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Published June 15, 2011 | Version Published
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Inspiral-Merger-Ringdown Waveforms for Black-Hole Binaries with Nonprecessing Spins

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  • 1. ROR icon California Institute of Technology
  • 2. ROR icon University of Vienna
  • 3. ROR icon Cardiff University
  • 4. ROR icon University of the Balearic Islands
  • 5. ROR icon Friedrich Schiller University Jena
  • 6. ROR icon Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics

Abstract

We present the first analytical inspiral-merger-ringdown gravitational waveforms from binary black holes (BBHs) with nonprecessing spins, that is based on a description of the late-inspiral, merger and ringdown in full general relativity. By matching a post-Newtonian description of the inspiral to a set of numerical-relativity simulations, we obtain a waveform family with a conveniently small number of physical parameters. These waveforms will allow us to detect a larger parameter space of BBH coalescence, including a considerable fraction of precessing binaries in the comparable-mass regime, thus significantly improving the expected detection rates.

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© 2011 American Physical Society. Received 17 September 2009; revised manuscript received 15 September 2010; published 15 June 2011. S. H. was supported by VESF and EGO, DAAD grant D/07/13385 and Spanish Ministry of Science grant FPA-2007-60220. M.H. was supported by FWF grant M1178-N16 and STFC grant ST/H008438/1. P. A. and Y. C. were supported by NSF grants PHY-0653653, PHY- 0601459, PHY-0956189 and David and Barbara Groce Fund. B. B. is supported by DFG grant SFB/Transregio 7 ''GW Astronomy'', B. B. and D. M. by DLR, and L. S. by DAAD grant A/06/12630. We thank AEI, FSU Jena, LRZ, ICHEC, VSC, CESGA and BSC-CNS for computational resources, and K. G. Arun, B. Sathyaprakash, G. Faye, and R. O'Shaughnessy for discussions.

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Funding

VESF
EGO
DAAD
D/07/13385
Spanish Ministry of Science
FPA-2007-60220
FWF
M1178- N16
STFC
ST/H008438/1
NSF
PHY-0653653
NSF
PHY-0601459
NSF
PHY-0956189
David and Barbara Groce Fund
DFG
SFB/Transregio 7
DAAD
A/06/12630

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