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Merging supermassive black hole-black hole (BHBH) binaries produced in galaxy mergers are promising sources of detectable gravitational waves. If such a merger takes place in a gaseous environment, there is a possibility of a simultaneous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-05-12 Brian D. Farris , Yuk Tung Liu , Stuart L. Shapiro

We present the implementation of an anomaly-detection algorithm based on a deep convolutional autoencoder for the search for gravitational waves (GWs) in time-frequency spectrograms. Our method targets short-duration ($\lesssim…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-23 Gianluca Inguglia , Huw Haigh , Kristyna Vitulova , Ulyana Dupletsa

Combined gravitational-wave (GW) and electromagnetic (EM) observations of compact binary mergers should enable detailed studies of astrophysical processes in the strong-field gravity regime. Networks of GW interferometers have poor angular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Samaya Nissanke , Mansi Kasliwal , Alexandra Georgieva

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

Galaxy observations suggest that mergers of supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) are rare events, with rates of order one per decade across the observable Universe. We present a framework to search for merging SMBHBs in pulsar timing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-17 Sharon Mary Tomson , Boris Goncharov , Rutger van Haasteren

This work shows the results of an evaluation of the impact that a detector located in China, with a noise budget comparable to that of a proposed high-frequency detector with a 20 km arm length, an Einstein Telescope (ET) or a Cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-02 Yufeng Li , Ik Siong Heng , Man Leong Chan , Xilong Fan , Lijun Gou

Gravitational wave signals from binary neutron star (BNS) mergers and binary low-mass black hole (BLMBH) mergers are highly similar in the early inspiral phase. Consequently, the astrophysical origin of recently detected low-mass compact…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-24 Sulagna Bhattacharya , Shasvath Kapadia , Basudeb Dasgupta

By a method of population synthesis we construct a model of dark matter (DM) accretion onto binary black holes (BHs), and investigate the merger rate of the binary BHs. We find that the merger rate can weakly increase (less than 10\%).…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-15 Tongzheng Wang , Lin Li , Chunhua Zhu , Zhaojun Wang , Anzhong Wang , Qiang Wu , Hai-Shan Liu , Guoliang Lü

Binary black hole (BBH) mergers provide a prime source for current and future interferometric GW observatories. Massive BBH mergers may often take place in plasma-rich environments, leading to the exciting possibility of a concurrent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-18 Bernard J. Kelly , John G. Baker , Zachariah B. Etienne , Bruno Giacomazzo , Jeremy Schnittman

(Abridged) While the gravitational-wave (GW) signal GW170817 was accompanied by a variety of electromagnetic (EM) counterparts, sufficiently high-mass binary neutron star (BNS) mergers are expected to be unable to power bright EM…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-13 An Chen , Nathan K. Johnson-McDaniel , Tim Dietrich , Reetika Dudi

Black hole-neutron star (BHNS) binaries are amongst promising candidates for the joint detection of electromagnetic (EM) signals with gravitational waves (GWs) and are expected to be detected in the near future. Here we study the effect of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-22 Mukul Bhattacharya , Pawan Kumar , George Smoot

Hierarchical mergers in a dense environment are one of the primary formation channels of intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) binary system. We expect that the resulting massive binary system will exhibit mass asymmetry. The emitted…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-05 Kritti Sharma , Koustav Chandra , Archana Pai

Einstein Telescope (ET) is a third-generation gravitational wave (GW) detector with tenfold better sensitivity compared to the advanced LIGO detectors. It will be capable of observing copious stellar mass binary black hole mergers up to a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-30 Pinaki Roy , Tomasz Bulik

Ground-based gravitational-wave (GW) observatories have transformed our view of compact-object mergers, yet their reach still limits a comprehensive reconstruction of the processes that generate these systems. Only next-generation…

In this {\it Letter} we calculate the fraction of highly eccentric binary black hole (BBH) mergers resulting from binary-single interactions. Using an $N$-body code that includes post-Newtonian correction terms, we show that $\gtrsim 1\%$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-24 Johan Samsing , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

Black hole (BH) - neutron star (NS) binary mergers are not only strong sources of gravitational waves (GWs), but they are also candidates for joint detections in the GW and electromagnetic (EM) spectra. However, the possible emergence of an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-12 Konrad Topolski , Samuel Tootle , Luciano Rezzolla

As we enter the era of large imaging surveys such as $\textit{Roman}$, Rubin, and $\textit{Euclid}$, a deeper understanding of potential biases and selection effects in optical astronomical catalogs created with the use of ML-based methods…

Identifying the host galaxy of a binary black hole (BBH) merger detected via gravitational waves (GWs) remains a challenge due to the absence of electromagnetic counterparts and the large localization volumes produced by current-generation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-10 Sumedha Biswas , Andrew Levan , Peter G. Jonker , Kendall Ackley , Gregory Ashton , Nikhil Sarin

Multi-messenger astronomy was galvanized by the detection of gravitational waves (GWs) from the binary neutron star (BNS) merger GW170817 and electromagnetic (EM) emission from the subsequent kilonova and short gamma ray burst. Maximizing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-02 Nathan Steinle , Samar Safi-Harb , Matt Nicholl , Isabelle Worssam , Benjamin P. Gompertz

Supermassive black holes presumably grow through numerous mergers throughout cosmic time. During each merger, supermassive black hole binaries are surrounded by a circumbinary accretion disk that imposes a significant (~1e4 G for a binary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 David L. Kaplan , Richard O'Shaughnessy , Alberto Sesana , Marta Volonteri