Merger remnant and eccentricity dynamics surrogates for eccentric nonspinning black hole binaries

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Main Authors: Ravichandran, Adhrit, Nee, Peter James, Mitman, Keefe, Islam, Tousif, Field, Scott E., Varma, Vijay, Boyle, Michael, Ceja, Andrea, Deppe, Nils, Ghadiri, Noora, Kidder, Lawrence E., Kumar, Prayush, Morales, Marlo, Moxon, Jordan, Nelli, Kyle C., Pfeiffer, Harald P., Ramos-Buades, Antoni, Rink, Katie, Rüter, Hannes R., Scheel, Mark A, Shaikh, Md Arif, Stein, Leo C., Tellez, Daniel, Throwe, William, Vu, Nils L.
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author Ravichandran, Adhrit
Nee, Peter James
Mitman, Keefe
Islam, Tousif
Field, Scott E.
Varma, Vijay
Boyle, Michael
Ceja, Andrea
Deppe, Nils
Ghadiri, Noora
Kidder, Lawrence E.
Kumar, Prayush
Morales, Marlo
Moxon, Jordan
Nelli, Kyle C.
Pfeiffer, Harald P.
Ramos-Buades, Antoni
Rink, Katie
Rüter, Hannes R.
Scheel, Mark A
Shaikh, Md Arif
Stein, Leo C.
Tellez, Daniel
Throwe, William
Vu, Nils L.
author_facet Ravichandran, Adhrit
Nee, Peter James
Mitman, Keefe
Islam, Tousif
Field, Scott E.
Varma, Vijay
Boyle, Michael
Ceja, Andrea
Deppe, Nils
Ghadiri, Noora
Kidder, Lawrence E.
Kumar, Prayush
Morales, Marlo
Moxon, Jordan
Nelli, Kyle C.
Pfeiffer, Harald P.
Ramos-Buades, Antoni
Rink, Katie
Rüter, Hannes R.
Scheel, Mark A
Shaikh, Md Arif
Stein, Leo C.
Tellez, Daniel
Throwe, William
Vu, Nils L.
contents Accurate models of merger remnants are increasingly important for gravitational-wave science, including precision tests of gravity with ringdown, inference of black-hole populations, and modeling hierarchical mergers. For eccentric binaries, remnant mass, spin, and recoil carry nontrivial imprints of eccentricity that are both physically informative and more challenging to model, yet remain less developed than in the quasi-circular case. We present two new models trained on numerical-relativity (NR) simulations of unequal-mass, non-spinning eccentric binary black holes: NRSurE_q4NoSpin_Remnant, which predicts remnant properties, and NRSurE_q4NoSpin_Dynamics, a time-domain surrogate for the evolution of eccentricity and mean anomaly. Both models are trained on NR simulations over a three-dimensional parameter space with mass ratios $q \leq 4$, eccentricity $e < 0.23$, and mean anomaly $\ell \in [0,2π)$ radians, where both $e$ and $\ell$ defined at $t=-1000M$ relative to peak amplitude and $M$ is the total mass. We highlight some applications, including the phenomenological impact of eccentricity on remnant properties and the enhancement or suppression of recoil. We also provide error estimates for all modeled quantities, supporting reliable use in current and future gravitational-wave parameter-estimation analyses. Both models will be made available through open-source codes.
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spellingShingle Merger remnant and eccentricity dynamics surrogates for eccentric nonspinning black hole binaries
Ravichandran, Adhrit
Nee, Peter James
Mitman, Keefe
Islam, Tousif
Field, Scott E.
Varma, Vijay
Boyle, Michael
Ceja, Andrea
Deppe, Nils
Ghadiri, Noora
Kidder, Lawrence E.
Kumar, Prayush
Morales, Marlo
Moxon, Jordan
Nelli, Kyle C.
Pfeiffer, Harald P.
Ramos-Buades, Antoni
Rink, Katie
Rüter, Hannes R.
Scheel, Mark A
Shaikh, Md Arif
Stein, Leo C.
Tellez, Daniel
Throwe, William
Vu, Nils L.
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Accurate models of merger remnants are increasingly important for gravitational-wave science, including precision tests of gravity with ringdown, inference of black-hole populations, and modeling hierarchical mergers. For eccentric binaries, remnant mass, spin, and recoil carry nontrivial imprints of eccentricity that are both physically informative and more challenging to model, yet remain less developed than in the quasi-circular case. We present two new models trained on numerical-relativity (NR) simulations of unequal-mass, non-spinning eccentric binary black holes: NRSurE_q4NoSpin_Remnant, which predicts remnant properties, and NRSurE_q4NoSpin_Dynamics, a time-domain surrogate for the evolution of eccentricity and mean anomaly. Both models are trained on NR simulations over a three-dimensional parameter space with mass ratios $q \leq 4$, eccentricity $e < 0.23$, and mean anomaly $\ell \in [0,2π)$ radians, where both $e$ and $\ell$ defined at $t=-1000M$ relative to peak amplitude and $M$ is the total mass. We highlight some applications, including the phenomenological impact of eccentricity on remnant properties and the enhancement or suppression of recoil. We also provide error estimates for all modeled quantities, supporting reliable use in current and future gravitational-wave parameter-estimation analyses. Both models will be made available through open-source codes.
title Merger remnant and eccentricity dynamics surrogates for eccentric nonspinning black hole binaries
topic General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.00124