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We present a prescription for computing gravitational waveforms for the inspiral, merger and ringdown of non-spinning eccentric binary black hole systems. The inspiral waveform is computed using the post-Newtonian expansion and the merger…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-15 Ian Hinder , Lawrence E. Kidder , Harald P. Pfeiffer

In this project, we simulate the collision of two and three black holes using NRPy+ (`Python-based code generation for numerical relativity and beyond') module and BSSN (Baumgarte-Shapiro-Shibata-Nakamura) formulation, and extract the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-05 Faisal Alotaibi

We describe the methods and results of numerical simulations of coalescing black holes. The simulation in dynamical spacetime covers the inspiral, merger, and ringdown phases. We analyze the emission of gravitational waves and properties of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-20 Agnieszka Janiuk , Szymon Charzynski

Over the last few years, there has been an increasing interest in sub-solar mass black holes due to their potential to provide valuable information about cosmology or the black hole population. Motivated by this, we study observable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-10 Ivan Markin , Anna Neuweiler , Adrian Abac , Swami Vivekanandji Chaurasia , Maximiliano Ujevic , Mattia Bulla , Tim Dietrich

We report evidence for nonlinear modes in the ringdown stage of the gravitational waveform produced by the merger of two comparable-mass black holes. We consider both the coalescence of black hole binaries in quasicircular orbits and…

We model two mergers of orbiting binary neutron stars, the first forming a black hole and the second a differentially rotating neutron star. We extract gravitational waveforms in the wave zone. Comparisons to a post-Newtonian analysis allow…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Matthew Anderson , Eric W. Hirschmann , Luis Lehner , Steven L. Liebling , Patrick M. Motl , David Neilsen , Carlos Palenzuela , Joel E. Tohline

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

Recent breakthroughs in the field of numerical relativity have led to dramatic progress in understanding the predictions of General Relativity for the dynamical interactions of two black holes in the regime of very strong gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-02-18 Joan M. Centrella , John G. Baker , Bernard J. Kelly , James R. van Meter

We present numerical three-body experiments that include the effects of gravitational radiation reaction by using equations of motion that include the 2.5-order post-Newtonian force terms, which are the leading order terms of energy loss…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Kayhan Gultekin , M. Coleman Miller , Douglas P. Hamilton

Gravitational waves are produced by orbiting massive binary objects, such as black holes and neutron stars, and propagate as ripples in the very fabric of spacetime. As the waves carry off orbital energy, the two bodies spiral into each…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-20 Dillon Buskirk , Maria C. Babiuc Hamilton

We present a highly accurate, fully analytical model for the late inspiral, merger, and ringdown of black-hole binaries with arbitrary mass ratios and spin vectors, including the contributions of harmonics beyond the fundamental mode. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-22 Sean T. McWilliams

XOB provides an almost eXact One-Body approach for the conservative part of binary merger dynamics of general relativity, which applies to the full three stages of the merger process, and allows the feature of gravitational waves be related…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-22 Ding-fang Zeng

Binary neutron star mergers provide insight into strong-field gravity and the properties of ultra-dense nuclear matter. These events offer the potential to search for signatures of physics beyond the standard model, including dark matter.…

Inspiralling and coalescing binary black holes are promising sources of gravitational radiation. The orbital motion and gravitational-wave emission of such system can be modelled using a variety of approximation schemes and numerical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-06 Alexandre Le Tiec

Gravitational waves from the coalescence of two black holes carry the signature of the strong field dynamics of binary black holes. In this work we have used numerical relativity simulations and post-Newtonian theory to investigate this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-08 Ssohrab Borhanian , K. G. Arun , Harald P. Pfeiffer , B. S. Sathyaprakash

Black hole-neutron star binary mergers display a much richer phenomenology than black hole-black hole mergers, even in the relatively simple case - considered in this paper - in which both the black hole and the neutron star are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-16 Francesco Pannarale , Emanuele Berti , Koutarou Kyutoku , Masaru Shibata

We present an accurate approximation of the full gravitational radiation waveforms generated in the merger of non-eccentric systems of two non-spinning black holes. Utilizing information from recent numerical relativity simulations and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Alessandra Buonanno , Yi Pan , John G. Baker , Joan Centrella , Bernard J. Kelly , Sean T. McWilliams , James R. van Meter

We adapt a method of matching post-Newtonian and black-hole-perturbation theories on a timelike surface (which proved useful for understanding head-on black-hole-binary collisions) to treat equal-mass, inspiralling black-hole binaries. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-02-22 David A. Nichols , Yanbei Chen

Largely motivated by the development of highly sensitive gravitational-wave detectors, our understanding of merging compact binaries and the gravitational waves they generate has improved dramatically in recent years. Breakthroughs in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-15 Scott A. Hughes