Parameter estimation for the GWTC-4.0 catalog with phenomenological waveform models that include orbital eccentricity and an updated description of spin precession

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Main Authors: Xu, Yumeng, Valencia, Jorge, Estrella, Héctor Estellés, Buades, Antoni Ramos, Husa, Sascha, Rosselló-Sastre, Maria, Querol, Joan Llobera, Vidal, Felip Ramis, Llompart, Maria de Lluc Planas, Colleoni, Marta, Hamilton, Eleanor, Agudo, Arnau Montava, Carrilero, Jesús Yébana, Heffernan, Anna
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author Xu, Yumeng
Valencia, Jorge
Estrella, Héctor Estellés
Buades, Antoni Ramos
Husa, Sascha
Rosselló-Sastre, Maria
Querol, Joan Llobera
Vidal, Felip Ramis
Llompart, Maria de Lluc Planas
Colleoni, Marta
Hamilton, Eleanor
Agudo, Arnau Montava
Carrilero, Jesús Yébana
Heffernan, Anna
author_facet Xu, Yumeng
Valencia, Jorge
Estrella, Héctor Estellés
Buades, Antoni Ramos
Husa, Sascha
Rosselló-Sastre, Maria
Querol, Joan Llobera
Vidal, Felip Ramis
Llompart, Maria de Lluc Planas
Colleoni, Marta
Hamilton, Eleanor
Agudo, Arnau Montava
Carrilero, Jesús Yébana
Heffernan, Anna
contents The GWTC-4.0 catalog of transient gravitational wave signals describes observations made in the first part of the fourth observing run of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) gravitational wave detector network. Here we extend the LVK's GWTC-4.0 analysis to elliptic orbits, and an improved description of spin precession in the frequency domain. For this study we use state-of-the-art waveforms from the IMRPhenom family (specifically XPNR, TPHM, and TEHM), and we consider the 84 confidently detected events that are consistent with binary-black-hole mergers. We present an extended catalog of updated posterior samples, quantify how incorporation of these waveform effects alters inferred source properties relative to previous analyses, and discuss waveform systematics.
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spellingShingle Parameter estimation for the GWTC-4.0 catalog with phenomenological waveform models that include orbital eccentricity and an updated description of spin precession
Xu, Yumeng
Valencia, Jorge
Estrella, Héctor Estellés
Buades, Antoni Ramos
Husa, Sascha
Rosselló-Sastre, Maria
Querol, Joan Llobera
Vidal, Felip Ramis
Llompart, Maria de Lluc Planas
Colleoni, Marta
Hamilton, Eleanor
Agudo, Arnau Montava
Carrilero, Jesús Yébana
Heffernan, Anna
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
The GWTC-4.0 catalog of transient gravitational wave signals describes observations made in the first part of the fourth observing run of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) gravitational wave detector network. Here we extend the LVK's GWTC-4.0 analysis to elliptic orbits, and an improved description of spin precession in the frequency domain. For this study we use state-of-the-art waveforms from the IMRPhenom family (specifically XPNR, TPHM, and TEHM), and we consider the 84 confidently detected events that are consistent with binary-black-hole mergers. We present an extended catalog of updated posterior samples, quantify how incorporation of these waveform effects alters inferred source properties relative to previous analyses, and discuss waveform systematics.
title Parameter estimation for the GWTC-4.0 catalog with phenomenological waveform models that include orbital eccentricity and an updated description of spin precession
topic General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.19513