Analytical meets numerical relativity - status of complete gravitational waveform models for binary black holes

Abstract

Models of gravitational waveforms from coalescing black-hole binaries play a crucial role in the efforts to detect and interpret the signatures of those binaries in the data of large-scale interferometers. Here we summarize recent models that combine information both from analytical approximations and numerical relativity. We briefly lay out and compare the strategies employed to build such complete models and we recapitulate the errors associated with various aspects of the modelling process.

13 pages, 2 figures, 1 table, NRDA2011/Amaldi 9 proceedings; published version with extended discussion of accuracy requirements and a new figure 2

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