Data-driven extraction, phenomenology and modeling of eccentric harmonics in binary black hole merger waveforms
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| author | Islam, Tousif Venumadhav, Tejaswi Mehta, Ajit Kumar Anantpurkar, Isha Wadekar, Digvijay Roulet, Javier Mushkin, Jonathan Zackay, Barak Zaldarriaga, Matias |
| author_facet | Islam, Tousif Venumadhav, Tejaswi Mehta, Ajit Kumar Anantpurkar, Isha Wadekar, Digvijay Roulet, Javier Mushkin, Jonathan Zackay, Barak Zaldarriaga, Matias |
| contents | Newtonian and post-Newtonian (PN) calculations suggest that each spherical harmonic mode of the gravitational waveforms (radiation) emitted by eccentric binaries can be further decomposed into several eccentricity-induced modes (indexed by $j=1$ to $j=\infty$), referred to as eccentric harmonics. These harmonics exhibit monotonically time-varying amplitudes and instantaneous frequencies, unlike the full eccentric spherical harmonic modes. However, computing or extracting these harmonics are not straightforward in current numerical relativity (NR) simulations and eccentric waveform models. To address this, Patterson \textit{et al} have developed a framework to extract the eccentric harmonics directly from effective-one-body formalism waveforms. In this paper, we build on the ideas presented in Patterson \textit{et al} and propose a data-driven framework, utilizing singular-value decomposition (SVD), that incorporates additional features based on PN intuition to ensure monotonicity in the extracted harmonics. We further demonstrate that the phase (frequency) of these harmonics is simply $jϕ_λ+ϕ_{\rm ecc}$ ($jf_λ+f_{\rm ecc}$) where $ϕ_λ$ ($f_λ$) is related to the secular orbital phase (frequency) and $ϕ_{\rm ecc}$ ($f_{\rm ecc}$) is an additional phase (frequency) that only depends on the eccentricity. We also provide simple analytical fits to obtain the harmonics as a function of the mean anomaly. These relations may prove useful in constructing faithful models that can be employed in cheap and efficient searches and parameter estimation of eccentric mergers. Our framework is modular and can be extended for any other eccentric waveform models or simulation frameworks. The framework is available through the \texttt{gwMiner} package. |
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| spellingShingle | Data-driven extraction, phenomenology and modeling of eccentric harmonics in binary black hole merger waveforms Islam, Tousif Venumadhav, Tejaswi Mehta, Ajit Kumar Anantpurkar, Isha Wadekar, Digvijay Roulet, Javier Mushkin, Jonathan Zackay, Barak Zaldarriaga, Matias General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Newtonian and post-Newtonian (PN) calculations suggest that each spherical harmonic mode of the gravitational waveforms (radiation) emitted by eccentric binaries can be further decomposed into several eccentricity-induced modes (indexed by $j=1$ to $j=\infty$), referred to as eccentric harmonics. These harmonics exhibit monotonically time-varying amplitudes and instantaneous frequencies, unlike the full eccentric spherical harmonic modes. However, computing or extracting these harmonics are not straightforward in current numerical relativity (NR) simulations and eccentric waveform models. To address this, Patterson \textit{et al} have developed a framework to extract the eccentric harmonics directly from effective-one-body formalism waveforms. In this paper, we build on the ideas presented in Patterson \textit{et al} and propose a data-driven framework, utilizing singular-value decomposition (SVD), that incorporates additional features based on PN intuition to ensure monotonicity in the extracted harmonics. We further demonstrate that the phase (frequency) of these harmonics is simply $jϕ_λ+ϕ_{\rm ecc}$ ($jf_λ+f_{\rm ecc}$) where $ϕ_λ$ ($f_λ$) is related to the secular orbital phase (frequency) and $ϕ_{\rm ecc}$ ($f_{\rm ecc}$) is an additional phase (frequency) that only depends on the eccentricity. We also provide simple analytical fits to obtain the harmonics as a function of the mean anomaly. These relations may prove useful in constructing faithful models that can be employed in cheap and efficient searches and parameter estimation of eccentric mergers. Our framework is modular and can be extended for any other eccentric waveform models or simulation frameworks. The framework is available through the \texttt{gwMiner} package. |
| title | Data-driven extraction, phenomenology and modeling of eccentric harmonics in binary black hole merger waveforms |
| topic | General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12469 |