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most citedEffective-one-body model for black-hole binaries with generic mass ratios and spins

468 citations · 2.2k across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

gr-qc2013★ 32 cited

Stability of nonspinning effective-one-body model in approximating two-body dynamics and gravitational-wave emission

Yi Pan, Alessandra Buonanno, Andrea Taracchini +7

The detection of gravitational waves and the extraction of physical information from them requires the prediction of accurate waveforms to be used in template banks. For that purpo…

gr-qc2013★ 468 cited

Effective-one-body model for black-hole binaries with generic mass ratios and spins

Andrea Taracchini, Alessandra Buonanno, Yi Pan +11

Gravitational waves emitted by black-hole binary systems have the highest signal-to-noise ratio in LIGO and Virgo detectors when black-hole spins are aligned with the orbital angul…

gr-qc2013★ 21 cited

Template Banks for Binary black hole searches with Numerical Relativity waveforms

Prayush Kumar, Ilana MacDonald, Duncan A. Brown +8

Gravitational waves (GW) from coalescing stellar-mass black hole binaries (BBH) are expected to be detected by the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory and…

gr-qc2013★ 79 cited

First direct comparison of non-disrupting neutron star-black hole and binary black hole merger simulations

Francois Foucart, Luisa Buchman, Matthew D. Duez +7

We present the first direct comparison of numerical simulations of neutron star-black hole and black hole-black hole mergers in full general relativity. We focus on a configuration…

gr-qc2013★ 367 cited

Inspiral-merger-ringdown waveforms of spinning, precessing black-hole binaries in the effective-one-body formalism

Yi Pan, Alessandra Buonanno, Andrea Taracchini +5

We describe a general procedure to generate spinning, precessing waveforms that include inspiral, merger and ringdown stages in the effective-one-body (EOB) approach. The procedure…

gr-qc2013★ 420 cited

A catalog of 174 binary black-hole simulations for gravitational-wave astronomy

Abdul H. Mroue, Mark A. Scheel, Bela Szilagyi +14

This paper presents a publicly available catalog of 174 numerical binary black-hole simulations following up to 35 orbits. The catalog includes 91 precessing binaries, mass ratios…

gr-qc2012★ 46 cited

Suitability of hybrid gravitational waveforms for unequal-mass binaries

Ilana MacDonald, Abdul H. Mroue, Harald P. Pfeiffer +5

This article studies sufficient accuracy criteria of hybrid post-Newtonian (PN) and numerical relativity (NR) waveforms for parameter estimation of strong binary black-hole sources…

gr-qc2011★ 160 cited

Periastron Advance in Black-Hole Binaries

Alexandre Le Tiec, Abdul H. Mroué, Leor Barack +4

The general relativistic (Mercury-type) periastron advance is calculated here for the first time with exquisite precision in full general relativity. We use accurate numerical rela…

gr-qc2010★ 39 cited

Discontinuous Galerkin method for the spherically reduced BSSN system with second-order operators

Scott E. Field, Jan S. Hesthaven, Stephen R. Lau +1

We present a high-order accurate discontinuous Galerkin method for evolving the spherically-reduced Baumgarte-Shapiro-Shibata-Nakamura (BSSN) system expressed in terms of second-or…

gr-qc2008★ 156 cited

High-accuracy numerical simulation of black-hole binaries: Computation of the gravitational-wave energy flux and comparisons with post-Newtonian approximants

Michael Boyle, Alessandra Buonanno, Lawrence E. Kidder +4

Expressions for the gravitational wave (GW) energy flux and center-of-mass energy of a compact binary are integral building blocks of post-Newtonian (PN) waveforms. In this paper,…

gr-qc2007★ 394 cited

High-accuracy comparison of numerical relativity simulations with post-Newtonian expansions

Michael Boyle, Duncan A. Brown, Lawrence E. Kidder +5

Numerical simulations of 15 orbits of an equal-mass binary black hole system are presented. Gravitational waveforms from these simulations, covering more than 30 cycles and ending…