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Enabling gravitational-wave astronomy with spin-precessing black holes on generic orbits
Aldo Gamboa, Lorenzo Pompili, Alessandra Buonanno +7
Binary black holes (BBHs) formed in dense stellar environments or in hierarchical triples can coalesce on eccentric orbits and carry spins of arbitrary orientation, leaving distinc…
A stepping stone toward detecting gravitational wave memory: a cumulative analysis with the full spherical harmonic using events from GWTC-4.0 and GWTC-5.0
Maria Rosselló-Sastre, Sascha Husa, Yumeng Xu +3
We perform Bayesian model selection to test for the presence of the spherical harmonic mode in gravitational wave events that have previously been identified as bina…
Accurate waveforms for generic planar-orbit binary black holes: The multipolar effective-one-body model SEOBNRv6EHM
Aldo Gamboa, Alessandra Buonanno, Lorenzo Pompili +8
Accurate and computationally efficient waveform models are required to infer the parameters of compact binaries from their gravitational wave (GW) emission. Among these parameters,…
Merger remnant and eccentricity dynamics surrogates for eccentric nonspinning black hole binaries
Adhrit Ravichandran, Peter James Nee, Keefe Mitman +22
Accurate models of merger remnants are increasingly important for gravitational-wave science, including precision tests of gravity with ringdown, inference of black-hole population…
Including higher-order modes in a quadrupolar eccentric numerical relativity surrogate using universal eccentric modulation functions
Tousif Islam, Adhrit Ravichandran, Peter James Nee +15
\texttt{gwNRHME} is a framework that converts multi-modal (i.e., containing several spherical harmonic modes) quasi-circular waveforms into their eccentric counterparts, provided t…
Advanced Virgo Plus for O5 -- Design Report Overview
F. Acernese, A. Agapito, D. Agarwal +578
This document presents an overview of the design, implementation, and expected performance of the Advanced Virgo Plus (AdV+) upgrades in view of the O5 observing run. Following the…
LISA science ground segment conventions
Quentin Baghi, Stanislas Babak, Leor Barack +22
This document sets out the conventions used for data simulations, waveforms, and analysis pipelines within the Distributed Data Processing Centre (DDPC) of the Laser Interferometer…
Eccentricity constraints disfavor single-single capture in nuclear star clusters as the origin of all LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA binary black holes
Nihar Gupte, M. Coleman Miller, Rhiannon Udall +12
Multiple formation pathways have been proposed for the origin of binary black holes (BBHs). These include isolated binary evolution and dynamical assembly in dense stellar environm…
Fast frequency-domain phenomenological modeling of eccentric aligned-spin binary black holes
Antoni Ramos-Buades, Quentin Henry, Maria Haney
We present the IMRPhenomXE frequency-domain phenomenological waveform model for the dominant mode of inspiral-merger-ringdown non-precessing binary black holes in elliptical orbits…
Eccentric binary black holes: A new framework for numerical relativity waveform surrogates
Peter James Nee, Adhrit Ravichandran, Scott E. Field +17
Mounting evidence indicates that some of the gravitational wave signals observed by the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA observatories might arise from eccentric compact object binaries, increasin…
Defining eccentricity for spin-precessing binaries
Md Arif Shaikh, Vijay Varma, Antoni Ramos-Buades +4
Standardizing the definition of eccentricity is necessary for unambiguous inference of the orbital eccentricity of compact binaries from gravitational wave observations. In previou…
Highly accurate simulations of asymmetric black-hole scattering and cross validation of effective-one-body models
Oliver Long, Harald P. Pfeiffer, Alessandra Buonanno +6
The study of unbound binary-black-hole encounters provides a gauge-invariant approach to exploring strong-field gravitational interactions in two-body systems, which can subsequent…
First eccentric inspiral-merger-ringdown analysis of neutron star-black hole mergers
Maria de Lluc Planas, Sascha Husa, Antoni Ramos-Buades +1
The gravitational wave event GW200105 was the first confident neutron star-black hole (NSBH) merger identified by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration. A recent analysis by Morras et…
The SXS Collaboration's third catalog of binary black hole simulations
Mark A. Scheel, Michael Boyle, Keefe Mitman +56
We present a major update to the Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes (SXS) Collaboration's catalog of binary black hole simulations. Using highly efficient spectral methods implemented i…
Eccentric or circular? A reanalysis of binary black hole gravitational wave events for orbital eccentricity signatures
Maria de Lluc Planas, Antoni Ramos-Buades, Cecilio García-Quirós +3
We present a reanalysis of 17 gravitational-wave events detected with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo in their first three observing runs, using the new IMRPhenomTEHM model -- a p…
Time-domain phenomenological multipolar waveforms for aligned-spin binary black holes in elliptical orbits
Maria de Lluc Planas, Antoni Ramos-Buades, Cecilio García-Quirós +3
We introduce IMRPhenomTEHM, a new phenomenological time-domain model for eccentric aligned-spin binary black holes. Building upon the accurate quasi-circular IMRPhenomTHM model, IM…
The Science of the Einstein Telescope
Adrian Abac, Raul Abramo, Simone Albanesi +485
Einstein Telescope (ET) is the European project for a gravitational-wave (GW) observatory of third-generation. In this paper we present a comprehensive discussion of its science ob…
Impact of eccentricity and mean anomaly in numerical relativity mergers
Peter James Nee, Aldo Gamboa, Harald P. Pfeiffer +8
Accurate modelling of black hole binaries is critical to achieve the science goals of gravitational-wave detectors. Modelling such configurations relies strongly on calibration to…
Accurate waveforms for eccentric, aligned-spin binary black holes: The multipolar effective-one-body model SEOBNRv5EHM
Aldo Gamboa, Alessandra Buonanno, Raffi Enficiaud +9
The measurement of orbital eccentricity in gravitational-wave (GW) signals will provide unique insights into the astrophysical origin of binary systems, while ignoring eccentricity…
Detectability of eccentric binary black holes with PyCBC and cWB pipelines during the third observing run of LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA
Bhooshan Gadre, Kanchan Soni, Shubhanshu Tiwari +3
Detecting binary black hole (BBH) mergers with quantifiable orbital eccentricity would confirm the existence of a dynamical formation channel for these binaries. The current state-…
Evidence for eccentricity in the population of binary black holes observed by LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA
Nihar Gupte, Antoni Ramos-Buades, Alessandra Buonanno +9
Binary black holes (BBHs) in eccentric orbits produce distinct modulations in gravitational waves (GWs); measuring orbital eccentricity provides evidence for dynamical binary forma…
Bayesian inference of binary black holes with inspiral-merger-ringdown waveforms using two eccentric parameters
Antoni Ramos-Buades, Alessandra Buonanno, Jonathan Gair
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,…
Formulation Improvements for Critical Collapse Simulations
Daniela Cors, Sarah Renkhoff, Hannes R. Rüter +2
The precise tuning required to observe critical phenomena in gravitational collapse poses a challenge for most numerical codes. First, threshold estimation searches may be obstruct…
Extending black-hole remnant surrogate models to extreme mass ratios
Matteo Boschini, Davide Gerosa, Vijay Varma +19
Numerical-relativity surrogate models for both black-hole merger waveforms and remnants have emerged as important tools in gravitational-wave astronomy. While producing very accura…