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The future space-based gravitational wave detector LISA will be able to measure parameters of coalescing massive black hole binaries, often to extremely high accuracy. Previous work has demonstrated that the black hole spins can have a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-17 Ryan N. Lang , Scott A. Hughes , Neil J. Cornish

A gravitational wave (GW) signal carries imprints of the properties of its source. The ability to extract source properties crucially depends on our prior knowledge of the signal morphology. Even though binary black hole (BBH) mergers are…

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High-accuracy binary black hole simulations are presented for black holes with spins anti-aligned with the orbital angular momentum. The particular case studied represents an equal-mass binary with spins of equal magnitude S/m^2=0.43757 \pm…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-08 Tony Chu , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Mark A. Scheel

The gravitational wave signal from merging compact binaries encodes information about their orbital and intrinsic properties. Over the last few years, state-of-the-art waveform models have begun to incorporate the effects of orbital…

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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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Theoretical investigations have provided proof-of-principle calculations suggesting measurements of stellar or pulsar orbits near the Galactic Center could strongly constrain the properties of the Galactic Center black hole, local matter,…

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Orbital eccentricity in compact binaries is considered to be a key tracer of their astrophysical origin, and can be inferred from gravitational-wave observations due to its imprint on the emitted signal. For a robust measurement, accurate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-11 Alice Bonino , Patricia Schmidt , Geraint Pratten

We investigate the effect of spin-orbit and spin-spin couplings on the estimation of parameters for inspiralling compact binaries of massive black holes, and for neutron stars inspiralling into intermediate-mass black holes, using…

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We investigate the finite-time instability of massive spinning test particles around a rotating hairy black hole generated through gravitational decoupling. The particle motion is described by the full Mathisson-Papapetrou-Dixon equations…

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We present $\texttt{ENIGMA}$, a time domain, inspiral-merger-ringdown waveform model that describes non-spinning binary black holes systems that evolve on moderately eccentric orbits. The inspiral evolution is described using a consistent…

The era of gravitational-wave astronomy has started with the discovery of the binary black hole coalescences (BBH) GW150914 and GW151226 by the LIGO instruments. These systems allowed for the first direct measurement of masses and spins of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-05 Salvatore Vitale , Ryan Lynch , Vivien Raymond , Riccardo Sturani , John Veitch , Philp Graff

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…

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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

Various theoretical models predict the existence of exotic compact objects that can mimic the properties of black holes (BHs). Gravitational waves (GWs) from the mergers of compact objects have the potential to distinguish between exotic…

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It remains an open question whether the binary black hole mergers observed with gravitational-wave detectors originate from the evolution of isolated massive binary stars or were dynamically driven by perturbations from the environment.…

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The multipole moments of black holes in general relativity obey certain consistency relations known as the no-hair theorems. The details of this multipolar structure are imprinted into the gravitational waves emitted by binary black holes,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-11 Nicholas Loutrel , Richard Brito , Andrea Maselli , Paolo Pani

Dipole-radiation-like deviations from general relativity are most prominent during the early inspiral of compact binaries, making space-ground multiband observations a potential probe of such effects. In the same regime, orbital…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-01 Han Wang , Lijing Shao

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

The detection of gravitational waves from the inspiral of a neutron star or stellar-mass black hole into an intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) promises an entirely new look at strong-field gravitational physics. Gravitational waves from…

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