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We use population inference to explore the impact that uncertainties in the distribution of binary black holes (BBH) have on the astrophysical gravitational-wave background (AGWB). Our results show that the AGWB monopole is sensitive to the…

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The individual component spins of binary black holes (BBHs) are difficult to resolve using gravitational-wave observations but carry key signatures of the processes shaping their formation and evolution. Recent analyses have found…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-23 Lillie Szemraj , Sylvia Biscoveanu

Although gravitational waves tend to erase eccentricity of an inspiraling binary system, ellipticity can be generated in the presence of surrounding matter. We present a semi-analytical method for understanding the eccentricity distribution…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-31 Lisa Randall , Zhong-Zhi Xianyu

Detection of gravitational waves from compact binaries involving at least one intermediate mass black hole, and component mass ratios in the range $0.1$-$10^{-4}$, are among the primary sources for future space detectors with target strain…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-25 M Laxman , Ryuichi Fujita , Chandra Kant Mishra

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

Eccentricity of the inspiraling compact binaries can greatly improve the distance inference and source localization of dark sirens. In this paper, we continue the research for the space-borne atom interferometric gravitational-wave detector…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-19 Tao Yang , Rong-Gen Cai , Hyung Mok Lee

We estimate the population of eccentric gravitational wave (GW) binary black hole (BBH) mergers forming during binary-single interactions in globular clusters (GCs), using ~ 800 GC models that were evolved using the MOCCA code for star…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-28 Johan Samsing , Abbas Askar , Mirek Giersz

The population of binary black hole (BBH) mergers observed by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration offers a window into the cosmic evolution of compact binaries and their formation. We employ the semi-analytic population-synthesis code…

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

We present a detailed analysis of the expected signal-to-noise ratios of supermassive black hole binaries on eccentric orbits observed by pulsar timing arrays. We derive several analytical relations that extend the results of Peters and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-11 E. A. Huerta , Sean T. McWilliams , Jonathan R. Gair , Stephen R. Taylor

We study the gravitational wave (GW) phase shift arising from center-of-mass accelerations of binary black hole mergers formed dynamically in three-body systems, where both the inner orbit of the merging binary and the outer orbit are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-21 Kai Hendriks , Lorenz Zwick , Johan Samsing

Our current understanding is that an environment - mainly consisting of gas or stars - is required to bring massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) with total redshifted mass $M_z\sim[10^{4},10^7]~{\rm M}_\odot$ to the LISA band from parsec…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-15 Mudit Garg , Laura Sberna , Lorenzo Speri , Francisco Duque , Jonathan Gair

We show how the observable number of binaries in LISA is affected by eccentricity through its influence on the peak gravitational wave frequency, enhanced binary number density required to produce the LIGO observed rate, and the reduced…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-05 Lisa Randall , Zhong-Zhi Xianyu

Astrophysically motivated population models for binary black hole observables are often insufficient to capture the imprints of multiple formation channels. This is mainly due to the strongly parametrized nature of such investigations.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-05 Anarya Ray , Ignacio Magaña Hernandez , Katelyn Breivik , Jolien Creighton

We study the evolution of the eccentricity of an eccentric orbit with spinning components. We develop a prescription to express the evolving eccentricity in terms of reference eccentricity and frequency. For that purpose we considered the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-27 Sayak Datta

In gravitational wave (GW) astronomy accurate measurement of the source parameters, such as mass, relies on accurate waveform templates. Currently, the templates are developed assuming that the source, such as a binary black hole (BBH), is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-01 Xian Chen , Ze-Yuan Xuan , Peng Peng

Primordial black holes (PBH), supposedly formed in the very early Universe, have been proposed as a possible viable dark matter candidate. In this work we characterize the expected gravitational wave (GW) losses from a population of PBHs…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-20 Stefano Bondani , Matteo Bonetti , Luca Broggi , Francesco Haardt , Alberto Sesana , Massimo Dotti

The recent detections of GW150914 and GW151226 imply an abundance of stellar-mass binary-black-hole mergers in the local universe. While ground-based gravitational-wave detectors are limited to observing the final moments before a binary…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-19 Katelyn Breivik , Carl L. Rodriguez , Shane L. Larson , Vassiliki Kalogera , Frederic A. Rasio

Gravitational-wave observations give a unique insight into the formation and evolution of binary black holes. We use gravitational-wave measurements to address the question of whether GW170729's source, which is (probably) the most massive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-03 Chase Kimball , Christopher P L Berry , Vicky Kalogera

There is a high level of interest in black hole-neutron star binaries, not only because their mergers may be detected by gravitational wave observatories in the coming years, but also because of the possibility that they could explain a…

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