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Compact binary systems with neutron stars or black holes are one of the most promising sources for ground-based gravitational wave detectors. Gravitational radiation encodes rich information about source physics; thus parameter estimation…

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Bhadbade , I. A. Bilenko , G. Billingsley , J. Birch , R. Biswas , M. Bitossi , M. A. Bizouard , E. Black , J. K. Blackburn , L. Blackburn , D. Blair , B. Bland , M. Blom , O. Bock , T. P. Bodiya , C. Bogan , C. Bond , R. Bondarescu , F. Bondu , L. Bonelli , R. Bonnand , R. Bork , M. Born , V. Boschi , S. Bose , L. Bosi , B. Bouhou , S. Braccini , C. Bradaschia , P. R. Brady , V. B. Braginsky , M. Branchesi , J. E. Brau , J. Breyer , T. Briant , D. O. Bridges , A. Brillet , M. Brinkmann , V. Brisson , M. Britzger , A. F. Brooks , D. A. Brown , T. Bulik , H. J. Bulten , A. Buonanno , J. Burguet--Castell , D. Buskulic , C. Buy , R. L. Byer , L. Cadonati , G. Cagnoli , E. Calloni , J. B. Camp , P. Campsie , K. Cannon , B. Canuel , J. Cao , C. D. Capano , F. Carbognani , L. Carbone , S. Caride , S. Caudill , M. Cavaglià , F. Cavalier , R. Cavalieri , G. Cella , C. Cepeda , E. Cesarini , T. Chalermsongsak , P. Charlton , E. Chassande-Mottin , W. Chen , X. Chen , Y. Chen , A. 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Prospects for detecting asteroid-mass primordial black holes in extreme mass-ratio inspirals with continuous gravitational waves

Despite decades of research, the existence of asteroid-mass primordial black holes (PBHs) remains almost completely unconstrained and thus could still comprise the totality of dark matter (DM). In this paper, we show that standard searches…

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Effective-one-body modelling of eccentric supermassive black hole binaries for Pulsar Timing Array

Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) observations will detect gravitational waves (GWs) from the early inspiral phase of supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) with orbital periods of weeks to years. Current PTA analyses generally assume circular…

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An optimized PyCBC search for gravitational waves from intermediate-mass black hole mergers

The detection of intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) i.e. those with mass $\sim 100$-$10^5 M_\odot$, is an emerging goal of gravitational-wave (GW) astronomy with wide implications for cosmology and tests of strong-field gravity. Current…

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Inferring Eccentricity of Binary Black Holes from Spin-Orbit Misalignment

Orbital eccentricity remains one of the least accessible parameters in observations of binary black hole (BBH) systems, largely erased by gravitational radiation long before detection. We introduce a new method to recover this lost…

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Eccentricity constraints disfavor single-single capture in nuclear star clusters as the origin of all LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA binary black holes

Multiple formation pathways have been proposed for the origin of binary black holes (BBHs). These include isolated binary evolution and dynamical assembly in dense stellar environments such as nuclear or globular star clusters. Yet, the…

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Black hole triple dynamics: breakdown of the orbit average approximation and implications for gravitational wave detections

Coalescing black hole (BH) binaries forming in the dense core of globular clusters (GCs) are expected to be one the brightest sources of gravitational wave (GW) radiation for the next generation of ground-based laser interferometers.…

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Deep learning to detect gravitational waves from binary close encounters: Fast parameter estimation using normalizing flows

A yet undetected class of GW signals is represented by the close encounters between compact objects in highly-eccentric e~1 orbits, that can occur in binary systems formed in dense environments such as globular clusters. The expected…

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Comparison and application of different post-Newtonian models for inspiralling stellar-mass binary black holes with space-based GW detectors

Space-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors are expected to detect the stellar-mass binary black holes (SBBHs) inspiralling in the low-frequency band, which exist in several years before the merger. Accurate GW waveforms in the inspiral…

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Effect of eccentricity on binary neutron star searches in Advanced LIGO

Binary neutron stars (BNSs) are the primary source of gravitational waves for the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and its international partners Virgo and KAGRA. Current BNS searches target field binaries whose…

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High Eccentricities and High Masses Characterize Gravitational-wave Captures in Galactic Nuclei as Seen by Earth-based Detectors

The emission of gravitational waves (GWs) during single-single close encounters in galactic nuclei (GNs) leads to the formation and rapid merger of highly eccentric stellar-mass black hole (BH) binaries. The distinct distribution of…

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Gravitational wave source localization for eccentric binary coalesce with a ground-based detector network

Gravitational wave source localization problem is important in gravitational wave astronomy. Regarding ground-based detector, almost all of the previous investigations only considered the difference of arrival time among the detector…

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Search templates for stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds

Several earth-based gravitational-wave (GW) detectors are actively pursuing the quest for placing observational constraints on models that predict the behavior of a variety of astrophysical and cosmological sources. These sources span a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sukanta Bose

Prospects of eLISA for Detecting Galactic Binary Black Holes Similar to GW150914

We discuss the prospects of eLISA for detecting gravitational waves (GWs) from Galactic binary black holes (BBHs) similar to GW150914. For a comoving merger rate that is consistent with current observation, eLISA is likely to identify at…

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Neural Networks unveiling the properties of gravitational wave background from massive black hole binaries

Massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) are binary systems formed by black holes with mass exceeding millions of solar masses, expected to form and evolve in the nuclei of galaxies. The extreme compact nature of such objects determines a loud…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-26 Matteo Bonetti , Alessia Franchini , Bruno Giovanni Galuzzi , Alberto Sesana

Distinguishing high-mass binary neutron stars from binary black holes with second- and third-generation gravitational wave observatories

(Abridged) While the gravitational-wave (GW) signal GW170817 was accompanied by a variety of electromagnetic (EM) counterparts, sufficiently high-mass binary neutron star (BNS) mergers are expected to be unable to power bright EM…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-13 An Chen , Nathan K. Johnson-McDaniel , Tim Dietrich , Reetika Dudi

Black Hole Binaries in Galactic Nuclei and Gravitational Wave Sources

Stellar black hole (BH) binaries are one of the most promising gravitational wave (GW) sources for GW detection by the ground-based detectors. Nuclear star clusters (NCs) located at the centre of galaxies are known to harbour massive black…

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Expectations for the first supermassive black-hole binary resolved by PTAs II: Milestones for binary characterization

Following the recent evidence for a gravitational wave (GW) background found by pulsar timing array (PTA) experiments, the next major science milestone is resolving individual supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs). The detection of…

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Accurate waveform models for gravitational-wave astrophysics: synergetic approaches from analytical relativity

Gravitational-wave (GW) astrophysics is a field in full blossom. Since the landmark detection of GWs from a binary black hole on September 14th 2015, several compact-object binaries have been reported by the LIGO-Virgo collaboration. Such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-04 Andrea Antonelli

Searches for long-duration gravitational wave transients in LIGO and Virgo data

Long-lived gravitational wave (GW) transients have received interest in the last decade, as the sensitivity of LIGO and Virgo increases. Such signals, lasting between 10 and 1000s, can come from a variety of sources, including accretion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-24 Adrian Macquet , Marie-Anne Bizouard , Nelson Christensen , Michael Coughlin