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How accurate is Spectral Einstein Code (SpEC)? And what limits its accuracy?
Himanshu Chaudhary, Mark A. Scheel, Robert Owen +4
The improved sensitivity of upcoming gravitational-wave detectors will require correspondingly more accurate binary black hole (BBH) simulations. Given the high cost of such simula…
A catalog of long, eccentric and precessing binary black hole simulations from ICTS-TIFR
Vaishak Prasad, Prayush Kumar, Michael Boyle +3
We present a catalogue of 31 binary black hole simulations performed with the Spectral Einstein Code (SpEC) on the Sonic cluster at ICTS-TIFR, Bengaluru between August 2023 and Dec…
Quadratic Gravitational-Wave Scattering by Kerr Black Holes
Lennox S. Keeble, Hengrui Zhu, Lawrence E. Kidder +2
Second-order black-hole perturbation theory will be an important component of precision gravitational-wave modeling and tests of strong-field gravity with next-generation detectors…
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…
High-accuracy drivers to simulate black hole binaries beyond general relativity with the fixing-the-equations approach
Guillermo Lara, Harald P. Pfeiffer, Nils Deppe +9
We implement the "fixing-the-equations" approach [Phys.Rev.D 96 (2017) 8, 084043] in spectre, an NR code using a pseudo-spectral discontinuous Galerkin scheme, to produce long and…
Towards long and accurate numerical relativity waveforms of binary black holes beyond general relativity
Guillermo Lara, Harald P. Pfeiffer, Nils Deppe +9
Numerical relativity (NR) simulations of compact binaries in theories beyond general relativity (GR) will be pivotal for the continued development of future tests of gravity with g…
Self-force calculations with numerical relativity methods
Nils L. Vu, Nami Nishimura, Thomas Osburn +4
To model gravitational waveforms from extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) for the upcoming LISA space mission, gravitational self-force calculations are needed to second order in…
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…
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…
Black-hole scattering with numerical relativity: Self-force extraction and post-Minkowskian validation
Oliver Long, Harald P. Pfeiffer, Lawrence E. Kidder +1
The asymptotic nature of unbound binary-black-hole encounters provides a clean method for comparing different approaches for modeling the two-body problem in general relativity. In…
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…
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…
Biased parameter inference of eccentric, spin-precessing binary black holes
Divyajyoti, Isobel M. Romero-Shaw, Vaishak Prasad +8
While the majority of gravitational wave (GW) events observed by the LIGO and Virgo detectors are consistent with mergers of binary black holes (BBHs) on quasi-circular orbits, som…
Error quantification and comparison of binary neutron star gravitational waveforms from numerical relativity codes
Sarah Habib, Elias R. Most, Nils Deppe +11
Future gravitational wave detections of merging binary neutron star systems have the possibility to tightly constrain the equation of state of dense nuclear matter. In order to ext…
Horizon tracking for asynchronous parallel black hole simulations
Kyle C. Nelli, William Throwe, Nils Deppe +4
In the field of gravitational wave science, next-generation detectors will be substantially more accurate than the current suite of detectors. Numerical relativity simulations of b…
Emergent Turbulence in Nonlinear Gravity
Sizheng Ma, Luis Lehner, Huan Yang +3
Gravity in nonlinear and dynamical regimes underpins spectacular astrophysical phenomena and observable consequences, from the early universe to black hole collisions. In these ext…
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…
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…
Signatures from metastable oppositely-charged black hole binaries in scalar Gauss-Bonnet gravity
Guillermo Lara, Maxence Corman, Peter James Nee +14
We conduct numerical simulations of inspiraling, oppositely-charged black holes in the class of scalar-Gauss-Bonnet theories that exhibit spontaneous black hole scalarization. For…
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…