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To describe a general bound binary black hole system, we need to consider orbital eccentricity and the misalignment of black holes' spin vectors with respect to the orbital angular momentum. While binary black holes produced through many…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-13 Amitesh Singh , Nathan K. Johnson-McDaniel , Anuradha Gupta , Khun Sang Phukon

The eccentricity of binary black-hole mergers is predicted to be an indicator of the history of their formation. In particular, eccentricity is a strong signature of dynamical formation rather than formation by stellar evolution in isolated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-14 Eamonn O'Shea , Prayush Kumar

In this paper we describe a model for the $(\ell=2, m=0)$ spherical harmonic mode of the gravitational wave signal emitted by the coalescence of binary black holes, in particular, spin-aligned systems. This mode can be viewed as consisting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-29 Maria Rosselló-Sastre , Sascha Husa , Sayantani Bera

The prospect of observing asymmetric compact binaries with next-generation gravitational-wave detectors has motivated the development of fast and accurate waveform models in gravitational self-force theory. These models are based on a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-04 Lorenzo Küchler , Geoffrey Compère , Adam Pound

Gravitational waves (GW), emanating from binary black holes (BBH), encode vital information about their source. GW signals enable us to deduce key properties of the BBH population across the universe, including mass, spin, and eccentricity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-08 Muhammad Zeeshan , Richard O'Shaughnessy

During its inspiral stage, a binary black hole (BBH) produces characteristic gravitational wave (GW) signals. The waveform of the GW signals can be described by the physical parameters of BBH, such as the masses of the black holes and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-04 Han Gil Choi , Tao Yang , Hyung Mok Lee

Coalescing binaries of neutron stars (NS) and black holes (BH) are one of the most important sources of gravitational waves for the upcoming network of ground based detectors. Detection and extraction of astrophysical information from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-08 Prayush Kumar , Kevin Barkett , Swetha Bhagwat , Nousha Afshari , Duncan A. Brown , Geoffrey Lovelace , Mark A. Scheel , Béla Szilágyi

We introduce pyEFPEHM, a post-Newtonian (PN) inspiral waveform model for eccentric and spin-precessing compact binaries that includes higher-order modes and matter effects. Accurate and efficient waveform models capturing these effects are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-15 Gonzalo Morras , Geraint Pratten , Patricia Schmidt , Alessandra Buonanno

We investigate the possibility of electromagnetic fields leaving imprints on gravitational wave (GW) signals from Neutron Star-Black hole (NSBH) mergers, specifically in the context of extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs). Using black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-06 Fawzi Aly , Mahmoud A. Mansour , Dejan Stojkovic

It remains an open question whether the binary black hole mergers observed with gravitational-wave detectors originate from the evolution of isolated massive binary stars or were dynamically driven by perturbations from the environment.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-23 Jakob Stegmann , Davide Gerosa , Isobel Romero-Shaw , Giulia Fumagalli , Hiromichi Tagawa , Lorenz Zwick

We describe and study an instantaneous definition of eccentricity to be applied at the initial moment of full numerical simulations of binary black holes. The method consists of evaluating the eccentricity at the moment of maximum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-30 Alessandro Ciarfella , James Healy , Carlos O. Lousto , Hiroyuki Nakano

In this paper we introduce a new method for exact decomposition of propagating, nonlinear magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) disturbances into their component eigenenergies associated with the familiar slow, Alfv\'en, and fast wave eigenmodes, and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-09 Abbas Raboonik , Lucas Tarr , David Pontin

We present a systematic framework for computing frequency-domain gravitational waveforms from relativistic binary scattering in different asymptotic regimes. The method yields a controlled series expansion that can in principle be extended…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-03 Giacomo Brunello , Vsevolod Chestnov , Giulio Crisanti , Mathieu Giroux , Sid Smith

We compare waveforms and orbital dynamics from the first long-term, fully non-linear, numerical simulations of a generic black-hole binary configuration with post-Newtonian predictions. The binary has mass ratio q~0.8 with arbitrarily…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 Manuela Campanelli , Carlos O. Lousto , Hiroyuki Nakano , Yosef Zlochower

We assess the detectability of the gravitational wave signals from highly eccentric compact binaries. We use a simple model for the inspiral, merger, and ringdown of these systems. The model is based on mapping the binary to an effective…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-02-14 William E. East , Sean T. McWilliams , Janna Levin , Frans Pretorius

We present an extension of work in an earlier paper showing high precision comparisons between black hole perturbation theory and post-Newtonian (PN) theory in their region of overlapping validity for bound, eccentric-orbit, Schwarzschild…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-22 Christopher Munna , Charles R. Evans , Seth Hopper , Erik Forseth

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

Gravitational wave (GW) astronomy has been hailed as a gateway to discovering unexpected phenomena in the universe. Over the last decade there have been close to one hundred GW observations of compact-binary mergers. While these signals are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-10 Shrobana Ghosh , Mark Hannam

Individual supermassive black hole binaries in non-circular orbits are possible nanohertz gravitational wave sources for the rapidly maturing Pulsar Timing Array experiments. We develop an accurate and efficient approach to compute Pulsar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-11 Abhimanyu Susobhanan , Achamveedu Gopakumar , George Hobbs , Stephen R. Taylor

This study presents a thorough comparative analysis between post-Newtonian (PN) and numerically relativistic (NR) waveforms in eccentric orbits, covering nonspinning and spin-aligned configurations. The comparison examines frequency,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-17 Hao Wang , Yuan-Chuan Zou , Qing-Wen Wu , Xiaolin Liu , Zhao Li