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The Direct Wave is Not a Meaningful Test of Horizon Properties
Anuj Kankani, Sean T. McWilliams
Recently, a distinct non--quasinormal mode component of black hole binary merger radiation, named the direct wave, has been identified. The frequency and damping time of the direct…
Direct Waves in Black-Hole Binary Mergers: Insights from the Backwards One Body Model
Anuj Kankani, Sean T. McWilliams
The merger-ringdown radiation from a black hole binary merger is accurately modeled by a sum of linear quasinormal modes (QNMs). Recently, the ``direct wave" component of the radia…
BOB the (Waveform) Builder: Analyzing Analytical Black-Hole Binary Merger Waveforms with the Backwards One Body Formalism
Anuj Kankani, Sean T. McWilliams
The Backwards-One-Body (BOB) model provides a fully analytical and physically motivated description of the merger-ringdown gravitational radiation emanating from a black hole binar…
Spinning Effective-to-Backwards One Body (): combining Effective One-Body inspirals and Backwards One-Body merger-ringdowns for aligned spin black hole binaries
Siddharth Mahesh, Sean T. McWilliams, Zachariah Etienne
High-fidelity gravitational waveform models are essential for realizing the scientific potential of next-generation gravitational-wave observatories. While highly accurate, state-o…
Modeling Relative Peak Times of Gravitational Wave Harmonics
Anuj Kankani, Sean T. McWilliams
Accurate modeling of gravitational waves from binary black hole mergers is essential for extracting their rich physics. A key detail for understanding the physics of mergers is pre…
Detecting eccentric supermassive black hole binaries with pulsar timing arrays: Resolvable source strategies
S. R. Taylor, E. A. Huerta, J. R. Gair +1
The couplings between supermassive black-hole binaries and their environments within galactic nuclei have been well studied as part of the search for solutions to the final parsec…
Detection of eccentric supermassive black hole binaries with pulsar timing arrays: Signal-to-noise ratio calculations
E. A. Huerta, Sean T. McWilliams, Jonathan R. Gair +1
We present a detailed analysis of the expected signal-to-noise ratios of supermassive black hole binaries on eccentric orbits observed by pulsar timing arrays. We derive several an…