Setting the cornerstone for the IMRPhenomX family of models for gravitational waves from compact binaries: The dominant harmonic for non-precessing quasi-circular black holes
Geraint Pratten, Sascha Husa, Cecilio Garcia-Quiros, Marta Colleoni, Antoni Ramos-Buades, Hector Estelles, Rafel Jaume
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29 pages. 20 figures. Comments and feedback welcome! This paper corresponds to LIGO DCC P2000018
In this paper we present IMRPhenomXAS, a thorough overhaul of the IMRPhenomD [1,2] waveform model, which describes the dominant $l=2, \:| m | = 2$ spherical harmonic mode of non-precessing coalescing black holes in terms of piecewise closed form expressions in the frequency domain. Improvements include in particular the accurate treatment of unequal spin effects, and the inclusion of extreme mass ratio waveforms. IMRPhenomD has previously been extended to approximately include spin precession [3] and subdominant spherical harmonics [4], and with its extensions it has become a standard tool in gravitational wave parameter estimation. Improved extensions of IMRPhenomXAS are discussed in companion papers [5,6].
We present the IMRPhenomXHM frequency domain phenomenological waveform model for the inspiral, merger and ringdown of quasi-circular non-precessing black hole binaries. The model extends the IMRPhenomXAS waveform model, which describes the dominant quadrupole modes $\ell = |m| = 2$, to the harmonics $(\ell, |m|)=(2,1), (3,3), (3,2), (4,4)$, and includes mode mixing effects for the $(3,2)$ spherical harmonic. IMRPhenomXHM is calibrated against hybrid waveforms, which match an inspiral phase described by the effective-one-body model and post-Newtonian amplitudes for the subdominant harmonics to …
We present IMRPhenomXPHM, a phenomenological frequency-domain model for the gravitational-wave signal emitted by quasi-circular precessing binary black holes, which incorporates multipoles beyond the dominant quadrupole in the precessing frame. The model is a precessing extension of IMRPhenomXHM (García-Quirós 2020), based on approximate maps between aligned-spin waveform modes in the co-precessing frame and precessing waveform modes in the inertial frame, which is commonly referred to as "twisting up" the non-precessing waveforms. IMRPhenomXPHM includes IMRPhenomXP as a special case, the rest…
The recent observation of GW190412, the first high-mass ratio binary black-hole (BBH) merger, by the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration (LVC) provides a unique opportunity to probe the impact of subdominant harmonics and precession effects encoded in a gravitational wave signal. We present refined estimates of source parameters for GW190412 using \texttt{NRSur7dq4}, a recently developed numerical relativity waveform surrogate model that includes all $\ell \leq 4$ spin-weighted spherical harmonic modes as well as the full physical effects of precession. We compare our results with two different variants …
Improved parametrized test of general relativity using the IMRPhenomX waveform family: Including higher harmonics and precession
Université Catholique de Louvain（天主教鲁汶大学）；Royal Observatory of Belgium（比利时皇家天文台）；Nikhef – National Institute for Subatomic Physics（荷兰国家亚原子物理研究所）；Utrecht University（乌得勒支大学）；University of Birmingham（伯明翰大学）
In this work we present IMRPhenomTP, a time domain phenomenological model for the dominant $l=2$, $m=|2|$ modes of coalescing black hole binary systems and its extension to describe general precessing systems within the "twisting up" approximation. The underlying non-precessing model is calibrated to the new release of Numerical Relativity simulations of the SXS Collaboration and its accuracy is comparable to the state-of-the-art non-precessing dominant mode models as IMRPhenomX and SEOBNRv4. The precessing extension allows for flexibility choosing the Euler angles of the time-dependent rotati…
In this work we present an extension of the time domain phenomenological model IMRPhenomT for gravitational wave signals from binary black hole coalescences to include subdominant harmonics, specifically the $(l=2, m=\pm 1)$, $(l=3, m=\pm 3)$, $(l=4, m=\pm 4)$ and $(l=5, m=\pm 5)$ spherical harmonics. We also improve our model for the dominant $(l=2, m=\pm 2)$ mode and discuss mode mixing for the $(l=3, m=\pm 2)$ mode. The model is calibrated to numerical relativity solutions of the full Einstein equations up to mass ratio 18, and to numerical solutions of the Teukolsky equations for higher ma…
We consider the ten confidently detected gravitational-wave signals in the GWTC-1 catalog which are consistent with mergers of binary black hole systems, and perform a thorough parameter estimation re-analysis. This is made possible by using computationally efficient waveform models of the current (fourth) generation of the IMRPhenom family of phenomenological waveform models, which consists of the IMRPhenomX frequency-domain modelsand the IMRPhenomT time-domain models. The analysis is performed with both precessing and non-precessing waveform models with and without subdominant spherical harm…
Adding equatorial-asymmetric effects for spin-precessing binaries into the SEOBNRv5PHM waveform model
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)（马克斯·普朗克引力物理研究所（阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦研究所））；Department of Physics, University of Maryland（马里兰大学物理系）
SEOBNRv5PHM: Next generation of accurate and efficient multipolar precessing-spin effective-one-body waveforms for binary black holes
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)（马克斯·普朗克引力物理研究所（爱因斯坦研究所））；University of Maryland（马里兰大学）；Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics（理论物理前沿研究所）
Fast gravitational waveform models for quasi-circular coalescences of neutron star--black hole binaries
Universitat de les Illes Balears（巴利阿里群岛大学）；Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)（马克斯·普朗克引力物理研究所（爱因斯坦研究所））；Universität Potsdam（波茨坦大学）；CNRS/IN2P3, Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC) UMR6534（法国国家科学研究中心/法国国家核与粒子物理研究所，核物理实验室）；University of Canterbury（坎特伯雷大学）
The Cost of Circularity: Quantifying Eccentricity-Induced Biases in Binary Black Hole Inference
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee（威斯康星大学密尔沃基分校）；The Pennsylvania State University（宾夕法尼亚州立大学）；University of California, Berkeley（加州大学伯克利分校）；University of Florida（佛罗里达大学）
Analysis of GWTC-3 with fully precessing numerical relativity surrogate models
University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth（达特茅斯马萨诸塞大学）；The University of Auckland（奥克兰大学）；OzGrav: The ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery（引力波发现ARC卓越中心）；University of Nevada, Las Vegas（内华达大学拉斯维加斯分校）；Nevada Center for Astrophysics（内华达天体物理学中心）；LIGO Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology（麻省理工学院LIGO实验室）；Massachusetts Institute of Technology（麻省理工学院）；Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)（马克斯·普朗克引力物理学研究所（爱因斯坦研究所））
The next generation of gravitational-wave observatories will reach low frequency limits on the orders of a few Hz, thus enabling the detection of gravitational wave signals of very long duration. The run time of standard parameter estimation techniques with these long waveforms can be months or even years, making it impractical with existing Bayesian inference pipelines. Reduced order modeling and reduced order quadrature integration rule have recently been exploited as promising techniques that can greatly reduce parameter estimation computational costs. We describe a Python-based reduced ord…
Modelling the end point of binary black hole mergers is a cornerstone of modern gravitational-wave astronomy. Extracting multiple quasinormal mode frequencies from the ringdown signal allows the remnant black hole to be studied in unprecedented detail. Previous studies on numerical relativity simulations of aligned-spin binaries have found that it is possible to start the ringdown analysis much earlier than previously thought if overtones (and possibly mirror modes) are included. This increases the signal-to-noise ratio in the ringdown making identification of subdominant modes easier. In this…
The anticipated enhancements in detector sensitivity and the corresponding increase in the number of gravitational wave detections will make it possible to estimate parameters of compact binaries with greater accuracy assuming general relativity(GR), and also to carry out sharper tests of GR itself. Crucial to these procedures are accurate gravitational waveform models. The systematic errors of the models must stay below statistical errors to prevent biases in parameter estimation and to carry out meaningful tests of GR. Comparisons of the models against numerical relativity (NR) waveforms pro…
Revisiting the Coprecessing Frame in the Presence of Orbital Eccentricity
California Institute of Technology（加州理工学院）；LIGO Laboratory, California Institute of Technology（LIGO实验室，加州理工学院）；Department of Physics & Astronomy, Amherst College（阿默斯特学院物理与天文系）；Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science, Cornell University（康奈尔大学天体物理学与行星科学中心）
