Accurate waveforms for eccentric, aligned-spin binary black holes: The multipolar effective-one-body model SEOBNRv5EHM

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Autori principali: Gamboa, Aldo, Buonanno, Alessandra, Enficiaud, Raffi, Khalil, Mohammed, Ramos-Buades, Antoni, Pompili, Lorenzo, Estellés, Héctor, Boyle, Michael, Kidder, Lawrence E., Pfeiffer, Harald P., Rüter, Hannes R., Scheel, Mark A.
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author Gamboa, Aldo
Buonanno, Alessandra
Enficiaud, Raffi
Khalil, Mohammed
Ramos-Buades, Antoni
Pompili, Lorenzo
Estellés, Héctor
Boyle, Michael
Kidder, Lawrence E.
Pfeiffer, Harald P.
Rüter, Hannes R.
Scheel, Mark A.
author_facet Gamboa, Aldo
Buonanno, Alessandra
Enficiaud, Raffi
Khalil, Mohammed
Ramos-Buades, Antoni
Pompili, Lorenzo
Estellés, Héctor
Boyle, Michael
Kidder, Lawrence E.
Pfeiffer, Harald P.
Rüter, Hannes R.
Scheel, Mark A.
contents The measurement of orbital eccentricity in gravitational-wave (GW) signals will provide unique insights into the astrophysical origin of binary systems, while ignoring eccentricity in waveform models could introduce significant biases in parameter estimation and tests of General Relativity. Upcoming LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing runs are expected to detect a subpopulation of eccentric signals, making it vital to develop accurate waveform models for eccentric orbits. Here, employing recent analytical results through the third post-Newtonian order, we develop SEOBNRv5EHM: a new time-domain, effective-one-body, multipolar waveform model for eccentric binary black holes with spins aligned (or antialigned) with the orbital angular momentum. Besides the dominant (2,2) mode, the model includes the (2,1), (3,3), (3,2), (4,4) and (4,3) modes. We validate the model's accuracy by computing its unfaithfulness against 99 (28 public and 71 private) eccentric numerical-relativity (NR) simulations, produced by the Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes Collaboration. Importantly, for NR waveforms with initial GW eccentricities below 0.5, the maximum (2,2)-mode unfaithfulness across the total mass range 20-200 $M_\odot$ is consistently below or close to $1 \%$, with a median value of $ \sim 0.02 \% $, reflecting an accuracy improvement of approximately an order of magnitude compared to the previous-generation SEOBNRv4EHM and the state-of-the-art TEOBResumS-Dalí eccentric model. In the quasi-circular-orbit limit, SEOBNRv5EHM is in excellent agreement with the highly accurate SEOBNRv5HM model. The accuracy, robustness, and speed of SEOBNRv5EHM make it suitable for data analysis and astrophysical studies. We demonstrate this by performing a set of recovery studies of synthetic NR-signal injections, and parameter-estimation analyses of the events GW150914 and GW190521, which we find to have no eccentricity signatures.
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spellingShingle Accurate waveforms for eccentric, aligned-spin binary black holes: The multipolar effective-one-body model SEOBNRv5EHM
Gamboa, Aldo
Buonanno, Alessandra
Enficiaud, Raffi
Khalil, Mohammed
Ramos-Buades, Antoni
Pompili, Lorenzo
Estellés, Héctor
Boyle, Michael
Kidder, Lawrence E.
Pfeiffer, Harald P.
Rüter, Hannes R.
Scheel, Mark A.
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
The measurement of orbital eccentricity in gravitational-wave (GW) signals will provide unique insights into the astrophysical origin of binary systems, while ignoring eccentricity in waveform models could introduce significant biases in parameter estimation and tests of General Relativity. Upcoming LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing runs are expected to detect a subpopulation of eccentric signals, making it vital to develop accurate waveform models for eccentric orbits. Here, employing recent analytical results through the third post-Newtonian order, we develop SEOBNRv5EHM: a new time-domain, effective-one-body, multipolar waveform model for eccentric binary black holes with spins aligned (or antialigned) with the orbital angular momentum. Besides the dominant (2,2) mode, the model includes the (2,1), (3,3), (3,2), (4,4) and (4,3) modes. We validate the model's accuracy by computing its unfaithfulness against 99 (28 public and 71 private) eccentric numerical-relativity (NR) simulations, produced by the Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes Collaboration. Importantly, for NR waveforms with initial GW eccentricities below 0.5, the maximum (2,2)-mode unfaithfulness across the total mass range 20-200 $M_\odot$ is consistently below or close to $1 \%$, with a median value of $ \sim 0.02 \% $, reflecting an accuracy improvement of approximately an order of magnitude compared to the previous-generation SEOBNRv4EHM and the state-of-the-art TEOBResumS-Dalí eccentric model. In the quasi-circular-orbit limit, SEOBNRv5EHM is in excellent agreement with the highly accurate SEOBNRv5HM model. The accuracy, robustness, and speed of SEOBNRv5EHM make it suitable for data analysis and astrophysical studies. We demonstrate this by performing a set of recovery studies of synthetic NR-signal injections, and parameter-estimation analyses of the events GW150914 and GW190521, which we find to have no eccentricity signatures.
title Accurate waveforms for eccentric, aligned-spin binary black holes: The multipolar effective-one-body model SEOBNRv5EHM
topic General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.12823