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Next generation ground-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors are expected to detect $\sim 10^4 \mbox{-} 10^5$ binary black holes (BBHs) per year. Understanding the formation pathways of these binaries is an open question. Orbital…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-24 Pankaj Saini

A compact binary in an eccentric orbit radiates gravitational waves (GWs) at all integer harmonics of its orbital frequency. In this study, we investigate the effect of orbital eccentricity on the expected gravitational background radiation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Motohiro Enoki , Masahiro Nagashima

Due to their small mass, subsolar mass black hole binaries would have to be primordial in origin instead of the result of stellar evolution. Soon after formation in the early universe, primordial black holes can form binaries after…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-28 Yi-Fan Wang , Alexander H. Nitz

We present the first application of deep learning forecasting for binary neutron stars, neutron star - black hole systems, and binary black hole mergers that span an eccentricity range e <= 0.9. We train neural networks that describe these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-19 Wei Wei , E. A. Huerta , Mengshen Yun , Nicholas Loutrel , Md Arif Shaikh , Prayush Kumar , Roland Haas , Volodymyr Kindratenko

We outline the eccentricity evolution of sub-parsec massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) forming in galaxy mergers. In both stellar and gaseous environments, MBHBs are expected to grow large orbital eccentricities before they enter the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Constanze Roedig , Alberto Sesana

Gravitational wave detections offer insights into the astrophysical populations of black holes in the universe and their formation processes. Detections of binaries consisting of black holes lying outside the bulk distribution of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-12 Yumeng Xu , Eleanor Hamilton

Inspiralling compact binaries are expected to circularize before their gravitational-wave signals reach the sensitive frequency band of ground-based detectors. Current searches for gravitational waves from compact binaries using the LIGO…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 Duncan A. Brown , Peter J. Zimmerman

We studied how eccentricity affects the gravitational wave (GW) spectrum from supermassive black hole (SMBH) binaries. We developed a fast and accurate semi-analytic method for computing the GW spectra, the distribution for the spectral…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-16 Juhan Raidal , Juan Urrutia , Ville Vaskonen , Hardi Veermäe

The gravitational wave signal from merging compact binaries encodes information about their orbital and intrinsic properties. Over the last few years, state-of-the-art waveform models have begun to incorporate the effects of orbital…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-14 Natalie Malagon , Richard O'Shaughnessy

As gravitational wave astronomy has entered an era of routine detections, it becomes increasingly important to precisely measure the physical parameters of individual events and infer population properties. Eccentricity is a key observable,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-10 Yi-Fan Wang , Alexander H. Nitz

We present a first-stage study of the effect of using knowledge from electromagnetic (EM) observations in the gravitational wave (GW) data analysis of Galactic binaries that are predicted to be observed by the new Laser Interferometer Space…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Sweta Shah , Marc van der Sluys , Gijs Nelemans

The detection of GW150914 by ground based gravitational wave observatories has brought about a new era in astrophysics. At optimal sensitivity, these observatories are expected to detect several events each year, with one or two of these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-14 Nicolas Loutrel , Nicolas Yunes

The detections of gravitational waves (GWs) from binary neutron star (BNS) systems and neutron star--black hole (NSBH) systems provide new insights into dense matter properties in extreme conditions and associated high-energy astrophysical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-22 Chang Liu , Lijing Shao

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

Many gravitational wave (GW) sources are expected to have non-negligible eccentricity in the millihertz band. These highly eccentric compact object binaries may commonly serve as a progenitor stage of GW mergers, particularly in dynamical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-28 Zeyuan Xuan , Smadar Naoz , Bence Kocsis , Erez Michaely

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

Gravitational lensing in the wave-optics regime imprints characteristic frequency-dependent amplitude and phase modulations on gravitational-wave (GW) signals, yet to be detected by ground-based interferometers. Similar modulations may also…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-03 Anuj Mishra , Apratim Ganguly

The pre-merger detection of gravitational waves from the early inspiral phase of compact binary coalescence events would allow the observation of the earlier stages of the merger in the electromagnetic band. This would significantly impact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-08 Reem Alfaidi , Christopher Messenger

Coalescing supermassive black hole binaries (BHBs) are expected to be the loudest sources of gravitational waves (GWs) in the Universe. Detection rates for ground or space-based detectors based on cosmological simulations and semi-analytic…

The localization and distance inference of gravitational waves are two crucial factors for dark sirens as precise probes of cosmology, astrophysics, and fundamental physics. In this Letter, for the first time we investigate the parameter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-01 Tao Yang , Rong-Gen Cai , Zhoujian Cao , Hyung Mok Lee