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Numerical relativity (NR) provides the most accurate waveforms for comparable-mass binary black holes but becomes prohibitively expensive for increasingly asymmetric mass ratios. Point-particle black hole perturbation theory (ppBHPT), which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-02 Tousif Islam , Gaurav Khanna , Scott E. Field

In this paper we have examined numerically exact configurations of close binary systems composed of incompressible fluids with internal flows. Component stars of binary systems are assumed to be circularly orbiting each other but rotating…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Koji Uryu , Yoshiharu Eriguchi

The discovery that many trans-neptunian objects exist in pairs, or binaries, is proving invaluable for shedding light on the formation, evolution and structure of the outer Solar system. Based on recent systematic searches it has been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergey A. Astakhov , Ernestine A. Lee , David Farrelly

This paper is to introduce a new software called CBwaves which provides a fast and accurate computational tool to determine the gravitational waveforms yielded by generic spinning binaries of neutron stars and/or black holes on eccentric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-02-13 Péter Csizmadia , Gergely Debreczeni , István Rácz , Mátyás Vasúth

Gravitational waves radiated during binary black hole coalescence is a perfect probe for studying the characteristics of strong gravity. Advanced techniques for creating numerical relativity substitute models for eccentric binary black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-08 Sourav Roy Chowdhury , Maxim Khlopov

We derive fourth post-Newtonian (4PN) contributions to the Keplerian-type parametric solution associated with the conservative dynamics of eccentric, non-spinning compact binaries. The solution has been computed while ignoring certain…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-19 Gihyuk Cho , Sashwat Tanay , Achamveedu Gopakumar , Hyung Mok Lee

We derive all second post-Newtonian (2PN), non-precessional effects of spin- orbit coupling on the gravitational wave forms emitted by an inspiraling binary composed of spinning, compact bodies in a quasicircular orbit. Previous post-…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Benjamin J. Owen , Hideyuki Tagoshi , Akira Ohashi

Inspiraling compact binaries with non-negligible orbital eccentricities are plausible gravitational wave (GW) sources for the upcoming network of GW observatories. In this paper, we present two prescriptions to compute post-Newtonian (PN)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-17 Sashwat Tanay , Maria Haney , Achamveedu Gopakumar

For black-hole binaries whose spins are (anti-) aligned with respect to the orbital angular momentum of the binary, we compute the frequency domain phasing coefficients including the quadratic-in-spin terms up to the third post-Newtonian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-04 Chandra Kant Mishra , Aditya Kela , K. G. Arun , Guillaume Faye

Using publicly available numerical relativity (NR) simulations for non-spinning eccentric binary black hole (BBH) mergers, Ref \cite{Islam:2024rhm} demonstrated that the eccentricity-induced modulations in the amplitudes and frequencies of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-28 Tousif Islam , Tejaswi Venumadhav

The dynamics of a binary system with two spinning components on an eccentric orbit is studied, with the inclusion of the spin-spin interaction terms appearing at the second post-Newtonian order. A generalized true anomaly parametrization…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 László Á. Gergely

The classical trajectories of the family of complex PT-symmetric Hamiltonians $H=p^2+x^2(ix)^\epsilon$ ($\epsilon\geq0$) form closed orbits. All such complex orbits that have been studied in the past are PT symmetric (left-right symmetric).…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Carl M. Bender , Daniel W. Darg

We perform a parameter study of non-spinning, equal and unequal mass black hole binaries on generic, eccentric orbits in numerical relativity. The linear momentum considered ranges from that of a circular orbit to ten times that value. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-10-02 Roman Gold , Bernd Bruegmann

We have used our new technique for fully numerical evolutions of orbiting black-hole binaries without excision to model the last orbit and merger of an equal-mass black-hole system. We track the trajectories of the individual apparent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Campanelli , C. O. Lousto , Y. Zlochower

Eccentricity of binary systems is not a gauge invariant quantity, but has an important impact on the observed gravitational wave signal of such systems, generating power in all possible harmonics of the orbital period. We here clarify the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-21 Nicholas Loutrel , Samuel Liebersbach , Nicolas Yunes , Neil Cornish

We study the evolution of circumbinary disks under the gravitational influence of the binary using two-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations to investigate the impact of disk and binary parameters on the dynamical aspects of the disk. To…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-14 Daniel Thun , Wilhelm Kley , Giovanni Picogna

We investigate the evolution of low mass (Md /Mb = 0.005) misaligned gaseous discs around eccentric supermassive black hole (SMBH) binaries. These are expected to form from randomly oriented accretion events onto a SMBH binary formed in a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Hossam Aly , Walter Dehnen , Chris Nixon , Andrew King

Compact objects evolving in an astrophysical environment experience a gravitational drag force known as dynamical friction. We present a multipole-frequency decomposition to evaluate the orbit-averaged energy and angular momentum…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-22 Gali Eytan , Vincent Desjacques , Yonadav Barry Ginat

We perform high-resolution, grid-based hydrodynamics simulations of gaseous rings viscously spreading into disks around equal-mass, circular binaries. We find that all systems suppress accretion onto the binary when the gas is relatively…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-07 Leonardo Betancourt , Andrew MacFadyen , Jonathan Zrake

We compute the leading order contribution to radiative losses in the case of spinning binaries with aligned spins due to their spin-orbit interaction. The orbital average along hyperboliclike orbits is taken through an appropriate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-04 Donato Bini , Andrea Geralico , Piero Rettegno