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8 papers

gr-qc2026

Analysis of late-time tails in spin-aligned eccentric binary black hole mergers

Tousif Islam, Guglielmo Faggioli, Gaurav Khanna

We present a comprehensive analysis of late-time tails in gravitational radiation from merging spin-aligned eccentric binary black holes, using high-accuracy point-particle black h…

gr-qc2026

Consistency of spin effects between numerical relativity and perturbation theory for inspiraling comparable-mass black hole binaries

Tousif Islam, Gaurav Khanna, Scott E. Field

Numerical relativity (NR) provides the most accurate waveforms for comparable-mass binary black holes but becomes prohibitively expensive for increasingly asymmetric mass ratios. P…

gr-qc2026

Gravitational wave surrogate model for spinning, intermediate mass ratio binaries based on perturbation theory and numerical relativity

Katie Rink, Ritesh Bachhar, Tousif Islam +6

We present BHPTNRSur2dq1e3, a reduced order surrogate model of gravitational waves emitted from binary black hole (BBH) systems in the comparable to large mass ratio regime with al…

gr-qc2026

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…

gr-qc2026

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…

gr-qc2026

Analysis of GWTC-3 with fully precessing numerical relativity surrogate models

Tousif Islam, Avi Vajpeyi, Feroz H. Shaik +6

The third Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC-3) contains 90 binary coalescence candidates detected by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration (LVK). We provide a re-analysis of…