5 papers
Cusp Formation in Merging Black Hole Horizons
Shilpa Kastha, Stamatis Vretinaris, Daniel Pook-Kolb +1
An important question in binary black hole mergers is to connect properties of the remnant black hole to those of the two initial black holes. These properties include not only the…
A gating-and-inpainting perspective on GW150914 ringdown overtone: understanding the data analysis systematics
Yi-Fan Wang, Collin D. Capano, Jahed Abedi +5
We revisit the recent debate on the evidence for an overtone in the black hole ringdown of GW150914 using an independent data-analysis pipeline. By gating and inpainting the data,…
Multiparameter multipolar test of general relativity with gravitational waves
Parthapratim Mahapatra, Shilpa Kastha, Anuradha Gupta +2
Amplitude and phase of the gravitational waveform from compact binary systems can be decomposed in terms of their mass- and current-type multipole moments. In a modified theory of…
Parametrized multipolar gravitational waveforms for testing general relativity: Amplitude corrections up to 2PN order
Parthapratim Mahapatra, Shilpa Kastha
A parametrized multipolar gravitational wave phasing within multipolar post-Minkowskian and post-Newtonian formalism was developed in earlier works [S. Kastha et al., PRD 98, 12403…
Estimating False Alarm Rates of Sub-Dominant Quasi-normal Modes in GW190521
Collin D. Capano, Jahed Abedi, Shilpa Kastha +6
A major aim of gravitational wave astronomy is to test observationally the Kerr nature of black holes. The strongest such test, with minimal additional assumptions, is provided by…