Gravitational radiation from post-Newtonian sources and inspiralling compact binaries

L Blanchet - Living reviews in relativity, 2014 - Springer
To be observed and analyzed by the network of gravitational wave detectors on ground
(LIGO, VIRGO, etc.) and by the future detectors in space (e LISA, etc.), inspiralling compact …

Black-hole binaries, gravitational waves, and numerical relativity

J Centrella, JG Baker, BJ Kelly, JR van Meter - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2010 - APS
Understanding the predictions of general relativity for the dynamical interactions of two black
holes has been a long-standing unsolved problem in theoretical physics. Black-hole …

The Einstein Toolkit: a community computational infrastructure for relativistic astrophysics

F Löffler, J Faber, E Bentivegna, T Bode… - … and Quantum Gravity, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract We describe the Einstein Toolkit, a community-driven, freely accessible
computational infrastructure intended for use in numerical relativity, relativistic astrophysics …

Matching post-Newtonian and numerical relativity waveforms: Systematic errors and a new phenomenological model for nonprecessing black hole binaries

L Santamaria, F Ohme, P Ajith, B Brügmann… - Physical Review D …, 2010 - APS
We present a new phenomenological gravitational waveform model for the inspiral and
coalescence of nonprecessing spinning black hole binaries. Our approach is based on a …

Template bank for gravitational waveforms from coalescing binary black holes:<? format?> Nonspinning binaries

P Ajith, S Babak, Y Chen, M Hewitson, B Krishnan… - Physical Review D …, 2008 - APS
Gravitational waveforms from the inspiral and ring-down stages of the binary black-hole
coalescences can be modeled accurately by approximation/perturbation techniques in …

Higher-order spin effects in the amplitude and phase of gravitational waveforms emitted<? format?> by inspiraling compact binaries: Ready-to-use gravitational …

KG Arun, A Buonanno, G Faye, E Ochsner - Physical Review D—Particles …, 2009 - APS
We provide ready-to-use time-domain gravitational waveforms for spinning compact binaries
with precession effects through 1.5 post-Newtonian (PN) order in amplitude, and compute …

Closed-form tidal approximants for binary neutron star gravitational waveforms constructed from high-resolution numerical relativity simulations

T Dietrich, S Bernuzzi, W Tichy - Physical Review D, 2017 - APS
We construct closed-form gravitational waveforms (GWs) with tidal effects for the
coalescence of binary neutron stars. The method relies on a new set of eccentricity-reduced …

The third post-Newtonian gravitational wave polarizations and associated spherical harmonic modes for inspiralling compact binaries in quasi-circular orbits

L Blanchet, G Faye, BR Iyer… - Classical and Quantum …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
The gravitational waveform (GWF) generated by inspiralling compact binaries moving in
quasi-circular orbits is computed at the third post-Newtonian (3PN) approximation to general …

Tracking the precession of compact binaries from their gravitational-wave signal

P Schmidt, M Hannam, S Husa, P Ajith - Physical Review D—Particles, Fields …, 2011 - APS
We present a simple method to track the precession of a black-hole-binary system during the
inspiral, using only information from the gravitational-wave (GW) signal. Our method consists …

The RIT binary black hole simulations catalog

J Healy, CO Lousto, Y Zlochower… - … and Quantum Gravity, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The RIT numerical relativity group is releasing a public catalog of black-hole-binary
waveforms. The initial release of the catalog consists of 126 recent simulations that include …