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Using high-resolution hydrodynamics simulations, we show that equal-mass binaries accreting from a circumbinary disk evolve toward an orbital eccentricity of $e \simeq 0.45$, unless they are initialized on a nearly circular orbit with $e…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-05 Jonathan Zrake , Christopher Tiede , Andrew MacFadyen , Zoltán Haiman

In paper I of this series we showed that a large percentage of the binary black hole (BBH) mergers that form through dynamical interactions in globular clusters will have significant eccentricity in the ~10^{-3}-10^{-1} Hz LISA band. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-19 Daniel J. D'Orazio , Johan Samsing

In the last few years before merger, supermassive black hole binaries will rapidly inspiral and precess in a magnetic field imposed by a surrounding circumbinary disk. Multiple simulations suggest this relative motion will convert some of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 R. O'Shaughnessy , D. L. Kaplan , A. Sesana , A. Kamble

Coalescing binary black-hole systems are among the most promising sources of gravitational waves for ground-based interferometers. While the \emph{inspiral} and \emph{ring-down} stages of the binary black-hole coalescence are well-modelled…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 P. Ajith

Pair instability supernovae are thought to restrict the formation of black holes in the mass range ~50 - 135 solar masses. However, black holes with masses within this "high mass gap" are expected to form as the remnants of binary black…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-11 Isobel M. Romero-Shaw , Paul D. Lasky , Eric Thrane , Juan Calderon Bustillo

We study gravitational wave emission and the structure and formation of apparent horizons in orbiting black-hole binary systems in higher-dimensional general relativity. For this purpose we present an apparent horizon finder for use in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-19 William G. Cook , Diandian Wang , Ulrich Sperhake

Supermassive black hole binary mergers generate a stochastic gravitational wave background detectable by pulsar timing arrays. While the amplitude of this background is subject to significant uncertainties, the frequency dependence is a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-20 Jeff A. Dror , Benjamin V. Lehmann , Hiren H. Patel , Stefano Profumo

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…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-09 Mukesh Kumar Singh , Ben G. Patterson , Stephen Fairhurst

Binary black-hole systems with spins aligned or anti-aligned to the orbital angular momentum provide the natural ground to start detailed studies of the influence of strong-field spin effects on gravitational wave observations of coalescing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-09 Christian Reisswig , Sascha Husa , Luciano Rezzolla , Ernst Nils Dorband , Denis Pollney , Jennifer Seiler

We investigate the systematic biases in measuring orbital eccentricity for binary black hole (BBH) mergers that arise when higher-order modes (HOMs) of gravitational waves are neglected in waveform modeling. Using Bayesian inference with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-05 Honglue Tang , Jinzhao Yang , Baoxiang Wang , Tao Yang

The dynamical evolution of binaries of intermediate-massive black holes (IMBHs, massive black holes with a mass ranging between $10^2$ and $10^4 M_{\odot}$) in stellar clusters has recently received an increasing amount of attention. This…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Pau Amaro-Seoane , Christoph Eichhorn , Edward K. Porter , Rainer Spurzem

Coalescing black hole (BH) binaries forming in the dense core of globular clusters (GCs) are expected to be one the brightest sources of gravitational wave (GW) radiation for the next generation of ground-based laser interferometers.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Fabio Antonini , Norman Murray , Seppo Mikkola

The observation of gravitational waves from merging black holes and neutron stars provides a unique opportunity to discern information about their astrophysical environment. Two signatures that are considered powerful tracers to distinguish…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-18 Gonzalo Morras , Geraint Pratten , Patricia Schmidt

The relevance of orbital eccentricity in the detection of gravitational radiation from (steady state) binary stars is emphasized. Computationnally effective fast and accurate)tools for constructing gravitational wave templates from binary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 V. Pierro , I. M. Pinto , A. D. Spallicci , E. Laserra , F. Recano

The detection of gravitational waves from the merger of binary black holes by the LIGO Collaboration has opened a new window to astrophysics. With the sensitivities of ground based detectors in the coming years we can only detect the local…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-28 Ilias Cholis

More recently, Fernandes \cite{Fernandes:2023vux} discovered analytic stationary and axially-symmetric black hole solutions within semiclassical gravity, driven by the trace anomaly. The study unveils some distinctive features of these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-30 Tieguang Zi , Peng-Cheng Li

Binary systems of two compact objects circularize and spiral toward each other via the emission of gravitational waves. The coupling of the spins of each object with the orbital angular momentum causes the orbital plane to precess, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-08 Katerina Chatziioannou , Antoine Klein , Neil Cornish , Nicolas Yunes

Black hole binaries with small mass ratios will be important sources for the forthcoming Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission. Models of such binaries also serve as useful tools for understanding the dynamics of compact binary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-24 Devin R. Becker , Scott A. Hughes , Gaurav Khanna

We derive the hyperbolic orbit of binary black holes with electric and magnetic charges. In the low-velocity and weak-field regime, by using the Newtonian method, we calculate the total emission rate of energy due to gravitational and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-28 Zu-Cheng Chen , Sang Pyo Kim , Lang Liu

The article provides ready-to-use 1pN-accurate frequency-domain gravitational wave forms for eccentric nonspinning compact binaries of arbitrary mass ratio including the first post-Newtonian (1pN) point particle corrections to the far-zone…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-02-28 Manuel Tessmer , Gerhard Schaefer