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We perform a systematic study to explore the accuracy with which the parameters of intermediate-mass black-hole binary systems can be measured from their gravitational wave (GW) signatures using second-generation GW detectors. We make use…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-17 John Veitch , Michael Pürrer , Ilya Mandel

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

Identifying weak gravitational wave signals in noise and estimating the source properties require high-precision waveform templates. Numerical relativity (NR) simulations can provide the most accurate waveforms. However, it is challenging…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-07 Xing-Yu Zhong , Wen-Biao Han , Ling Sun

Gravitational waves emitted by black hole binary inspiral and mergers enable unprecedented strong-field tests of gravity, requiring accurate theoretical modelling of the expected signals in extensions of General Relativity. In this paper we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-02 Banafsheh Shiralilou , Tanja Hinderer , Samaya Nissanke , Néstor Ortiz , Helvi Witek

The emergence of precision gravity simulators in quantum and fluid systems is opening new avenues for probing curved-spacetime physics and black-hole phenomenology under controlled laboratory conditions. In parallel, advances in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-15 Leonardo Solidoro , Sebastian H. Völkel , Silke Weinfurtner

The ringdown phase following a binary black hole merger is usually assumed to be well described by a linear superposition of complex exponentials (quasinormal modes). In the strong-field conditions typical of a binary black hole merger,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Emanuele Berti , Vitor Cardoso , Jose A. Gonzalez , Ulrich Sperhake

Gravitational-wave approximants are essential for gravitational-wave astronomy, allowing the coverage binary black hole parameter space for inference or match filtering without costly numerical relativity (NR) simulations, but generally…

We introduce a novel method to generate a bank of gravitational-waveform templates of binary black hole (BBH) mergers for matched-filter searches in LIGO, Virgo and Kagra data.We derive a novel expression for the metric approximation to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-23 Stefano Schmidt , Bhooshan Gadre , Sarah Caudill

Next-generation gravitational-wave observatories are expected to detect over a thousand compact binary coalescence signals daily, with some lasting from minutes to hours. Consequently, multiple signals will overlap in the time-frequency…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-30 Ish Gupta , Koustav Chandra , B. S. Sathyaprakash

We estimated the sensitivity of the upcoming advanced, ground-based gravitational-wave observatories (the upgraded LIGO and Virgo and the KAGRA interferometers) to coalescing intermediate mass black hole binaries (IMBHB). We added waveforms…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-09-17 G. Mazzolo , F. Salemi , M. Drago , V. Necula , C. Pankow , G. A. Prodi , V. Re , V. Tiwari , G. Vedovato , I. Yakushin , S. Klimenko

Searches for gravitational waves (GWs) from binary black holes using interferometric GW detectors require the construction of template banks for performing matched filtering while analyzing the data. Placement of templates over the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-24 Chinmay Kalaghatgi , Parameswaran Ajith , K. G. Arun

We introduce a technique for gravitational-wave analysis, where Gaussian process regression is used to emulate the strain spectrum of a stochastic background using population-synthesis simulations. This leads to direct Bayesian inference on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-10 Stephen R. Taylor , Joseph Simon , Laura Sampson

Binary population synthesis simulations allow detailed modelling of gravitational-wave sources from a variety of formation channels. These population models can be compared to the observed catalogue of merging binaries to infer the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-30 Storm Colloms , Christopher P L Berry , John Veitch , Michael Zevin

Deep learning can be used to drastically decrease the processing time of parameter estimation for coalescing binaries of compact objects including black holes and neutron stars detected in gravitational waves (GWs). As a first step, we…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-28 Alistair McLeod , Daniel Jacobs , Chayan Chatterjee , Linqing Wen , Fiona Panther

Recent advances in the description of compact binary systems have produced gravitational waveforms that include inspiral, merger and ring-down phases. Comparing results from numerical simulations with those of post-Newtonian (PN), and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-13 Chad Hanna , Miguel Megevand , Evan Ochsner , Carlos Palenzuela

We characterize the expected statistical errors with which the parameters of black-hole binaries can be measured from gravitational-wave (GW) observations of their inspiral, merger and ringdown by a network of second-generation ground-based…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-07 Archisman Ghosh , Walter Del Pozzo , Parameswaran Ajith

This is a collection of literature reviews and some initial work on the estimation of the frequency of gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger for low SNR. This document provides a starting point, with a broad overview of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-11 Varun Nagesh Jolly Behera , Anik Kumar Samanta , Aurobinda Routray

We introduce the use of autoregressive normalizing flows for rapid likelihood-free inference of binary black hole system parameters from gravitational-wave data with deep neural networks. A normalizing flow is an invertible mapping on a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 Stephen R. Green , Christine Simpson , Jonathan Gair

Recently, the possibility of detecting gravitational wave echoes in the data stream subsequent to the binary black hole mergers observed by LIGO was suggested. Motivated by this suggestion, we presented templates of echoes based on black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-02 Norichika Sago , Takahiro Tanaka

When particle dark matter is bound gravitationally around a massive black hole in sufficiently high densities, the dark matter will affect the rate of inspiral of a secondary compact object that forms a binary with the massive black hole.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-09 David A. Nichols , Benjamin A. Wade , Alexander M. Grant