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The instantaneous contributions to the 3PN gravitational wave luminosity from the inspiral phase of a binary system of compact objects moving in a quasi elliptical orbit is computed using the multipolar post-Minkowskian wave generation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 K. G. Arun , Luc Blanchet , Bala R. Iyer , Moh'd S. S. Qusailah

Extreme-mass-ratio-inspiral (EMRI) is one of the most important sources for the future space-borne gravitational wave detectors. In such kind of systems, the compact objects usually orbit around the central supermassive black holes with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-11 Chen Zhang , Wen-Biao Han , Shu-Cheng Yang

We extend the description of gravitational waves emitted by binary black holes during the final stages of inspiral and merger by introducing in the third post-Newtonian (3PN) effective-one-body (EOB) templates seven new ``flexibility''…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Thibault Damour , Bala R. Iyer , Piotr Jaranowski , B. S. Sathyaprakash

Inspiralling and coalescing binary black holes are promising sources of gravitational radiation. The orbital motion and gravitational-wave emission of such system can be modelled using a variety of approximation schemes and numerical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-06 Alexandre Le Tiec

We present a fast Bayesian inference framework to address the growing computational cost of gravitational-wave parameter estimation. The increased cost is driven by improved broadband detector sensitivity, particularly at low frequencies…

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Accreting supermassive black hole binaries are powerful multimessenger sources emitting both gravitational and EM radiation. Understanding the accretion dynamics of these systems and predicting their distinctive EM signals is crucial to…

Motivated by the possibility of observing gravitational waves from merging black holes whose spins are nearly extremal (i.e., 1 in dimensionless units), we present numerical waveforms from simulations of merging black holes with the highest…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-01-30 Geoffrey Lovelace , Michael Boyle , Mark A. Scheel , Bela Szilagyi

In the past few decades, the waveform community has made advances in producing waveforms that span the inspiral-merger-ringdown of comparable-mass-ratio black hole binaries using advances in post-Newtonian and numerical relativity (NR)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-14 Hector Iglesias , Leanne Durkan , Deirdre Shoemaker

To be observed and analyzed by the network of current gravitational wave detectors (LIGO, Virgo, KAGRA), and in anticipation of future third generation ground based (Einstein Telescope, Cosmic Explorer) and space borne (LISA) detectors,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-16 Luc Blanchet

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are among the key targets for future space-based gravitational wave detectors. The gravitational waveforms emitted by EMRIs are highly sensitive to the orbital dynamics of the small compact object, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-08 Soroush Zare , Tao Zhu , Luis M. Nieto , Shuo Lu , Hassan Hassanabadi

We present the first systematic comparison between gravitational waveforms emitted by inspiralling, quasi-circular and nonspinning black hole binaries computed with three different approaches: second-order gravitational self-force (2GSF)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-03 Angelica Albertini , Alessandro Nagar , Adam Pound , Niels Warburton , Barry Wardell , Leanne Durkan , Jeremy Miller

We investigate the (conservative) dynamics of binary black holes using the Hamiltonian formulation of the post-Newtonian (PN) equations of motion. The Hamiltonian we use includes spin-orbit coupling, spin-spin coupling, and mass…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 Michael D. Hartl , Alessandra Buonanno

We derive spin-orbit coupling effects on the gravitational field and equations of motion of compact binaries in the 2.5 post-Newtonian approximation to general relativity, one PN order beyond where spin effects first appear. Our method is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 Hideyuki Tagoshi , Akira Ohashi , Benjamin J. Owen

We study the effect of black hole spin on the accuracy of the post-Newtonian approximation. We focus on the gravitational energy flux for the quasicircular, equatorial, extreme mass-ratio inspiral of a compact object into a Kerr black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-08 Zhongyang Zhang , Nicolas Yunes , Emanuele Berti

This paper is to introduce a new software called CBwaves which provides a fast and accurate computational tool to determine the gravitational waveforms yielded by generic spinning binaries of neutron stars and/or black holes on eccentric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-02-13 Péter Csizmadia , Gergely Debreczeni , István Rácz , Mátyás Vasúth

This paper introduces a new method for discretizing and solving integral equation formulations of Maxwell's equations which achieves spectral accuracy for smooth surfaces. The approach is based on a hybrid Nystr\"om-collocation method using…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Jin Hu , Emmanuel Garza , Constantine Sideris

Extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are among the most promising sources for future space-based gravitational-wave (GW) detectors, such as LISA. To fully leverage the scientific potential, the GW templates required for parameter estimation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-17 Viktor Skoupý

In this work we examine the Cauchy convergence of both post-Newtonian (T-approximant) and re-summed post-Newtonian (P-approximant) templates for the case of a test-mass orbiting a Kerr black hole along a circular equatorial orbit. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Edward K. Porter

Based upon the formalism recently developed by one of us (MS), we analytically perform the post-Newtonian expansion of gravitational waves from a test particle in circular orbit of radius $r_0$ around a Schwarzschild black hole of mass $M$.…

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