15 papers
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…
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…
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…
Black hole spectroscopy: from theory to experiment
Emanuele Berti, Vitor Cardoso, Gregorio Carullo +70
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…
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…