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Gravitational waves from the coalescences of black hole and neutron stars afford us the unique opportunity to determine the sources' properties, such as their masses and spins, with unprecedented accuracy. To do so, however, theoretical…

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We present a surrogate model of \texttt{SEOBNRv4PHM}, a fully precessing time-domain effective-one-body waveform model including subdominant modes. We follow an approach similar to that used to build recent numerical relativity surrogate…

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[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

Fast and accurate waveform models are necessary for measuring the properties of inspiraling binary neutron star systems such as GW170817. We present a frequency-domain surrogate version of the aligned-spin binary neutron star waveform model…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-10 Benjamin D. Lackey , Michael Pürrer , Andrea Taracchini , Sylvain Marsat

We present the first surrogate model for gravitational waveforms from the coalescence of precessing binary black holes. We call this surrogate model NRSur4d2s. Our methodology significantly extends recently introduced reduced-order and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-24 Jonathan Blackman , Scott E. Field , Mark A. Scheel , Chad R. Galley , Daniel A. Hemberger , Patricia Schmidt , Rory Smith

Physics simulators are essential in science and engineering, enabling the analysis, control, and design of complex systems. In experimental sciences, they are increasingly used to automate experimental design, often via combinatorial search…

Gravitational-wave detectors have begun to observe coalescences of heavy black holes at a consistent pace for the past few years. Accurate models of gravitational waveforms are essential for unbiased and precise estimation of source…

Spin precession is one of the key physical effects that could unveil the origin of the compact binaries detected by ground- and space-based gravitational-wave (GW) detectors, and shed light on their possible formation channels. Efficiently…

Inferring the properties of black holes and neutron stars is a key science goal of gravitational-wave (GW) astronomy. To extract as much information as possible from GW observations we must develop methods to reduce the cost of Bayesian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-17 Sebastian Khan , Rhys Green

We present SEOBNRv5HM, a more accurate and faster inspiral-merger-ringdown gravitational waveform model for quasi-circular, spinning, nonprecessing binary black holes within the effective-one-body (EOB) formalism. Compared to its…

Gravitational-wave approximants are essential for gravitational-wave astronomy, allowing the coverage binary black hole parameter space for inference or match filtering without costly numerical relativity (NR) simulations, but generally…

We present a reduced-order surrogate model of gravitational waveforms from non-spinning binary black hole systems with comparable to large mass-ratio configurations. This surrogate model, \texttt{BHPTNRSur1dq1e4}, is trained on waveform…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-23 Tousif Islam , Scott E. Field , Scott A. Hughes , Gaurav Khanna , Vijay Varma , Matthew Giesler , Mark A. Scheel , Lawrence E. Kidder , Harald P. Pfeiffer

Simulating a binary black hole (BBH) coalescence by solving Einstein's equations is computationally expensive, requiring days to months of supercomputing time. Using reduced order modeling techniques, we construct an accurate surrogate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-09 Jonathan Blackman , Scott E. Field , Chad R. Galley , Bela Szilagyi , Mark A. Scheel , Manuel Tiglio , Daniel A. Hemberger

A waveform model for the eccentric binary black holes named SEOBNRE has been used to analyze the LIGO-Virgo's gravitational wave data by several groups. The accuracy of this model has been validated by comparing it with numerical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-29 Qianyun Yun , Wen-Biao Han , Xingyu Zhong , Carlos A. Benavides-Gallego

We present SEOBNRv5THM, an accurate and fast gravitational-waveform model for quasi-circular, spinning, non-precessing binary neutron stars (BNS) within the effective-one-body (EOB) formalism. It builds on the binary-black-hole approximant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-10 Marcus Haberland , Alessandra Buonanno , Jan Steinhoff

Gravitational wave signals from compact astrophysical sources such as those observed by LIGO and Virgo require a high-accuracy, theory-based waveform model for the analysis of the recorded signal. Current inspiral-merger-ringdown models are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-29 Nur E. M. Rifat , Scott E. Field , Gaurav Khanna , Vijay Varma

Fast and accurate waveform models are fundamentally important to modern gravitational wave astrophysics, enabling the study of merging compact objects like black holes and neutron stars. However, generating high-fidelity gravitational…

The generation of accurate waveforms from binary black hole (BBH) mergers is a major effort in Gravitational-Wave Astronomy. In recent years, machine-learning-based surrogate models for BBH waveforms have been proposed. Those offer the…

Surrogate models of numerical relativity simulations of merging black holes provide the most accurate tools for gravitational-wave data analysis. Neural network-based surrogates promise evaluation speedups, but their accuracy relies on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-21 Lucy M. Thomas , Katerina Chatziioannou , Vijay Varma , Scott E. Field

Numerical relativity (NR) simulations provide the most accurate binary black hole gravitational waveforms, but are prohibitively expensive for applications such as parameter estimation. Surrogate models of NR waveforms have been shown to be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-03 Vijay Varma , Scott E. Field , Mark A. Scheel , Jonathan Blackman , Lawrence E. Kidder , Harald P. Pfeiffer
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