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We apply machine learning methods to build a time-domain model for gravitational waveforms from binary black hole mergers, called mlgw. The dimensionality of the problem is handled by representing the waveform's amplitude and phase using a…

We present numerically-informed closed-form expressions for the dominant $(\ell,m)=(2,2)$ waveform harmonic of the post-merger emission from mergers of non-spinning binary black holes with comparable masses on highly eccentric orbits. Using…

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We present a new class of AI models for the detection of quasi-circular, spinning, non-precessing binary black hole mergers whose waveforms include the higher order gravitational wave modes $(l, |m|)=\{(2, 2), (2, 1), (3, 3), (3, 2), (4,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-03 Minyang Tian , E. A. Huerta , Huihuo Zheng , Prayush Kumar

Utilizing publicly available non-spinning eccentric binary black hole (BBH) merger simulations (\href{https://data.black-holes.org/waveforms/catalog.html}{https://data.black-holes.org/waveforms/catalog.html}) from the SXS…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-26 Tousif Islam

Deep learning methods have been employed in gravitational-wave astronomy to accelerate the construction of surrogate waveforms for the inspiral of spin-aligned black hole binaries, among other applications. We face the challenge of modeling…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-24 Styliani-Christina Fragkouli , Paraskevi Nousi , Nikolaos Passalis , Panagiotis Iosif , Nikolaos Stergioulas , Anastasios Tefas

We introduce a machine learning model designed to rapidly and accurately predict the time domain gravitational wave emission of non-precessing binary black hole coalescences, incorporating the effects of higher order modes of the multipole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-29 Tim Grimbergen , Stefano Schmidt , Chinmay Kalaghatgi , Chris van den Broeck

Building on the analytical description of the post-merger (ringdown) waveform of coalescing, non-precessing, spinning, (BBHs) introduced in Phys. Rev. D 90, 024054 (2014), we propose an analytic, closed form, time-domain, representation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-28 Walter Del Pozzo , Alessandro Nagar

We present $\texttt{ENIGMA}$, a time domain, inspiral-merger-ringdown waveform model that describes non-spinning binary black holes systems that evolve on moderately eccentric orbits. The inspiral evolution is described using a consistent…

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

We discuss the extraction of information from detected binary black hole (BBH) coalescence gravitational waves, focusing on the merger phase that occurs after the gradual inspiral and before the ringdown. Our results are: (1) If numerical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Eanna E. Flanagan , Scott A. Hughes

We present a time-domain inspiral-merger-ringdowm (IMR) waveform model ESIGMAHM constructed within a framework we named ESIGMA for coalescing binaries of spinning black holes on moderately eccentric orbits (Huerta et al. (2018) [Phys. Rev.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-01 Kaushik Paul , Akash Maurya , Quentin Henry , Kartikey Sharma , Pranav Satheesh , Divyajyoti , Prayush Kumar , Chandra Kant Mishra

gwNRHME is a recently developed framework that seamlessly converts a multi-modal (i.e with several spherical harmonic modes) quasi-circular waveform into multi-modal eccentric waveform if the quadrupolar eccentric waveform is known. Here,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-16 Tousif Islam , Gaurav Khanna , Scott E. Field

The ''ringdown'' stage of gravitational-wave signals from binary black hole mergers, mainly consisting of a superposition of quasinormal modes emitted by the merger remnant, is a key tool to test fundamental physics and to probe black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-06 Francesco Crescimbeni , Gregorio Carullo , Emanuele Berti , Giada Caneva Santoro , Mark Ho-Yeuk Cheung , Paolo Pani

The waveform templates of the matched filtering-based gravitational-wave search ought to cover wide range of parameters for the prosperous detection. Numerical relativity (NR) has been widely accepted as the most accurate method for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 Joongoo Lee , Sang Hoon Oh , Kyungmin Kim , Gihyuk Cho , John J. Oh , Edwin J. Son , Hyung Mok Lee

Gravitational waves (GW) from coalescing stellar-mass black hole binaries (BBH) are expected to be detected by the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory and Advanced Virgo. Detection searches operate by…

Strategies to model the inspiral, merger and ringdown gravitational waveform of coalescing binaries are restricted in parameter space by the coverage of available numerical-relativity simulations. When more numerical waveforms become…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-10 Yoshinta Eka Setyawati , Frank Ohme , Sebastian Khan

The Kerr nature of a compact-object-coalescence remnant can be unveiled by observing multiple quasi-normal modes (QNMs) in the post-merger signal. Current methods to achieve this goal rely on matching the data with a superposition of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-31 Richard Brito , Alessandra Buonanno , Vivien Raymond

[Abridged] We propose a solution to the problem of quickly and accurately predicting gravitational waveforms within any given physical model. The method is relevant for both real-time applications and in more traditional scenarios where the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-23 Scott E. Field , Chad R. Galley , Jan S. Hesthaven , Jason Kaye , Manuel Tiglio

We construct a new factorized waveform including $(l,|m|)=(2,2),(2,1),(3,3),(4,4)$ modes based on effective-one-body (EOB) formalism, which is valid for spinning binary black holes (BBH) in general equatorial orbit. When combined with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-02 Xiaolin Liu , Zhoujian Cao , Zong-Hong Zhu

The inference of source parameters from gravitational-wave signals relies on theoretical models that describe the emitted waveform. Different model assumptions on which the computation of these models is based could lead to biases in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-17 Anna Puecher , Anuradha Samajdar , Gregory Ashton , Chris Van Den Broeck , Tim Dietrich