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Gravitational waves from spin-precessing binaries exhibit amplitude oscillations that provide an invaluable method to extract the spins of the inspiraling compact objects. The spin-spin and spin-orbit interactions that cause this effect are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-03 Nicholas Loutrel , Takahiro Tanaka , Nicolas Yunes

Gravitational wave templates used in current searches for binary black holes omit the effects of precession of the orbital plane and higher order modes. While this omission seems not to impact the detection of sources having mass ratios and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-08 Juan Calderon Bustillo , Pablo Laguna , Deirdre Shoemaker

The article provides ready-to-use 1pN-accurate frequency-domain gravitational wave forms for eccentric nonspinning compact binaries of arbitrary mass ratio including the first post-Newtonian (1pN) point particle corrections to the far-zone…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-02-28 Manuel Tessmer , Gerhard Schaefer

Binary black-hole systems are expected to be important sources of gravitational waves for upcoming gravitational-wave detectors. If the spins are not colinear with each other or with the orbital angular momentum, these systems exhibit…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-07 Serguei Ossokine , Michael Boyle , Lawrence E. Kidder , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Mark A. Scheel , Béla Szilágyi

In this paper, we focus on the effect of mass-transfer between compact binaries like neutron-star-neutron-star (NS-NS) systems and neutron-star-white-dwarf (NS-WD) systems on gravitational waves (GWs). We adopt the mass quadrupole formula…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-14 Zi-han Zhang , Bin Liu , Sheng-hua Yu , Jie Yang

We study the performance of various analytical frequency-domain templates for detection and parameter estimation of gravitational waves from spin-precessing, quasi-circular, compact binary inspirals. We begin by assessing the extent to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-05-16 Katerina Chatziioannou , Neil Cornish , Antoine Klein , Nicolas Yunes

We investigate the detectability of sub-dominant spin effects in merging black-hole binaries using current gravitational-wave data. Using a phenomenological model that separates the spin dynamics into precession (azimuthal motion) and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-29 Daria Gangardt , Davide Gerosa , Michael Kesden , Viola De Renzis , Nathan Steinle

The observation of gravitational waves from merging black holes and neutron stars provides a unique opportunity to discern information about their astrophysical environment. Two signatures that are considered powerful tracers to distinguish…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-18 Gonzalo Morras , Geraint Pratten , Patricia Schmidt

Gravitational waves from binary neutron star mergers provide critical insights into dense matter physics and strong-field gravity, yet accurate waveform modeling remains computationally intensive. We present a deep generative model for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-14 Mengfei Sun , Jie Wu , Jin Li , Brendan Mccane , Nan Yang , Xianghe Ma , Borui Wang , Minghui Zhang

Gravitational waves from precessing black-hole binaries exhibit features that are absent in nonprecessing systems. The most prominent of these is a parity-violating asymmetry that beams energy and linear momentum preferentially along or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-09-24 Michael Boyle , Lawrence E. Kidder , Serguei Ossokine , Harald P. Pfeiffer

Spinning neutron stars (NSs) can emit continuous gravitational waves (GWs) that carry a wealth of information about the compact object. If such a signal is detected, it will provide us with new insight into the physical properties of matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-12 Wen-Fan Feng , Tan Liu , Jie-Wen Chen , Yan Wang , Soumya D. Mohanty

The dynamics of precessing binary black holes (BBHs) in the post-Newtonian regime has a strong timescale hierarchy: the orbital timescale is very short compared to the spin-precession timescale which, in turn, is much shorter than the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-16 Davide Gerosa , Michael Kesden , Ulrich Sperhake , Emanuele Berti , Richard O'Shaughnessy

Binary black hole simulations with black hole excision using spectral methods require a coordinate transformation into a co-rotating coordinate system where the black holes are essentially at rest. This paper presents and discusses two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-15 Serguei Ossokine , Lawrence E. Kidder , Harald P. Pfeiffer

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

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

We derive a formula for the nodal precession frequency and the Keplerian period of a particle at an arbitrarily inclined orbit (with a minimum latitudinal angle reached at the orbit) in the post-Newtonian approximation in the external field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Nail Sibgatullin

Building initial conditions for generic binary black-hole evolutions without initial spurious eccentricity remains a challenge for numerical-relativity simulations. This problem can be overcome by applying an eccentricity-removal procedure…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-17 Alessandra Buonanno , Lawrence E. Kidder , Abdul H. Mroué , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Andrea Taracchini

Mounting evidence indicates that some of the gravitational wave signals observed by the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA observatories might arise from eccentric compact object binaries, increasing the urgency for accurate waveform models for such systems.…

The gravitational radiation emitted during the merger of a black hole with a neutron star is rather similar to the radiation from the merger of two black holes when the neutron star is not tidally disrupted. When tidal disruption occurs,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-28 Francesco Pannarale , Emanuele Berti , Koutarou Kyutoku , Benjamin D. Lackey , Masaru Shibata

Precessing black hole-neutron star (BH-NS) binaries produce a rich gravitational wave signal, encoding the binary's nature and inspiral kinematics. Using the lalinference\_mcmc Markov-chain Monte Carlo parameter estimation code, we use two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 R. O'Shaughnessy , B. Farr , E. Ochsner , H. S. Cho , V. Raymond , C. Kim , C. H. Lee