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We study the evolution of circumstellar massive disks around the primary star of a binary system focusing on the computation of disk eccentricity. In particular, we concentrate on its dependence on the binary eccentricity. Self-gravity is…

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We establish the set of independent variables suitable to monitor the complicated evolution of the spinning compact binary during the inspiral. Our approach is valid up to the second post-Newtonian order, including leading order spin-orbit,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-12 László Árpád Gergely

Complete expressions of time-domain gravitational waveforms for spinning binary inspirals via the post-Newtonian (PN) approximation would require determination of the phase, amplitude, inclination angle, precession phase and spin vectors as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-19 Dong-Hoon Kim

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

Gravitational waves (GW) from eccentric binaries have intricate signals encoding important features about the location, creation and evolution of the sources. Eccentricity shortens the merger time, making the emitted GW statistically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-13 Dillon Buskirk , Maria C. Babiuc Hamilton

We present a simple method to track the precession of a black-hole-binary system, using only information from the gravitational-wave (GW) signal. Our method consists of locating the frame from which the magnitude of the $(\ell=2,|m|=2)$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-12 Patricia Schmidt , Mark Hannam , Sascha Husa , P. Ajith

In this paper, we estimate the eccentricity of the 10 BBHs in GWTC-1 by using the inspiral-only BBH waveform template EccentricFD. Firstly, we test our method with simulated eccentric BBHs. Afterwards we apply the method to the real BBH…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-10 Shichao Wu , Zhoujian Cao , Zong-Hong Zhu

Detection of gravitational waves (GW) from highly eccentric binary black hole (BBH) systems can provide insight into their dynamics and formation. To date, all of the LIGO-Virgo BBH detections have been made using quasi-circular templates…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-17 Belinda D. Cheeseboro , Paul T. Baker

We present a novel way of modeling common envelope evolution in binary and few-body systems. We consider the common envelope inspiral as driven by a drag force with a power-law dependence in relative distance and velocity. The orbital…

The spin-induced quadrupole moment-based test of black hole nature is routinely used to probe the true nature of detected binary signals, assuming a circular orbit. We extend the applicability of the method to binaries in eccentric orbits.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-24 N. V. Krishnendu

Accurate modeling of gravitational-wave signals is essential for reliable inference of compact-binary source parameters, particularly for future space-based detectors operating in the milli- and deci-Hertz bands. In this work, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-13 Jin-Zhao Yang , Jia-Hao Zhong , Tao Yang

Binary black hole systems are among the most important sources for gravitational wave detection. And also they are good objects for theoretical research for general relativity. Gravitational waveform template is important to data analysis.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-30 Zhoujian Cao , Wen-Biao Han

The inspiral and merger of supermassive black hole binary systems with high orbital eccentricity are among the promising sources of the advanced gravitational wave observatories. In this paper we derive analytic ready-to-use first…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-26 Balázs Mikóczi , Péter Forgács , Mátyás Vasúth

Eccentricity of wide binaries is difficult to measure due to their long orbital periods. With Gaia's high-precision astrometric measurements, eccentricity of a wide binary can be constrained by the angle between the separation vector and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Hsiang-Chih Hwang , Yuan-Sen Ting , Nadia L. Zakamska

We construct an inspiral-merger-ringdown eccentric gravitational-wave (GW) model for binary black holes with non-precessing spins within the effective-one-body formalism. This waveform model, SEOBNRv4EHM, extends the accurate quasi-circular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-02 Antoni Ramos-Buades , Alessandra Buonanno , Mohammed Khalil , Serguei Ossokine

Orbital eccentricity in gravitational-wave signals from merging compact object binaries is a powerful indicator of their formation channel. Several binary black hole mergers and a neutron star--black hole merger have been reported to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-19 Teagan A. Clarke , Isobel M. Romero-Shaw , Charlie Hoy , Jakob Stegmann , Paul D. Lasky , Eric Thrane

Gravitational-wave observations of merging compact binaries hold the key to precision measurements of the objects' masses and spins. General-relativistic precession, caused by spins misaligned with the orbital angular momentum, is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-28 Geraint Pratten , Patricia Schmidt , Riccardo Buscicchio , Lucy M. Thomas

The detection of gravitational-wave signals from coalescing eccentric binary black holes would yield unprecedented information about the formation and evolution of compact binaries in specific scenarios, such as dynamical formation in dense…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-09 Yoshinta Setyawati , Frank Ohme

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

The inspiral and merger of eccentric binaries leads to gravitational waveforms distinct from those generated by circularly merging binaries. Dynamical environments can assemble binaries with high eccentricity and peak frequencies within the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Johan Samsing , Morgan MacLeod , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz