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We demonstrate Bayesian analyses of the complete gravitational-wave spectrum of binary neutron star mergers events with the next-generation detector Einstein Telescope. Our mock analyses are performed for 20 different signals using the…

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Equilibria of binary neutron stars in close circular orbits are computed numerically in a waveless formulation: The full Einstein-relativistic-Euler system is solved on an initial hypersurface to obtain an asymptotically flat form of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Koji Uryu , Francois Limousin , John L. Friedman , Eric Gourgoulhon , Masaru Shibata

Compact binaries can have non-negligible orbital eccentricities in the frequency band of ground-based gravitational-wave detectors, depending on their astrophysical formation channels. To accurately determine the parameters of such systems,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-17 Quentin Henry , Mohammed Khalil

Complete waveform models able to account for arbitrary non-planar orbits represent a holy grail in current gravitational-wave astronomy. Here, we take a step towards this direction and present a simple yet efficient prescription to obtain…

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We study non-geodesic corrections to the quasicircular motion of charged test particles in the field of magnetized slowly rotating neutron stars. The gravitational field is approximated by the Lense-Thirring geometry, the magnetic field is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Pavel Bakala , Martin Urbanec , Eva Sramkova , Zdenek Stuchlik , Gabriel Torok

Despite the recent rapid progress in numerical relativity, a convergence order less than the second has so far plagued codes solving the Einstein-Euler system of equations. We report simulations of the inspiral of binary neutron stars in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-12-16 David Radice , Luciano Rezzolla , Filippo Galeazzi

Among the most eagerly anticipated opportunities made possible by Advanced LIGO/Virgo are multimessenger observations of compact mergers. Optical counterparts may be short-lived so rapid characterization of gravitational wave (GW) events is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-23 Tyson B. Littenberg , Ben Farr , Scott Coughlin , Vicky Kalogera

We derive an effective potential for binary black-hole (BBH) spin precession at second post-Newtonian order. This effective potential allows us to solve the orbit-averaged spin-precession equations analytically for arbitrary mass ratios and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-10 Michael Kesden , Davide Gerosa , Richard O'Shaughnessy , Emanuele Berti , Ulrich Sperhake

Binary compact objects will be among the important sources for the future space-based gravitational wave detectors. Such binary compact objects include stellar massive binary black hole, binary neutron star, binary white dwarf and mixture…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-21 Li-Fang Li , Zhoujian Cao

Existing estimates of the gravitational-wave damping timescale of the dominant quadrupole oscillation mode in the case of rapidly rotating stars are based on using a Newtonian estimate for the energy of the mode, in combination with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-10 Georgios Lioutas , Nikolaos Stergioulas

Compact binary coalescences are the most promising sources of gravitational waves (GWs) for ground based detectors. Binary systems containing one or two spinning black holes are particularly interesting due to spin-orbit (and eventual…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-02 Salvatore Vitale , Ryan Lynch , John Veitch , Vivien Raymond , Riccardo Sturani

The article provides full-analytic gravitational wave (GW) forms for eccentric nonspinning compact binaries of arbitrary mass ratio in the time Fourier domain. The semi-analytical property of recent descriptions, i.e. the demand of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-03-25 Manuel Tessmer , Gerhard Schaefer

Ultralight bosons can be abundantly produced through superradiance process by a spinning black hole and form a bound state with hydrogen-like spectrum. We show that such a "gravitational atom" typically possesses anomalously large mass…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-22 Boye Su , Zhong-Zhi Xianyu , Xingyu Zhang

We produce gravitational waveforms for nonspinning compact binaries undergoing a quasicircular inspiral. Our approach is based on a two-timescale expansion of the Einstein equations in second-order self-force theory, which allows…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-16 Barry Wardell , Adam Pound , Niels Warburton , Jeremy Miller , Leanne Durkan , Alexandre Le Tiec

Measurements of black-hole spins from gravitational-wave observations of black-hole binaries with ground-based detectors are expected to be hampered by partial degeneracies in the gravitational-wave phasing: between the two component spins,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-27 Michael Pürrer , Mark Hannam , Frank Ohme

Gravitational wave searches to date have largely focused on non-precessing systems. Including precession effects greatly increases the number of templates to be searched over. This leads to a corresponding increase in the computational cost…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-15 Nathaniel Indik , K Haris , Tito Dal Canton , Henning Fehrmann , Badri Krishnan , Andrew Lundgren , Alex B. Nielsen , Archana Pai

Current template-based gravitational-wave searches for compact binary mergers neglect the general relativistic phenomenon of spin-induced orbital precession. Owing to their asymmetric masses, gravitational-waves from neutron star-black hole…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-01-28 Ian Harry , Charlie Hoy

The signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) for quasi-circular binary black hole inspirals computed from restricted post-Newtonian waveforms are compared with those attained by more complete post-Newtonian signals, which are superpositions of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Chris Van Den Broeck

Information about the last stages of a binary neutron star inspiral and the final merger can be extracted from quasi-equilibrium configurations and dynamical evolutions. In this article, we construct quasi-equilibrium configurations for…

The current paradigm for constructing waveforms from precessing compact binaries is to first construct a waveform in a non-inertial, co-precessing binary source frame followed by a time-dependent rotation to map back to the physical,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-20 Antoni Ramos-Buades , Patricia Schmidt , Geraint Pratten , Sascha Husa