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When binary black holes form in the field, it is expected that their orbits typically circularize before coalescence. In galactic nuclei and globular clusters, binary black holes can form dynamically. Recent results suggest that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-13 Marcus E. Lower , Eric Thrane , Paul D. Lasky , Rory Smith

Eccentricity, an important parameter of gravitational waves, has been paid more and more attention because it can reflect the dynamics of compact object mergers. Obtaining an accurate and fast gravitational waveform template is of great…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-21 Hao Wang , Yuan-Chuan Zou , Yu Liu

Accurate models of merger remnants are increasingly important for gravitational-wave science, including precision tests of gravity with ringdown, inference of black-hole populations, and modeling hierarchical mergers. For eccentric…

We introduce a method to quantify the initial eccentricity, gravitational wave frequency, and mean anomaly of numerical relativity simulations that describe non-spinning black holes on moderately eccentric orbits. We demonstrate that this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-14 Sarah Habib , E. A. Huerta

Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) observations will detect gravitational waves (GWs) from the early inspiral phase of supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) with orbital periods of weeks to years. Current PTA analyses generally assume circular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-26 Sara Manzini , Stanislav Babak

We introduce spatiotemporal-graph models that concurrently process data from the twin advanced LIGO detectors and the advanced Virgo detector. We trained these AI classifiers with 2.4 million IMRPhenomXPHM waveforms that describe…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-05 Minyang Tian , E. A. Huerta , Huihuo Zheng

Upgrades to current gravitational wave detectors for the next observation run and upcoming third-generation observatories, like the Einstein telescope, are expected to have enormous improvements in detection sensitivities and compact object…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-21 Suyog Garg , Feng-Li Lin , Kipp Cannon

Observations of gravitational-wave signals emitted by compact binary inspirals provide unique insights into their properties, but their analysis requires accurate and efficient waveform models. Intermediate- and extreme-mass-ratio inspirals…

A binary extreme-mass-ratio inspiral (b-EMRI) is a hierarchical triple system consisting of a stellar-mass binary black hole (BBH) orbiting a central Kerr supermassive black hole (SMBH). Although predicted by several astrophysical models,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-06 Yucheng Yin , Josh Mathews , Alvin J. K. Chua , Xian Chen

The detection of orbital eccentricity for a binary black hole system via gravitational waves is a key signature to distinguish between the possible binary origins. The identification of eccentricity has been difficult so far due to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-19 H. L. Iglesias , J. Lange , I. Bartos , S. Bhaumik , R. Gamba , V. Gayathri , A. Jan , R. Nowicki , R. O'Shaughnessy , D. Shoemaker , R. Venkataramanan , K. Wagner

We determine the mass-ratio, eccentricity and binary inclination angles that maximize the contribution of the higher-order waveform multipoles $(\ell, \, |m|)= \{(2,\,2),\, (2,\,1),\, (3,\,3),\, (3,\,2), \, (3,\,1),\, (4,\,4),\, (4,\,3),\,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-19 Adam Rebei , E. A. Huerta , Sibo Wang , Sarah Habib , Roland Haas , Daniel Johnson , Daniel George

Highly precise and robust waveform models are required as improvements in detector sensitivity enable us to test general relativity with more precision than ever before. In this work, we introduce a spin-aligned surrogate ringdown model.…

Accurate waveform models for coalescing binaries on eccentric orbits are crucial for avoiding biases in the analysis of eccentric gravitational-wave signals. The effective-one-body (EOB) formalism combines various analytical approximation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-25 Aldo Gamboa , Mohammed Khalil , Alessandra Buonanno

Extreme-mass-ratio inspiral (EMRI) is an important gravitational-wave (GW) source and it normally consists of one stellar-mass black hole (BH) whirling closely around a supermassive black hole (SMBH). In this Letter, we demonstrate that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-02 Xian Chen , Wen-Biao Han

Deep learning methods have been employed in gravitational-wave astronomy to accelerate the construction of surrogate waveforms for the inspiral of spin-aligned black hole binaries, among other applications. We face the challenge of modeling…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-24 Styliani-Christina Fragkouli , Paraskevi Nousi , Nikolaos Passalis , Panagiotis Iosif , Nikolaos Stergioulas , Anastasios Tefas

Detecting binary black holes in interferometer data requires an accurate knowledge of the orbital phase evolution of the system. From the point of view of data analysis one also needs fast algorithms to compute the templates that will…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Damour , B. R. Iyer , B. S. Sathyaprakash

A generic, non-eccentric binary black hole (BBH) system emits gravitational waves (GWs) that are completely described by 7 intrinsic parameters: the black hole spin vectors and the ratio of their masses. Simulating a BBH coalescence by…

The stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) in the nanohertz (nHz) regime, detectable by pulsar timing arrays (PTAs), provides a promising probe of the cosmic population of supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs). These binaries…

Accurate extractions of the detected gravitational wave (GW) signal waveforms are essential to validate a detection and to probe the astrophysics behind the sources producing the GWs. This however could be difficult in realistic scenarios…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-20 Chayan Chatterjee , Linqing Wen , Foivos Diakogiannis , Kevin Vinsen

Newtonian and post-Newtonian (PN) calculations indicate that the phenomenology of eccentric binary black hole (BBH) merger waveforms is significantly more complex than that of their quasi-circular counterparts. Each spherical harmonic mode…