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High-fidelity gravitational waveform models are essential for realizing the scientific potential of next-generation gravitational-wave observatories. While highly accurate, state-of-the-art models often rely on extensive phenomenological…

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We introduce \TEOBiResumSM{}, a nonspinning inspiral-merger-ringdown waveform model built within the effective one body (EOB) framework that includes gravitational waveform modes beyond the dominant quadrupole $(\ell,|m|) = (2,2)$. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-29 Alessandro Nagar , Geraint Pratten , Gunnar Riemenschneider , Rossella Gamba

We leverage recent breakthrough calculations using second-order gravitational self-force (2GSF) theory to improve both the gravitational-mode amplitudes and radiation-reaction force in effective-one-body~(EOB) waveform models. We achieve…

Orbital eccentricity encodes key information about compact-binary formation channels and astrophysical environments, making it a critical target for gravitational-wave (GW) inference. We present parameter-estimation (PE) analyses of GWs…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-28 Lorenzo Pompili , Aldo Gamboa , Alessandra Buonanno

TEOBResumS and SEOBNRv4 are the two existing semi-analytical gravitational waveform models for spin-aligned coalescing black hole binaries based on the effective-one-body approach.They are informed by numerical relativity simulations and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-20 Piero Rettegno , Fabio Martinetti , Alessandro Nagar , Donato Bini , Gunnar Riemenschneider , Thibault Damour

Coalescing binaries of neutron stars (NS) and black holes (BH) are one of the most important sources of gravitational waves for the upcoming network of ground based detectors. Detection and extraction of astrophysical information from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-08 Prayush Kumar , Kevin Barkett , Swetha Bhagwat , Nousha Afshari , Duncan A. Brown , Geoffrey Lovelace , Mark A. Scheel , Béla Szilágyi

We develop new strategies to build numerical relativity surrogate models for eccentric binary black hole systems, which are expected to play an increasingly important role in current and future gravitational-wave detectors. We introduce a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-26 Tousif Islam , Vijay Varma , Jackie Lodman , Scott E. Field , Gaurav Khanna , Mark A. Scheel , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Davide Gerosa , Lawrence E. Kidder

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 present a new effective-one-body (EOB) waveform for eccentric, nonspinning, binaries in the extreme mass ratio limit, with initial eccentricities up to $0.95$. The EOB analytical waveform, that includes noncircular corrections up to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-24 Simone Albanesi , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Thibault Damour , Alessandro Nagar , Andrea Placidi

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

Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) observations will detect gravitational waves (GWs) from the early inspiral phase of supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) with orbital periods of weeks to years. Current PTA analyses generally assume circular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-26 Sara Manzini , Stanislav Babak

We present an updated version of the TEOBResumS-Dali effective-one-body (EOB) waveform model for spin aligned binaries on non-circularized orbits. Recently computed 4PN (nonspinning) terms are incorporated in the waveform and radiation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-18 Alessandro Nagar , Rossella Gamba , Piero Rettegno , Veronica Fantini , Sebastiano Bernuzzi

The precise modeling of binary black hole coalescences in generic planar orbits is a crucial step to disentangle dynamical and isolated binary formation channels through gravitational-wave observations. The merger regime of such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-26 Gregorio Carullo , Simone Albanesi , Alessandro Nagar , Rossella Gamba , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Tomas Andrade , Juan Trenado

We discuss the properties of the effective-one-body (EOB) multipolar gravitational waveform emitted by nonspinning black-hole binaries of masses $\mu$ and $M$ in the extreme-mass-ratio limit, $\mu/M=\nu\ll 1$. We focus on the transition…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-03-22 Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Alessandro Nagar , Anil Zenginoglu

We develop the foundations of an effective-one-body (EOB) model for eccentric binary coalescences that includes the conservative dynamics, radiation reaction, and gravitational waveform modes from the inspiral and the merger-ringdown…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-08 Tanja Hinderer , Stanislav Babak

We address the problem of constructing high-accuracy, faithful analytic waveforms describing the gravitational wave signal emitted by inspiralling and coalescing binary black holes. We work within the Effective-One-Body (EOB) framework and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Thibault Damour , Alessandro Nagar

We present pySEOBNR, a Python package for gravitational-wave (GW) modeling developed within the effective-one-body (EOB) formalism. The package contains an extensive framework to generate state-of-the-art inspiral-merger-ringdown waveform…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-03 Deyan P. Mihaylov , Serguei Ossokine , Alessandra Buonanno , Hector Estelles , Lorenzo Pompili , Michael Pürrer , Antoni Ramos-Buades

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…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-20 Nishkal Rao , Gregorio Carullo

We present a comprehensive comparison between numerical relativity (NR) angular momentum fluxes at infinity and the corresponding quantity entering the radiation reaction in TEOBResumS, an Effective-One-Body (EOB) waveform model for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-27 Angelica Albertini , Alessandro Nagar , Piero Rettegno , Simone Albanesi , Rossella Gamba

Orbital eccentricity is a crucial physical effect to unveil the origin of compact-object binaries detected by ground- and spaced-based gravitational-wave (GW) observatories. Here, we perform for the first time a Bayesian inference study of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-28 Antoni Ramos-Buades , Alessandra Buonanno , Jonathan Gair