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Efficient Eccentric Effective-One-Body Dynamics via Near-Identity Averaging Transformations
Philip Lynch, Alessandra Buonanno, Aldo Gamboa +1
Next-generation gravitational-wave detectors, such as LISA, the Einstein Telescope, and Cosmic Explorer, will require accurate and efficient models of long-lived black hole binary…
Advancing the Effective-One-Body Framework in the Test-Mass Limit
Nami Nishimura, Alessandra Buonanno, Guglielmo Faggioli +2
We present SEOB-TML, an enhanced effective-one-body (EOB) framework for the test-mass limit, optimized for quasi-circular, spin-aligned binary black holes. On the dynamical side, w…
Tidal perturbations of an extreme mass ratio inspiral around a Kerr black hole
Marta Cocco, Gianluca Grignani, Troels Harmark +3
We determine the metric of a Kerr black hole subject to external tidal fields using metric reconstruction techniques. Working within the Newman-Penrose formalism, we solve the Teuk…
Peaking into the abyss: Characterizing the merger of equatorial-eccentric-geodesic plunges in rotating black holes
Guglielmo Faggioli, Maarten van de Meent, Alessandra Buonanno +1
We study the gravitational waveforms generated by critical, equatorial plunging geodesics of the Kerr metric that start from an unstable-circular-orbit, which describe the test-mas…
Phenomenology and origin of late-time tails in eccentric binary black hole mergers
Tousif Islam, Guglielmo Faggioli, Gaurav Khanna +3
We investigate the late-time tail behavior in gravitational waves from merging eccentric binary black holes (BBH) using black hole perturbation theory. For simplicity, we focus onl…
Probing fundamental physics with Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals: a full Bayesian inference for scalar charge
Lorenzo Speri, Susanna Barsanti, Andrea Maselli +6
Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals (EMRIs) are key sources for the future space-based gravitational wave detector LISA, and are considered promising probes of fundamental physics. Here,…
Fast inspirals and the treatment of orbital resonances
Philip Lynch, Vojtěch Witzany, Maarten van de Meent +1
Extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs), where a compact object orbits a massive black hole, are a key source of gravitational waves for the future Laser Interferometer Space Antenna…
Testing eccentric corrections to the radiation-reaction force in the test-mass limit of effective-one-body models
Guglielmo Faggioli, Maarten van de Meent, Alessandra Buonanno +3
In this work, we test an effective-one-body radiation-reaction force for eccentric planar orbits of a test mass in a Kerr background, which contains third-order post-Newtonian (PN)…
Relativistic aerodynamics of spinning black holes
Conor Dyson, Jaime Redondo-Yuste, Maarten van de Meent +1
Astrophysical black holes do not exist in vacuum, and their motion is affected by the galactic environment. As a black hole moves it attracts stars and matter, creating a wake that…
LISA Definition Study Report
Monica Colpi, Karsten Danzmann, Martin Hewitson +108
The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is the first scientific endeavour to detect and study gravitational waves from space. LISA will survey the sky for Gravitational Waves…
Self-forced inspirals with spin-orbit precession
Philip Lynch, Maarten van de Meent, Niels Warburton
We develop the first model for extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) with misaligned angular momentum and primary spin, and zero eccentricity -- also known as quasi-spherical inspir…
Eternal binaries
Jaime Redondo-Yuste, Vitor Cardoso, Caio F. B. Macedo +1
The two-body problem is extensively studied in open systems and asymptotically flat spacetimes. However, there are many systems where radiation is trapped: they range from radiatin…
Laying the foundation of the effective-one-body waveform models SEOBNRv5: improved accuracy and efficiency for spinning non-precessing binary black holes
Lorenzo Pompili, Alessandra Buonanno, Héctor Estellés +21
We present SEOBNRv5HM, a more accurate and faster inspiral-merger-ringdown gravitational waveform model for quasi-circular, spinning, nonprecessing binary black holes within the ef…
Enhancing the SEOBNRv5 effective-one-body waveform model with second-order gravitational self-force fluxes
Maarten van de Meent, Alessandra Buonanno, Deyan P. Mihaylov +7
We leverage recent breakthrough calculations using second-order gravitational self-force (2GSF) theory to improve both the gravitational-mode amplitudes and radiation-reaction forc…
Defining eccentricity for gravitational wave astronomy
Md Arif Shaikh, Vijay Varma, Harald P. Pfeiffer +2
Eccentric compact binary mergers are significant scientific targets for current and future gravitational wave observatories. To detect and analyze eccentric signals, there is an in…
Kerr-fully Diving into the Abyss: Analytic Solutions to Plunging Geodesics in Kerr
Conor Dyson, Maarten van de Meent
We present closed-form solutions for plunging geodesics in the extended Kerr spacetime using Boyer-Lindquist coordinates. Our solutions directly solve for the dynamics of generic t…
Eccentric binary black holes: Comparing numerical relativity and small mass-ratio perturbation theory
Antoni Ramos-Buades, Maarten van de Meent, Harald P. Pfeiffer +4
The modelling 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 stud…
Eccentric self-forced inspirals into a rotating black hole
Philip Lynch, Maarten van de Meent, Niels Warburton
We develop the first model for extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) into a rotating massive black hole driven by the gravitational self-force. Our model is based on an action angle…
The Next Generation Global Gravitational Wave Observatory: The Science Book
Vicky Kalogera, B. S. Sathyaprakash, Matthew Bailes +88
The next generation of ground-based gravitational-wave detectors will observe coalescences of black holes and neutron stars throughout the cosmos, thousands of them with exceptiona…
Extreme mass-ratio inspirals around a spinning horizonless compact object
Elisa Maggio, Maarten van de Meent, Paolo Pani
Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) detectable by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna are unique probes of the nature of supermassive compact objects. We compute the gravitatio…
Intermediate mass-ratio black hole binaries: Applicability of small mass-ratio perturbation theory
Maarten van de Meent, Harald P. Pfeiffer
The dynamics of merging black hole binaries with small mass-ratios (SMR) can be expressed as a series in the symmetric mass-ratio, the post-adiabatic expansion. Using numerical rel…
Probing the Nature of Black Holes: Deep in the mHz Gravitational-Wave Sky
Vishal Baibhav, Leor Barack, Emanuele Berti +26
Black holes are unique among astrophysical sources: they are the simplest macroscopic objects in the Universe, and they are extraordinary in terms of their ability to convert energ…
Quasi-circular inspirals and plunges from non-spinning effective-one-body Hamiltonians with gravitational self-force information
Andrea Antonelli, Maarten van de Meent, Alessandra Buonanno +2
The self-force program aims at accurately modeling relativistic two-body systems with a small mass ratio (SMR). In the context of the effective-one-body (EOB) framework, current re…
Analytic solutions for parallel transport along generic bound geodesics in Kerr spacetime
Maarten van de Meent
We provide analytical closed form solutions for the parallel transport along a bound geodesic in Kerr spacetime. This can be considered the lowest order approximation for the motio…