Inspiral-merger-ringdown multipolar waveforms of nonspinning black-hole binaries using the effective-one-body formalism

Yi Pan, Alessandra Buonanno, Michael Boyle, Luisa T. Buchman, Lawrence E. Kidder, Harald P. Pfeiffer, and Mark A. Scheel Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics & Joint Space-Science Institute, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA Center for Radiophysics and Space Research, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA Theoretical Astrophysics 130-33, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, 60 St. George Street, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H8, Canada (Received 22 June 2011; published 27 December 2011)