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We present the IMRPhenomXE frequency-domain phenomenological waveform model for the dominant mode of inspiral-merger-ringdown non-precessing binary black holes in elliptical orbits. IMRPhenomXE extends the quasi-circular IMRPhenomXAS…

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Gravitational waves from the coalescences of black hole and neutron stars afford us the unique opportunity to determine the sources' properties, such as their masses and spins, with unprecedented accuracy. To do so, however, theoretical…

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Gravitational waves are a prediction of general relativity, and with ground-based detectors now running in their advanced configuration, we will soon be able to measure them directly for the first time. Binaries of stellar-mass black holes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 Pau Amaro-Seoane , Xian Chen

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…

Gravitational waves radiated by the coalescence of compact-object binaries containing a neutron star and a black hole are one of the most interesting sources for the ground-based gravitational-wave observatories Advanced LIGO and Advanced…

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In this paper, we test the performance of templates in detection and characterization of Spin-orbit resonant (SOR) binaries. We use precessing SEOBNRv3 waveforms as well as {\it four} numerical relativity (NR) waveforms to model GWs from…

Numerical relativity simulations provide a full description of the dynamics of binary systems, including gravitational radiation. The waveforms produced by these simulations have a number of applications in gravitational-wave detection and…

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In the last five years, gravitational-wave astronomy has gone from a purely theoretical field into a thriving experimental science. Many gravitational-wave signals, emitted by stellar-mass binary black holes and binary neutron stars, have…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-11 Roberto Cotesta

We present a study of the gravitational waveforms from a series of spinning, equal-mass black hole binaries focusing on the harmonic content of the waves and the contribution of the individual harmonics to the signal-to-noise ratio. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Deirdre Shoemaker , Birjoo Vaishnav , Ian Hinder , Frank Herrmann

We present a semi-analytical binary black hole (BBH) metric approximation that models the entire evolution of the system from inspiral to merger. The metric is constructed as a boosted Kerr-Schild superposition following post-Newtonian (PN)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-21 Luciano Combi , Sean M. Ressler

The Backwards-One-Body (BOB) model provides a fully analytical and physically motivated description of the merger-ringdown gravitational radiation emanating from a black hole binary merger. We perform a comprehensive validation of BOB for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-30 Anuj Kankani , Sean T. McWilliams

We compare recently computed waveforms from second-order gravitational self-force (GSF) theory to those generated by a new, GSF-informed, effective one body (EOB) waveform model for (spin-aligned, eccentric) inspiralling black hole binaries…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-03 Angelica Albertini , Alessandro Nagar , Adam Pound , Niels Warburton , Barry Wardell , Leanne Durkan , Jeremy Miller

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…

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We study dynamics and radiation generation in the last few orbits and merger of a binary black hole system, applying recently developed techniques for simulations of moving black holes. Our analysis of the gravitational radiation waveforms…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 John G. Baker , Joan Centrella , Dae-Il Choi , Michael Koppitz , James van Meter

In this paper, we present 52 new numerical-relativity (NR) simulations of black-hole-neutron-star merger (BHNS) mergers and employ the data to inform TEOBResumS-Dal\'i: a multipolar effective-one-body model also including precession and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-02 Alejandra Gonzalez , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Alireza Rashti , Francesco Brandoli , Rossella Gamba

In this work we study the dynamics of spinning binary black hole systems in the strong field regime. For this purpose we extract from numerical relativity simulations the binding energy, specific orbital angular momentum, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-05 Serguei Ossokine , Tim Dietrich , Evan Foley , Reza Katebi , Geoffrey Lovelace

We introduce IMRPhenomTEHM, a new phenomenological time-domain model for eccentric aligned-spin binary black holes. Building upon the accurate quasi-circular IMRPhenomTHM model, IMRPhenomTEHM integrates the eccentric post-Newtonian (PN)…

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

We present a new approach to the conservative dynamics of binary systems, within the effective one-body (EOB) framework, based on the use of a Lagrange multiplier to impose the mass-shell constraint. When applied to the post-Minkowskian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-03 Thibault Damour , Alessandro Nagar , Andrea Placidi , Piero Rettegno

Semi-analytical waveform models for black hole binaries require calibration against numerical relativity waveforms to accurately represent the late inspiral and merger, where analytical approximations fail. After the fitting coefficients…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-29 Simone Mezzasoma , Carl-Johan Haster , Caroline B. Owen , Neil J. Cornish , Nicolás Yunes

Gravitational wave observations of eccentric binary black hole mergers will provide unequivocal evidence for the formation of these systems through dynamical assembly in dense stellar environments. The study of these astrophysically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-06 E. A. Huerta , Roland Haas , Sarah Habib , Anushri Gupta , Adam Rebei , Vishnu Chavva , Daniel Johnson , Shawn Rosofsky , Erik Wessel , Bhanu Agarwal , Diyu Luo , Wei Ren