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gr-qc2026

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…

gr-qc2026

Joint inference of line-of-sight acceleration and orbital eccentricity in neutron-star--black-hole binaries

Lorenzo Pompili, Aldo Gamboa, Alessandra Buonanno

A line-of-sight acceleration (LOSA) of a compact-binary center of mass, imparted for example by a nearby tertiary perturber, imprints a Doppler modulation on the gravitational-wave…

gr-qc2026

Eccentric and unbound compact binaries in the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA catalog: parameter estimation and waveform systematics with SEOBNRv6EHM

Lorenzo Pompili, Aldo Gamboa, Alessandra Buonanno

Orbital eccentricity encodes key information about compact-binary formation channels and astrophysical environments, making it a critical target for gravitational-wave (GW) inferen…

gr-qc2026

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,…

gr-qc2026

Plunge-Merger-Ringdown Tests of General Relativity with GW250114

Leonardo Grimaldi, Elisa Maggio, Lorenzo Pompili +1

The binary black hole signal GW250114, the clearest gravitational wave detected to date, offers a unique opportunity to test general relativity in the relativistic strong-gravity r…

gr-qc2025★ 15 cited

Adding equatorial-asymmetric effects for spin-precessing binaries into the SEOBNRv5PHM waveform model

Héctor Estellés, Alessandra Buonanno, Raffi Enficiaud +2

Gravitational waves from spin-precessing binaries exhibit equatorial asymmetries absent in non-precessing systems, leading to net linear momentum emission and contributing to the r…

gr-qc2025★ 3 cited

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…

gr-qc2025★ 15 cited

Parametrized spin-precessing inspiral-merger-ringdown waveform model for tests of general relativity

Lorenzo Pompili, Elisa Maggio, Hector O. Silva +1

The coalescence of binary black holes (BBHs) provides a unique arena to test general relativity (GR) in the dynamical, strong-field regime. To this end, we present pSEOBNRv5PHM, a…

gr-qc2025★ 97 cited

The Science of the Einstein Telescope

Adrian Abac, Raul Abramo, Simone Albanesi +485

Einstein Telescope (ET) is the European project for a gravitational-wave (GW) observatory of third-generation. In this paper we present a comprehensive discussion of its science ob…

gr-qc2025★ 18 cited

Impact of eccentricity and mean anomaly in numerical relativity mergers

Peter James Nee, Aldo Gamboa, Harald P. Pfeiffer +8

Accurate modelling of black hole binaries is critical to achieve the science goals of gravitational-wave detectors. Modelling such configurations relies strongly on calibration to…

gr-qc2024★ 57 cited

Accurate waveforms for eccentric, aligned-spin binary black holes: The multipolar effective-one-body model SEOBNRv5EHM

Aldo Gamboa, Alessandra Buonanno, Raffi Enficiaud +9

The measurement of orbital eccentricity in gravitational-wave (GW) signals will provide unique insights into the astrophysical origin of binary systems, while ignoring eccentricity…

gr-qc2024★ 11 cited

Accounting for numerical-relativity calibration uncertainty in gravitational-wave modeling and inference

Lorenzo Pompili, Alessandra Buonanno, Michael Pürrer

The increasing sensitivity of current and upcoming gravitational-wave (GW) detectors poses stringent requirements on the accuracy of the GW models used for data analysis. If these…

gr-qc2024★ 37 cited

Inspiral-merger-ringdown waveforms in Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity within the effective-one-body formalism

Félix-Louis Julié, Lorenzo Pompili, Alessandra Buonanno

Gravitational waves (GWs) provide a unique opportunity to test General Relativity (GR) in the highly dynamical, strong-field regime. So far, the majority of the tests of GR with GW…

gr-qc2024

Post-Minkowskian Theory Meets the Spinning Effective-One-Body Approach for Bound-Orbit Waveforms

Alessandra Buonanno, Gustav Mogull, Raj Patil +1

Driven by advances in scattering amplitudes and worldline-based methods, recent years have seen significant progress in our ability to calculate gravitational two-body scattering o…

gr-qc2024★ 56 cited

Possible Causes of False General Relativity Violations in Gravitational Wave Observations

Anuradha Gupta, K. G. Arun, Enrico Barausse +40

General relativity (GR) has proven to be a highly successful theory of gravity since its inception. The theory has thrivingly passed numerous experimental tests, predominantly in w…

gr-qc2024★ 32 cited

Systematic Biases in Estimating the Properties of Black Holes Due to Inaccurate Gravitational-Wave Models

Arnab Dhani, Sebastian H. Völkel, Alessandra Buonanno +5

Gravitational-wave (GW) observations of binary black-hole (BBH) coalescences are expected to address outstanding questions in astrophysics, cosmology, and fundamental physics. Real…

gr-qc2023★ 48 cited

Waveform Modelling for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna

LISA Consortium Waveform Working Group, Niayesh Afshordi, Sarp Akçay +144

LISA, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, will usher in a new era in gravitational-wave astronomy. As the first anticipated space-based gravitational-wave detector, it will exp…

gr-qc2023★ 12 cited

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…

gr-qc2023★ 1 cited

Measuring source properties and quasi-normal-mode frequencies of heavy massive black-hole binaries with LISA

Alexandre Toubiana, Lorenzo Pompili, Alessandra Buonanno +2

The laser-interferometer space antenna (LISA) will be launched in the mid 2030s. It promises to observe the coalescence of massive black-hole (BH) binaries with signal-to-noise rat…

gr-qc2023★ 1 cited

pySEOBNR: a software package for the next generation of effective-one-body multipolar waveform models

Deyan P. Mihaylov, Serguei Ossokine, Alessandra Buonanno +4

We present pySEOBNR, a Python package for gravitational-wave (GW) modeling developed within the effective-one-body (EOB) formalism. The package contains an extensive framework to g…

gr-qc2023★ 2 cited

Theoretical groundwork supporting the precessing-spin two-body dynamics of the effective-one-body waveform models SEOBNRv5

Mohammed Khalil, Alessandra Buonanno, Héctor Estellés +4

Waveform models are essential for gravitational-wave (GW) detection and parameter estimation of coalescing compact-object binaries. More accurate models are required for the increa…

gr-qc2023★ 164 cited

SEOBNRv5PHM: Next generation of accurate and efficient multipolar precessing-spin effective-one-body waveforms for binary black holes

Antoni Ramos-Buades, Alessandra Buonanno, Héctor Estellés +5

Spin precession is one of the key physical effects that could unveil the origin of the compact binaries detected by ground- and space-based gravitational-wave (GW) detectors, and s…

gr-qc2023★ 159 cited

Laying the foundation of the effective-one-body waveform models SEOBNRv5: improved accuracy and efficiency for spinning non-precessing binary black holes

Lorenzo Pompili, Alessandra Buonanno, Héctor Estellés +21

We present SEOBNRv5HM, a more accurate and faster inspiral-merger-ringdown gravitational waveform model for quasi-circular, spinning, nonprecessing binary black holes within the ef…

gr-qc2023★ 82 cited

Enhancing the SEOBNRv5 effective-one-body waveform model with second-order gravitational self-force fluxes

Maarten van de Meent, Alessandra Buonanno, Deyan P. Mihaylov +7

We leverage recent breakthrough calculations using second-order gravitational self-force (2GSF) theory to improve both the gravitational-mode amplitudes and radiation-reaction forc…