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The detection of gravitational-wave signals from coalescing eccentric binary black holes would yield unprecedented information about the formation and evolution of compact binaries in specific scenarios, such as dynamical formation in dense…

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We present a reanalysis of 17 gravitational-wave events detected with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo in their first three observing runs, using the new IMRPhenomTEHM model -- a phenomenological time-domain multipolar waveform model for…

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We analyze a new numerical relativity dataset of spinning but nonprecessing binary black holes on eccentric orbits, with eccentricities from approximately $0.1$ to $0.5$, with dimensionless spins up to $0.75$ included at mass ratios…

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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…

We construct an inspiral-merger-ringdown eccentric gravitational-wave (GW) model for binary black holes with non-precessing spins within the effective-one-body formalism. This waveform model, SEOBNRv4EHM, extends the accurate quasi-circular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-02 Antoni Ramos-Buades , Alessandra Buonanno , Mohammed Khalil , Serguei Ossokine

Binaries of supermassive black holes (MBHBs) represent the primary sources of the gravitational wave background (GWB) detectable by Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs). The eccentricity with which binaries form in galactic mergers is the key…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-06 Alessia Gualandris , Justin Read , Federica Fastidio , Julian Chan , Thibaut François , Nader Khonji , Walter Dehnen

Gravitational waves (GW), emanating from binary black holes (BBH), encode vital information about their source. GW signals enable us to deduce key properties of the BBH population across the universe, including mass, spin, and eccentricity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-08 Muhammad Zeeshan , Richard O'Shaughnessy

Dynamically assembled binary black holes are expected to retain measurable orbital eccentricity in the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA band, but most parameter estimation analyses still assume quasi-circular inspirals. This raises a critical question: how…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-04 Tamal RoyChowdhury , V. Gayathri , Rossella Gamba , Shubhagata Bhaumik , Imre Bartos , Jolien Creighton

We use the open source, community-driven, numerical relativity software, the Einstein Toolkit to study the physics of eccentric, spinning, nonprecessing binary black hole mergers with mass-ratios $q=\{2, 4, 6\}$, individual dimensionless…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-22 Abhishek V. Joshi , Shawn G. Rosofsky , Roland Haas , E. A. Huerta

In the first Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalogue of LIGO and Virgo, all events are announced having zero eccentricity. In the present paper, we investigate the performance of SEOBNRE which is a spin-aligned eccentric waveform model in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-21 Qian-Yun Yun , Wen-Biao Han , Gang Wang , Shu-Cheng Yang

While the expectation is that the majority of gravitational wave events observable by ground-based detectors will be emitted by compact binaries in quasi-circular orbits, the growing number of detections suggests the possibility of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-02 Blake Moore , Nicolás Yunes

Detections of gravitational waves emitted from binary black hole coalescences allow us to probe the strong-field dynamics of general relativity (GR). One can compare the observed gravitational-wave signals with theoretical waveform models…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-30 Purnima Narayan , Nathan K. Johnson-McDaniel , Anuradha Gupta

We investigate the systematic biases in measuring orbital eccentricity for binary black hole (BBH) mergers that arise when higher-order modes (HOMs) of gravitational waves are neglected in waveform modeling. Using Bayesian inference with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-05 Honglue Tang , Jinzhao Yang , Baoxiang Wang , Tao Yang

Effective one body numerical relativity waveform models for spin aligned binary black holes (SEOBNR) are based on the effective one body theoretical framework and numerical relativity simulation results. SEOBNR models have evolved through…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-28 Xiaolin Liu , Zhoujian Cao , Lijing Shao

Standardizing the definition of eccentricity is necessary for unambiguous inference of the orbital eccentricity of compact binaries from gravitational wave observations. In previous works, we proposed a definition of eccentricity for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-30 Md Arif Shaikh , Vijay Varma , Antoni Ramos-Buades , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Michael Boyle , Lawrence E. Kidder , Mark A. Scheel

Simulation of quasicircular compact binaries is a major goal in numerical relativity, as they are expected to constitute most gravitational wave observations. However, given that orbital eccentricity is not well-defined in general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-10 Sarah Habib , Mark Scheel , Saul Teukolsky

We perform a parameter study of non-spinning, equal and unequal mass black hole binaries on generic, eccentric orbits in numerical relativity. The linear momentum considered ranges from that of a circular orbit to ten times that value. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-10-02 Roman Gold , Bernd Bruegmann

Most gravitational wave (GW) events observed by the LIGO and Virgo detectors are consistent with mergers of binary black holes (BBHs) on quasi-circular orbits. However, some events are also consistent with non-zero orbital eccentricity,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-23 Divyajyoti , Sumit Kumar , Snehal Tibrewal , Isobel M. Romero-Shaw , Chandra Kant Mishra

We study the phenomenology of non-spinning eccentric binary black hole (BBH) mergers using numerical relativity (NR) waveforms and \texttt{EccentricIMR} waveform model, as presented in Ref. \cite{Hinder:2017sxy} (Hinder, Kidder, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-07 Tousif Islam

Effective-one-body (EOB) numerical-relativity (NR) waveform models for spin-aligned binary black holes (BBHs), known as the SEOBNR waveform models, are based on the EOB theoretical framework and NR simulations. SEOBNR models have played an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-04 Xiaolin Liu , Zhoujian Cao , Lijing Shao