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We propose a new approach toward reconstructing the late-time near-horizon geometry of merging binary black holes, and toward computing gravitational-wave echoes from exotic compact objects. A binary black-hole merger spacetime can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-06 Sizheng Ma , Qingwen Wang , Nils Deppe , François Hébert , Lawrence E. Kidder , Jordan Moxon , William Throwe , Nils L. Vu , Mark A. Scheel , Yanbei Chen

The description of extreme-mass-ratio binary systems in the inspiral phase is a challenging problem in gravitational wave physics with significant relevance for the space interferometer LISA. The main difficulty lies in the evaluation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Carlos F. Sopuerta , Pablo Laguna

We present a time domain waveform model that describes the inspiral-merger-ringdown (IMR) of compact binary systems whose components are non-spinning, and which evolve on orbits with low to moderate eccentricity. The inspiral evolution is…

We construct few deep generative models of gravitational waveforms based on the semi-supervising scheme of conditional autoencoders and their variational extensions. Once the training is done, we find that our best waveform model can…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 Chung-Hao Liao , Feng-Li Lin

The field of gravitational waves is rapidly progressing due to the noticeable advancements in the sensitivity of gravitational-wave detectors that has enabled the detection prospects of binary black hole mergers. Extreme mass ratio inspiral…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-05 Mostafizur Rahman , Shailesh Kumar , Arpan Bhattacharyya

Inspirals of stellar mass compact objects into massive black holes are an important source for future gravitational wave detectors such as Advanced LIGO and LISA. Detection of these sources and extracting information from the signal relies…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-02-20 Tanja Hinderer , Eanna E. Flanagan

We present the second release of the $\texttt{GR-Athena++}$ waveform catalog, comprising four new quasi-circular, non-precessing, spinning binary black hole simulations. These simulations are performed at high resolutions and represent a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-09 Estuti Shukla , Alireza Rashti , Rossella Gamba , David Radice , Koustav Chandra

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…

We analyze a rotating regular black hole spacetime with an asymptotically Minkowski core, focusing on extreme mass-ratio inspiral (EMRIs) where a stellar-mass object inspirals a supermassive black hole under consideration. Such spacetimes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-01 Shailesh Kumar , Tieguang Zi

We study black-hole binaries in the intermediate-mass-ratio regime 0.01 < q < 0.1 with a new technique that makes use of nonlinear numerical trajectories and efficient perturbative evolutions to compute waveforms at large radii for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Carlos O. Lousto , Hiroyuki Nakano , Yosef Zlochower , Manuela Campanelli

With the goal of bringing theory, particularly numerical relativity, to bear on an astrophysical problem of critical interest to gravitational wave observers we introduce a model for coalescence radiation from binary black hole systems. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Baker , M. Campanelli , C. O. Lousto , R. Takahashi

This work elaborates on a detailed analysis of the novel characteristics of gravitational waves (GWs) generated by extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs) within the framework of modified gravity (MOG). Our study begins by exploring the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-20 Xiongying Qiao , Zhong-Wu Xia , Qiyuan Pan , Hong Guo , Wei-Liang Qian , Jiliang Jing

This short note serves as an introduction to gravitational radiation through reviewing the inspiral-plunge transition phase in extreme mass ratio binaries. We study the relativistic motion of a compact object (CO) of mass $m$ around a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-20 Amir Jafari

General relativity predicts that black holes are described by the Kerr metric, which has integrable geodesics. This property is crucial to produce accurate waveforms from extreme-mass-ratio inspirals. Astrophysical environments,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-31 Kyriakos Destounis , Federico Angeloni , Massimo Vaglio , Paolo Pani

The gravitational wave observations of colliding black holes have opened a new window into the unexplored extreme gravity sector of physics, where the gravitational fields are immensely strong, non-linear, and dynamical. 10 binary black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-25 Zack Carson , Kent Yagi

We derive an analytical expression for extracting the gravitational waveforms at null infinity using the Weyl scalar $\psi_4$ measured at a finite radius. Our expression is based on a series solution in orders of 1/r to the equations for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-11 H. Nakano , J. Healy , C. O. Lousto , Y. Zlochower

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), comprising a stellar-mass compact object (CO) orbiting a supermassive black hole (BH), are key targets for future space-based gravitational-wave (GW) observatories. Incorporating the spin of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-26 Qiuxin Cui , Wen-Biao Han

The observability of gravitational waves from supermassive and intermediate-mass black holes by the forecoming Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), and the physics we can learn from the observations, will depend on two basic factors:…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Emanuele Berti

We extend our research on the energy flux and waveform characteristics of gravitational waves generated by merging nonspinning binary black holes through self-consistent effective one-body theory \cite{L2023} to include binary systems with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-11 Weike Deng , Sheng Long , Jiliang Jing

We present a new frequency-domain phenomenological model of the gravitational-wave signal from the inspiral, merger and ringdown of non-precessing (aligned-spin) black-hole binaries. The model is calibrated to 19 hybrid…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-10 Sebastian Khan , Sascha Husa , Mark Hannam , Frank Ohme , Michael Pürrer , Xisco Jiménez Forteza , Alejandro Bohé