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We present a prescription for computing gravitational waveforms for the inspiral, merger and ringdown of non-spinning eccentric binary black hole systems. The inspiral waveform is computed using the post-Newtonian expansion and the merger…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-15 Ian Hinder , Lawrence E. Kidder , Harald P. Pfeiffer

We develop a method to compute low-eccentricity initial data of binary neutron stars required to perform realistic simulations in numerical relativity. The orbital eccentricity is controlled by adjusting the orbital angular velocity of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-27 Koutarou Kyutoku , Masaru Shibata , Keisuke Taniguchi

Dipole-radiation-like deviations from general relativity are most prominent during the early inspiral of compact binaries, making space-ground multiband observations a potential probe of such effects. In the same regime, orbital…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-01 Han Wang , Lijing Shao

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

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

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

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 has emerged as a potentially useful tool for helping to identify the origin of black hole mergers. However, owing to the large number of harmonics required to compute the amplitude of an eccentric signal, eccentric templates…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-26 Lisa Randall , Alexandra Shelest , Zhong-Zhi Xianyu

Parameter estimation of gravitational wave data is often computationally expensive, requiring simplifying assumptions such as circularisation of binary orbits. Although, if included, the sub-dominant effects like orbital eccentricity may…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-11 Rimo Das , V. Gayathri , Divyajyoti , Sijil Jose , Imre Bartos , Sergey Klimenko , Chandra Kant Mishra

We present a study of the gravitational waveforms from a series of spinning, equal-mass black hole binaries focusing on the harmonic content of the waves and the contribution of the individual harmonics to the signal-to-noise ratio. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Deirdre Shoemaker , Birjoo Vaishnav , Ian Hinder , Frank Herrmann

The most general bound binary black hole (BBH) system has an eccentric orbit and precessing spins. The detection of such a system with significant eccentricity close to the merger would be a clear signature of dynamical formation. In order…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-12 Khun Sang Phukon , Nathan K. Johnson-McDaniel , Amitesh Singh , Anuradha Gupta

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

In numerical evolutions of binary black holes (BBH) it is desirable to easily control the orbital eccentricity of the BBH, and the number of orbits completed by the binary through merger. This paper presents fitting formulae that allow to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-10-11 Abdul H. Mroué , Harald P. Pfeiffer

Using high-resolution hydrodynamics simulations, we show that equal-mass binaries accreting from a circumbinary disk evolve toward an orbital eccentricity of $e \simeq 0.45$, unless they are initialized on a nearly circular orbit with $e…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-05 Jonathan Zrake , Christopher Tiede , Andrew MacFadyen , Zoltán Haiman

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 investigate the systematic biases in measuring orbital eccentricity for binary black hole (BBH) mergers that arise when higher-order modes (HOMs) of gravitational waves are neglected in waveform modeling. Using Bayesian inference with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-05 Honglue Tang , Jinzhao Yang , Baoxiang Wang , Tao Yang

Mergers of stellar-mass black holes on highly eccentric orbits are among the targets for ground-based gravitational-wave detectors, including LIGO, VIRGO, and KAGRA. These sources may commonly form through gravitational-wave emission in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-21 László Gondán , Bence Kocsis , Péter Raffai , Zsolt Frei

In a recent paper, we determined the measurement accuracy of physical parameters for eccentric, precessing, non-spinning, inspiraling, stellar-mass black hole - black hole (BH-BH) binaries for the upcoming second-generation LIGO/VIRGO/KAGRA…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-26 László Gondán , Bence Kocsis

Eccentric compact binary coalescences (CBCs) are expected to be observed in current and future gravitational-wave (GW) detector networks. However, it has been recently pointed out that a number of other physical and beyond-GR effects, could…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-03 Sajad A. Bhat , Avinash Tiwari , Md Arif Shaikh , Shasvath J. Kapadia

We provide a systematic analysis of the multipolar gravitational waveform, energy and angular momentum fluxes emitted by a nonspinning test particle orbiting a Kerr black hole along equatorial, eccentric orbits. These quantities are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-31 Simone Albanesi , Alessandro Nagar , Sebastiano Bernuzzi