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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.…

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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

In this paper we apply to gravitational waves from non-spinning binary systems a recently intro- duced frequentist methodology to calculate analytically the error for a maximum likelihood estimate (MLE) of physical parameters. While…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-02-02 Salvatore Vitale , Michele Zanolin

Gravitational wave echoes offer a unique probe of the near-horizon structure of astrophysical black holes, beyond the standard ''black hole spectroscopy''. Theoretical waveform predictions, however, remain uncertain, motivating robust…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-01 Di Wu , Xi-Li Zhang , Qing-Guo Huang , Jing Ren

Gravitational-wave observations provide a unique opportunity to test general relativity (GR) in the strong-field and highly dynamical regime of the theory. Parametrized tests of GR are one well-known approach for quantifying violations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-08 Pankaj Saini , Marc Favata , K. G. Arun

Inspiraling supermassive black hole binary systems with high orbital eccentricity are important sources for space-based gravitational wave (GW) observatories like the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). Eccentricity adds orbital…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-30 Balázs Mikóczi , Bence Kocsis , Péter Forgács , Mátyás Vasúth

Gravitational waves from binary black hole (BBH) mergers allow us to test general relativity in the strong-field, high-curvature regime. However, existing gravitational wave-based tests have so far assumed non-eccentric signal sources,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-26 Danilo Chiaramello , Nicolò Cibrario , Jacob Lange , Koustav Chandra , Rossella Gamba , Raffaella Bonino , Alessandro Nagar

Accurate and computationally efficient waveform models are required to infer the parameters of compact binaries from their gravitational wave (GW) emission. Among these parameters, orbital eccentricity serves as a smoking gun for dynamical…

The orbital eccentricity of a merging binary black hole leaves an imprint on the associated gravitational-wave signal that can reveal whether the binary formed in isolation or in a dynamical environment, such as the core of a dense star…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-17 Isobel M. Romero-Shaw , Paul D. Lasky , Eric Thrane

We construct a new factorized waveform including $(l,|m|)=(2,2),(2,1),(3,3),(4,4)$ modes based on effective-one-body (EOB) formalism, which is valid for spinning binary black holes (BBH) in general equatorial orbit. When combined with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-02 Xiaolin Liu , Zhoujian Cao , Zong-Hong Zhu

Compact binaries that emit gravitational waves in the sensitivity band of ground-based detectors can have non-negligible eccentricities just prior to merger, depending on the formation scenario. We develop a purely analytic,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-15 E. A. Huerta , Prayush Kumar , Sean T. McWilliams , Richard O'Shaughnessy , Nicolas Yunes

When binary black holes form in the field, it is expected that their orbits typically circularize before coalescence. In galactic nuclei and globular clusters, binary black holes can form dynamically. Recent results suggest that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-13 Marcus E. Lower , Eric Thrane , Paul D. Lasky , Rory Smith

The possible formation of stellar-mass binary black holes through dynamical interactions in dense stellar environments predicts the existence of binaries with non-negligible eccentricity in the frequency band of ground-based gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-19 Antoni Ramos-Buades , Shubhanshu Tiwari , Maria Haney , Sascha Husa

In the first Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalogue of LIGO and Virgo, all events are announced having zero eccentricity. In the present paper, we investigate the performance of SEOBNRE which is a spin-aligned eccentric waveform model in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-21 Qian-Yun Yun , Wen-Biao Han , Gang Wang , Shu-Cheng Yang

Using high-resolution hydrodynamics simulations, we show that equal-mass binaries accreting from a circumbinary disk evolve toward an orbital eccentricity of $e \simeq 0.45$, unless they are initialized on a nearly circular orbit with $e…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-05 Jonathan Zrake , Christopher Tiede , Andrew MacFadyen , Zoltán Haiman

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

Systems of two black holes with unbound orbits can produce a diverse array of gravitational wave signals with rich morphology. This parameter space encompasses both hyperbolic orbit scattering events and dynamical captures, including…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-03 Chad Henshaw , Jacob Lange , Peter Lott , Richard O'Shaughnessy , Laura Cadonati

We continue the program of constructing, within the Effective-One-Body (EOB) approach, high accuracy, faithful analytic waveforms describing the gravitational wave signal emitted by inspiralling and coalescing binary black holes (BHs). We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Thibault Damour , Alessandro Nagar

Stellar-mass black hole binaries (BHBs) in galactic nuclei are gravitationally perturbed by the central supermassive black hole (SMBH) of the host galaxy, potentially inducing strong eccentricity oscillations through the eccentric…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-21 Alan M. Knee , Jess McIver , Smadar Naoz , Isobel M. Romero-Shaw , Bao-Minh Hoang , Evgeni Grishin

Reducing orbital eccentricity in numerical relativity simulations of binary black holes is essential for producing astrophysically relevant gravitational wave models, as many of these systems are expected to be near-circular in nature.…

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