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The coalescence of binary neutron stars (BNS) is a prolific source of gravitational waves (GWs) and electromagnetic (EM) radiation, offering a dual observational window into the Universe. Lowering the signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) threshold…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-01 Yun-Fei Du , Emre Seyit Yorgancioglu , Jin-Hui Rao , Ankit Kumar , Shu-Xu Yi , Shuang-Nan Zhang , Shu Zhang

Gravitational wave (GW) detections of binary black holes (BBHs) have shown evidence for a dearth of component black holes with masses above $\sim50M_\odot$. This is consistent with expectations of a mass gap due to the existence of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-16 Jose María Ezquiaga , Daniel E. Holz

Orbital eccentricity in gravitational-wave signals from merging compact object binaries is a powerful indicator of their formation channel. Several binary black hole mergers and a neutron star--black hole merger have been reported to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-19 Teagan A. Clarke , Isobel M. Romero-Shaw , Charlie Hoy , Jakob Stegmann , Paul D. Lasky , Eric Thrane

A possible detection of sub-solar mass ultra-compact objects would lead to new perspectives on the existence of black holes that are not of astrophysical origin and/or pertain to formation scenarios of exotic ultra-compact objects. Both…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-23 Rafael C. Nunes

Observations by the current generation of gravitational-wave detectors have been pivotal in expanding our understanding of the universe. Although tens of exciting compact binary mergers have been observed, neutron star-black hole (NSBH)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-26 Ish Gupta , Ssohrab Borhanian , Arnab Dhani , Debatri Chattopadhyay , Rahul Kashyap , V. Ashley Villar , B. S. Sathyaprakash

Recent developments in deep learning techniques have offered an alternative and complementary approach to traditional matched filtering methods for the identification of gravitational wave (GW) signals. The rapid and accurate identification…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-06 Yu-Xin Wang , Shang-Jie Jin , Tian-Yang Sun , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

Atom interferometry detectors like AION, ZAIGA, and AEDGE will be able to detect gravitational waves (GWs) at dHz covering the band between large space-based laser interferometers LISA/TianQin/Taiji and ground-based facilities…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-16 Alejandro Torres-Orjuela

[Abridged] We introduce an improved version of the Eccentric, Non-spinning, Inspiral-Gaussian-process Merger Approximant (ENIGMA) waveform model. We find that this ready-to-use model can: (i) produce physically consistent signals when…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-15 Zhuo Chen , E. A. Huerta , Joseph Adamo , Roland Haas , Eamonn O'Shea , Prayush Kumar , Chris Moore

Advanced LIGO achieved the first detection of the gravitational wave, which was from a merging binary black hole (BBH). In the near future, more merger events will be observed, and the mass distribution of them will become available. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-20 Michiko Fujii , Ataru Tanikawa , Junichiro Makino

We study the stellar binary black holes (BBHs) inspiralling/merging in galactic nuclei based on our numerical method GNC. We find that $3-40\%$ of all new born BBHs will finally merge due to various dynamical effects. In a five year's…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-15 Fupeng Zhang , Xian Chen , Lijing Shao , Kohei Inayoshi

Since the first detection of gravitational waves in 2015 by LIGO from the binary black hole merger GW150914, gravitational-wave astronomy has developed significantly, with over 200 compact binary merger events cataloged. The use of neural…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-28 Ethan Silver , Plamen Krastev , Edo Berger

We derive the probability for a newly formed binary black hole (BBH) to undergo an eccentric gravitational wave (GW) merger during binary-single interactions inside a stellar cluster. By integrating over the hardening interactions such a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-30 Johan Samsing

Gravitational wave detection has opened up new avenues for exploring and understanding some of the fundamental principles of the universe. The optimal method for detecting modelled gravitational-wave events involves template-based matched…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-15 Damon Beveridge , Alistair McLeod , Linqing Wen , Andreas Wicenec

Einstein Telescope (ET) is a project of third generation gravitational wave (GW) detector with a planned sensitivity 10 times better than current detectors such as Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo. The high rate of GW signals expected in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-13 Adrian Macquet , Tito Dal Canton , Tania Regimbau

Binary black hole (BBH) mergers detected via gravitational waves are addressing key open questions in astrophysics, cosmology, and fundamental physics. Our scientific conclusions rely on extracting accurate source parameters, for which we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-30 Parthapratim Mahapatra , Jonathan E. Thompson , Edward Fauchon-Jones , Mark Hannam

The knowledge about the black hole mass function (BHMF) and its evolution would help to understand the origin of the BHs and how BH binaries formed at different stages of the history of the Universe. We demonstrate the ability of future…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-11 Xuheng Ding , Kai Liao , Marek Biesiada , Zong-Hong Zhu

Massive black-hole (BH) mergers are predicted to be powerful sources of low-frequency gravitational waves (GWs). Coupling the detection of GWs with an electromagnetic (EM) detection can provide key information about merging BHs and their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-03 C. A. Dong-Páez , M. Volonteri , R. S. Beckmann , Y. Dubois , A. Mangiagli , M. Trebitsch , S. Vergani , N. Webb

Coalescing massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) are one of primary sources for space-based gravitational wave (GW) observations. The mergers of these binaries are expected to give rise to detectable electromagnetic (EM) emissions with a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-26 Wen-Hong Ruan , Zong-Kuan Guo

A binary neutron star (BNS) merger event has recently been observed in gravitational waves (GWs). As in the case of binary black holes, GWs generated by BNS consist of inspiral, merger, and post-merger components. Detecting the latter is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-07 Huan Yang , Vasileios Paschalidis , Kent Yagi , Luis Lehner , Frans Pretorius , Nicolas Yunes

Detection of gravitational waves (GWs) from neutron star-black hole (NSBH) standard sirens can provide local measurements of the Hubble constant ($H_0$), regardless of the detection of an electromagnetic (EM) counterpart: The presence of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-26 B. Shiralilou , G. Raaijmakers , B. Duboeuf , S. Nissanke , F. Foucart , T. Hinderer , A. Williamson