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The spin-induced quadrupole moment-based test of black hole nature is routinely used to probe the true nature of detected binary signals, assuming a circular orbit. We extend the applicability of the method to binaries in eccentric orbits.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-24 N. V. Krishnendu

Orbital eccentricity is a key signature of dynamical binary black hole formation. The gravitational waves from a coalescing binary contain information about its orbital eccentricity, which may be measured if the binary retains sufficient…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-14 Alan M. Knee , Isobel M. Romero-Shaw , Paul D. Lasky , Jess McIver , Eric Thrane

Space-based gravitational wave detectors like TianQin or LISA could observe extreme-mass-ratio-inspirals (EMRIs) at millihertz frequencies. The accurate identification of these EMRI signals from the data plays a crucial role in enabling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-05 Chang-Qing Ye , Hui-Min Fan , Alejandro Torres-Orjuela , Jian-dong Zhang , Yi-Ming Hu

Compact binaries on eccentric orbits are another class of gravitational-wave (GW) sources that can provide a wealth of information on binary formation pathways and astrophysical environments. However, historically, eccentricity is often…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-19 Khun Sang Phukon , Patricia Schmidt , Geraint Pratten

It is known that massive black holes (MBHs) of $10^{5-7}\,M_\odot$ could capture small compact objects to form extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs). Such systems emit gravitational waves (GWs) in the band of the Laser Interferometer Space…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-29 Wen-Biao Han , Xian Chen

The inspiral-merger-ringdown (IMR) consistency test checks the consistency of the final mass and final spin of a binary black hole merger remnant, independently inferred via the inspiral and merger-ringdown parts of the waveform. As…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-07 Sajad A. Bhat , Pankaj Saini , Marc Favata , K. G. Arun

Parameter estimation of binary-black-hole merger events in gravitational-wave data relies on matched-filtering techniques, which, in turn, depend on accurate model waveforms. Here we characterize the systematic biases introduced in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-08 Tyson B. Littenberg , John G. Baker , Alessandra Buonanno , Bernard J. Kelly

Next-generation ground-based gravitational-wave detectors, such as Cosmic Explorer (CE), are expected to be sensitive to gravitational-wave signals with frequencies as low as 5 Hz, allowing signals to spend a significant amount of time in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-25 Pratyusava Baral , Soichiro Morisaki , Ignacio Magaña Hernandez , Jolien D. E. Creighton

Bayesian inference is used to extract unknown parameters from gravitational wave signals. Detector noise is typically modelled as stationary, although data from the LIGO and Virgo detectors is not stationary. We demonstrate that the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-13 O Edy , A. Lundgren , L. K. Nuttall

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will explore the source-rich milli-Hertz band of the gravitational wave spectrum. In contrast to ground based detectors, where typical signals are short-lived and discrete, LISA signals are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-09 Travis Robson , Neil Cornish

Next generation ground-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors are expected to detect $\sim 10^4 \mbox{-} 10^5$ binary black holes (BBHs) per year. Understanding the formation pathways of these binaries is an open question. Orbital…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-24 Pankaj Saini

By 2015 the advanced versions of the gravitational-wave detectors Virgo and LIGO will be online. They will collect data in coincidence with enough sensitivity to potentially deliver multiple detections of gravitation waves from inspirals of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-03-27 Salvatore Vitale , Walter Del Pozzo , Tjonnie G. F. Li , Chris Van Den Broeck , Ilya Mandel , Ben Aylott , John Veitch

Mounting evidence indicates that some of the gravitational wave signals observed by the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA observatories might arise from eccentric compact object binaries, increasing the urgency for accurate waveform models for such systems.…

Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals (EMRIs) are one of the main sources of gravitational waves expected in the low-frequency band, where space-based detectors like Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will operate. The large number of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-10 Pablo F. Muguruza , Carlos F. Sopuerta

This paper is to introduce a new software called CBwaves which provides a fast and accurate computational tool to determine the gravitational waveforms yielded by generic spinning binaries of neutron stars and/or black holes on eccentric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-02-13 Péter Csizmadia , Gergely Debreczeni , István Rácz , Mátyás Vasúth

We show how the observable number of binaries in LISA is affected by eccentricity through its influence on the peak gravitational wave frequency, enhanced binary number density required to produce the LIGO observed rate, and the reduced…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-05 Lisa Randall , Zhong-Zhi Xianyu

Eccentricity of the inspiraling compact binaries can greatly improve the distance inference and source localization of dark sirens. In this paper, we continue the research for the space-borne atom interferometric gravitational-wave detector…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-19 Tao Yang , Rong-Gen Cai , Hyung Mok Lee

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are the most potential sources detectable by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). To analyze the influence of higher harmonics on parameter estimation for EMRIs efficiently, we use the waveform…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-31 Chao Zhang , Ning Dai , Dicong Liang

Employing the Fisher information matrix analysis, we estimate parameter errors of TianQin and LISA for monochromatic gravitational waves. With the long-wavelength approximation we derive analytical formulas for the parameter estimation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-02 Chao Zhang , Yungui Gong , Bin Wang , Chunyu Zhang

Gravitational waves (GW), emanating from binary black holes (BBH), encode vital information about their source. GW signals enable us to deduce key properties of the BBH population across the universe, including mass, spin, and eccentricity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-08 Muhammad Zeeshan , Richard O'Shaughnessy