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Eccentric black-hole binaries are among the most awaited sources of gravitational waves, yet their dynamics lack a consistent framework that provides a detailed and physically robust evolutionary description due to gauge issues. We present…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-14 Giulia Fumagalli , Nicholas Loutrel , Davide Gerosa , Matteo Boschini

We obtain analytical gravitational waveforms in the frequency-domain for precessing, quasi-circular compact binaries with small spins, applicable, for example, to binary neutron star inspirals. We begin by calculating an analytic solution…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-10-01 Katerina Chatziioannou , Antoine Klein , Nicolas Yunes , Neil Cornish

The development of eccentric waveform models enables us to explore the growing catalog of gravitational-wave events with measurable eccentricity. This opens new opportunities to gain insight into the formation channels and evolutionary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-15 Muhammad Zeeshan , Richard O'Shaughnessy , Natalie Malagon

Early warning of gravitational waves (GWs) is essential for multi-messenger observations of binary neutron star and black hole-neutron star merger events. In this study, we investigate early warning prospects from eccentric compact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-10 Priyanka Sinha , R. Prasad , Mukesh Kumar Singh , Prayush Kumar , Akash Maurya , Kaushik Paul

In this study, gravitational waveforms emitted by inspiralling compact binary systems on quasicircular orbits in hybrid metric-Palatini gravity are computed in the lowest post-Newtonian approximation. By applying the stationary phase…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-28 P. I. Dyadina

Observations of transient gravitational wave (GW) events with non-negligible orbital eccentricity can be highly rewarding from astrophysical considerations. Ready-to-use fully analytic frequency domain inspiral GW templates are crucial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-28 Srishti Tiwari , Achamveedu Gopakumar

We derive fourth post-Newtonian (4PN) contributions to the Keplerian-type parametric solution associated with the conservative dynamics of eccentric, non-spinning compact binaries. The solution has been computed while ignoring certain…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-19 Gihyuk Cho , Sashwat Tanay , Achamveedu Gopakumar , Hyung Mok Lee

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

We analyze a new numerical relativity dataset of spinning but nonprecessing binary black holes on eccentric orbits, with eccentricities from approximately $0.1$ to $0.5$, with dimensionless spins up to $0.75$ included at mass ratios…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-14 Antoni Ramos-Buades , Sascha Husa , Geraint Pratten , Héctor Estellés , Cecilio García-Quirós , Maite Mateu-Lucena , Marta Colleoni , Rafel Jaume

Inspiraling supermassive black hole binary systems with high orbital eccentricity are important sources for space-based gravitational wave (GW) observatories like the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). Eccentricity adds orbital…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-30 Balázs Mikóczi , Bence Kocsis , Péter Forgács , Mátyás Vasúth

We make a comparison between results from numerically generated, quasi-equilibrium configurations of compact binary systems of black holes in close orbits, and results from the post-Newtonian approximation. The post-Newtonian results are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Thierry Mora , Clifford M. Will

We model the effect of resonances between time-varying perturbative forces and the epi-cyclical motion of eccentric binaries in the gravitational wave (GW) driven regime. These induce secular drifts in the orbital elements which are…

Spherical harmonic modes of gravitational waveforms for inspiraling compact binaries in eccentric orbits from post-Newtonian (PN) theory accurate to third post-Newtonian order, and those extracted from numerical relativity (NR) simulations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-07 Abhishek Chattaraj , Tamal RoyChowdhury , Divyajyoti , Chandra Kant Mishra , Anshu Gupta

Recent gravitational wave observations have allowed stringent new constraints on modifications to General Relativity (GR) in the extreme gravity regime. Although these observations were consistent with compact binaries with no orbital…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-12 Sizheng Ma , Nicolas Yunes

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 couplings between supermassive black-hole binaries and their environments within galactic nuclei have been well studied as part of the search for solutions to the final parsec problem. The scattering of stars by the binary or the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-26 S. R. Taylor , E. A. Huerta , J. R. Gair , S. T. McWilliams

We present a reanalysis of 17 gravitational-wave events detected with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo in their first three observing runs, using the new IMRPhenomTEHM model -- a phenomenological time-domain multipolar waveform model for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-15 Maria de Lluc Planas , Antoni Ramos-Buades , Cecilio García-Quirós , Héctor Estellés , Sascha Husa , Maria Haney

Compact objects evolving in an astrophysical environment experience a gravitational drag force known as dynamical friction. We present a multipole-frequency decomposition to evaluate the orbit-averaged energy and angular momentum…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-22 Gali Eytan , Vincent Desjacques , Yonadav Barry Ginat

The generalized post-Keplerian parametrization for compact binaries on eccentric bound orbits is established at second post-Newtonian (2PN) order in a class of massless scalar-tensor theories. This result is used to compute the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-21 David Trestini

We construct an efficient frequency domain waveform for generic circular compact object binaries that include neutron stars. The orbital precession is solved on the radiation reaction timescale (and then transformed to the frequency…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-28 Michael LaHaye , Huan Yang , Béatrice Bonga , Zhenwei Lyu