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NRSur7dq4v2: A multi-domain precessing surrogate model with improved accuracy
Abhishek Ravishankar, Vijay Varma, Scott E. Field +5
Numerical relativity simulations provide the most accurate waveforms for binary black hole coalescences, but are prohibitively expensive for direct use in gravitational-wave data a…
Constraining Gravitational Wave Memory with Hierarchical Inference
Keefe Mitman, Maximiliano Isi, Will M. Farr
With the multitude of gravitational wave observations that have been made in the past ten years, probing the dynamical and nonlinear nature of strong gravity is becoming more and m…
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…
Fixing the center-of-mass frame of numerical relativity waveforms using the post-Newtonian center-of-mass charge
Aniket Khairnar, Leo C. Stein, Michael Boyle +7
The Bondi--van der Burg--Metzner--Sachs (BMS) frame of gravitational waves produced by numerical relativity (NR) simulations is crucial for building accurate waveform models. A pro…
A comprehensive look into the accuracy of SpEC binary black hole waveforms
Taylor Knapp, Katerina Chatziioannou, Keefe Mitman +4
Numerical relativity simulations provide a full description of the dynamics of binary systems, including gravitational radiation. The waveforms produced by these simulations have a…
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…
Black hole spectroscopy: from theory to experiment
Emanuele Berti, Vitor Cardoso, Gregorio Carullo +65
The "ringdown" radiation emitted by oscillating black holes has great scientific potential. By carefully predicting the frequencies and amplitudes of black hole quasinormal modes a…
Modeling the BMS transformation induced by a binary black hole merger
Guido Da Re, Keefe Mitman, Leo C. Stein +12
Understanding the characteristics of the remnant black hole formed in a binary black hole merger is crucial for conducting gravitational wave astronomy. Typically, models of remnan…
Probing the ringdown perturbation in binary black hole coalescences with an improved quasi-normal mode extraction algorithm
Keefe Mitman, Isabella Pretto, Harrison Siegel +9
Using gravitational waves to probe the geometry of the ringing remnant black hole formed in a binary black hole coalescence is a well-established way to test Einstein's theory of g…
Length dependence of waveform mismatch: a caveat on waveform accuracy
Keefe Mitman, Leo C. Stein, Michael Boyle +4
The Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes Collaboration's code SpEC can now routinely simulate binary black hole mergers undergoing orbits, with the longest simulations undergoing…
Late-time tails in nonlinear evolutions of merging black holes
Marina De Amicis, Hannes Rüter, Gregorio Carullo +17
We uncover late-time gravitational-wave tails in fully nonlinear 3+1 dimensional numerical relativity simulations of merging black holes, using the highly accurate SpEC code. We ac…
Overtones and Nonlinearities in Binary Black Hole Ringdowns
Matthew Giesler, Sizheng Ma, Keefe Mitman +11
Using high-accuracy numerical relativity waveforms, we confirm the presence of numerous overtones of the , quasinormal mode early in the ringdown of binary black hole…
Simulating binary black hole mergers using discontinuous Galerkin methods
Geoffrey Lovelace, Kyle C. Nelli, Nils Deppe +28
Binary black holes are the most abundant source of gravitational-wave observations. Gravitational-wave observatories in the next decade will require tremendous increases in the acc…
High-Precision Ringdown Surrogate Model for Non-Precessing Binary Black Holes
Lorena Magaña Zertuche, Leo C. Stein, Keefe Mitman +11
Highly precise and robust waveform models are required as improvements in detector sensitivity enable us to test general relativity with more precision than ever before. In this wo…
Improved frequency spectra of gravitational waves with memory in a binary-black-hole simulation
Yitian Chen, Michael Boyle, Nils Deppe +9
Numerical relativists can now produce gravitational waveforms with memory effects routinely and accurately. The gravitational-wave memory effect contains very low-frequency compone…
A Review of Gravitational Memory and BMS Frame Fixing in Numerical Relativity
Keefe Mitman, Michael Boyle, Leo C. Stein +8
Gravitational memory effects and the BMS freedoms exhibited at future null infinity have recently been resolved and utilized in numerical relativity simulations. With this, gravita…
Optimizing post-Newtonian parameters and fixing the BMS frame for numerical-relativity waveform hybridizations
Dongze Sun, Michael Boyle, Keefe Mitman +4
Numerical relativity (NR) simulations of binary black holes provide precise waveforms, but are typically too computationally expensive to produce waveforms with enough orbits to co…
Numerical Relativity Multimodal Waveforms using Absorbing Boundary Conditions
Luisa T. Buchman, Matthew D. Duez, Marlo Morales +4
Errors due to imperfect boundary conditions in numerical relativity simulations of binary black holes can produce unphysical reflections of gravitational waves which compromise the…
Striking the right tone: toward a self-consistent framework for measuring black hole ringdowns
Teagan A. Clarke, Maximiliano Isi, Paul D. Lasky +9
The ringdown portion of a binary black hole merger consists of a sum of modes, each containing an infinite number of tones that are exponentially damped sinusoids. In principle, th…
Nonlinear Effects In Black Hole Ringdown From Scattering Experiments I: spin and initial data dependence of quadratic mode coupling
Hengrui Zhu, Justin L. Ripley, Frans Pretorius +13
We investigate quadratic quasinormal mode coupling in black hole spacetime through numerical simulations of single perturbed black holes using both numerical relativity and second-…
Black Hole Spectroscopy for Precessing Binary Black Hole Coalescences
Hengrui Zhu, Harrison Siegel, Keefe Mitman +14
The spectroscopic study of black hole quasinormal modes in gravitational-wave ringdown observations is hindered by our ignorance of which modes should dominate astrophysical signal…
Higher Memory Effects in Numerical Simulations of Binary Black Hole Mergers
Alexander M. Grant, Keefe Mitman
Gravitational memory effects are predictions of general relativity that are characterized by an observable effect that persists after the passage of gravitational waves. In recent…
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…