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While most binary inspirals are expected to have circularized before they enter the LIGO/Virgo frequency band, a small fraction of those binaries could have non-negligible orbital eccentricity depending on their formation channel. Hence, it…

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We present the first numerical relativity waveforms for binary black hole mergers produced using spectral methods that show both the displacement and the spin memory effects. Explicitly, we use the SXS Collaboration's $\texttt{SpEC}$ code…

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We address the problem of constructing high-accuracy, faithful analytic waveforms describing the gravitational wave signal emitted by inspiralling and coalescing binary black holes. We work within the Effective-One-Body (EOB) framework and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Thibault Damour , Alessandro Nagar

The waveforms from binary black hole mergers include inspiral, merger, and ringdown parts. Usually, the inspiral waveform can be obtained by calibrating from post-Newtonian approximation; The merger and ringdown ones can be gotten from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-15 Song Li , Wen-Biao Han

Building on the analytical description of the post-merger (ringdown) waveform of coalescing, non-precessing, spinning, (BBHs) introduced in Phys. Rev. D 90, 024054 (2014), we propose an analytic, closed form, time-domain, representation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-28 Walter Del Pozzo , Alessandro Nagar

It was recently shown that, in a binary coalescence, the greybody factor of the remnant black hole modulates the post-merger ringdown signal. In this work, we demonstrate that a simple four-parameter model based on the greybody factor…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-14 Romeo Felice Rosato , Sophia Yi , Emanuele Berti , Paolo Pani

By means of the scattering angles, we obtain an effective metric of spinless binaries with radiation-reaction effects up to fourth post-Minkowskian order, which is the foundation of the effective-one-body theory. We note that there are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-17 Jiliang Jing , Weike Deng , Sheng Long , Jieci Wang

The measurement of multiple ringdown modes in gravitational waves from binary black hole mergers will allow for testing fundamental properties of black holes in General Relativity, and to constrain modified theories of gravity. To enhance…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-26 Huan Yang , Kent Yagi , Jonathan Blackman , Luis Lehner , Vasileios Paschalidis , Frans Pretorius , Nicolas Yunes

Building upon several recent advances in the development of effective-one-body models for spin-aligned eccentric binaries with individual masses $(m_1,m_2)$ we introduce a new EOB waveform model that aims at describing inspiralling binaries…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-12 Alessandro Nagar , Simone Albanesi

Gravitational waves from binary black hole (BBH) mergers allow us to test general relativity in the strong-field, high-curvature regime. However, existing gravitational wave-based tests have so far assumed non-eccentric signal sources,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-26 Danilo Chiaramello , Nicolò Cibrario , Jacob Lange , Koustav Chandra , Rossella Gamba , Raffaella Bonino , Alessandro Nagar

Building upon recent work, we present an improved effective-one-body (EOB) model for spin-aligned, coalescing, black hole binaries with generic orbital configurations, i.e. quasi-circular, eccentric or hyperbolic orbits. The model relies on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-19 Alessandro Nagar , Alice Bonino , Piero Rettegno

Higher-order gravitational wave modes from quasi-circular, spinning, non-precessing binary black hole mergers encode key information about these systems' nonlinear dynamics. We model these waveforms using transformer architectures,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-21 Victoria Tiki , Kiet Pham , Eliu Huerta

We apply machine learning methods to build a time-domain model for gravitational waveforms from binary black hole mergers, called mlgw. The dimensionality of the problem is handled by representing the waveform's amplitude and phase using a…

Strategies to model the inspiral, merger and ringdown gravitational waveform of coalescing binaries are restricted in parameter space by the coverage of available numerical-relativity simulations. When more numerical waveforms become…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-10 Yoshinta Eka Setyawati , Frank Ohme , Sebastian Khan

We present the first systematic comparison between gravitational waveforms emitted by inspiralling, quasi-circular and nonspinning black hole binaries computed with three different approaches: second-order gravitational self-force (2GSF)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-03 Angelica Albertini , Alessandro Nagar , Adam Pound , Niels Warburton , Barry Wardell , Leanne Durkan , Jeremy Miller

Complete waveform models able to account for arbitrary non-planar orbits represent a holy grail in current gravitational-wave astronomy. Here, we take a step towards this direction and present a simple yet efficient prescription to obtain…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-27 Rossella Gamba , Danilo Chiaramello , Sayan Neogi

We present numerically-informed closed-form expressions for the dominant $(\ell,m)=(2,2)$ waveform harmonic of the post-merger emission from mergers of non-spinning binary black holes with comparable masses on highly eccentric orbits. Using…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-20 Nishkal Rao , Gregorio Carullo

We present a new, tunable effective-one-body (EOB) model of the motion and radiation of coalescing black hole binaries with arbitrary mass ratio and aligned spins. The most novel feature of our formalism is the introduction, and systematic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Thibault Damour , Alessandro Nagar

The inference of binary neutron star properties from gravitational-wave observations requires the generation of millions of waveforms, each one spanning about three order of magnitudes in frequency range. Thus, waveform models must be…

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