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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…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-06-06 William E. East , Frans Pretorius , Branson C. Stephens

The observed binary black hole (BBH) mergers indicate a large Galactic progenitor population continuously evolving from large orbital separations and low gravitational wave (GW) frequencies to the final merger phase. We investigate the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-19 Xiao Fang , Todd A. Thompson , Christopher M. Hirata

We present the IMRPhenomXE frequency-domain phenomenological waveform model for the dominant mode of inspiral-merger-ringdown non-precessing binary black holes in elliptical orbits. IMRPhenomXE extends the quasi-circular IMRPhenomXAS…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-15 Antoni Ramos-Buades , Quentin Henry , Maria Haney

In this paper, we present 52 new numerical-relativity (NR) simulations of black-hole-neutron-star merger (BHNS) mergers and employ the data to inform TEOBResumS-Dal\'i: a multipolar effective-one-body model also including precession and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-02 Alejandra Gonzalez , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Alireza Rashti , Francesco Brandoli , Rossella Gamba

Observations of gravitational waves (GWs) generated by binary black hole (BBH) mergers provide us with a powerful way to explore the strong and highly dynamical regime of gravity theories. The ringdown of BBH merger, consisting of a series…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-24 Zexin Hu , Daniela D. Doneva , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev , Lijing Shao

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

The modelling of unequal mass binary black hole systems is of high importance to detect and estimate parameters from these systems. Numerical relativity (NR) is well suited to study systems with comparable component masses, $m_1\sim m_2$,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-11 Antoni Ramos-Buades , Maarten van de Meent , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Hannes R. Rüter , Mark A. Scheel , Michael Boyle , Lawrence E. Kidder

For the first time, we construct an inspiral-merger-ringdown waveform model within the effective-one-body formalism for spinning, nonprecessing binary black holes that includes gravitational modes beyond the dominant $(\ell,|m|) = (2,2)$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-22 Roberto Cotesta , Alessandra Buonanno , Alejandro Bohé , Andrea Taracchini , Ian Hinder , Serguei Ossokine

We present the first effective-one-body (EOB) model for generic-spins quasi-circular black-hole--neutron-star (BHNS) inspiral-merger-ringdown gravitational waveforms (GWs). Our model is based on a new numerical-relativity (NR) informed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-26 Alejandra Gonzalez , Rossella Gamba , Matteo Breschi , Francesco Zappa , Gregorio Carullo , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Alessandro Nagar

The measurement of orbital eccentricity in gravitational-wave (GW) signals will provide unique insights into the astrophysical origin of binary systems, while ignoring eccentricity in waveform models could introduce significant biases in…

We investigate the possibility of electromagnetic fields leaving imprints on gravitational wave (GW) signals from Neutron Star-Black hole (NSBH) mergers, specifically in the context of extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs). Using black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-06 Fawzi Aly , Mahmoud A. Mansour , Dejan Stojkovic

Numerical relativity (NR) simulations of binary black holes provide precise waveforms, but are typically too computationally expensive to produce waveforms with enough orbits to cover the whole frequency band of gravitational-wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-09 Dongze Sun , Michael Boyle , Keefe Mitman , Mark A. Scheel , Leo C. Stein , Saul A. Teukolsky , Vijay Varma

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

Orbital eccentricity in gravitational-wave signals from merging compact object binaries is a powerful indicator of their formation channel. Several binary black hole mergers and a neutron star--black hole merger have been reported to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-19 Teagan A. Clarke , Isobel M. Romero-Shaw , Charlie Hoy , Jakob Stegmann , Paul D. Lasky , Eric Thrane

We describe recent numerical simulations of the merger of a class of equal mass, non-spinning, eccentric binary black hole systems in general relativity. We show that with appropriate fine-tuning of the initial conditions to a region of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Frans Pretorius , Deepak Khurana

We present the first comparison between numerical relativity (NR) simulations of an eccentric binary black hole system with corresponding post-Newtonian (PN) results. We evolve an equal-mass, non-spinning configuration with an initial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-18 Ian Hinder , Frank Herrmann , Pablo Laguna , Deirdre Shoemaker

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

Dynamically assembled binary black holes are expected to retain measurable orbital eccentricity in the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA band, but most parameter estimation analyses still assume quasi-circular inspirals. This raises a critical question: how…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-04 Tamal RoyChowdhury , V. Gayathri , Rossella Gamba , Shubhagata Bhaumik , Imre Bartos , Jolien Creighton

We construct a new factorized waveform including $(l,|m|)=(2,2),(2,1),(3,3),(4,4)$ modes based on effective-one-body (EOB) formalism, which is valid for spinning binary black holes (BBH) in general equatorial orbit. When combined with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-02 Xiaolin Liu , Zhoujian Cao , Zong-Hong Zhu

Waveform models are important to gravitational wave data analysis. People recently pay much attention to the waveform model construction for eccentric binary black hole coalescence. Several Effective-One-Body Numerical-Relativity waveform…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-10 Xiaolin Liu , Zhoujian Cao , Zong-Hong Zhu