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We present a reanalysis of 17 gravitational-wave events detected with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo in their first three observing runs, using the new IMRPhenomTEHM model -- a phenomenological time-domain multipolar waveform model for…

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Detection of gravitational waves from compact binaries involving at least one intermediate mass black hole, and component mass ratios in the range $0.1$-$10^{-4}$, are among the primary sources for future space detectors with target strain…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-25 M Laxman , Ryuichi Fujita , Chandra Kant Mishra

We study the nonlinear dynamics of binary black hole systems with scalar charge by numerically evolving the full equations of motion for shift-symmetric Einstein scalar Gauss-Bonnet gravity. We consider quasi-circular binaries with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-25 Maxence Corman , Justin L. Ripley , William E. East

The events detected by the LIGO Virgo KAGRA collaboration over a period of 10 years have yielded a treasure trove of signals from compact binary coalescences. None of these events have shown a confident signature of eccentricity. With…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-11 Johann Fernandes , Praveer Tiwari , Archana Pai

At the beginning of binary black hole simulations, there is a pulse of spurious radiation (or junk radiation) resulting from the initial data not matching astrophysical quasi-equilibrium inspiral exactly. One traditionally waits for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-10-24 Fan Zhang , Béla Szilágyi

We analyze 192 sets of binary black hole merger data in eccentric orbits obtained from RIT, decomposing the radiation energy into three distinct phases through time: inspiral, late inspiral to merger, and ringdown. Our investigation reveals…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-22 Hao Wang , Yuan-Chuan Zou , Qing Wen Wu

An approximate solution to Einstein's equations representing two widely-separated non-rotating black holes in a circular orbit is constructed by matching a post-Newtonian metric to two perturbed Schwarzschild metrics. The spacetime metric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Kashif Alvi

This article presents a study of the sufficient accuracy of post-Newtonian and numerical relativity waveforms for the most demanding usage case: parameter estimation of strong sources in advanced gravitational wave detectors. For black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-19 Ilana MacDonald , Samaya Nissanke , Harald P. Pfeiffer

We compute the gravitational waveform emitted during the transition from quasi-spherical inspiral to plunge, merger and ringdown for a system of two black holes in the extreme mass ratio limit, where the primary is spinning and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-23 Luca Nagni , Alessandro Nagar , Rossella Gamba , Simone Albanesi , Sebastiano Bernuzzi

Tremendous progress has been made towards the solution of the binary-black-hole problem in numerical relativity. The waveforms produced by numerical relativity will play a role in gravitational wave detection as either test-beds for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Birjoo Vaishnav , Ian Hinder , Frank Herrmann , Deirdre Shoemaker

Binary black hole systems are among the most important sources for gravitational wave detection. And also they are good objects for theoretical research for general relativity. Gravitational waveform template is important to data analysis.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-30 Zhoujian Cao , Wen-Biao Han

Binary black-hole coalescence is treated semi-analytically by a novel approach. Our prescription employs the conservative Skeleton Hamiltonian that describes orbiting Brill-Lindquist wormholes (termed punctures in Numerical Relativity)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Achamveedu Gopakumar , Gerhard Schaefer

Eccentricity has emerged as a potentially useful tool for helping to identify the origin of black hole mergers. However, owing to the large number of harmonics required to compute the amplitude of an eccentric signal, eccentric templates…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-26 Lisa Randall , Alexandra Shelest , Zhong-Zhi Xianyu

We investigate quadratic quasinormal mode coupling in black hole spacetime through numerical simulations of single perturbed black holes using both numerical relativity and second-order black hole perturbation theory. Focusing on the…

While the expectation is that the majority of gravitational wave events observable by ground-based detectors will be emitted by compact binaries in quasi-circular orbits, the growing number of detections suggests the possibility of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-02 Blake Moore , Nicolás Yunes

We solve the Hamiltonian and momentum constraints of general relativity for two black holes with nearly extremal spins and relativistic boosts in the puncture formalism. We use a non-conformally-flat ansatz with an attenuated superposition…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-01 Ian Ruchlin , James Healy , Carlos O. Lousto , Yosef Zlochower

We outline the eccentricity evolution of sub-parsec massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) forming in galaxy mergers. In both stellar and gaseous environments, MBHBs are expected to grow large orbital eccentricities before they enter the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Constanze Roedig , Alberto Sesana

We use equations of motion containing gravitational radiation-reaction terms through 4.5 post-Newtonian order to calculate the late-time eccentricities of inspiraling binary systems of non-spinning compact bodies as they cross the detection…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-16 Alexandria Tucker , Clifford M. Will

We report on early results of a numerical and statistical study of binary black hole inspirals. The two black holes are evolved using post-Newtonian approximations starting with initially randomly distributed spin vectors. We characterize…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-08 Frank Herrmann , John Silberholz , Matias Bellone , Gustavo Guerberoff , Manuel Tiglio

The couplings between supermassive black-hole binaries and their environments within galactic nuclei have been well studied as part of the search for solutions to the final parsec problem. The scattering of stars by the binary or the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-26 S. R. Taylor , E. A. Huerta , J. R. Gair , S. T. McWilliams