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The subsequent observing runs of the advanced gravitational-wave detector network will likely provide us with various gravitational-wave observations of binary neutron star systems. For an accurate interpretation of these detections, we…

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Surrogate models of numerical relativity simulations of merging black holes provide the most accurate tools for gravitational-wave data analysis. Neural network-based surrogates promise evaluation speedups, but their accuracy relies on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-21 Lucy M. Thomas , Katerina Chatziioannou , Vijay Varma , Scott E. Field

With recent advances in post-Newtonian (PN) theory and numerical relativity (NR) it has become possible to construct inspiral-merger-ringdown waveforms by combining both descriptions into one hybrid signal. While addressing the reliability…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-30 Frank Ohme , Mark Hannam , Sascha Husa

Gravitational-wave approximants are essential for gravitational-wave astronomy, allowing the coverage binary black hole parameter space for inference or match filtering without costly numerical relativity (NR) simulations, but generally…

Gravitational waveform templates are a key ingredient for the detection and characterization of gravitational waves emitted by compact binary mergers in the universe. These templates must be physically accurate and extensive, but also…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-17 Christopher Whittall , Geraint Pratten

This article studies sufficient accuracy criteria of hybrid post-Newtonian (PN) and numerical relativity (NR) waveforms for parameter estimation of strong binary black-hole sources in second- generation ground-based gravitational-wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-30 Ilana MacDonald , Abdul H. Mroue , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Michael Boyle , Lawrence E. Kidder , Mark A. Scheel , Bela Szilagyi , Nicholas W. Taylor

We present ${\tt NRPMw}$, an analytical model of gravitational-waves from neutron star merger remnants informed using 618 numerical relativity (NR) simulations. ${\tt NRPMw}$ is designed in the frequency domain using a combination of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-19 Matteo Breschi , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Kabir Chakravarti , Alessandro Camilletti , Aviral Prakash , Albino Perego

In the past few decades, the waveform community has made advances in producing waveforms that span the inspiral-merger-ringdown of comparable-mass-ratio black hole binaries using advances in post-Newtonian and numerical relativity (NR)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-14 Hector Iglesias , Leanne Durkan , Deirdre Shoemaker

One way to produce complete inspiral-merger-ringdown gravitational waveforms from black-hole-binary systems is to connect post-Newtonian (PN) and numerical-relativity (NR) results to create "hybrid" waveforms. Hybrid waveforms are central…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-01-17 Mark Hannam , Sascha Husa , Frank Ohme , P. Ajith

We present the first numerical-relativity simulation of a compact-object binary whose gravitational waveform is long enough to cover the entire frequency band of advanced gravitational-wave detectors, such as LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA, for mass…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-07-22 Bela Szilagyi , Jonathan Blackman , Alessandra Buonanno , Andrea Taracchini , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Mark A. Scheel , Tony Chu , Lawrence E. Kidder , Yi Pan

\texttt{gwNRHME} is a framework that converts multi-modal (i.e., containing several spherical harmonic modes) quasi-circular waveforms into their eccentric counterparts, provided the quadrupolar eccentric mode is known, by exploiting…

The third Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC-3) contains 90 binary coalescence candidates detected by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration (LVK). We provide a re-analysis of binary black hole (BBH) events using a recently developed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-14 Tousif Islam , Avi Vajpeyi , Feroz H. Shaik , Carl-Johan Haster , Vijay Varma , Scott E. Field , Jacob Lange , Richard O'Shaughnessy , Rory Smith

The generation of accurate waveforms from binary black hole (BBH) mergers is a major effort in Gravitational-Wave Astronomy. In recent years, machine-learning-based surrogate models for BBH waveforms have been proposed. Those offer the…

With an increasing number of expected gravitational-wave detections of binary neutron star mergers, it is essential that gravitational-wave models employed for the analysis of observational data are able to describe generic compact binary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-06 Reetika Dudi , Tim Dietrich , Alireza Rashti , Bernd Bruegmann , Jan Steinhoff , Wolfgang Tichy

The inference of source parameters from gravitational-wave signals relies on theoretical models that describe the emitted waveform. Different model assumptions on which the computation of these models is based could lead to biases in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-17 Anna Puecher , Anuradha Samajdar , Gregory Ashton , Chris Van Den Broeck , Tim Dietrich

We present a surrogate numerical-relativity model for close hyperbolic black-hole encounters with equal masses and spins aligned with the orbital momentum. Our model, generated in terms of the Newman-Penrose scalar $\psi_4$, spans impact…

Gravitational-wave observations of binary neutron star systems can provide information about the masses, spins, and structure of neutron stars. However, this requires accurate and computationally efficient waveform models that take <1s to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-07 Benjamin D. Lackey , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Chad R. Galley , Jeroen Meidam , Chris Van Den Broeck

We study black-hole binaries in the intermediate-mass-ratio regime 0.01 < q < 0.1 with a new technique that makes use of nonlinear numerical trajectories and efficient perturbative evolutions to compute waveforms at large radii for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Carlos O. Lousto , Hiroyuki Nakano , Yosef Zlochower , Manuela Campanelli

Advances in the field of numerical relativity now make it possible to calculate the final, most powerful merger phase of binary black-hole coalescence for generic binaries. The state of the art has advanced well beyond the equal-mass case…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-14 Sean T. McWilliams , Bernard J. Kelly , John G. Baker

We explicitly demonstrate that current numerical relativity techniques are able to accurately evolve black hole binaries with mass ratios of the order of 1000:1. This proof of principle is relevant for future third generation (3G)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-19 Carlos O. Lousto , James Healy