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We describe an explicit in time, finite-difference code designed to simulate black holes by using the excision method. The code is based upon the harmonic formulation of the Einstein equations and incorporates several features regarding the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Bela Szilagyi , Denis Pollney , Luciano Rezzolla , Jonathan Thornburg , Jeffrey Winicour

For the first time, we construct an inspiral-merger-ringdown waveform model within the effective-one-body formalism for spinning, nonprecessing binary black holes that includes gravitational modes beyond the dominant $(\ell,|m|) = (2,2)$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-22 Roberto Cotesta , Alessandra Buonanno , Alejandro Bohé , Andrea Taracchini , Ian Hinder , Serguei Ossokine

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 introduce IMRPhenomTEHM, a new phenomenological time-domain model for eccentric aligned-spin binary black holes. Building upon the accurate quasi-circular IMRPhenomTHM model, IMRPhenomTEHM integrates the eccentric post-Newtonian (PN)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-15 Maria de Lluc Planas , Antoni Ramos-Buades , Cecilio García-Quirós , Héctor Estellés , Sascha Husa , Maria Haney

We study the gravitational wave (GW) phase shift arising from center-of-mass accelerations of binary black hole mergers formed dynamically in three-body systems, where both the inner orbit of the merging binary and the outer orbit are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-21 Kai Hendriks , Lorenz Zwick , Johan Samsing

Compact binaries inspiralling along eccentric orbits are plausible gravitational wave (GW) sources for the ground-based laser interferometers. We explore the losses in the event rates incurred when searching for GWs from compact binaries…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Tessmer , A. Gopakumar

The space-based detector LISA may observe gravitational waves from the early inspiral of stellar-mass black hole binaries, some of which could have significant eccentricity. Current gravitational waveform templates are only valid for small…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-16 Sashwat Tanay , Antoine Klein , Emanuele Berti , Atsushi Nishizawa

Excision techniques are used in order to deal with black holes in numerical simulations of Einstein equations and consist in removing a topological sphere containing the physical singularity from the numerical domain, applying instead…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-08-27 Isabel Cordero-Carrión , Nicolas Vasset , Jérôme Novak , José Luis Jaramillo

We derive the scalar waveform generated by a binary of nonspinning compact objects (black holes or neutron stars) in a general class of scalar-tensor theories of gravity. The waveform is accurate to 1.5 post-Newtonian order [$O((v/c)^3)$]…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-12 Ryan N. Lang

\texttt{gwNRHME} is a framework that converts multi-modal (i.e., containing several spherical harmonic modes) quasi-circular waveforms into their eccentric counterparts, provided the quadrupolar eccentric mode is known, by exploiting…

We analyze 192 sets of binary black hole merger data in eccentric orbits obtained from RIT, decomposing the radiation energy into three distinct phases through time: inspiral, late inspiral to merger, and ringdown. Our investigation reveals…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-22 Hao Wang , Yuan-Chuan Zou , Qing Wen Wu

Future space-based gravitational wave (GW) observatories such as LISA will detect massive black hole binaries (MBHBs), which are expected to be accompanied by electromagnetic counterparts, thereby providing bright standard sirens for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-06 Jia-Hao Zhong , Jin-Zhao Yang , Tao Yang , Xu-Heng Ding , Xi-Long Fan , Kai Liao , Bei You

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

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

Identifying weak gravitational wave signals in noise and estimating the source properties require high-precision waveform templates. Numerical relativity (NR) simulations can provide the most accurate waveforms. However, it is challenging…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-07 Xing-Yu Zhong , Wen-Biao Han , Ling Sun

We identify various contributors of systematic effects in the measurement of the neutron star (NS) tidal deformability and quantify their magnitude for several types of neutron star - black hole (NSBH) binaries. Gravitational waves from…

Numerical relativity simulations provide a full description of the dynamics of binary systems, including gravitational radiation. The waveforms produced by these simulations have a number of applications in gravitational-wave detection and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-09 Taylor Knapp , Katerina Chatziioannou , Keefe Mitman , Mark A. Scheel , Michael Boyle , Lawrence E. Kidder , Harald Pfeiffer

Eccentricity has emerged as a potentially useful tool for helping to identify the origin of black hole mergers. However, owing to the large number of harmonics required to compute the amplitude of an eccentric signal, eccentric templates…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-26 Lisa Randall , Alexandra Shelest , Zhong-Zhi Xianyu

The intricacies of black hole ringdown analysis are amplified by the absence of a complete set of orthogonal basis functions for quasinormal modes. Although damped sinusoids effectively fit the ringdown signals from binary black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-09 Hengrui Zhu , Justin L. Ripley , Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño , Frans Pretorius

Detecting imprints of orbital eccentricity in GW signals promises to shed light on the formation mechanisms of binary black holes. To constrain formation mechanisms, distributions of eccentricity derived from numerical simulations of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-05 Aditya Vijaykumar , Alexandra G. Hanselman , Michael Zevin