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We first use five non-spinning and two mildly spinning (chi_i \simeq -0.44, +0.44) numerical-relativity waveforms of black-hole binaries and calibrate an effective-one-body (EOB) model for non-precessing spinning binaries, notably its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-22 Andrea Taracchini , Yi Pan , Alessandra Buonanno , Enrico Barausse , Michael Boyle , Tony Chu , Geoffrey Lovelace , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Mark A. Scheel

We study initially unbound systems of two black holes using numerical relativity (NR) simulations performed with GR-Athena++. We focus on regions of the parameter space close to the transition from scatterings to dynamical captures,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-06 Simone Albanesi , Alireza Rashti , Francesco Zappa , Rossella Gamba , William Cook , Boris Daszuta , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Alessandro Nagar , David Radice

We introduce \TEOBiResumSM{}, a nonspinning inspiral-merger-ringdown waveform model built within the effective one body (EOB) framework that includes gravitational waveform modes beyond the dominant quadrupole $(\ell,|m|) = (2,2)$. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-29 Alessandro Nagar , Geraint Pratten , Gunnar Riemenschneider , Rossella Gamba

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

The Effective-One-Body (EOB) formalism contains several flexibility parameters, notably $a_5$, $\vp$ and $\a$. We show here how to jointly constrain the values of these parameters by simultaneously best-fitting the EOB waveform to two,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Thibault Damour , Alessandro Nagar , Mark Hannam , Sascha Husa , Bernd Brugmann

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

Gravitational wave astronomy pipelines rely on template waveform models for searches and parameter estimation purposes. For coalescing binary neutron stars (BNS), such models need to accurately reproduce numerical relativity (NR) up to…

We present an improved numerical relativity (NR) calibration of the new effective-one-body (EOB) model for coalescing non precessing spinning black hole binaries recently introduced by Damour and Nagar [Physical Review D 90, 044018 (2014)].…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-24 Alessandro Nagar , Thibault Damour , Christian Reisswig , Denis Pollney

We describe a general procedure to generate spinning, precessing waveforms that include inspiral, merger and ringdown stages in the effective-one-body (EOB) approach. The procedure uses a precessing frame in which precession-induced…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-23 Yi Pan , Alessandra Buonanno , Andrea Taracchini , Lawrence E. Kidder , Abdul H. Mroue , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Mark A. Scheel , Bela Szilagyi

We continue the program of constructing, within the Effective-One-Body (EOB) approach, high accuracy, faithful analytic waveforms describing the gravitational wave signal emitted by inspiralling and coalescing binary black holes (BHs). We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Thibault Damour , Alessandro Nagar

Effective-one-body (EOB) numerical-relativity (NR) waveform models for spin-aligned binary black holes (BBHs), known as the SEOBNR waveform models, are based on the EOB theoretical framework and NR simulations. SEOBNR models have played an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-04 Xiaolin Liu , Zhoujian Cao , Lijing Shao

We study to what extent the effective-one-body description of the dynamical state of a nonspinning, coalescing binary black hole (considered either at merger, or after ringdown) agrees with numerical relativity results. This comparison uses…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-18 Thibault Damour , Alessandro Nagar , Loic Villain

We present a comprehensive comparison of the spin-aligned effective-one-body (EOB) waveform model of Nagar et al. [Phys. Rev. D93, 044046 (2016)], informed using 40 numerical-relativity (NR) datasets, against a set of 149, $\ell=m=2$, NR…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-01 Alessandro Nagar , Gunnar Riemenschneider , Geraint Pratten

In Ref. [1], the properties of the first gravitational wave detected by LIGO, GW150914, were measured by employing an effective-one-body (EOB) model of precessing binary black holes whose underlying dynamics and waveforms were calibrated to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-01-11 Stanislav Babak , Andrea Taracchini , Alessandra Buonanno

We present TEOBResumS, a new effective-one-body (EOB) waveform model for nonprecessing (spin-aligned) and tidally interacting compact binaries.Spin-orbit and spin-spin effects are blended together by making use of the concept of centrifugal…

We present SEOBNRv5HM, a more accurate and faster inspiral-merger-ringdown gravitational waveform model for quasi-circular, spinning, nonprecessing binary black holes within the effective-one-body (EOB) formalism. Compared to its…

We construct a new factorized waveform including $(l,|m|)=(2,2),(2,1),(3,3),(4,4)$ modes based on effective-one-body (EOB) formalism, which is valid for spinning binary black holes (BBH) in general equatorial orbit. When combined with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-02 Xiaolin Liu , Zhoujian Cao , Zong-Hong Zhu

The merger-ringdown radiation from a black hole binary merger is accurately modeled by a sum of linear quasinormal modes (QNMs). Recently, a non-QNM ``direct wave" component of the radiation, associated with prompt emission from a plunging…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-17 Anuj Kankani , Sean T. McWilliams

We address the problem of constructing high-accuracy, faithful analytic waveforms describing the gravitational wave signal emitted by inspiralling and coalescing binary black holes. We work within the Effective-One-Body (EOB) framework and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Thibault Damour , Alessandro Nagar

A new analytical approach to the motion and radiation of (comparable mass) binary systems has been introduced in 1999 under the name of Effective One Body (EOB) formalism. We review the basic elements of this formalism, and discuss some of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-27 Thibault Damour