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The Advanced LIGO and Virgo detectors opened a new era to study black holes (BHs) in our Universe. A population of stellar-mass binary BHs (BBHs) are discovered to be heavier than previously expected. These heavy BBHs provide us an…

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The events detected by the LIGO Virgo KAGRA collaboration over a period of 10 years have yielded a treasure trove of signals from compact binary coalescences. None of these events have shown a confident signature of eccentricity. With…

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The detection of gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences has provided significant insights into our Universe, and the discovery of new and unique gravitational wave candidates from independent searches remains an ongoing field…

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Binary black holes (BBHs) in eccentric orbits produce distinct modulations in gravitational waves (GWs); measuring orbital eccentricity provides evidence for dynamical binary formation channels. We analyze 57 GW events from the…

Mergers of binary black holes on eccentric orbits are among the targets for second-generation ground-based gravitational-wave detectors. These sources may commonly form in galactic nuclei due to gravitational-wave emission during close…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-06 László Gondán , Bence Kocsis , Péter Raffai , Zsolt Frei

We study the prospects of future gravitational wave (GW) detectors in probing primordial black hole (PBH) binaries. We show that across a broad mass range from $10^{-5}M_\odot$ to $10^7M_\odot$, future GW interferometers provide a potential…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-14 Oriol Pujolas , Ville Vaskonen , Hardi Veermäe

We describe a novel, very fast and robust, directed search incoherent method for periodic gravitational waves (GWs) from neutron stars in binary systems. As directed search, we assume the source sky position to be known with enough…

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Binary black hole systems are among the most important sources for gravitational wave detection. And also they are good objects for theoretical research for general relativity. Gravitational waveform template is important to data analysis.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-30 Zhoujian Cao , Wen-Biao Han

The Coherent WaveBurst (cWB) search algorithm identifies generic gravitational wave (GW) signals in the LIGO-Virgo strain data. We propose a machine learning (ML) method to optimize the pipeline sensitivity to the special class of GW…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-21 Tanmaya Mishra , Brendan O'Brien , V. Gayathri , Marek Szczepanczyk , Shubhagata Bhaumik , Imre Bartos , Sergey Klimenko

Primordial black holes (PBHs) with a wide mass distribution imprinted by the thermal history of the Universe, which naturally produces a high peak at the solar mass scale, could explain the gravitational-wave events seen by LIGO/Virgo and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 Eleni Bagui , Sebastien Clesse

Space-based gravitational-wave observatories will detect the early inspiral of stellar-mass binary black holes and can track their eccentricity evolution. However, untargeted searches in the space band are computationally demanding and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-01 Han Wang , Michael J. Williams , Ian Harry , Yi-Ming Hu

We explore machine learning methods to detect gravitational waves (GW) from binary black hole (BBH) mergers using deep learning (DL) algorithms. The DL networks are trained with gravitational waveforms obtained from BBH mergers with…

We quantify for the first time the gravitational wave (GW) phase shift appearing in the waveform of eccentric binary black hole (BBH) mergers formed dynamically in three-body systems. For this, we have developed a novel numerical method…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-12 Johan Samsing , Kai Hendriks , Lorenz Zwick , Daniel J. D'Orazio , Bin Liu

The detection of orbital eccentricity for a binary black hole system via gravitational waves is a key signature to distinguish between the possible binary origins. The identification of eccentricity has been difficult so far due to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-19 H. L. Iglesias , J. Lange , I. Bartos , S. Bhaumik , R. Gamba , V. Gayathri , A. Jan , R. Nowicki , R. O'Shaughnessy , D. Shoemaker , R. Venkataramanan , K. Wagner

Mergers of compact binaries, such as binary neutron stars (BNSs), neutron star-black hole binaries (NSBHs), and binary black holes (BBHs), are expected to be the best candidates for the sources of gravitational waves (GWs) and the leading…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-07 Wei-Wei Tan , Xi-Long Fan , F. Y. Wang

Astrophysical population simulations predict that a subset of dynamically formed binary black holes (BBHs) may possess eccentricity $\gtrsim 0.1$ at a gravitational wave (GW) frequency of $10 \,\text{Hz}$. Presently, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-31 Sajad A. Bhat , Pankaj Saini , Marc Favata , Chinmay Gandevikar , Chandra Kant Mishra , K. G. Arun

Early warning of gravitational waves (GWs) is essential for multi-messenger observations of binary neutron star and black hole-neutron star merger events. In this study, we investigate early warning prospects from eccentric compact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-10 Priyanka Sinha , R. Prasad , Mukesh Kumar Singh , Prayush Kumar , Akash Maurya , Kaushik Paul

One of the major assumptions in the search for gravitational wave signatures from massive and supermassive black hole binaries with LISA, is that these systems will have circularized before entering the LISA bandwidth. Current astrophysical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-31 Edward K. Porter , Alberto Sesana

Compact binaries inspiralling along eccentric orbits are plausible gravitational wave (GW) sources for the ground-based laser interferometers. We explore the losses in the event rates incurred when searching for GWs from compact binaries…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Tessmer , A. Gopakumar

Coalescing binary black holes (BBHs) are among the most likely sources for the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) and its international partners Virgo and KAGRA. Optimal searches for BBHs require accurate waveforms…

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