Accuracy of binary black hole waveform models for aligned-spin binaries

Prayush Kumar, Tony Chu, Heather Fong, 3 Harald P. Pfeiffer, 4, 5 Michael Boyle, Daniel A. Hemberger, Lawrence E. Kidder, Mark A. Scheel, and Bela Szilagyi 8 Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, 60 St. George Street, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3H8, Canada Department of Physics, Princeton University, Jadwin Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA Department of Physics, University of Toronto, 60 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3H8, Canada Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, 180 Dundas St. West, Toronto, ON M5G 1Z8, Canada Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA Theoretical Astrophysics 350-17, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA (Dated: February 1, 2016)