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Building initial conditions for generic binary black-hole evolutions without initial spurious eccentricity remains a challenge for numerical-relativity simulations. This problem can be overcome by applying an eccentricity-removal procedure…

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Abstract abridged. Eclipsing binary systems provide the opportunity to measure the fundamental parameters of their component stars in a stellar-model-independent way. This makes them ideal candidates for testing and calibrating theories of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-12 Luc W. IJspeert , Andrew Tkachenko , Cole Johnston , Andrej Prša , Mark A. Wells , Conny Aerts

The construction of ready to use templates for gravitational waves from spinning binaries is an important challenge in the investigation of detectable gravitational wave signals. Here we present a method to evaluate the gravitational wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 János Majár , Mátyás Vasúth

The detection of ~50 coalescing compact binaries with the Advanced LIGO and Virgo detectors has allowed us to test general relativity, constrain merger rates, and look for evidence of tidal effects, compact object spins, higher waveform…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-15 Marc Favata , Chunglee Kim , K. G. Arun , JeongCho Kim , Hyung Won Lee

Measurement of eccentricity in low-mass binary systems through gravitational waves is crucial to distinguish between various formation channels. Detecting eccentricity in these systems is challenging due to a lack of accurate eccentric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-23 Keisi Kacanja , Kanchan Soni , Alexander Harvey Nitz

Gravitational waves provide us with a new window into our Universe, and have already been used to place strong constrains on the existence of light scalar fields, which are a common feature in many alternative theories of gravity. However,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-28 Philippe Brax , Anne-Christine Davis , Scott Melville , Leong Khim Wong

An eccentric, unequal-mass binary induces forced eccentricity in a circumbinary disk through the non-axisymmetric component of its gravitational potential. Building on the theory of free (i.e., unforced) eccentric modes, we develop a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-25 Marcela Grcic , Daniel J. D'Orazio , Martin E. Pessah

While the expectation is that the majority of gravitational wave events observable by ground-based detectors will be emitted by compact binaries in quasi-circular orbits, the growing number of detections suggests the possibility of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-02 Blake Moore , Nicolás Yunes

Searches for gravitational waves from compact binaries focus mostly on quasi-circular motion, with the rationale that wave emission circularizes the orbit. Here, we study the generality of this result, when astrophysical environments (e.g.,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-20 Vitor Cardoso , Caio F. B. Macedo , Rodrigo Vicente

We demonstrate that the orbital eccentricity in compact binary mergers can be used to improve their sky localization using gravitational wave observations. Existing algorithms that conduct the localizations are not optimized for eccentric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-10 Souradeep Pal

The population of stellar-mass, compact object binaries that merge with non-negligible eccentricity may be large enough to motivate searches with ground-based gravitational wave detectors. Such events could be exceptional laboratories to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-11 Nicholas Loutrel , Nicolas Yunes , Frans Pretorius

We analyze a new numerical relativity dataset of spinning but nonprecessing binary black holes on eccentric orbits, with eccentricities from approximately $0.1$ to $0.5$, with dimensionless spins up to $0.75$ included at mass ratios…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-14 Antoni Ramos-Buades , Sascha Husa , Geraint Pratten , Héctor Estellés , Cecilio García-Quirós , Maite Mateu-Lucena , Marta Colleoni , Rafel Jaume

We compare different methods of computing the orbital eccentricity of quasi-circular binary black hole systems using the orbital variables and gravitational wave phase and frequency. For eccentricities of about a per cent, most methods work…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-12-24 Abdul H. Mroué , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Lawrence E. Kidder , Saul A. Teukolsky

We compute here the spin-orbit and spin-spin couplings needed for an accurate computation of the phasing of gravitational waves emitted by comparable-mass binaries on eccentric orbits at the second post-Newtonian (PN) order. We use a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-17 Antoine Klein , Philippe Jetzer

The most general bound binary black hole (BBH) system has an eccentric orbit and precessing spins. The detection of such a system with significant eccentricity close to the merger would be a clear signature of dynamical formation. In order…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-12 Khun Sang Phukon , Nathan K. Johnson-McDaniel , Amitesh Singh , Anuradha Gupta

The equations of motion for spinning compact binaries on eccentric orbits are treated perturbatively in powers of a fractional mass-difference ordering parameter. The solution is valid through first order in the mass-difference parameter. A…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-06-03 Manuel Tessmer , Gerhard Schäfer

Orbital eccentricity encodes key information about compact-binary formation channels and astrophysical environments, making it a critical target for gravitational-wave (GW) inference. We present parameter-estimation (PE) analyses of GWs…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-28 Lorenzo Pompili , Aldo Gamboa , Alessandra Buonanno

Gravitational waves radiated during binary black hole coalescence is a perfect probe for studying the characteristics of strong gravity. Advanced techniques for creating numerical relativity substitute models for eccentric binary black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-08 Sourav Roy Chowdhury , Maxim Khlopov

Mounting evidence indicates that some of the gravitational wave signals observed by the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA observatories might arise from eccentric compact object binaries, increasing the urgency for accurate waveform models for such systems.…

We derive Keplerian-type parametrization for the solution of post-Newtonian (PN) accurate conservative dynamics of spinning compact binaries moving in eccentric orbits. The PN accurate dynamics that we consider consists of the third…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Christian Koenigsdoerffer , Achamveedu Gopakumar