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Gravitational wave (GW) astronomy has been hailed as a gateway to discovering unexpected phenomena in the universe. Over the last decade there have been close to one hundred GW observations of compact-binary mergers. While these signals are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-10 Shrobana Ghosh , Mark Hannam

Massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) are binary systems formed by black holes with mass exceeding millions of solar masses, expected to form and evolve in the nuclei of galaxies. The extreme compact nature of such objects determines a loud…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-26 Matteo Bonetti , Alessia Franchini , Bruno Giovanni Galuzzi , Alberto Sesana

One of the most promising targets for Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) is identifying an individual supermassive black hole binary (SMBHB) out of the population of binaries theorized to produce a gravitational wave background (GWB). In this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-21 Levi Schult , Polina Petrov , Stephen R. Taylor , Nihan Pol , Nima Laal , Maria Charisi , Chung-Pei Ma

coherent WaveBurst (cWB) is a highly configurable pipeline designed to detect a broad range of gravitational-wave (GW) transients in the data of the worldwide network of GW detectors. The algorithmic core of cWB is a time-frequency analysis…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-22 M. Drago , V. Gayathri , S. Klimenko , C. Lazzaro , E. Milotti , G. Mitselmakher , V. Necula , B. O'Brian , G. A. Prodi , F. Salemi , M. Szczepanczyk , S. Tiwari , V. Tiwari , G. Vedovato , I. Yakushin

The CompactObject package is an open-source software framework developed to constrain the neutron star equation of state (EOS) through Bayesian statistical inference. It integrates astrophysical observational constraints from X-ray timing,…

The next-generation gravitational-wave detectors, with their improved sensitivity and wider frequency bandwidth, will be capable of observing almost every compact binary signal from epochs before the first stars began to form, increasing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-01 Koustav Chandra

We assess the detectability of the gravitational wave signals from highly eccentric compact binaries. We use a simple model for the inspiral, merger, and ringdown of these systems. The model is based on mapping the binary to an effective…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-02-14 William E. East , Sean T. McWilliams , Janna Levin , Frans Pretorius

The study of unbound binary-black-hole encounters provides a gauge-invariant approach to exploring strong-field gravitational interactions in two-body systems, which can subsequently inform waveform models for bound orbits. In this work, we…

We propose a new way of analyzing, and analytically representing, the ringdown part of the gravitational wave signal emitted by coalescing black hole binaries.By contrast with the usual {\it linear} decomposition of the multipolar complex…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Thibault Damour , Alessandro Nagar

The self-force program aims at accurately modeling relativistic two-body systems with a small mass ratio (SMR). In the context of the effective-one-body (EOB) framework, current results from this program can be used to determine the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-15 Andrea Antonelli , Maarten van de Meent , Alessandra Buonanno , Jan Steinhoff , Justin Vines

Extracting the faint gravitational-wave background (GWB) signal from dominant detector noise and disentangling its %diverse astrophysical and cosmological components remain significant challenges for traditional methods like…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-18 Hugo Einsle , Marie-Anne Bizouard , Tania Regimbau , Mairi Sakellariadou

We apply machine learning methods to build a time-domain model for gravitational waveforms from binary black hole mergers, called mlgw. The dimensionality of the problem is handled by representing the waveform's amplitude and phase using a…

We develop new strategies to build numerical relativity surrogate models for eccentric binary black hole systems, which are expected to play an increasingly important role in current and future gravitational-wave detectors. We introduce a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-26 Tousif Islam , Vijay Varma , Jackie Lodman , Scott E. Field , Gaurav Khanna , Mark A. Scheel , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Davide Gerosa , Lawrence E. Kidder

We present IMRPhenomXODE, a new phenomenological frequency-domain waveform approximant for gravitational wave (GW) signals from precessing binary black holes (BBHs) with generic spin configurations. We build upon the success of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-19 Hang Yu , Javier Roulet , Tejaswi Venumadhav , Barak Zackay , Matias Zaldarriaga

We provide the post-Newtonian (PN) waveform for binary systems in motion along generic planar orbits at 2.5PN accuracy, in terms of the dynamical variables of the effective one-body (EOB) formalism. In addition to the calculation of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-09 Andrea Placidi , Gianluca Grignani , Troels Harmark , Marta Orselli , Sara Gliorio , Alessandro Nagar

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 coalescences of binary black hole (BBH) systems, here taken to be non-spinning, are among the most promising sources for gravitational wave (GW) ground-based detectors, such as LIGO and Virgo. To detect the GW signals emitted by BBHs,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-02-25 T. Damour , A. Nagar , M. Trias

The precise modeling of binary black hole coalescences in generic planar orbits is a crucial step to disentangle dynamical and isolated binary formation channels through gravitational-wave observations. The merger regime of such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-26 Gregorio Carullo , Simone Albanesi , Alessandro Nagar , Rossella Gamba , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Tomas Andrade , Juan Trenado

Accurate gravitational-wave (GW) signal models exist for black hole binary (BBH) and neutron-star binary (BNS) systems, which are consistent with all of the published GW observations to date. Detections of a third class of compact-binary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-29 Jonathan E. Thompson , Edward Fauchon-Jones , Sebastian Khan , Elisa Nitoglia , Francesco Pannarale , Tim Dietrich , Mark Hannam

In the effective-one-body (EOB) approach the dynamics of two compact objects of masses m1 and m2 and spins S1 and S2 is mapped into the dynamics of one test particle of mass mu = m1 m2/(m1+m2) and spin S* moving in a deformed Kerr metric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-12-01 Enrico Barausse , Alessandra Buonanno