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The gravitational-wave event GW231123_135430 is the heaviest binary black hole system observed by the LIGO--Virgo--KAGRA Collaboration to date, with the initial analysis indicating the individual black hole masses lie within or above the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-21 Aasim Jan , Sophia Nicolella , Deirdre Shoemaker , Richard O'Shaughnessy

Eccentricity, an important parameter of gravitational waves, has been paid more and more attention because it can reflect the dynamics of compact object mergers. Obtaining an accurate and fast gravitational waveform template is of great…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-21 Hao Wang , Yuan-Chuan Zou , Yu Liu

Detecting orbital eccentricity in a stellar-mass black-hole merger would point to a non-isolated formation channel. Eccentric binaries can form in dense stellar environments such as globular clusters or active galactic nuclei, or from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-05 Isobel Romero-Shaw , Jakob Stegmann , Hiromichi Tagawa , Davide Gerosa , Johan Samsing , Nihar Gupte , Stephen R. Green

Mergers of binary black holes on eccentric orbits are among the targets for second-generation ground-based gravitational-wave detectors. These sources may commonly form in galactic nuclei due to gravitational-wave emission during close…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-06 László Gondán , Bence Kocsis , Péter Raffai , Zsolt Frei

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

Orbital eccentricity and spin precession are precious observables to infer the formation history of binary black holes with gravitational-wave data. We present a post-Newtonian, multi-timescale analysis of the binary dynamics able to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-19 Giulia Fumagalli , Davide Gerosa

The observed binary black hole (BBH) mergers indicate a large Galactic progenitor population continuously evolving from large orbital separations and low gravitational wave (GW) frequencies to the final merger phase. We investigate the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-19 Xiao Fang , Todd A. Thompson , Christopher M. Hirata

Measurement of eccentricity in low-mass binary systems through gravitational waves is crucial to distinguish between various formation channels. Detecting eccentricity in these systems is challenging due to a lack of accurate eccentric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-23 Keisi Kacanja , Kanchan Soni , Alexander Harvey Nitz

We perform a systematic study of eccentric orbiting nonspinning black hole binaries. We first make a technical study of the optimal full numerical techniques to apply to these studies. We choose different gauge parameters and Courant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-17 Giuseppe Ficarra , Carlos O. Lousto

Future space-based gravitational wave (GW) observatories such as LISA will detect massive black hole binaries (MBHBs), which are expected to be accompanied by electromagnetic counterparts, thereby providing bright standard sirens for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-06 Jia-Hao Zhong , Jin-Zhao Yang , Tao Yang , Xu-Heng Ding , Xi-Long Fan , Kai Liao , Bei You

This paper is to introduce a new software called CBwaves which provides a fast and accurate computational tool to determine the gravitational waveforms yielded by generic spinning binaries of neutron stars and/or black holes on eccentric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-02-13 Péter Csizmadia , Gergely Debreczeni , István Rácz , Mátyás Vasúth

As gravitational wave astronomy has entered an era of routine detections, it becomes increasingly important to precisely measure the physical parameters of individual events and infer population properties. Eccentricity is a key observable,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-10 Yi-Fan Wang , Alexander H. Nitz

A gravitational wave (GW) signal carries imprints of the properties of its source. The ability to extract source properties crucially depends on our prior knowledge of the signal morphology. Even though binary black hole (BBH) mergers are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-10 Divyajyoti

The successful detection of continuous gravitational waves from spinning neutron stars (NSs) will shape our understanding of the physical properties of dense matter under extreme conditions. Binary population synthesis simulations show that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-14 Wen-Fan Feng , Tan Liu , Yan Wang , Lijing Shao

Using a post-Newtonian diagnostic tool developed by Mora and Will, we examine numerically generated quasiequilibrium initial data sets that have been used in recently successful numerical evolutions of binary black holes through plunge,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Emanuele Berti , Sai Iyer , Clifford M. Will

High-accuracy binary black hole simulations are presented for black holes with spins anti-aligned with the orbital angular momentum. The particular case studied represents an equal-mass binary with spins of equal magnitude S/m^2=0.43757 \pm…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-08 Tony Chu , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Mark A. Scheel

Recent results from pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) show evidence for a gravitational wave background (GWB) consistent with a population of unresolved supermassive black hole (SMBH) binaries (BHBs). While the data do not yet constrain the slope…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-12 Federica Fastidio , Alessia Gualandris , Alberto Sesana , Elisa Bortolas , Walter Dehnen

The space-based detector LISA may observe gravitational waves from the early inspiral of stellar-mass black hole binaries, some of which could have significant eccentricity. Current gravitational waveform templates are only valid for small…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-16 Sashwat Tanay , Antoine Klein , Emanuele Berti , Atsushi Nishizawa

Mounting evidence indicates that some of the gravitational wave signals observed by the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA observatories might arise from eccentric compact object binaries, increasing the urgency for accurate waveform models for such systems.…

The emission of gravitational waves (GWs) during single-single close encounters in galactic nuclei (GNs) leads to the formation and rapid merger of highly eccentric stellar-mass black hole (BH) binaries. The distinct distribution of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-14 László Gondán , Bence Kocsis