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We explore potential quantum gravity signatures by studying periodic orbits and their GW emissions around a novel regular black hole (BH) featuring a Minkowski core. Using a rational number $q$, periodic orbits are classified, revealing…

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We conduct a descriptive analysis of the multipolar structure of gravitational-radiation waveforms from equal-mass aligned-spin mergers, following an approach first presented in the complementary context of nonspinning black holes of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-29 Bernard J. Kelly , John G. Baker , William D. Boggs , Sean T. McWilliams , Joan Centrella

The increasing sophistication and accuracy of numerical simulations of compact binaries (especially binary black holes) presents the opportunity to test the regime in which post-Newtonian (PN) predictions for the emitted gravitational waves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Lawrence E. Kidder

We study the relativistic orbit of binary black holes in systems with small mass ratio. The trajectory of the smaller object (another black hole or a neutron star), represented as a particle, is determined by the geodesic equation on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 C. O. Lousto

We develop and calibrate a new method for estimating the gravitational radiation emitted by complex motions of matter sources in the vicinity of black holes. We compute numerically the linearized curvature perturbations induced by matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Philippos Papadopoulos , Jose A. Font

Black-hole binary coalescences are one of the most promising sources for the first detection of gravitational waves. Fast and accurate theoretical models of the gravitational radiation emitted from these coalescences are highly important…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-17 Michael Pürrer

We study the gravitational wave emission of three compact objects using post-Newtonian (PN) equations of motion derived from the Arnowitt-Deser-Misner Hamiltonian formulation, where we include (for the first time in this context) terms up…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-24 Pablo Galaviz , Bernd Bruegmann

Characterizing eccentricity in gravitational waveforms in a consistent manner is crucial to facilitate parameter estimation, astrophysical population studies, as well as searches for these rare systems. We present a framework to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-06 Tousif Islam , Tejaswi Venumadhav

We study parameter estimation with post-Newtonian (PN) gravitational waveforms for the quasi-circular, adiabatic inspiral of spinning binary compact objects. The performance of amplitude-corrected waveforms is compared with that of the more…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Chris Van Den Broeck , Anand S. Sengupta

We compute the gravitational waveform associated with a radially infalling particle in a Schwarzschild black hole working in the center-of-mass system and in a post-Newtonian (PN) approximation. Our results reach the highest accuracy level…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-12 Giorgio Di Russo , Donato Bini

First-order phase transitions, which take place when the symmetries are predominantly broken (and masses are then generated) through radiative corrections, produce observable gravitational waves and primordial black holes. We provide a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-25 Alberto Salvio

Black holes in our Universe are rarely truly isolated, being instead embedded in astrophysical environments such as plasma or dark matter. A particularly intriguing possibility is that light scalar fields form bound states around black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-19 Matteo Della Rocca , Thomas F. M. Spieksma , Francisco Duque , Leonardo Gualtieri , Vitor Cardoso

An observable stochastic background of gravitational waves is generated whenever primordial black holes are created in the early universe thanks to a small-scale enhancement of the curvature perturbation. We calculate the anisotropies and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-10 N. Bartolo , D. Bertacca , V. De Luca , G. Franciolini , S. Matarrese , M. Peloso , A. Ricciardone , A. Riotto , G. Tasinato

I discuss the accuracy requirements on numerical relativity calculations of inspiraling compact object binaries whose extracted gravitational waveforms are to be used as templates for matched filtering signal extraction and physical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Mark Miller

Parameterised models that predict the gravitational-wave (GW) signal from merging black holes are used to extract source properties from GW observations. The majority of research in this area has focused on developing methods capable of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-09 Sebastian Khan

There is a growing expectation that the gravitational wave detectors will start probing the stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds in the following years. We explore the spectral shapes of gravitational waves induced to second order by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-13 Ioannis Dalianis , Konstantinos Kritos

We consider the collisions of plane gravitational and electromagnetic waves with distinct wavefronts and of arbitrary polarizations in a Minkowski background. We first present a new, completely geometric formulation of the characteristic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 G. A. Alekseev , J. B. Griffiths

Merging supermassive black hole binaries produce low-frequency gravitational waves, which pulsar timing experiments are searching for. Much of the current theory is developed within the plane-wave formalism, and here we develop the more…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-29 Casey McGrath , Jolien Creighton

In this work, we study the gravitational waveforms from the periodic orbits of a massive particle around a dyonic ModMax black hole. We begin with a brief analysis of the spacetime and then examine how its parameters influence the dynamics…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-20 Mirzabek Alloqulov , Sanjar Shaymatov , Bobomurat Ahmedov , Tao Zhu

We present an analytical formalism, within the Effective-One-Body framework, which predicts gravitational-wave signals from inspiralling and coalescing black-hole binaries that agree, within numerical errors, with the results of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-06 Thibault Damour , Alessandro Nagar