2 papers
astro-ph.HE2025
Observability of eccentricity in a population of merging compact binaries
Mukesh Kumar Singh, Ben G. Patterson, Stephen Fairhurst
We investigate the prospects of observing residual eccentricity in a population of compact binaries by calculating the power in the eccentric harmonics, following the methodology i…
gr-qc2024
Identifying Eccentricity in Binary Black Hole mergers using a Harmonic Decomposition of the Gravitational Waveform
Ben G. Patterson, Sharon Mary Tomson, Stephen Fairhurst
We show that the gravitational waveform emitted by a binary on an eccentric orbit can be naturally decomposed into a series of harmonics. The frequencies of these harmonics depend…