Improved gravitational waveforms from spinning black hole binaries

Periastron Advance in Spinning Black Hole Binaries: Gravitational Self-Force from Numerical Relativity

Alexandre Le Tiec,1 Alessandra Buonanno,1 Abdul H. Mroué,2 Harald P. Pfeiffer,2, 3 Daniel A. Hemberger,4, 5 Geoffrey Lovelace,6, 4 Lawrence E. Kidder,5 Mark A. Scheel,4 Bela Szilágyi,4 Nicholas W. Taylor,4 and Saul A. Teukolsky5 1Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics & Joint Space-Science Institute, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA 2Canadian Institute...

Modeling gravitational recoil from precessing highly-spinning unequal-mass black-hole binaries

Inspiral-merger-ringdown waveforms of spinning, precessing black-hole binaries in the effective-one-body formalism

Yi Pan, Alessandra Buonanno, Andrea Taracchini, Lawrence E. Kidder, Abdul H. Mroué, Harald P. Pfeiffer, 4 Mark A. Scheel, and Béla Szilágyi Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics & Joint Space-Science Institute, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA Center for Radiophysics and Space Research, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA Canadian Institut...

Gravitational Recoil from Spinning Binary Black Hole Mergers

The inspiral and merger of binary black holes will likely involve black holes with both unequal masses and arbitrary spins. The gravitational radiation emitted by these binaries will carry angular as well as linear momentum. A net flux of emitted linear momentum implies that the black hole produced by the merger will experience a recoil or kick. Previous studies have focused on the recoil veloc...

Gravitational Radiation from Black Hole Binaries in Globular Clusters

A populations of stellar mass black hole binaries may exist in globular clusters. The dynamics of globular cluster evolution imply that there may be at most one black hole binary is a globular cluster. The population of binaries are expected to have orbital periods greater than a few hours and to have a thermal distribution of eccentricities. In the LISA band, the gravitational wave signal from...