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Space-borne gravitational wave detectors, such as the proposed Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, are expected to observe black hole coalescences to high redshift and with large signal-to-noise ratios, rendering their gravitational waves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-29 Nicolas Yunes , Frans Pretorius , David Spergel

Aims: To showcase and characterise the rich phenomenology of temperature fluctuation patterns that are imprinted on the CMB by the gravitational wave memory (GWM) of massive black hole (BH) mergers. Methods: We analyse both individual…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-05 Lorenz Zwick , David O'Neill , Kai Hendriks , Philip Kirkeberg , Miquel Miravet-Tenés

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…

We introduce a technique to enhance the reliability of gravitational wave parameter estimation results produced by machine learning. We develop two independent machine learning models based on the Vision Transformer to estimate effective…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-15 Hibiki Iwanaga , Mahoro Matsuyama , Yousuke Itoh

Gravitational waves (GWs) from massive black hole (MBH) mergers will provide a novel way to probe the high-redshift universe and are key to understanding galactic dynamics and evolution. In this work, we analyze MBH mergers, their GW…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-19 Sourabh Magare , Abhinav Roy , Shasvath J. Kapadia , Nishikanta Khandai , R. Srianand

This paper is to introduce a new software called CBwaves which provides a fast and accurate computational tool to determine the gravitational waveforms yielded by generic spinning binaries of neutron stars and/or black holes on eccentric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-02-13 Péter Csizmadia , Gergely Debreczeni , István Rácz , Mátyás Vasúth

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

We perform a comprehensive analysis of state-of-the-art waveform models, focusing on their predictions concerning kick velocity and inferred gravitational wave memory. In our investigation we assess the accuracy of waveform models using…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-01 Fabio D'Ambrosio , Francesco Gozzini , Lavinia Heisenberg , Henri Inchauspé , David Maibach , Jann Zosso

A simple estimate is given of gravitational wave memory for the inspiral and merger of a binary black hole system. Here the memory is proportional to the total energy radiated and has a simple angular dependence. This estimate might be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-17 David Garfinkle

Gravitational waves emitted by black hole binary inspiral and mergers enable unprecedented strong-field tests of gravity, requiring accurate theoretical modelling of the expected signals in extensions of General Relativity. In this paper we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-02 Banafsheh Shiralilou , Tanja Hinderer , Samaya Nissanke , Néstor Ortiz , Helvi Witek

In GW150914, approximately $3M_{\odot}$ were radiated away as gravitational waves from the binary black hole system as it merged. The stress energy of the gravitational wave itself causes a nonlinear memory effect in the detectors here on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-27 Aaron D. Johnson , Shasvath J. Kapadia , Andrew Osborne , Alex Hixon , Daniel Kennefick

Gravitational waves from binary neutron star (BNS) and black hole/neutron star (BHNS) inspirals are primary sources for detection by the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. The tidal forces acting on the neutron…

Gravitational-wave (GW) memory effects produce permanent shifts in the GW strain and its time integrals after the passage of a burst of GWs. Their presence is closely tied to symmetries of asymptotically flat spacetimes and fluxes of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-22 Shammi Tahura , David A. Nichols , Kent Yagi

The recently discovered gravitational wave event GW231123 was interpreted as the merger of two black holes with a total mass of 190-265 $M_\odot$, making it the heaviest such merger detected to date. Whilst much of the post-discovery…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-27 Qian Hu , Harsh Narola , Jef Heynen , Mick Wright , John Veitch , Justin Janquart , Chris Van Den Broeck

Observations of gravitational waves from massive binary black hole systems at cosmological distances can be used to search for a dependence of the speed of propagation of the waves on wavelength, and thereby to bound the mass of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-02 Adamantios Stavridis , Clifford M. Will

We present a novel gravitational wave detection algorithm that conducts a matched filter search stochastically across the compact binary parameter space rather than relying on a fixed bank of template waveforms. This technique is…

We introduce deep learning models to estimate the masses of the binary components of black hole mergers, $(m_1,m_2)$, and three astrophysical properties of the post-merger compact remnant, namely, the final spin, $a_f$, and the frequency…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-21 Hongyu Shen , E. A. Huerta , Eamonn O'Shea , Prayush Kumar , Zhizhen Zhao

Parameterised models that predict the gravitational-wave (GW) signal from merging black holes are used to extract source properties from GW observations. The majority of research in this area has focused on developing methods capable of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-09 Sebastian Khan

Gravitational-wave astronomy provides a promising avenue for the discovery of new physics beyond general relativity as it probes extreme curvature and ultra-relativistic dynamics. However, in the absence of a compelling alternative to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-11 Lachlan Passenger , Shun Yin Cheung , Nir Guttman , Nikhil Kannachel , Paul D. Lasky , Eric Thrane

In this paper, we study the gravitational memory effect in pp-wave spacetimes due to the passage of a pulse having the form of a ramp profile through this spacetime. We have analyzed the effect of this pulse on the evolution of nearby…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-17 Sucheta Datta , Sarbari Guha