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Black hole binaries with small mass ratios will be important sources for the forthcoming Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission. Models of such binaries also serve as useful tools for understanding the dynamics of compact binary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-24 Devin R. Becker , Scott A. Hughes , Gaurav Khanna

The ultrahigh frequency emission of gravitational waves by binary systems of black holes has recently been investigated in details in the framework of new experimental ideas around resonant cavities. In this article, we consider the case of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-23 Pierre Jamet , Aurélien Barrau , Killian Martineau

Inspiraling compact binaries have been identified as one of the most promising sources of gravitational waves for interferometric detectors. Most of these binaries are expected to have circularized by the time their gravitational waves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Karl Martel , Eric Poisson

While there has been much success in understanding the orbital dynamics and gravitational wave emission of eccentric compact binaries in the post-Newtonian formalism, some problems still remain. The largest of these concerns hereditary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-18 Nicholas Loutrel , Nicolas Yunes

Orbital eccentricity in compact binaries is considered to be a key tracer of their astrophysical origin, and can be inferred from gravitational-wave observations due to its imprint on the emitted signal. For a robust measurement, accurate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-11 Alice Bonino , Patricia Schmidt , Geraint Pratten

Compact binaries inspiralling along eccentric orbits are plausible gravitational wave (GW) sources for the ground-based laser interferometers. We explore the losses in the event rates incurred when searching for GWs from compact binaries…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Tessmer , A. Gopakumar

Gravitational waves radiated during binary black hole coalescence is a perfect probe for studying the characteristics of strong gravity. Advanced techniques for creating numerical relativity substitute models for eccentric binary black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-08 Sourav Roy Chowdhury , Maxim Khlopov

To describe a general bound binary black hole system, we need to consider orbital eccentricity and the misalignment of black holes' spin vectors with respect to the orbital angular momentum. While binary black holes produced through many…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-13 Amitesh Singh , Nathan K. Johnson-McDaniel , Anuradha Gupta , Khun Sang Phukon

The measurement of spin-precession and orbital eccentricity in gravitational-wave (GW) signals is a key priority in GW astronomy, as these effects not only provide insights into the astrophysical formation and evolution of compact binaries…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-22 Gonzalo Morras , Geraint Pratten , Patricia Schmidt

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

There is a high level of interest in black hole-neutron star binaries, not only because their mergers may be detected by gravitational wave observatories in the coming years, but also because of the possibility that they could explain a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-06-06 William E. East , Frans Pretorius , Branson C. Stephens

We study the gravitational wave (GW) phase shift arising from center-of-mass accelerations of binary black hole mergers formed dynamically in three-body systems, where both the inner orbit of the merging binary and the outer orbit are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-21 Kai Hendriks , Lorenz Zwick , Johan Samsing

We have introduced a new method for computing gravitational-wave emission from nonspinning binaries which systematically unifies the various integrals arising in the Fourier expansions of post-Newtonian dynamics, providing a simple,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-16 Xiaolin Liu , Zhoujian Cao

Planets and satellites orbiting a binary system exist in the solar system and extrasolar planetary systems. Their orbits can be significantly different from Keplerian orbits, if they are close to the binary and the secondary-to-primary mass…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-03 Jason Man Yin Woo , Man Hoi Lee

Eccentric compact binary mergers are significant scientific targets for current and future gravitational wave observatories. To detect and analyze eccentric signals, there is an increasing effort to develop waveform models, numerical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-10 Md Arif Shaikh , Vijay Varma , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Antoni Ramos-Buades , Maarten van de Meent

Gravitational waves allow us to test general relativity in the highly dynamical regime. While current observations have been consistent with waves emitted by quasi-circular binaries, eccentric binaries may also produce detectable signals in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-26 Blake Moore , Nicolás Yunes

Characterizing eccentricity in gravitational waveforms in a consistent manner is crucial to facilitate parameter estimation, astrophysical population studies, as well as searches for these rare systems. We present a framework to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-06 Tousif Islam , Tejaswi Venumadhav

For proposed third-generation gravitational-wave detectors such as the Einstein Telescope and Cosmic Explorer, whose sensitive bands are proposed to extend down to 5 Hz or below, the signals of low-mass compact binaries such as binary…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-23 Anson Chen , Nathan K Johnson-McDaniel

Eccentric compact binaries pose not only a challenge for gravitational wave detectors, but also provide a probe into the nuclear equation of state if one of the objects is a neutron star. At the short pericenter passage, tidal interactions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-10 Jose Nijaid Arredondo , Nicholas Loutrel

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