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The growing population of compact binary mergers detected with gravitational waves contains multiple events that are challenging to explain through isolated binary evolution. Such events have higher masses than are expected in isolated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-14 Isobel M. Romero-Shaw , Paul D. Lasky , Eric Thrane

We investigate the prospects of observing residual eccentricity in a population of compact binaries by calculating the power in the eccentric harmonics, following the methodology in arXiv:2411.04187. Although most observed compact binary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-09 Mukesh Kumar Singh , Ben G. Patterson , Stephen Fairhurst

We assess the possibility of detecting both eccentricity and gas effects (migration and accretion) in the gravitational wave (GW) signal from LISA massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) at redshift $z=1$. Gas induces a phase correction to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-16 Mudit Garg , Andrea Derdzinski , Shubhanshu Tiwari , Jonathan Gair , Lucio Mayer

Orbital eccentricity in compact binaries is considered to be a key tracer of their astrophysical origin, and can be inferred from gravitational-wave observations due to its imprint on the emitted signal. For a robust measurement, accurate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-11 Alice Bonino , Patricia Schmidt , Geraint Pratten

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

Gravitational waves (GW), emanating from binary black holes (BBH), encode vital information about their source. GW signals enable us to deduce key properties of the BBH population across the universe, including mass, spin, and eccentricity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-08 Muhammad Zeeshan , Richard O'Shaughnessy

Stellar mass binary black holes of unknown formation mechanism have been observed, motivating new methods for distinguishing distinct black hole populations. This work explores how the orbital eccentricity of stellar mass binary black holes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-04 Nicholas DePorzio , Lisa Randall , Zhong-Zhi Xianyu

The two binary black-hole (BBH) coalescences detected by LIGO, GW150914 and GW151226, were relatively nearby sources, with a redshift of ~0.1. As the sensitivity of Advanced LIGO and Virgo increases in the next few years, they will…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-05 Salvatore Vitale , Matthew Evans

The couplings between supermassive black-hole binaries and their environments within galactic nuclei have been well studied as part of the search for solutions to the final parsec problem. The scattering of stars by the binary or the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-26 S. R. Taylor , E. A. Huerta , J. R. Gair , S. T. McWilliams

In the first Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalogue of LIGO and Virgo, all events are announced having zero eccentricity. In the present paper, we investigate the performance of SEOBNRE which is a spin-aligned eccentric waveform model in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-21 Qian-Yun Yun , Wen-Biao Han , Gang Wang , Shu-Cheng Yang

We use the open source, community-driven, numerical relativity software, the Einstein Toolkit to study the physics of eccentric, spinning, nonprecessing binary black hole mergers with mass-ratios $q=\{2, 4, 6\}$, individual dimensionless…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-22 Abhishek V. Joshi , Shawn G. Rosofsky , Roland Haas , E. A. Huerta

Using exclusively the 777 full numerical waveforms of the third Binary Black Holes RIT catalog, we reanalyze the ten black hole merger signals reported in LIGO/Virgo's O1/O2 observation runs. We obtain binary parameters, extrinsic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-04 James Healy , Carlos O. Lousto , Jacob Lange , Richard O'Shaughnessy

Next generation ground-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors are expected to detect $\sim 10^4 \mbox{-} 10^5$ binary black holes (BBHs) per year. Understanding the formation pathways of these binaries is an open question. Orbital…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-24 Pankaj Saini

We perform a parameter study of non-spinning, equal and unequal mass black hole binaries on generic, eccentric orbits in numerical relativity. The linear momentum considered ranges from that of a circular orbit to ten times that value. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-10-02 Roman Gold , Bernd Bruegmann

The localization and distance inference of gravitational waves are two crucial factors for dark sirens as precise probes of cosmology, astrophysics, and fundamental physics. In this Letter, for the first time we investigate the parameter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-01 Tao Yang , Rong-Gen Cai , Zhoujian Cao , Hyung Mok Lee

Space-based gravitational-wave observatories will detect the early inspiral of stellar-mass binary black holes and can track their eccentricity evolution. However, untargeted searches in the space band are computationally demanding and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-01 Han Wang , Michael J. Williams , Ian Harry , Yi-Ming Hu

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

One of the major assumptions in the search for gravitational wave signatures from massive and supermassive black hole binaries with LISA, is that these systems will have circularized before entering the LISA bandwidth. Current astrophysical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-31 Edward K. Porter , Alberto Sesana

We study the impact of eccentricity on gravitational-wave parameter estimation for binary neutron star systems. For signals with small eccentricity injected into the advanced LIGO sensitivity, we perform Bayesian parameter estimation using…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-13 Hee-Suk Cho

The development of eccentric waveform models enables us to explore the growing catalog of gravitational-wave events with measurable eccentricity. This opens new opportunities to gain insight into the formation channels and evolutionary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-15 Muhammad Zeeshan , Richard O'Shaughnessy , Natalie Malagon