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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…

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Gravitational waves (GW) from chirping binary black holes (BBHs) provide unique opportunities to test general relativity (GR) in the strong-field regime. However, testing GR can be challenging when incomplete physical modeling of the…

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The events detected by the LIGO Virgo KAGRA collaboration over a period of 10 years have yielded a treasure trove of signals from compact binary coalescences. None of these events have shown a confident signature of eccentricity. With…

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Recent studies have shown that orbital eccentricity may indicate dynamical assembly as a formation mechanism for binary black holes. Eccentricity leaves a distinct signature in gravitational wave signals and it may be measured if the binary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-14 Katelyn J. Wagner , Richard O'Shaughnessy

Compact binary coalescences are a promising source of gravitational waves for second-generation interferometric gravitational-wave detectors such as advanced LIGO and advanced Virgo. While most binaries are expected to possess circular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-23 Michael Coughlin , Patrick Meyers , Eric Thrane , Jialun Luo , Nelson Christensen

Detecting binary black hole (BBH) mergers with quantifiable orbital eccentricity would confirm the existence of a dynamical formation channel for these binaries. The current state-of-the-art gravitational wave searches of LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-08 Bhooshan Gadre , Kanchan Soni , Shubhanshu Tiwari , Antoni Ramos-Buades , Maria Haney , Sanjit Mitra

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 summarize the four tests of general relativity carried out using the ten binary black hole signals detected by Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo and included in their first catalog, GWTC-1. These events provide unprecedented opportunities…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-22 Nathan K. Johnson-McDaniel

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

The Advanced LIGO/Virgo interferometers have observed $\sim 100$ gravitational-wave transients enabling new questions to be answered about relativity, astrophysics, and cosmology. However, many of our current procedures for computing these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-14 Noah E. Wolfe , Colm Talbot , Jacob Golomb

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

Gravitational waves (GW) from eccentric binaries have intricate signals encoding important features about the location, creation and evolution of the sources. Eccentricity shortens the merger time, making the emitted GW statistically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-13 Dillon Buskirk , Maria C. Babiuc Hamilton

Binary pulsars allow us to carry out precision tests of gravity and have placed stringent bounds on a broad class of theories beyond general relativity. Current and future radio telescopes, such as FAST, SKA, and MeerKAT, may find a new…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-24 Brian C. Seymour , Kent Yagi

Detection of gravitational waves (GW) from highly eccentric binary black hole (BBH) systems can provide insight into their dynamics and formation. To date, all of the LIGO-Virgo BBH detections have been made using quasi-circular templates…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-17 Belinda D. Cheeseboro , Paul T. Baker

The possible formation of stellar-mass binary black holes through dynamical interactions in dense stellar environments predicts the existence of binaries with non-negligible eccentricity in the frequency band of ground-based gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-19 Antoni Ramos-Buades , Shubhanshu Tiwari , Maria Haney , Sascha Husa

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

It is known that massive black holes (MBHs) of $10^{5-7}\,M_\odot$ could capture small compact objects to form extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs). Such systems emit gravitational waves (GWs) in the band of the Laser Interferometer Space…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-29 Wen-Biao Han , Xian Chen

A frequentist asymptotic expansion method for error estimation is employed for a network of gravitational wave detectors to assess the amount of information that can be extracted from gravitational wave observations. Mathematically we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-22 Rhondale Tso , Michele Zanolin

Gravitational wave signals from compact binary coalescences offer a powerful and reliable probe of General Relativity. To date, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration has provided stringent consistency tests of General Relativity predictions.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-12 Andrea Begnoni , Walter Del Pozzo , Matteo Pegorin , Joachim Pomper , Angelo Ricciardone

Wide, highly eccentric ($e>0.9$) compact binaries can naturally arise as progenitors of gravitational wave (GW) mergers. These systems are expected to have a significant population in the mHz band (e.g., $\sim 3-45$ detectable stellar-mass…

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