Multipolar effective-one-body waveforms for precessing binary black holes: Construction and validation

S Ossokine, A Buonanno, S Marsat, R Cotesta… - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
As gravitational-wave detectors become more sensitive and broaden their frequency
bandwidth, we will access a greater variety of signals emitted by compact binary systems …

Effective-one-body multipolar waveforms for eccentric binary black holes with nonprecessing spins

A Ramos-Buades, A Buonanno, M Khalil, S Ossokine - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
We construct an inspiral-merger-ringdown eccentric gravitational-wave (GW) model for
binary black holes with non-precessing spins within the effective-one-body formalism. This …

Strong-field scattering of two spinning black holes: Numerical relativity versus post-Minkowskian gravity

P Rettegno, G Pratten, LM Thomas, P Schmidt… - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Highly accurate models of the gravitational wave signal from coalescing compact binaries
are built by completing analytical computations of the binary dynamics with nonperturbative …

Bayesian inference of binary black holes with inspiral-merger-ringdown waveforms using two eccentric parameters

A Ramos-Buades, A Buonanno, J Gair - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
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 …

Faithful analytical effective-one-body waveform model for spin-aligned, moderately eccentric, coalescing black hole binaries

D Chiaramello, A Nagar - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
We present a new effective-one-body (EOB) model for eccentric binary coalescences. The
model stems from the state-of-the-art model TEOBiResumS_SM for circularized coalescing …

Gravitational waves from binary black hole mergers: Modeling and observations

P Schmidt - Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Only a few years after the first detection of gravitational waves from coalescing stellar-mass
black holes, the field of gravitational-wave astronomy is now firmly established after the …

Defining eccentricity for gravitational wave astronomy

MA Shaikh, V Varma, HP Pfeiffer, A Ramos-Buades… - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Eccentric compact binary mergers are significant scientific targets for current and future
gravitational wave observatories. To detect and analyze eccentric signals, there is an …

Radiation-reaction force and multipolar waveforms for eccentric, spin-aligned binaries in the effective-one-body formalism

M Khalil, A Buonanno, J Steinhoff, J Vines - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
While most binary inspirals are expected to have circularized before they enter the
LIGO/Virgo frequency band, a small fraction of those binaries could have non-negligible …

Population synthesis of black hole binary mergers from star clusters

F Antonini, M Gieles - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Black hole (BH) binary mergers formed through dynamical interactions in dense star clusters
are believed to be one of the main sources of gravitational waves (GWs) for Advanced LIGO …

Eccentric binary black holes: Comparing numerical relativity and small mass-ratio perturbation theory

A Ramos-Buades, M van de Meent, HP Pfeiffer… - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
The modeling of unequal mass binary black hole systems is of high importance to detect and
estimate parameters from these systems. Numerical relativity (NR) is well suited to study …