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Effective-one-body (EOB) waveforms employed by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration have primarily been developed by resumming the post-Newtonian expansion of the relativistic two-body problem. Given the recent significant advancements in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-28 Alessandra Buonanno , Gustav Uhre Jakobsen , Gustav Mogull

High-fidelity gravitational waveform models are essential for realizing the scientific potential of next-generation gravitational-wave observatories. While highly accurate, state-of-the-art models often rely on extensive phenomenological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-03 Siddharth Mahesh , Sean T. McWilliams , Zachariah Etienne

Dynamical capture is a possible formation channel for BBH mergers leading to highly eccentric merger dynamics and to gravitational wave (GW) signals that are morphologically different from those of quasi-circular mergers. The future…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-17 Alessandro Nagar , Piero Rettegno , Rossella Gamba , Sebastiano Bernuzzi

By means of the scattering angles, we obtain an effective metric of spinless binaries with radiation-reaction effects up to fourth post-Minkowskian order, which is the foundation of the effective-one-body theory. We note that there are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-17 Jiliang Jing , Weike Deng , Sheng Long , Jieci Wang

We update the analytical estimate of the final spin of a coalescing black-hole binary derived within the Effective-One-Body (EOB) approach. We consider unequal-mass non-spinning black-hole binaries. It is found that a more complete account…

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

The Effective-One-Body (EOB) formalism contains several flexibility parameters, notably $a_5$, $\vp$ and $\a$. We show here how to jointly constrain the values of these parameters by simultaneously best-fitting the EOB waveform to two,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Thibault Damour , Alessandro Nagar , Mark Hannam , Sascha Husa , Bernd Brugmann

The effective one-body theories, introduced by Buonanno and Damour, are novel approaches to constructing a gravitational waveform template. By taking a gauge in which $\psi_{1}^{B}$ and $\psi_{3}^{B}$ vanish, we find a decoupled equation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-28 Jiliang Jing , Sheng Long , Weike Deng , Mengjie Wang , Jieci Wang

Driven by advances in scattering amplitudes and worldline-based methods, recent years have seen significant progress in our ability to calculate gravitational two-body scattering observables. These observables effectively encapsulate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-21 Alessandra Buonanno , Gustav Mogull , Raj Patil , Lorenzo Pompili

Using the main result of a companion paper, in which the binding energy of a circular-orbit non-spinning compact binary system is computed at leading-order beyond the test-particle approximation, the exact expression of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-03-08 Enrico Barausse , Alessandra Buonanno , Alexandre Le Tiec

We present a new effective-one-body (EOB) waveform for eccentric, nonspinning, binaries in the extreme mass ratio limit, with initial eccentricities up to $0.95$. The EOB analytical waveform, that includes noncircular corrections up to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-24 Simone Albanesi , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Thibault Damour , Alessandro Nagar , Andrea Placidi

The two-body problem in General Relativity has been the subject of many analytical investigations. After reviewing some of the methods used to tackle this problem (and, more generally, the N-body problem), we focus on a new, recently…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-12-13 Thibault Damour

To establish a self-consistent effective one-body (EOB) theory that describes the dynamical evolution of binary systems based on the post-Minkowskian (PM) approximation, where the Hamiltonian, radiation reaction force, and waveforms are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-19 Jiliang Jing , Weike Deng , Sheng Long

Starting from the second post-Keplerian (2PK) Hamiltonian describing the conservative part of the two-body dynamics in massless scalar-tensor (ST) theories, we build an effective-one-body (EOB) Hamiltonian which is a $\nu$-deformation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-07 Félix-Louis Julié

We present a new approach to the conservative dynamics of binary systems, within the effective one-body (EOB) framework, based on the use of a Lagrange multiplier to impose the mass-shell constraint. When applied to the post-Minkowskian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-03 Thibault Damour , Alessandro Nagar , Andrea Placidi , Piero Rettegno

We present a first complete implementation of an effective-one-body (EOB) model for extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) that incorporates aligned spins (on both the primary and the secondary) as well as orbital eccentricity. The model…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-20 Angelica Albertini , Rossella Gamba , Alessandro Nagar , Sebastiano Bernuzzi

We present a new effective-one-body (EOB) Hamiltonian with next-to-leading order (NLO) spin-spin coupling for black hole binaries endowed with arbitrarily oriented spins. The Hamiltonian is based on the model for parallel spins and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-20 Simone Balmelli , Thibault Damour

We first use five non-spinning and two mildly spinning (chi_i \simeq -0.44, +0.44) numerical-relativity waveforms of black-hole binaries and calibrate an effective-one-body (EOB) model for non-precessing spinning binaries, notably its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-22 Andrea Taracchini , Yi Pan , Alessandra Buonanno , Enrico Barausse , Michael Boyle , Tony Chu , Geoffrey Lovelace , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Mark A. Scheel

Complete waveform models able to account for arbitrary non-planar orbits represent a holy grail in current gravitational-wave astronomy. Here, we take a step towards this direction and present a simple yet efficient prescription to obtain…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-27 Rossella Gamba , Danilo Chiaramello , Sayan Neogi

We present an updated version of the TEOBResumS-Dali effective-one-body (EOB) waveform model for spin aligned binaries on non-circularized orbits. Recently computed 4PN (nonspinning) terms are incorporated in the waveform and radiation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-18 Alessandro Nagar , Rossella Gamba , Piero Rettegno , Veronica Fantini , Sebastiano Bernuzzi

Tidal interactions in a coalescing binary neutron star (BNS) or neutron star-black hole (NSBH) system driven by gravitational wave (GW) radiation contain precious information about physics both at extreme density and in the highly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-11 Hang Yu , Shu Yan Lau