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Improved effective-one-body description of coalescing nonspinning black-hole binaries and its numerical-relativity completion
Thibault Damour, Alessandro Nagar, Sebastiano Bernuzzi
We improve the effective-one-body (EOB) description of nonspinning coalescing black hole binaries by incorporating several recent analytical advances, notably: (i) logarithmic cont…
Critical phenomena at the threshold of immediate merger in binary black hole systems: the extreme mass ratio case
Carsten Gundlach, Sarp Akcay, Leor Barack +1
In numerical simulations of black hole binaries, Pretorius and Khurana [Class. Quant. Grav. {\bf 24}, S83 (2007)] have observed critical behaviour at the threshold between scatteri…
Horizon-absorption effects in coalescing black-hole binaries: An effective-one-body study of the non-spinning case
Sebastiano Bernuzzi, Alessandro Nagar, Anil Zenginoglu
We study the horizon absorption of gravitational waves in coalescing, circularized, nonspinning black hole binaries. The horizon absorbed fluxes of a binary with a large mass ratio…
Tidal effects in binary neutron star coalescence
Sebastiano Bernuzzi, Alessandro Nagar, Marcus Thierfelder +1
We compare dynamics and waveforms from binary neutron star coalescence as computed by new long-term ( orbits) numerical relativity simulations and by the tidal effective-…
Measurability of the tidal polarizability of neutron stars in late-inspiral gravitational-wave signals
Thibault Damour, Alessandro Nagar, Loic Villain
The gravitational wave signal from a binary neutron star inspiral contains information on the nuclear equation of state. This information is contained in a combination of the tidal…