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We present gravitational waveforms for the last orbits and merger of black-hole-binary (BBH) systems along two branches of the BBH parameter space: equal-mass binaries with equal non-precessing spins, and nonspinning unequal-mass binaries.…

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Level energies, wavelengths, electric dipole, magnetic dipole, electric quadrupole, and magnetic quadrupole transition rates, oscillator strengths, and line strengths from combined relativistic configuration interaction and many-body…

Recent gravitational wave (GW) detections showing signatures of eccentricity and spin precession underscore the need to model binary black holes (BBHs) possessing these features simultaneously. Most efforts over the past fifteen years to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-13 Tom Colin , Sashwat Tanay , Laura Bernard

In this article, we focus on the effects of mass transfer between binary stars and stellar spin on the post-Newtonian (PN) orbital evolution and gravitational waveforms of compact binary systems. We employ the 2.5PN approximation and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-24 Yifan He , Jie Yang

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

The numerical modeling of binary neutron star mergers has become a subject of much interest in recent years. While a full and accurate model of this phenomenon would require the evolution of the equations of relativistic hydrodynamics along…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Douglas Swesty , Edward Y. M. Wang , Alan C. Calder

[abridged] Although gravitational radiation causes inspiralling compact binaries to circularize, a variety of astrophysical scenarios suggest that binaries might have small but nonnegligible orbital eccentricities when they enter the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-30 Blake Moore , Marc Favata , K. G. Arun , Chandra Kant Mishra

Motivated by the completion of the fourth post-Newtonian (4PN) gravitational-wave generation from compact binary systems, we analyze and contrast different constructions of the metric outside an isolated system, using post-Minkowskian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-23 David Trestini , François Larrouturou , Luc Blanchet

We review a recently proposed approach to construct gravitational wave (GW) polarization states of unbound spinning compact binaries. Through this rather simple method, we are able to include corrections due to the dominant order spin-orbit…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-11 Lorenzo De Vittori , Achamveedu Gopakumar , Anuradha Gupta , Philippe Jetzer

We compute the non-linear memory contributions to the gravitational-wave amplitudes for compact binaries in eccentric orbits at the third post-Newtonian (3PN) order in general relativity. These contributions are hereditary in nature as they…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-22 Michael Ebersold , Yannick Boetzel , Guillaume Faye , Chandra K. Mishra , Bala R. Iyer , Philippe Jetzer

The post-post-Newtonian (2PN) accurate mass quadrupole moment, for compact binaries of arbitrary mass ratio, moving in general orbits is obtained by the multi-polar post Minkowskian approach of Blanchet, Damour, and Iyer (BDI). Using this,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 A. Gopakumar , Bala R. Iyer

With the aim of providing high accuracy post-Newtonian (PN) templates for the analysis of gravitational waves generated by compact binary systems, we complete the analytical derivation of the source type mass quadrupole moment of compact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-22 François Larrouturou , Quentin Henry , Luc Blanchet , Guillaume Faye

We derive the secular evolution of the orbital elements of a stellar-mass object orbiting a spinning massive black hole. We use the post-Newtonian approximation in harmonic coordinates, with test-body equations of motion for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-08 Clifford M. Will , Matthew Maitra

We present a novel analytic extraction of high-order post-Newtonian (pN) parameters that govern quasi-circular binary systems. Coefficients in the pN expansion of the energy of a binary system can be found from corresponding coefficients in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-03-26 Abhay G Shah , John L Friedman , Bernard F Whiting

The angular momentum flux from an inspiralling binary system of compact objects moving in quasi-elliptical orbits is computed at the third post-Newtonian (3PN) order using the multipolar post-Minkowskian wave generation formalism. The 3PN…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-30 K. G. Arun , Luc Blanchet , Bala R. Iyer , Siddhartha Sinha

We extend our previous results of the 14th post-Newtonian (PN) order expansion of gravitational waves for a test particle in circular orbits around a Schwarzschild black hole to the 22PN order, i.e. $v^{44}$ beyond the leading Newtonian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-11-26 Ryuichi Fujita

In this paper we discuss the anatomy of frequency-domain gravitational-wave signals from non-precessing black-hole coalescences with the goal of constructing accurate phenomenological waveform models. We first present new…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-10 Sascha Husa , Sebastian Khan , Mark Hannam , Michael Pürrer , Frank Ohme , Xisco Jiménez Forteza , Alejandro Bohé

Newtonian and post-Newtonian (PN) calculations suggest that each spherical harmonic mode of the gravitational waveforms (radiation) emitted by eccentric binaries can be further decomposed into several eccentricity-induced modes (indexed by…

Compact binary systems emitting gravitational waves (GWs) can exhibit orbital eccentricity, along with generic spin orientations, leading to the precession of the orbital angular momentum, individual spins, and the orbital plane. While…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-24 Soham Bhattacharyya , Omkar Sridhar

(Abridged) High-order terms in the post-Newtonian (PN) expansions of various quantities for compact binaries exhibit a combinatorial increase in complexity, including ever-increasing numbers of transcendentals. Here we consider the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-30 Nathan K. Johnson-McDaniel