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We analyze a new numerical relativity dataset of spinning but nonprecessing binary black holes on eccentric orbits, with eccentricities from approximately $0.1$ to $0.5$, with dimensionless spins up to $0.75$ included at mass ratios…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-14 Antoni Ramos-Buades , Sascha Husa , Geraint Pratten , Héctor Estellés , Cecilio García-Quirós , Maite Mateu-Lucena , Marta Colleoni , Rafel Jaume

Recent advances in the description of compact binary systems have produced gravitational waveforms that include inspiral, merger and ring-down phases. Comparing results from numerical simulations with those of post-Newtonian (PN), and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-13 Chad Hanna , Miguel Megevand , Evan Ochsner , Carlos Palenzuela

The coalescence of binary black holes (BBHs) provides a unique arena to test general relativity (GR) in the dynamical, strong-field regime. To this end, we present pSEOBNRv5PHM, a parametrized, multipolar, spin-precessing waveform model for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-24 Lorenzo Pompili , Elisa Maggio , Hector O. Silva , Alessandra Buonanno

Observation and characterisation of gravitational waves from binary black holes requires accurate knowledge of the expected waveforms. The late inspiral and merger phase of the waveform is obtained through direct numerical integration of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-27 Ian Hinder , Serguei Ossokine , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Alessandra Buonanno

We introduce \texttt{TEOBResumSP}: an efficient, accurate hybrid scheme for generating gravitational waveforms from spin-precessing compact binaries. The precessing waveforms are generated via the established technique of Euler rotating the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-13 Sarp Akcay , Rossella Gamba , Sebastiano Bernuzzi

For the first time, we construct an inspiral-merger-ringdown waveform model within the effective-one-body formalism for spinning, nonprecessing binary black holes that includes gravitational modes beyond the dominant $(\ell,|m|) = (2,2)$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-22 Roberto Cotesta , Alessandra Buonanno , Alejandro Bohé , Andrea Taracchini , Ian Hinder , Serguei Ossokine

This article presents a study of the sufficient accuracy of post-Newtonian and numerical relativity waveforms for the most demanding usage case: parameter estimation of strong sources in advanced gravitational wave detectors. For black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-19 Ilana MacDonald , Samaya Nissanke , Harald P. Pfeiffer

Accurate modeling of gravitational waves from binary black hole mergers is essential for extracting their rich physics. A key detail for understanding the physics of mergers is predicting the precise time when the amplitude of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-17 Anuj Kankani , Sean T. McWilliams

Higher-order gravitational wave modes from quasi-circular, spinning, non-precessing binary black hole mergers encode key information about these systems' nonlinear dynamics. We model these waveforms using transformer architectures,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-21 Victoria Tiki , Kiet Pham , Eliu Huerta

We present a fast method for obtaining fully analytical approximations for gravitational waveforms produced by merging of neutron stars and/or black holes for the earliest stages of the merger process. The obtained analytical formula is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-04 Aleksandra V. Mishakina , Sergei I. Blinnikov

The gravitational waveform of a merging stellar-mass binary is described at leading order by a quadrupolar mode. However, the complete waveform includes higher-order modes, which encode valuable information not accessible from the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-25 Ethan Payne , Colm Talbot , Eric Thrane

We provide ready-to-use time-domain gravitational waveforms for spinning compact binaries with precession effects through 1.5PN order in amplitude and compute their mode decomposition using spin-weighted -2 spherical harmonics. In the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-13 K. G. Arun , Alessandra Buonanno , Guillaume Faye , Evan Ochsner

Many relevant applications in gravitational wave physics share a significant common problem: the seven-dimensional parameter space of gravitational waveforms from precessing compact binary inspirals and coalescences is large enough to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-16 Jonathan Blackman , Bela Szilagyi , Chad R. Galley , Manuel Tiglio

We present the first analytical inspiral-merger-ringdown gravitational waveforms from binary black holes (BBHs) with non-precessing spins, that is based on a description of the late-inspiral, merger and ringdown in full general relativity.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-06-27 P. Ajith , M. Hannam , S. Husa , Y. Chen , B. Bruegmann , N. Dorband , D. Mueller , F. Ohme , D. Pollney , C. Reisswig , L. Santamaria , J. Seiler

Gravitational waveform (GW) models are a core ingredient for the analysis of compact binary mergers observed by current ground-based interferometers. We focus here on a specific class of such models known as PhenomX, which has gained…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-24 Marta Colleoni , Felip A. Ramis Vidal , Cecilio García-Quirós , Sarp Akçay , Sayantani Bera

We propose a new way of analyzing, and analytically representing, the ringdown part of the gravitational wave signal emitted by coalescing black hole binaries.By contrast with the usual {\it linear} decomposition of the multipolar complex…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Thibault Damour , Alessandro Nagar

Previous analytic and numerical calculations suggest that, at each instant, the emission from a precessing black hole binary closely resembles the emission from a nonprecessing analog. In this paper we quantitatively explore the validity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-09 Larne Pekowsky , Richard O'Shaughnessy , Jim Healy , Deirdre Shoemaker

Gravitational wave observations of quasicircular compact binary mergers in principle provide an arbitrarily complex likelihood over eight independent intrinsic parameters: the masses and spins of the two merging objects. In this work, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-05 Vera Delfavero , Richard O'Shaughnessy , Daniel Wysocki , Anjali Yelikar

The inspiral and merger of two orbiting black holes is among the most promising sources for the first (hopefully imminent) direct detection of gravitational waves (GWs), and measurements of these signals could provide a wealth of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-18 Mark Hannam

As gravitational-wave (GW) observations of binary black holes are becoming a precision tool for physics and astronomy, several subdominant effects in the GW signals need to be accurately modeled. Previous studies have shown that neglecting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-22 Ajit Kumar Mehta , Praveer Tiwari , Nathan K. Johnson-McDaniel , Chandra Kant Mishra , Vijay Varma , Parameswaran Ajith