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Effects of waveform model systematics on the interpretation of GW150914
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +999
Parameter estimates of GW150914 were obtained using Bayesian inference, based on three semi-analytic waveform models for binary black hole coalescences. These waveform models diffe…
Saturating The Bekenstein-Hawking Entropy Bound With Initial Data Sets For Gravitational Collapse
Sina Bahrami
It is possible to find initial states for gravitational collapse whose entropy approximately saturates the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of the final black hole. The prototypical exam…
An improved effective-one-body model of spinning, nonprecessing binary black holes for the era of gravitational-wave astrophysics with advanced detectors
Alejandro Bohé, Lijing Shao, Andrea Taracchini +17
We improve the accuracy of the effective-one-body (EOB) waveforms that were employed during the first observing run of Advanced LIGO for binaries of spinning, nonprecessing black h…
A Mode-Sum Prescription for Vacuum Polarization in Odd Dimensions
Peter Taylor, Cormac Breen
We present a new mode-sum regularization prescription for computing the vacuum polarization of a scalar field in static spherically-symmetric black hole spacetimes in odd dimension…
Scalar self-force for highly eccentric equatorial orbits in Kerr spacetime
Jonathan Thornburg, Barry Wardell
If a small "particle" of mass (with ) orbits a black hole of mass , the leading-order radiation-reaction effect is an "self-force" acting on the…
Complete waveform model for compact binaries on eccentric orbits
E. A. Huerta, Prayush Kumar, Bhanu Agarwal +11
We present a time domain waveform model that describes the inspiral-merger-ringdown (IMR) of compact binary systems whose components are non-spinning, and which evolve on orbits wi…
Second-order perturbation theory: the problem of infinite mode coupling
Jeremy Miller, Barry Wardell, Adam Pound
Second-order self-force computations, which will be essential in modeling extreme-mass-ratio inspirals, involve two major new difficulties that were not present at first order. One…
Initial data for black hole-neutron star binaries, with rotating stars
Nick Tacik, Francois Foucart, Harald P. Pfeiffer +4
The coalescence of a neutron star with a black hole is a primary science target of ground-based gravitational wave detectors. Constraining or measuring the neutron star spin direct…
Modeling the source of GW150914 with targeted numerical-relativity simulations
Geoffrey Lovelace, Carlos O. Lousto, James Healy +11
In fall of 2015, the two LIGO detectors measured the gravitational wave signal GW150914, which originated from a pair of merging black holes. In the final 0.2 seconds (about 8 grav…
GW151226: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a 22-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration
We report the observation of a gravitational-wave signal produced by the coalescence of two stellar-mass black holes. The signal, GW151226, was observed by the twin detectors of th…
Directly comparing GW150914 with numerical solutions of Einstein's equations for binary black hole coalescence
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +979
We compare GW150914 directly to simulations of coalescing binary black holes in full general relativity, accounting for all the spin-weighted quadrupolar modes, and separately acco…
An improved analysis of GW150914 using a fully spin-precessing waveform model
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +973
This paper presents updated estimates of source parameters for GW150914, a binary black-hole coalescence event detected by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (…
On the stability of anti-de Sitter spacetime
Nils Deppe
We present results from a detailed study of spherically symmetric Einstein-massless-scalar field dynamics with a negative cosmological constant in four to nine spacetime dimensions…
A Parallel Adaptive Event Horizon Finder for Numerical Relativity
Andy Bohn, Lawrence E. Kidder, Saul A. Teukolsky
With Advanced LIGO detecting the gravitational waves emitted from a pair of merging black holes in late 2015, we have a new perspective into the strong field regime of binary black…
Toroidal Horizons in Binary Black Hole Mergers
Andy Bohn, Lawrence E. Kidder, Saul A. Teukolsky
We find the first binary black hole event horizon with a toroidal topology. It had been predicted that generically the event horizons of merging black holes should briefly have a t…
Fast and Accurate Inference on Gravitational Waves from Precessing Compact Binaries
Rory Smith, Scott E. Field, Kent Blackburn +4
Inferring astrophysical information from gravitational waves emitted by compact binaries is one of the key science goals of gravitational-wave astronomy. In order to reach the full…
How should spin-weighted spherical functions be defined?
Michael Boyle
Spin-weighted spherical functions provide a useful tool for analyzing tensor-valued functions on the sphere. A tensor field can be decomposed into complex-valued functions by takin…
The integration of angular velocity
Michael Boyle
A common problem in physics and engineering is determination of the orientation of an object given its angular velocity. When the direction of the angular velocity changes in time,…
Simulations of inspiraling and merging double neutron stars using the Spectral Einstein Code
Roland Haas, Christian D. Ott, Bela Szilagyi +11
We present results on the inspiral, merger, and post-merger evolution of a neutron star - neutron star (NSNS) system. Our results are obtained using the hybrid pseudospectral-finit…
Self-forces on static bodies in arbitrary dimensions
Abraham I. Harte, Éanna É. Flanagan, Peter Taylor
We derive exact expressions for the scalar and electromagnetic self-forces and self-torques acting on arbitrary static extended bodies in arbitrary static spacetimes with any numbe…
Black Hole Based Tests of General Relativity
Kent Yagi, Leo C. Stein
General relativity has passed all solar system experiments and neutron star based tests, such as binary pulsar observations, with flying colors. A more exotic arena for testing gen…
Prescriptions for measuring and transporting local angular momenta in general relativity
Éanna É. Flanagan, David A. Nichols, Leo C. Stein +1
For observers in curved spacetimes, elements of the dual space of the set of linearized Poincaré transformations from an observer's tangent space to itself can be naturally interpr…
Tests of general relativity with GW150914
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +978
The LIGO detection of GW150914 provides an unprecedented opportunity to study the two-body motion of a compact-object binary in the large velocity, highly nonlinear regime, and to…
Properties of the Binary Black Hole Merger GW150914
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +987
On September 14, 2015, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) detected a gravitational-wave transient (GW150914); we characterize the properties of the sour…