We present the IMRPhenomXE frequency-domain phenomenological waveform model for the dominant mode of inspiral-merger-ringdown non-precessing binary black holes in elliptical orbits. IMRPhenomXE extends the quasi-circular IMRPhenomXAS waveform model for the dominant $(\ell, |m|) =$ (2,2) modes to eccentric binaries. For the inspiral part, orbit-averaged equations of motion within the quasi-Keplerian parametrization up to third post-Newtonian order, including spin effects, are evolved, and the waveform modes are computed using the stationary phase approximation on eccentricity expanded expressions up to $\mathcal{O}(e^{12})$. The model assumes circularization at merger-ringdown, where it adopts the underlying quasicircular IMRPhenomXAS baseline. We show that IMRPhenomXE reduces to the accurate IMPhenomXAS model in the quasi-circular limit. Compared against 186 public numerical relativity waveforms from the Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes catalog with initial eccentricities up to $~0.8$, IMRPhenomXE provides values of unfaithfulness below $3\%$ for $72\%$ of simulations with initial eccentricities below 0.4. For larger eccentricities, the unfaithfulness degrades up to $\gtrsim 10\%$ due to the underlying small eccentricity expansions and additional modelling approximations. In terms of speed, IMRPhenomXE outperforms any of the existing inspiral-merger-ringdown eccentric waveform models. We demonstrate the efficiency, robustness, and modularity of IMRPhenomXE through injections into zero noise and parameter-estimation analyses of gravitational-wave events, showing that IMRPhenomXE is a ready-to-use waveform model for gravitational-wave astronomy in the era of rapidly growing event catalogs.
Effective-one-body (EOB) numerical-relativity (NR) waveform models for spin-aligned binary black holes (BBHs), known as the SEOBNR waveform models, are based on the EOB theoretical framework and NR simulations. SEOBNR models have played an important role in the LIGO scientific collaboration (LSC) gravitational wave (GW) data analysis for both signal search and parameter estimation. SEOBNR models for quasi-circular orbits have evolved through version 1 to version 4 by extending their validity domain and including more NR results. Along another direction, we recently extended SEOBNRv1 model to S…
While most binary inspirals are expected to have circularized before they enter the LIGO/Virgo frequency band, a small fraction of those binaries could have non-negligible orbital eccentricity depending on their formation channel. Hence, it is important to accurately model eccentricity effects in waveform models used to detect those binaries, infer their properties, and shed light on their astrophysical environment. We develop a multipolar effective-one-body (EOB) eccentric waveform model for compact binaries whose components have spins aligned or anti-aligned with the orbital angular momentum…
Motion and gravitational wave forms of eccentric compact binaries with orbital-angular-momentum-aligned spins under next-to-leading order in spin-orbit and leading order in spin(1)-spin(2) and spin-squared couplings
Biased parameter inference of eccentric, spin-precessing binary black holes
Cardiff University(卡迪夫大学);Indian Institute of Technology Madras(马德拉斯印度理工学院);Penn State University(宾夕法尼亚州立大学);Tata Institute of Fundamental Research(塔塔基础研究所)
A waveform model for the eccentric binary black holes named SEOBNRE has been used to analyze the LIGO-Virgo's gravitational wave data by several groups. The accuracy of this model has been validated by comparing it with numerical relativity. However, SEOBNRE is a time-domain model, and the efficiency for generating waveforms is a bottleneck in data analysis. To overcome this disadvantage, we offer a reduced-order surrogate model for eccentric binary black holes based on the SEOBNRE waveforms. This surrogate model (SEOBNRE\_S) can simulate the complete inspiral-merger-ringdown waves with enough…
Time-domain phenomenological multipolar waveforms for aligned-spin binary black holes in elliptical orbits
Universitat de les Illes Balears(巴利阿里群岛大学);Universität Zürich(苏黎世大学);Max Plank Institut für Gravitationsphysik (Albert Einstein Institut)(马克斯·普朗克引力物理学研究所(爱因斯坦研究所));Institut de Ciències de l’Espai (ICE, CSIC)(空间科学研究所(欧洲空间信息中心,西班牙高等科学研究委员会));Dutch National Institute for Subatomic Physics (Nikhef)(荷兰国家亚原子物理研究所(尼赫夫))
Building upon recent work, we present an improved effective-one-body (EOB) model for spin-aligned, coalescing, black hole binaries with generic orbital configurations, i.e. quasi-circular, eccentric or hyperbolic orbits. The model relies on the idea of incorporating general Newtonian prefactors, instead of the usual quasi-circular ones, in both radiation reaction and waveform. The major advance with respect to previous work is that the quasi-circular limit of the model is now correctly informed by numerical relativity (NR) quasi-circular simulation. This provides EOB/NR unfaithfulness for the …
Universal phenomenological relations between spherical harmonic modes in non-precessing eccentric binary black hole merger waveforms
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California Santa Barbara(加州大学圣塔芭芭拉分校卡弗里理论物理研究所);Theoretical AstroPhysics Including Relativity and Cosmology, California Institute of Technology(加州理工学院理论天体物理学(含相对论与宇宙学)部门);Department of Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara(加州大学圣塔芭芭拉分校物理系);International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research(印度塔塔基础研究院国际理论科学中心)
We present a new effective-one-body (EOB) model for eccentric binary coalescences. The model stems from the state-of-the-art model TEOBResumS$\_$SM for circularized coalescing black-hole binaries, that is modified to explicitly incorporate eccentricity effects both in the radiation reaction and in the waveform. Using Regge-Wheeler-Zerilli type calculations of the gravitational wave losses as benchmarks, we find that a rather accurate ($\sim 1\%$) expression for the radiation reaction along mildly eccentric orbits ($e \sim 0.3$) is given by dressing the current, EOB-resummed, circularized angul…
Unified remnant models for aligned-spin, precessing, and eccentric binary black hole mergers
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California Santa Barbara(加州大学圣塔芭芭拉分校卡弗里理论物理研究所);Weinberg Institute, University of Texas at Austin(德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校温伯格研究所);Department of Physics and Institute for AI & Computational Research, University of Rhode Island(罗德岛大学物理与人工智能及计算研究院);Department of Physics and Center for Scientific Computing & Data Science Research, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth(马萨诸塞大学达特茅斯分校物理与科学计算及数据科学研究中心)
Parameter estimation for the GWTC-4.0 catalog with phenomenological waveform models that include orbital eccentricity and an updated description of spin precession
Universitat de les Illes Balears(巴利阿里群岛大学);Institut de Ciències de l’Espai (ICE, CSIC)(空间科学研究所)
The origin and formation of stellar-mass binary black holes remains an open question that can be addressed by precise measurements of the binary and orbital parameters from their gravitational-wave signal. Such binaries are expected to circularize due to the emission of gravitational waves as they approach merger. However, depending on their formation channel, some binaries could have a non-negligible eccentricity when entering the frequency band of current gravitational-wave detectors. In order to measure eccentricity in an observed gravitational-wave signal, accurate waveform models that des…
Eccentric or circular? A reanalysis of binary black hole gravitational wave events for orbital eccentricity signatures
Universitat de les Illes Balears(巴利阿里群岛大学);Universität Zürich(苏黎世大学);Max Planck Institut für Gravitationsphysik (Albert Einstein Institut)(马克斯·普朗克引力物理研究所(爱因斯坦研究所));Institut de Ciències de l’Espai (ICE, CSIC)(空间科学研究所(加泰罗尼亚高等研究理事会));Dutch National Institute for Subatomic Physics (Nikhef)(荷兰亚原子物理国家研究所)
ESIGMAHM: An Eccentric, Spinning inspiral-merger-ringdown waveform model with Higher Modes for the detection and characterization of binary black holes
Analysis of late-time tails in spin-aligned eccentric binary black hole mergers
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California Santa Barbara(加州大学圣塔芭芭拉分校卡弗里理论物理研究所);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));Department of Physics and Institute for AI & Computational Research, University of Rhode Island(罗德岛大学物理系与人工智能及计算研究所);Department of Physics and Center for Scientific Computing & Data Science Research, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth(马萨诸塞大学达特茅斯分校物理系与科学计算及数据科学研究中心)
Gravitational waves from binary black hole mergers have allowed us to directly observe stellar-mass black hole binaries for the first time, and therefore explore their formation channels. One of the ways to infer how a binary system is assembled is by measuring the system's orbital eccentricity. Current methods of parameter estimation do not include all physical effects of eccentric systems such as spin-induced precession, higher-order modes, and the initial argument of periapsis: an angle describing the orientation of the orbital ellipse. We explore how varying the argument of periapsis chang…
A universal framework to identify eccentric binary mergers: GW200105 case study
Princeton University(普林斯顿大学);Monash University(蒙纳士大学);OzGrav: The ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery(引力波发现ARC卓越中心);Cardiff University(卡迪夫大学);University of Portsmouth(朴茨茅斯大学);Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics(马克斯·普朗克天体物理学研究所)
Spin precession effects in the phasing formula of eccentric compact binary inspirals up to the second post-Newtonian order
Indian Institute of Technology Madras(印度马德拉斯理工学院);Centre for Strings, Gravitation and Cosmology, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras(印度马德拉斯理工学院物理系弦、引力和宇宙学中心);Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), Northwestern University(西北大学天体物理学交叉探索与研究中心)
NRHJSur3dq8: a spectral numerical-relativity surrogate family for non-eccentric aligned-spin binary-black-hole waveforms
Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos, The Pennsylvania State University(宇宙与引力研究所,宾夕法尼亚州立大学);Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University(物理系,宾夕法尼亚州立大学)
Building upon several recent advances in the development of effective-one-body models for spin-aligned eccentric binaries with individual masses $(m_1,m_2)$ we introduce a new EOB waveform model that aims at describing inspiralling binaries in the large mass-ratio regime, $m_1\gg m_2$. The model exploits the current state-of-the-art TEOBResumS-Dali model for eccentric binaries, but the standard EOB potentials $(A,\bar{D},Q)$, informed by Numerical Relativity (NR) simulations, are replaced with the corresponding functions that are linear in the symmetric mass ratio $ν\equiv m_1 m_2/(m_1+m_2)^2$…
Merger remnant and eccentricity dynamics surrogates for eccentric nonspinning black hole binaries
University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth(麻省大学达特茅斯分校);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));Cornell University(康奈尔大学);University of California Santa Barbara(加州大学圣塔芭芭拉分校);California State University Fullerton(加州州立大学富勒顿分校);Northwestern University(西北大学)
We present a new approach to factorize and resum the post-Newtonian (PN) waveform for generic equatorial motion to be used within effective-one-body (EOB) based waveform models. The new multipolar waveform factorization improves previous prescriptions in that: (i) the generic Newtonian contribution is factored out from each multipole; (ii) the circular part is factored out and resummed using standard EOB methods and (iii) the residual, 2PN-accurate, noncircular part, and in particular the tail contribution, is additionally resummed using Padé approximants. The resulting waveform is validated i…
Compact binary systems with black holes are the primary sources of interferometric advanced gravitational wave detectors. Astrophysical models suggest finite possibility of binary systems with appreciable non-zero eccentricity in the dense stellar environment like globular clusters and galactic nuclei. While most of the compact binary measurements have not shown appreciable eccentricity, constrains on the eccentricity have been placed on few detected events. With increasing sensitivity of the gravitational wave detectors, the eccentric binaries are plausible sources in the gravitational wave w…
In the first Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalogue of LIGO and Virgo, all events are announced having zero eccentricity. In the present paper, we investigate the performance of SEOBNRE which is a spin-aligned eccentric waveform model in time-domain. By comparing with all the eccentric waveforms in SXS library, we find that the SEOBNRE coincides perfectly with numerical relativity data. Employing the SEOBNRE, we re-estimate the eccentricities of all black hole merger events. We find that most of these events allow a possibility for existence of initial eccentricities at 10 Hz band, but are tot…
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)
Joint inference of line-of-sight acceleration and orbital eccentricity in neutron-star--black-hole binaries
University of Nottingham(诺丁汉大学);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));University of Maryland, College Park(马里兰大学帕克分校)
We integrate the third and a half post-Newtonian equations of motion for a fully generic binary black hole system, allowing both for non-circular orbits, and for one or both of the black holes to spin, in any orientation. Using the second post-Newtonian order expression beyond the leading order quadrupole formula, we study the gravitational waveforms produced from such systems. Our results are validated by comparing to Taylor T4 in the aligned-spin circular cases, and the additional effects and modulations introduced by the eccentricity and the spins are analyzed. We use the framework to evalu…
A parametrized test of general relativity for inspiralling eccentric binaries in LISA
Niels Bohr International Academy, The Niels Bohr Institute(尼尔斯·玻尔国际学院,尼尔斯·玻尔研究所);Center of Gravity, Niels Bohr Institute(引力中心,尼尔斯·玻尔研究所);Univ Toulouse, CNRS, L2IT(图卢兹大学,法国国家科学研究中心,L2IT);Institut für Physik und Astronomie, Universität Potsdam(波茨坦大学物理与天文学研究所)
We analyze a new numerical relativity dataset of spinning but nonprecessing binary black holes on eccentric orbits, with eccentricities from approximately $0.1$ to $0.5$, with dimensionless spins up to $0.75$ included at mass ratios $q=m_1/m_2 = (1, 2)$, and further nonspinning binaries at mass ratios $q = (1.5, 3, 4)$. A comparison of the final mass and spin of these simulations with noneccentric data extends previous results in the literature on circularization of eccentric binaries to the spinning case. For the $(l,m)=(2,2)$ spin-weighted spherical harmonic mode we construct eccentric hybri…
We present simple procedures to construct quasi-circular initial data for numerical evolutions of binary black hole spacetimes. Our method consists of using Post-Newtonian theory in three ways: first to provide an initial guess for the initial momenta at 3.5PN order that implies low residual eccentricity, second to measure the resulting eccentricity, and third to calculate corrections to the momenta or initial separation which further reduce the eccentricity. Regarding the initial guess, we compare numerical evolutions in post-Newtonian theory to the post-circular and post-post-circular analyt…
We study the spin and eccentricity evolution of black-hole (BH) binaries that are perturbed by tertiary masses and experience the Lidov-Kozai (LK) excitation. We focus on three aspects. Firstly, we study the spin-orbit alignment of the inner binary following the approach outlined by Antonini et al. [MNRAS 480, L58 (2018)] and Liu and Lai [ApJ 863, 68 (2018)], yet allowing the spins to have random initial orientations. We confirm the existence of a dynamical attractor that drives the spin-orbit angle at the end of the LK evolution to a value given by the initial angle between the spin and the o…
Modeling the merger-ringdown of an eccentric test-mass inspiral into a Kerr black hole using the effective-one-body framework
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);Niels Bohr Institute(尼尔斯·玻尔研究所);University of Rhode Island(罗德岛大学);University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth(马萨诸塞大学达特茅斯分校)
Although the gravitational waves observed by advanced LIGO and Virgo are consistent with compact binaries in a quasi-circular inspiral prior to coalescence, eccentric inspirals are also expected to occur in Nature. Due to their complexity, we currently lack ready-to-use, analytic waveforms in the Fourier domain valid for sufficiently high eccentricity, and such models are crucial to coherently extract weak signals from the noise. We here take the first steps to derive and properly validate an analytic waveform model in the Fourier domain that is valid for inspirals of arbitrary orbital eccentr…
While current gravitational wave observations with ground based detectors have been consistent with compact binaries in quasi-circular orbits, eccentric binaries may be detectable by ground-based and space-based instruments in the near future. Eccentricity significantly complicates the gravitational wave signal, and we currently lack fast and accurate models that are valid in the moderate to large eccentricity range. In a previous paper, we built a Fourier domain, eccentric waveform model at leading order in the post-Newtonian approximation, i.e. as an expansion in small velocities and weak fi…
Testing compact binary nature in eccentric orbits with third-generation detectors
Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences(波兰科学院核物理研究所);Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras(马德拉斯理工学院物理系);Nikhef(尼赫夫国家粒子物理研究所)
Distinguishing the Origin of Eccentric Black Hole Mergers with Gravitational-wave Spin Measurements
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics(马克斯·普朗克天体物理研究所);Dipartimento di Fisica “G. Occhialini”, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca(米兰比可卡大学 G. Occhialini 物理系);INFN, Sezione di Milano-Bicocca(意大利国家核物理学会米兰比可卡分部);Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge(剑桥大学应用数学与理论物理系);Kavli Institute for Cosmology Cambridge(剑桥卡弗里宇宙学研究所);Shanghai Astronomical Observatory(上海天文台);Niels Bohr International Academy, The Niels Bohr Institute(尼尔斯·玻尔国际学院,尼尔斯·玻尔研究所)
We explore the performance of an updated effective-one-body (EOB) model for spin-aligned coalescing black hole binaries designed to deal with any orbital configuration. The model stems from previous work involving the \TEOBResumS{} waveform model, but incorporates recently computed analytical information up to fifth post-Newtonian (PN) order in the EOB potentials. The dynamics is then informed by Numerical Relativity (NR) quasi-circular simulations (incorporating also recently computed 4PN spin-spin and, optionally, 4.5PN spin-orbit terms). The so-constructed model(s) are then compared to vari…