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We present an updated version of the TEOBResumS-Dali effective-one-body (EOB) waveform model for spin aligned binaries on non-circularized orbits. Recently computed 4PN (nonspinning) terms are incorporated in the waveform and radiation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-18 Alessandro Nagar , Rossella Gamba , Piero Rettegno , Veronica Fantini , Sebastiano Bernuzzi

Dynamical captures of black holes may take place in dense stellar media due to the emission of gravitational radiation during a close passage. Detection of such events requires detailed modelling, since their phenomenology qualitatively…

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

We present the first unified model for the general relativistic dynamics and gravitational radiation of generic compact binaries. TEOBResumS-Dal\'i is a model based on the effective-one-body framework incorporating tidal interactions,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-20 Simone Albanesi , Rossella Gamba , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Joan Fontbuté , Alejandra Gonzalez , Alessandro Nagar

We improve the accuracy of the effective-one-body (EOB) waveforms that were employed during the first observing run of Advanced LIGO for binaries of spinning, nonprecessing black holes by calibrating them to a set of 141…

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

We present a first complete implementation of an effective-one-body (EOB) model for extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) that incorporates aligned spins (on both the primary and the secondary) as well as orbital eccentricity. The model…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-20 Angelica Albertini , Rossella Gamba , Alessandro Nagar , Sebastiano Bernuzzi

We improve the effective-one-body (EOB) description of nonspinning coalescing black hole binaries by incorporating several recent analytical advances, notably: (i) logarithmic contributions to the conservative dynamics; (ii) resummed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-04-17 Thibault Damour , Alessandro Nagar , Sebastiano Bernuzzi

Spin precession is a generic feature of compact binary coalescences, which leaves clear imprints in the gravitational waveforms. Building on previous work, we present an efficient time domain inspiral-merger-ringdown effective-one-body…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-27 Rossella Gamba , Sarp Akçay , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Jake Williams

Computationally efficient waveforms are of central importance for gravitational wave data analysis of inspiralling and coalescing compact binaries. We show that the post-adiabatic (PA) approximation to the effective-one-body (EOB)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-26 Alessandro Nagar , Piero Rettegno

The success of analytic waveform modeling within the effective-one-body (EOB) approach relies on the precise understanding of the physical importance of each technical element included in the model. The urgency of constructing progressively…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-12 Alessandro Nagar , Piero Rettegno , Rossella Gamba , Simone Albanesi , Angelica Albertini , Sebastiano Bernuzzi

Accurate and fast gravitational waveform (GW) models are essential to extract information about the properties of compact binary systems that generate GWs. Building on previous work, we present an extension of the NRTidal model for binary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-07 Tim Dietrich , Anuradha Samajdar , Sebastian Khan , Nathan K. Johnson-McDaniel , Reetika Dudi , Wolfgang Tichy

The combined observation of gravitational and electromagnetic waves from the coalescence of two neutron stars marks the beginning of multi-messenger astronomy with gravitational waves (GWs). The development of accurate gravitational…

High-fidelity gravitational waveform models are essential for realizing the scientific potential of next-generation gravitational-wave observatories. While highly accurate, state-of-the-art models often rely on extensive phenomenological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-03 Siddharth Mahesh , Sean T. McWilliams , Zachariah Etienne

We present the first attempt at calibrating the effective-one-body (EOB) model to accurate numerical-relativity simulations of spinning, non-precessing black-hole binaries. Aligning the EOB and numerical waveforms at low frequency over a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-27 Yi Pan , Alessandra Buonanno , Luisa T. Buchman , Tony Chu , Lawrence E. Kidder , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Mark A. Scheel

We present an accurate approximation of the full gravitational radiation waveforms generated in the merger of non-eccentric systems of two non-spinning black holes. Utilizing information from recent numerical relativity simulations and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Alessandra Buonanno , Yi Pan , John G. Baker , Joan Centrella , Bernard J. Kelly , Sean T. McWilliams , James R. van Meter

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

Building upon recent work, we present an improved effective-one-body (EOB) model for spin-aligned, coalescing, black hole binaries with generic orbital configurations, i.e. quasi-circular, eccentric or hyperbolic orbits. The model relies on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-19 Alessandro Nagar , Alice Bonino , Piero Rettegno

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

We introduce a computational framework, Bayesian Evidence calculation fOr Model Selection (BEOMS) to evaluate multiple Bayesian model selection methods in the context of determining the equation of state (EOS) for cold neutron star (NS),…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-29 Rahul Kashyap , Ish Gupta , Arnab Dhani , Monica Bapna , Bangalore Sathyaprakash