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We present a new frequency-domain phenomenological model of the gravitational-wave signal from the inspiral, merger and ringdown of non-precessing (aligned-spin) black-hole binaries. The model is calibrated to 19 hybrid…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-10 Sebastian Khan , Sascha Husa , Mark Hannam , Frank Ohme , Michael Pürrer , Xisco Jiménez Forteza , Alejandro Bohé

Binary black hole mergers with asymmetric component masses are key targets for both third-generation ground-based and future space-based gravitational-wave (GW) detectors, offering unique access to the strong-field dynamics of gravity. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-17 Daiki Watarai , Kent Yagi , Shammi Tahura

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

Gravitational waveforms generated by unequal mass black hole binaries are expected to be common sources for future gravitational wave detectors. We derived the waveforms emitted by such systems during the last part of the inspiral, when the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-23 Márton Tápai , Zoltán Keresztes , László Á. Gergely

We explore the performance of an updated effective-one-body (EOB) model for spin-aligned coalescing black hole binaries designed to deal with any orbital configuration. The model stems from previous work involving the \TEOBResumS{} waveform…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-10 Alessandro Nagar , Piero Rettegno

We explore spinning, precessing, unequal mass binary black holes to display the long term orbital angular momentum, $\vec{L}$, flip dynamics. We study two prototypical cases of binaries with mass ratios $q=1/7$ and $q=1/15$ and a misaligned…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-27 Carlos O. Lousto , James Healy

We present the first systematic comparison between gravitational waveforms emitted by inspiralling, quasi-circular and nonspinning black hole binaries computed with three different approaches: second-order gravitational self-force (2GSF)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-03 Angelica Albertini , Alessandro Nagar , Adam Pound , Niels Warburton , Barry Wardell , Leanne Durkan , Jeremy Miller

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals are among the key sources of gravitational waves for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna space-based gravitational-wave detector. Achieving sufficient accuracy in the gravitational-wave template for these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-14 Gabriel Andres Piovano , Christiana Pantelidou , Jake Mac Uilliam , Vojtěch Witzany

We complete the post-Newtonian (PN) prediction at the 3.5PN order for the spin contributions to the gravitational waveforms emitted by inspiraling compact binaries, in the case of quasi-circular, equatorial orbits, where both spins are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-21 Quentin Henry , Sylvain Marsat , Mohammed Khalil

Building upon recent work, we present an improved effective-one-body (EOB) model for spin-aligned, coalescing, black hole binaries with generic orbital configurations, i.e. quasi-circular, eccentric or hyperbolic orbits. The model relies on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-19 Alessandro Nagar , Alice Bonino , Piero Rettegno

Understanding the orbits of spinning bodies in curved spacetime is important for modeling binary black hole systems with small mass ratios. At zeroth order in mass ratio, the smaller body moves on a geodesic. Post-geodesic effects are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-05 Lisa V. Drummond , Philip Lynch , Alexandra G. Hanselman , Devin R. Becker , Scott A. Hughes

In this study, gravitational waveforms emitted by inspiralling compact binary systems on quasicircular orbits in hybrid metric-Palatini gravity are computed in the lowest post-Newtonian approximation. By applying the stationary phase…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-28 P. I. Dyadina

The gravitational-wave signals emitted by Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals will be hidden in the instrumental LISA noise and the foreground noise produced by galactic binaries in the LISA band. Then, we need accurate gravitational-wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-10-01 Priscilla Canizares , Carlos F. Sopuerta

We present the results of 2D, moving-mesh, viscous hydrodynamical simulations of an accretion disc around a merging supermassive black hole binary (SMBHB). The simulation is pseudo-Newtonian, with the BHs modeled as point masses with a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-14 Yike Tang , Zoltán Haiman , Andrew MacFadyen

We integrate the third and a half post-Newtonian equations of motion for a fully generic binary black hole system, allowing both for non-circular orbits, and for one or both of the black holes to spin, in any orientation. Using the second…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-17 Brennan Ireland , Ofek Birnholtz , Hiroyuki Nakano , Eric West , Manuela Campanelli

The signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) for quasi-circular binary black hole inspirals computed from restricted post-Newtonian waveforms are compared with those attained by more complete post-Newtonian signals, which are superpositions of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Chris Van Den Broeck

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

Identifying weak gravitational wave signals in noise and estimating the source properties require high-precision waveform templates. Numerical relativity (NR) simulations can provide the most accurate waveforms. However, it is challenging…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-07 Xing-Yu Zhong , Wen-Biao Han , Ling Sun

Gravitational-wave signals from black-hole binaries with non-precessing spins are described by four parameters -- each black hole's mass and spin. It has been shown that the dominant spin effects can be modeled by a \emph{single} spin…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-09-11 Michael Pürrer , Mark Hannam , P. Ajith , Sascha Husa

We determine the binding energy, the total gravitational wave energy flux, and the gravitational wave modes for a binary of rapidly spinning black holes, working in linearized gravity and at leading orders in the orbital velocity, but to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-22 Nils Siemonsen , Jan Steinhoff , Justin Vines