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Gravitational waves allow us to test general relativity in the highly dynamical regime. While current observations have been consistent with waves emitted by quasi-circular binaries, eccentric binaries may also produce detectable signals in…

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Compact binary coalescences are a promising source of gravitational waves for second-generation interferometric gravitational-wave detectors such as advanced LIGO and advanced Virgo. While most binaries are expected to possess circular…

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Einstein Telescope (ET) is a project of third generation gravitational wave (GW) detector with a planned sensitivity 10 times better than current detectors such as Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo. The high rate of GW signals expected in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-13 Adrian Macquet , Tito Dal Canton , Tania Regimbau

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

Recent results from pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) show evidence for a gravitational wave background (GWB) consistent with a population of unresolved supermassive black hole (SMBH) binaries (BHBs). While the data do not yet constrain the slope…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-12 Federica Fastidio , Alessia Gualandris , Alberto Sesana , Elisa Bortolas , Walter Dehnen

Dynamical capture in dense stellar environments is a promising channel for producing eccentric compact binary mergers. Although there have been no confident detections of eccentric mergers to date, a few candidates show indications of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-13 A. Vincent Paul , Parthapratim Mahapatra , Marc Favata , K. G. Arun

As current gravitational wave (GW) detectors increase in sensitivity, and particularly as new instruments are being planned, there is the possibility that ground-based GW detectors will observe GWs from highly eccentric neutron star…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-14 Swami Vivekanandji Chaurasia , Tim Dietrich , Nathan K. Johnson-McDaniel , Maximiliano Ujevic , Wolfgang Tichy , Bernd Brügmann

Simulation of quasicircular compact binaries is a major goal in numerical relativity, as they are expected to constitute most gravitational wave observations. However, given that orbital eccentricity is not well-defined in general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-10 Sarah Habib , Mark Scheel , Saul Teukolsky

We search for gravitational-wave (GW) signals from compact binary coalescences (CBC) in the $2024$ mock data challenge of the Einstein Telescope (ET) with a detection algorithm that does not rely on the waveform of the signal searched. With…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-14 Adrian Macquet , Tito Dal Canton , Tania Regimbau

We demonstrate that the properties of eccentric gravitational wave (GW) signals enhance the detectability of GW phase shifts caused by environmental effects (EEs): The signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of EEs can be boosted by up to $\ell_{\rm…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-07 Lorenz Zwick , Kai Hendriks , Pankaj Saini , János Takátsy , Connar Rowan , Johan Samsing , Jakob Stegmann

The detection of orbital eccentricity for a binary black hole system via gravitational waves is a key signature to distinguish between the possible binary origins. The identification of eccentricity has been difficult so far due to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-19 H. L. Iglesias , J. Lange , I. Bartos , S. Bhaumik , R. Gamba , V. Gayathri , A. Jan , R. Nowicki , R. O'Shaughnessy , D. Shoemaker , R. Venkataramanan , K. Wagner

The observation of gravitational waves from merging black holes and neutron stars provides a unique opportunity to discern information about their astrophysical environment. Two signatures that are considered powerful tracers to distinguish…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-18 Gonzalo Morras , Geraint Pratten , Patricia Schmidt

We determine the ability of Cosmic Explorer, a proposed third-generation gravitational-wave observatory, to detect eccentric binary neutron stars and to measure their eccentricity. We find that for a matched-filter search, template banks…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-21 Amber K. Lenon , Duncan A. Brown , Alexander H. Nitz

The current network of gravitational wave detectors has already revealed hundreds of compact binary coalescences (CBCs), including binary neutron stars, binary black holes, and black hole-neutron star systems. As detector sensitivity…

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

We study the evolution of the eccentricity of an eccentric orbit with spinning components. We develop a prescription to express the evolving eccentricity in terms of reference eccentricity and frequency. For that purpose we considered the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-27 Sayak Datta

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

Orbital eccentricity is a crucial physical effect to unveil the origin of compact-object binaries detected by ground- and spaced-based gravitational-wave (GW) observatories. Here, we perform for the first time a Bayesian inference study of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-28 Antoni Ramos-Buades , Alessandra Buonanno , Jonathan Gair

Detections of long-period giant exoplanets will expand dramatically with Gaia Data Release 4 (DR4), but interpreting these signals will require care. We derive the astrometric resoeccentric degeneracy: an astrometric analogue of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-13 Daniel A. Yahalomi , Tiger Lu , Philip J. Armitage , Megan Bedell , Andrew R. Casey , Adrian M. Price-Whelan , Malena Rice

The successful detection of continuous gravitational waves from spinning neutron stars (NSs) will shape our understanding of the physical properties of dense matter under extreme conditions. Binary population synthesis simulations show that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-14 Wen-Fan Feng , Tan Liu , Yan Wang , Lijing Shao