black-hole spins up to spin magnitude of 0.9, and cover mass ratios 1 to 3. The simulations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-17 Tony Chu , Heather Fong , Prayush Kumar , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Michael Boyle , Daniel A. Hemberger , Lawrence E. Kidder , Mark A. Scheel , Bela Szilagyi

The availability of accurate numerical waveforms is an important requirement for the creation and calibration of reliable waveform models for gravitational wave astrophysics. For black hole-neutron star binaries, very few accurate waveforms…

High-accuracy binary black hole simulations are presented for black holes with spins anti-aligned with the orbital angular momentum. The particular case studied represents an equal-mass binary with spins of equal magnitude S/m^2=0.43757 \pm…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-08 Tony Chu , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Mark A. Scheel

We develop new strategies to build numerical relativity surrogate models for eccentric binary black hole systems, which are expected to play an increasingly important role in current and future gravitational-wave detectors. We introduce a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-26 Tousif Islam , Vijay Varma , Jackie Lodman , Scott E. Field , Gaurav Khanna , Mark A. Scheel , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Davide Gerosa , Lawrence E. Kidder

Numerical relativity simulations provide a full description of the dynamics of binary systems, including gravitational radiation. The waveforms produced by these simulations have a number of applications in gravitational-wave detection and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-09 Taylor Knapp , Katerina Chatziioannou , Keefe Mitman , Mark A. Scheel , Michael Boyle , Lawrence E. Kidder , Harald Pfeiffer

Accurate models of gravitational waves from merging black holes are necessary for detectors to observe as many events as possible while extracting the maximum science. Near the time of merger, the gravitational waves from merging black…

We present the second release of the $\texttt{GR-Athena++}$ waveform catalog, comprising four new quasi-circular, non-precessing, spinning binary black hole simulations. These simulations are performed at high resolutions and represent a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-09 Estuti Shukla , Alireza Rashti , Rossella Gamba , David Radice , Koustav Chandra

The detection and subsequent inference of binary black hole signals rely heavily on the accuracy of the waveform model employed. In the highly non-linear, dynamic, and strong-field regime near merger, these waveforms can only be accurately…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-02 Alireza Rashti , Rossella Gamba , Koustav Chandra , David Radice , Boris Daszuta , William Cook , Sebastiano Bernuzzi

The first spectral numerical simulations of 16 orbits, merger, and ringdown of an equal-mass non-spinning binary black hole system are presented. Gravitational waveforms from these simulations have accumulated numerical phase errors through…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-01-20 Mark A. Scheel , Michael Boyle , Tony Chu , Lawrence E. Kidder , Keith D. Matthews , Harald P. Pfeiffer
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