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Despite the observation of nearly 100 compact binary coalescence (CBC) events up to the end of the Advanced gravitational-wave (GW) detectors' third observing run (O3), there remain fundamental open questions regarding their astrophysical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-22 Ana Lorenzo-Medina , Thomas Dent

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

The precise modeling of binary black hole coalescences in generic planar orbits is a crucial step to disentangle dynamical and isolated binary formation channels through gravitational-wave observations. The merger regime of such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-26 Gregorio Carullo , Simone Albanesi , Alessandro Nagar , Rossella Gamba , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Tomas Andrade , Juan Trenado

In this work we take our cue from the observations of gravitational waves of the GW190814 event which suggests that source of the signals can be ascribed to a compact binary coalescence of a 22.2 to 24.3$ M_{\odot}$ black hole and a compact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-12 S. K. Maurya , G. Mustafa , M. Govender , Ksh. Newton Singh

We report on a search for gravitational waves from coalescing compact binaries, of total mass between 2 and 35 Msun, using LIGO observations between November 14, 2006 and May 18, 2007. No gravitational-wave signals were detected. We report…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-27 The LIGO Scientific Collaboration

We have performed a series of three-dimensional hydrodynamic calculations of binary coalescence using the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method. The initial conditions are exact polytropic equilibrium configurations with $\gam >…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-18 F. A. Rasio , S. L. Shapiro

In the literature, compact binary coalescences (CBCs) have been proposed as one of the main scenarios to explain the origin of some non-repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs). The large discrepancy between the FRB and CBC event rate densities…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-25 Min-Hao Wang , Shun-Ke Ai , Zheng-Xiang Li , Nan Xing , He Gao , Bing Zhang

Building up on previous work, we present a new calculation of the gravitational wave (GW) emission generated during the transition from quasi-circular inspiral to plunge, merger and ringdown by a binary system of nonspinning black holes, of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-12-15 Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Alessandro Nagar

We derive an analytic phenomenological expression that predicts the final mass of the black-hole remnant resulting from the merger of a generic binary system of black holes on quasi-circular orbits. Besides recovering the correct…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-17 Enrico Barausse , Viktoriya Morozova , Luciano Rezzolla

We present a study on binary-single interactions with energy loss terms such as tidal dissipation and gravitational wave emission added to the equation-of-motion. The inclusion of such terms leads to the formation of compact binaries that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-14 Johan Samsing , Morgan MacLeod , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

Coalescing black hole (BH) binaries forming in the dense core of globular clusters (GCs) are expected to be one the brightest sources of gravitational wave (GW) radiation for the next generation of ground-based laser interferometers.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Fabio Antonini , Norman Murray , Seppo Mikkola

Compact binary systems coalesce over time due to the radiation of gravitational waves, following the field equations of general relativity. Conservation of energy and angular momentum gives a mathematical description for the evolution of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-10 Lutendo Nyadzani , Soebur Razzaque

Einstein Telescope (ET) is a project of third generation gravitational wave (GW) detector with a planned sensitivity 10 times better than current detectors such as Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo. The high rate of GW signals expected in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-13 Adrian Macquet , Tito Dal Canton , Tania Regimbau

We study the advantage of the co-existence of future ground and space based gravitational wave detectors, in estimating the parameters of a binary coalescence. Using the post-Newtonian waveform for the inspiral of non-spinning neutron…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-17 Remya Nair , Sanjay Jhingan , Takahiro Tanaka

We investigate the expected gravitational wave emission from coalescing supermassive black hole (SMBH) binaries resulting from mergers of their host galaxies. When galaxies merge, the SMBHs in the host galaxies sink to the center of the new…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Motohiro Enoki , Kaiki T. Inoue , Masahiro Nagashima , Naoshi Sugiyama

With the discovery of the binary black hole coalescence GW150914, the era of gravitational-wave astrophysics has started. Gravitational-wave signals emitted by compact binary coalescences will be detected in large number by LIGO and Virgo…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-15 Salvatore Vitale , Ryan Lynch , Riccardo Sturani , Philip Graff

The three observational runs of advanced LIGO and Virgo detectors have detected $\sim$ 90 compact binary coalescence events with most of them being quasicircular compact binary merger events. Astrophysical models predict compact binary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-12 Ravikiran Hegde , Nirban Bose , Archana Pai

The detection of the events GW150914 and GW151226, both consistent with the merger of a binary black hole system (BBH), opened the era of gravitational wave (GW) astronomy. Besides BBHs, the most promising GW sources are the coalescences of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-07 Barbara Patricelli , Massimiliano Razzano , Giancarlo Cella , Francesco Fidecaro , Elena Pian , Marica Branchesi , Antonio Stamerra

We investigate the expected gravitational wave emission from coalescing supermassive black hole (SMBH) binaries resulting from mergers of their host galaxies. We employ a semi-analytic model of galaxy and quasar formation based on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Motohiro Enoki , Kaiki T. Inoue , Masahiro Nagashima , Naoshi Sugiyama

We compute the gravitational wave background (GWB) generated by a cosmological population of (BH-BH) binaries using hybrid waveforms recently produced by numerical simulations of (BH-BH) coalescence, which include the inspiral, merger and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 S. Marassi , R. Schneider , G. Corvino , V. Ferrari , S. Portegies Zwart