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Resolving the formation channel(s) of merging binary black holes is a key goal in gravitational-wave astronomy. The orbital eccentricity is believed to be a precious tracer of the underlying formation pathway, but is largely dissipated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-02 Giulia Fumagalli , Isobel Romero-Shaw , Davide Gerosa , Viola De Renzis , Konstantinos Kritos , Aleksandra Olejak

The modelling of unequal mass binary black hole systems is of high importance to detect and estimate parameters from these systems. Numerical relativity (NR) is well suited to study systems with comparable component masses, $m_1\sim m_2$,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-11 Antoni Ramos-Buades , Maarten van de Meent , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Hannes R. Rüter , Mark A. Scheel , Michael Boyle , Lawrence E. Kidder

Accurate inclusion of both spin precession and orbital eccentricity effects in gravitational waveform models represents a key hurdle in our ability to fully characterize the properties of compact binaries. Virtually all efforts to model…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-01 Lucy M. Thomas , Katerina Chatziioannou , Sam Johar , Taylor Knapp , Michael Boyle

The gravitational-wave event GW231123_135430 is the heaviest binary black hole system observed by the LIGO--Virgo--KAGRA Collaboration to date, with the initial analysis indicating the individual black hole masses lie within or above the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-21 Aasim Jan , Sophia Nicolella , Deirdre Shoemaker , Richard O'Shaughnessy

Compact object binaries formed from dynamics interactions will generically have non-zero orbital eccentricity. The gravitational waves from such binaries can change drastically depending on how large the eccentricity is, ranging from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-31 Nicholas Loutrel

We perform a systematic study of eccentric orbiting nonspinning black hole binaries. We first make a technical study of the optimal full numerical techniques to apply to these studies. We choose different gauge parameters and Courant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-17 Giuseppe Ficarra , Carlos O. Lousto

Coalescing supermassive black hole binaries (BHBs) are expected to be the loudest sources of gravitational waves (GWs) in the Universe. Detection rates for ground or space-based detectors based on cosmological simulations and semi-analytic…

The possible formation of stellar-mass binary black holes through dynamical interactions in dense stellar environments predicts the existence of binaries with non-negligible eccentricity in the frequency band of ground-based gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-19 Antoni Ramos-Buades , Shubhanshu Tiwari , Maria Haney , Sascha Husa

This paper is to introduce a new software called CBwaves which provides a fast and accurate computational tool to determine the gravitational waveforms yielded by generic spinning binaries of neutron stars and/or black holes on eccentric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-02-13 Péter Csizmadia , Gergely Debreczeni , István Rácz , Mátyás Vasúth

Reducing orbital eccentricity in numerical relativity simulations of binary black holes is essential for producing astrophysically relevant gravitational wave models, as many of these systems are expected to be near-circular in nature.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-27 Vittoria Tommasini , Nils L. Vu , Mark A. Scheel , Saul A. Teukolsky

We develop the foundations of an effective-one-body (EOB) model for eccentric binary coalescences that includes the conservative dynamics, radiation reaction, and gravitational waveform modes from the inspiral and the merger-ringdown…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-08 Tanja Hinderer , Stanislav Babak

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is designed to detect gravitational wave signals from astrophysical sources, including those from coalescing binary systems of compact objects such as black holes. Colliding galaxies have…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-22 Joey Shapiro Key , Neil J. Cornish

The relevance of orbital eccentricity in the detection of gravitational radiation from (steady state) binary stars is emphasized. Computationnally effective fast and accurate)tools for constructing gravitational wave templates from binary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 V. Pierro , I. M. Pinto , A. D. Spallicci , E. Laserra , F. Recano

Binary black hole simulations starting from quasi-circular (i.e., zero radial velocity) initial data have orbits with small but non-zero orbital eccentricities. In this paper the quasi-equilibrium initial-data method is extended to allow…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Harald P. Pfeiffer , Duncan A. Brown , Lawrence E. Kidder , Lee Lindblom , Geoffrey Lovelace , Mark A. Scheel

In this study, we begin by revisiting the oscillatory behavior of radiative quantities-energy, angular momentum, and linear momentum-linked with initial eccentricities in binary black hole (BBH) mergers. By varying the mean anomaly $l_0$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-09 Hao Wang , Yuan Chuan Zou , Qing Wen Wu

Orbital eccentricity is one of the most robust discriminators for distinguishing between dynamical and isolated formation scenarios of binary black hole mergers using gravitational-wave observatories such as LIGO and Virgo. Using…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-12 Michael Zevin , Isobel M. Romero-Shaw , Kyle Kremer , Eric Thrane , Paul D. Lasky

We construct a new factorized waveform including $(l,|m|)=(2,2),(2,1),(3,3),(4,4)$ modes based on effective-one-body (EOB) formalism, which is valid for spinning binary black holes (BBH) in general equatorial orbit. When combined with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-02 Xiaolin Liu , Zhoujian Cao , Zong-Hong Zhu

We provide a systematic analysis of the multipolar gravitational waveform, energy and angular momentum fluxes emitted by a nonspinning test particle orbiting a Kerr black hole along equatorial, eccentric orbits. These quantities are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-31 Simone Albanesi , Alessandro Nagar , Sebastiano Bernuzzi

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…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-11 Johann Fernandes , Praveer Tiwari , Archana Pai

Compact binary systems with black holes are the primary sources of interferometric advanced gravitational wave detectors. Astrophysical models suggest finite possibility of binary systems with appreciable non-zero eccentricity in the dense…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-15 Nirban Bose , Archana Pai