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This work is the first in a series of studies aimed at understanding the dynamics of highly eccentric binary neutron stars, and constructing an appropriate gravitational-waveform model for detection. Such binaries are possible sources for…

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The orbital energy and momentum of the compact binary systems will loss due to gravitational radiation. Based on the mass and mass-current multipole moments of the binary system with the spin vector defined by Boh\'{e} et al. [Class.…

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To describe a general bound binary black hole system, we need to consider orbital eccentricity and the misalignment of black holes' spin vectors with respect to the orbital angular momentum. While binary black holes produced through many…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-13 Amitesh Singh , Nathan K. Johnson-McDaniel , Anuradha Gupta , Khun Sang Phukon

We investigate the dynamics of a nonzero mass, circular orbit planet around an eccentric orbit binary for various values of the binary eccentricity, binary mass fraction, planet mass, and planet semi--major axis by means of numerical…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Cheng Chen , Alessia Franchini , Stephen H. Lubow , Rebecca G. Martin

Searches for gravitational waves from compact binaries focus mostly on quasi-circular motion, with the rationale that wave emission circularizes the orbit. Here, we study the generality of this result, when astrophysical environments (e.g.,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-20 Vitor Cardoso , Caio F. B. Macedo , Rodrigo Vicente

The stellar ejection rate and the rates of change of the binary semimajor axis and eccentricity are derived from scattering experiments for the restricted three-body problem. They are used to study the evolution of binaries in simple models…

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We study the evolution of circumstellar massive disks around the primary star of a binary system focusing on the computation of disk eccentricity. In particular, we concentrate on its dependence on the binary eccentricity. Self-gravity is…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 F. Marzari , H. Scholl , P. Thebault , C. Baruteau

Studies of binary pulsars provide insight into various theories of physics. Detection of such systems is challenging due to the Doppler modulation of the pulsed signal caused by the orbital motion of the pulsar. We investigated the loss of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-17 Manjari Bagchi , Duncan R. Lorimer , Spencer Wolfe

We present a new approach to studying the evolution of massive black hole binaries in a stellar environment. By imposing conservation of total energy and angular momentum in scattering experiments, we find the dissipation forces that are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Yohai Meiron , Ari Laor

We perform simulations of magnetohydrodynamic accretion onto equal-mass, nonspinning binary black holes in 3+1 full general relativity addressing the effects of orbital eccentricity. We find that binary black holes with non-negligible…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-11 Vikram Manikantan , Vasileios Paschalidis , Gabriele Bozzola

In this thesis, we use numerical relativity to investigate gravitational waves from binary black holes in extensions of GR. We first study spherically symmetric gravitational collapse in cubic Horndeski theories of gravity. By varying the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-24 Tiago França

We analyze the observed distribution of the orbital eccentricity and period of binary radio pulsars in globular clusters using computational tools to simulate binary-single star interactions. Globular clusters have different groups of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Manjari Bagchi , Alak Ray

Compact objects evolving in an astrophysical environment experience a gravitational drag force known as dynamical friction. We present a multipole-frequency decomposition to evaluate the orbit-averaged energy and angular momentum…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-22 Gali Eytan , Vincent Desjacques , Yonadav Barry Ginat

We develop a method to compute low-eccentricity initial data of binary neutron stars required to perform realistic simulations in numerical relativity. The orbital eccentricity is controlled by adjusting the orbital angular velocity of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-27 Koutarou Kyutoku , Masaru Shibata , Keisuke Taniguchi

Interaction of a binary supermassive black hole with stars in a galactic nucleus can result in changes to all the elements of the binary's orbit, including the angles that define its orientation. If the nucleus is rotating, the orientation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-04-05 Alexander Rasskazov , David Merritt

We compute the leading order contribution to radiative losses in the case of spinning binaries with aligned spins due to their spin-orbit interaction. The orbital average along hyperboliclike orbits is taken through an appropriate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-04 Donato Bini , Andrea Geralico , Piero Rettegno

We discuss the energy loss due to gravitational radiation of binaries composed of exotic objects whose horizon boundary conditions are replaced with reflective ones. Our focus is on the extreme mass-ratio inspirals, in which the central…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-06 Norichika Sago , Takahiro Tanaka

In a recent paper Martin & Lubow showed that a circumbinary disc around an eccentric binary can undergo damped nodal oscillations that lead to the polar (perpendicular) alignment of the disc relative to the binary orbit. The disc angular…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 Rebecca G. Martin , Stephen H. Lubow

The rate of energy loss and orbital period decay of quasi-stable compact binary systems are derived in $f(R)$ theory of gravity using the method of a single vertex graviton emission process from a classical source. After linearising the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-28 Ashish Narang , Subhendra Mohanty , Soumya Jana

Binary systems with neutron stars and double degenerate systems are crucial objects to test current stellar evolution models and Einstein's general relativity. In this study, we present angular momentum loss mechanism via gravitational…

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