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We construct hybrid binary black holes merger waveforms using analytical model waveforms for the early inspiral phase and numerical relativity waveforms for late inspiral to merger and post merger phases. To hybridize analytical and…

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Parameter estimation of gravitational wave data is often computationally expensive, requiring simplifying assumptions such as circularisation of binary orbits. Although, if included, the sub-dominant effects like orbital eccentricity may…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-11 Rimo Das , V. Gayathri , Divyajyoti , Sijil Jose , Imre Bartos , Sergey Klimenko , Chandra Kant Mishra

We study whether binary black hole template banks can be used to search for the gravitational waves emitted by general binary coalescences. To recover binary signals from noisy data, matched-filtering techniques are typically required. This…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-16 Horng Sheng Chia , Thomas D. P. Edwards

Effective one body numerical relativity waveform models for spin aligned binary black holes (SEOBNR) are based on the effective one body theoretical framework and numerical relativity simulation results. SEOBNR models have evolved through…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-28 Xiaolin Liu , Zhoujian Cao , Lijing Shao

Eccentricity and spin precession are key observables in gravitational-wave astronomy, encoding precious information about the astrophysical formation of compact binaries together with fine details of the relativistic two-body problem.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-05 Isobel M. Romero-Shaw , Davide Gerosa , Nicholas Loutrel

We provide a systematic analysis of the multipolar gravitational waveform, energy and angular momentum fluxes emitted by a nonspinning test particle orbiting a Kerr black hole along equatorial, eccentric orbits. These quantities are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-31 Simone Albanesi , Alessandro Nagar , Sebastiano Bernuzzi

Inspiralling compact binaries are expected to circularize before their gravitational-wave signals reach the sensitive frequency band of ground-based detectors. Current searches for gravitational waves from compact binaries using the LIGO…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 Duncan A. Brown , Peter J. Zimmerman

Coalescing binaries of neutron stars (NS) and black holes (BH) are one of the most important sources of gravitational waves for the upcoming network of ground based detectors. Detection and extraction of astrophysical information from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-08 Prayush Kumar , Kevin Barkett , Swetha Bhagwat , Nousha Afshari , Duncan A. Brown , Geoffrey Lovelace , Mark A. Scheel , Béla Szilágyi

The detection and subsequent inference of binary black hole signals rely heavily on the accuracy of the waveform model employed. In the highly non-linear, dynamic, and strong-field regime near merger, these waveforms can only be accurately…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-02 Alireza Rashti , Rossella Gamba , Koustav Chandra , David Radice , Boris Daszuta , William Cook , Sebastiano Bernuzzi

The gravitational-wave signal from the neutron star-black hole (NSBH) merger GW200105 is consistent with this binary having significant orbital eccentricity close to merger. This raises the question of how eccentric NSBHs form. Compact…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-11 Isobel Romero-Shaw , Jakob Stegmann , Gonzalo Morras , Andris Dorozsmai , Michael Zevin

We used two numerical models, namely the \texttt{CBwaves} and \texttt{SEOBNRE} algorithms, based on the post-Newtonian and effective-one-body approaches for binary black holes evolving on eccentric orbits. We performed 20.000 new…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-06 Balázs Kacskovics , Dániel Barta

The development of eccentric waveform models enables us to explore the growing catalog of gravitational-wave events with measurable eccentricity. This opens new opportunities to gain insight into the formation channels and evolutionary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-15 Muhammad Zeeshan , Richard O'Shaughnessy , Natalie Malagon

We describe and study an instantaneous definition of eccentricity to be applied at the initial moment of full numerical simulations of binary black holes. The method consists of evaluating the eccentricity at the moment of maximum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-30 Alessandro Ciarfella , James Healy , Carlos O. Lousto , Hiroyuki Nakano

Mergers of binary black holes on eccentric orbits are among the targets for second-generation ground-based gravitational-wave detectors. These sources may commonly form in galactic nuclei due to gravitational-wave emission during close…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-06 László Gondán , Bence Kocsis , Péter Raffai , Zsolt Frei

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

Eccentricity of compact binaries can improve the parameter estimation of gravitational waves (GWs). In this paper, we first investigate the parameter estimation of eccentric GWs with decihertz observatory. We consider two scenarios for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-02 Tao Yang , Rong-Gen Cai , Zhoujian Cao , Hyung Mok Lee

The localization and distance inference of gravitational waves are two crucial factors for dark sirens as precise probes of cosmology, astrophysics, and fundamental physics. In this Letter, for the first time we investigate the parameter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-01 Tao Yang , Rong-Gen Cai , Zhoujian Cao , Hyung Mok Lee

We study the effect of nonquadrupolar modes in the detection and parameter estimation of gravitational waves (GWs) from black hole binaries with nonprecessing spins, using Advanced LIGO. We evaluate the loss of the signal-to-noise ratio…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-27 Vijay Varma , Parameswaran Ajith

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

We present in this paper a Bayesian parameter estimation method for the analysis of interferometric gravitational wave observations of an inspiral of binary compact objects using data recorded simultaneously by a network of several…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Christian Röver , Renate Meyer , Gianluca M. Guidi , Andrea Viceré , Nelson Christensen