Black hole perturbation theory and gravitational self-force

A Pound, B Wardell - Handbook of Gravitational Wave Astronomy, 2022 - Springer
Much of the success of gravitational-wave astronomy rests on perturbation theory.
Historically, perturbative analysis of gravitational-wave sources has largely focused on post …

GW190412: Observation of a binary-black-hole coalescence with asymmetric masses

R Abbott, TD Abbott, S Abraham, F Acernese, K Ackley… - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
We report the observation of gravitational waves from a binary-black-hole coalescence
during the first two weeks of LIGO's and Virgo's third observing run. The signal was recorded …

Next generation of accurate and efficient multipolar precessing-spin effective-one-body waveforms for binary black holes

A Ramos-Buades, A Buonanno, H Estellés, M Khalil… - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Spin precession is one of the key physical effects that coul unveil the origin of the compact
binaries detected by ground-and space-based gravitational-wave (GW) detectors, and shed …

Gravitational waveforms for compact binaries from second-order self-force theory

B Wardell, A Pound, N Warburton, J Miller, L Durkan… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We produce gravitational waveforms for nonspinning compact binaries undergoing a
quasicircular inspiral. Our approach is based on a two-timescale expansion of the Einstein …

Laying the foundation of the effective-one-body waveform models SEOBNRv5: Improved accuracy and efficiency for spinning nonprecessing binary black holes

L Pompili, A Buonanno, H Estellés, M Khalil… - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We present SEOBNRv5HM, a more accurate and faster inspiral-merger-ringdown
gravitational waveform model for quasicircular, spinning, nonprecessing binary black holes …

Fast extreme-mass-ratio-inspiral waveforms: New tools for millihertz gravitational-wave data analysis

ML Katz, AJK Chua, L Speri, N Warburton, SA Hughes - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
We present the fastemriwaveforms (FEW) package, a collection of tools to build and analyze
extreme mass ratio inspiral (EMRI) waveforms. Here, we expand on [AJK Chua, Phys. Rev …

Gravitational-wave energy flux for compact binaries through second order in the mass ratio

N Warburton, A Pound, B Wardell, J Miller, L Durkan - Physical review letters, 2021 - APS
Within the framework of self-force theory, we compute the gravitational-wave energy flux
through second order in the mass ratio for compact binaries in quasicircular orbits. Our …

Rapid generation of fully relativistic extreme-mass-ratio-inspiral waveform templates for LISA data analysis

AJK Chua, ML Katz, N Warburton, SA Hughes - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
The future space mission LISA will observe a wealth of gravitational-wave sources at
millihertz frequencies. Of these, the extreme-mass-ratio inspirals of compact objects into …

Second-order Teukolsky formalism in Kerr spacetime: Formulation and nonlinear source

A Spiers, A Pound, J Moxon - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
To fully exploit the capabilities of next-generation gravitational wave detectors, we need to
significantly improve the accuracy of our models of gravitational-wave-emitting systems. This …

Post-Newtonian templates for gravitational waves from compact binary inspirals

S Isoyama, R Sturani, H Nakano - Handbook of Gravitational Wave …, 2020 - Springer
To enable detection and maximize the physics output of gravitational wave observations
from compact binary systems, the availability of accurate waveform models is crucial. The …