Modelling gravitational waves from precessing black-hole binaries: progress, challenges and prospects

Gravitational Radiation from Post-Newtonian Sources and Inspiralling Compact Binaries

(2014) Luc Blanchet   Living Reviews in Relativity

Accuracy of gravitational waveform models for observing neutron-star–black-hole binaries in Advanced LIGO

(2014) Alexander H. Nitz et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Impact of higher harmonics in searching for gravitational waves from nonspinning binary black holes

(2014) Collin Capano et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Single-spin precessing gravitational waveform in closed form

(2014) Andrew Lundgren et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Investigating the effect of precession on searches for neutron-star–black-hole binaries with Advanced LIGO

(2014) Ian W. Harry et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Effective-one-body model for black-hole binaries with generic mass ratios and spins

(2014) Andrea Taracchini et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Inspiral-merger-ringdown waveforms of spinning, precessing black-hole binaries in the effective-one-body formalism

(2014) Yi Pan et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Fast Prediction and Evaluation of Gravitational Waveforms Using Surrogate Models

(2014) Scott E. Field et al.   Physical Review X

WHEN CAN GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE OBSERVATIONS DISTINGUISH BETWEEN BLACK HOLES AND NEUTRON STARS?

(2013) Mark Hannam et al.   Astrophysical Journal Letters

Next-to-leading tail-induced spin–orbit effects in the gravitational radiation flux of compact binaries

(2013) Sylvain Marsat et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

Addendum to ‘The NINJA-2 catalog of hybrid post-Newtonian/numerical-relativity waveforms for non-precessing black-hole binaries’

(2013) P Ajith et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

Error-analysis and comparison to analytical models of numerical waveforms produced by the NRAR Collaboration

(2013) Ian Hinder et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

Next-to-next-to-leading order spin–orbit effects in the equations of motion of compact binary systems

(2013) Sylvain Marsat et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

Next-to-next-to-leading order spin–orbit effects in the gravitational wave flux and orbital phasing of compact binaries

(2013) Alejandro Bohé et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

Gravitational-Wave Tests of General Relativity with Ground-Based Detectors and Pulsar-Timing Arrays

(2013) Nicolás Yunes et al.   Living Reviews in Relativity

Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspiral, merger, and ringdown in LIGO-Virgo data from 2009–2010

(2013) J. Aasi et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Comparing gravitational waves from nonprecessing and precessing black hole binaries in the corotating frame

(2013) L. Pekowsky et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Precession during merger: Strong polarization changes are observationally accessible features of strong-field gravity during binary black hole merger

(2013) R. O’Shaughnessy et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Final spin and radiated energy in numerical simulations of binary black holes with equal masses and equal, aligned or antialigned spins

(2013) Daniel A. Hemberger et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Interpolation in waveform space: Enhancing the accuracy of gravitational waveform families using numerical relativity

(2013) Kipp Cannon et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Improved effective-one-body description of coalescing nonspinning black-hole binaries and its numerical-relativity completion

(2013) Thibault Damour et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Degeneracy between mass and spin in black-hole-binary waveforms

(2013) Emily Baird et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Suitability of hybrid gravitational waveforms for unequal-mass binaries

(2013) Ilana MacDonald et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Statistical and systematic errors for gravitational-wave inspiral signals: A principal component analysis

(2013) Frank Ohme et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Testing the validity of the single-spin approximation in inspiral-merger-ringdown waveforms

(2013) Michael Pürrer et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Dimensional regularization of local singularities in the fourth post-Newtonian two-point-mass Hamiltonian

(2013) Piotr Jaranowski et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Catalog of 174 Binary Black Hole Simulations for Gravitational Wave Astronomy

(2013) Abdul H. Mroué et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Prototype effective-one-body model for nonprecessing spinning inspiral-merger-ringdown waveforms

(2012) Andrea Taracchini et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Towards models of gravitational waveforms from generic binaries: A simple approximate mapping between precessing and nonprecessing inspiral signals

(2012) Patricia Schmidt et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Binary dynamics from spin1-spin2 coupling at fourth post-Newtonian order

(2012) Michele Levi   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Search for gravitational waves from low mass compact binary coalescence in LIGO’s sixth science run and Virgo’s science runs 2 and 3

(2012) J. Abadie et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Detecting binary neutron star systems with spin in advanced gravitational-wave detectors

(2012) Duncan A. Brown et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Next-to-next-to-leading order post-Newtonian spin(1)-spin(2) Hamiltonian for self-gravitating binaries

(2011) J. Hartung et al.   ANNALEN DER PHYSIK

Suitability of post-Newtonian/numerical-relativity hybrid waveforms for gravitational wave detectors

(2011) Ilana MacDonald et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

Geometric approach to the precession of compact binaries

(2011) Michael Boyle et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Efficient asymptotic frame selection for binary black hole spacetimes using asymptotic radiation

(2011) R. O’Shaughnessy et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Inspiral-merger-ringdown multipolar waveforms of nonspinning black-hole binaries using the effective-one-body formalism

(2011) Yi Pan et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Reliability of complete gravitational waveform models for compact binary coalescences

(2011) Frank Ohme et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Tracking the precession of compact binaries from their gravitational-wave signal

(2011) Patricia Schmidt et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Accuracy and effectualness of closed-form, frequency-domain waveforms for nonspinning black hole binaries

(2011) Thibault Damour et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Next-to-leading order spin-orbit and spin(a)-spin(b) Hamiltonians forngravitating spinning compact objects

(2011) Johannes Hartung et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Uncertainty in hybrid gravitational waveforms: Optimizing initial orbital frequencies for binary black-hole simulations

(2011) Michael Boyle   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Post-Newtonian factorized multipolar waveforms for spinning, nonprecessing black-hole binaries

(2011) Yi Pan et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Addressing the spin question in gravitational-wave searches: Waveform templates for inspiralling compact binaries with nonprecessing spins

(2011) P. Ajith   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Inspiral-Merger-Ringdown Waveforms for Black-Hole Binaries with Nonprecessing Spins

(2011) P. Ajith et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Predictions for the rates of compact binary coalescences observable by ground-based gravitational-wave detectors

(2010) J Abadie et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

The Einstein Telescope: a third-generation gravitational wave observatory

(2010) M Punturo et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

Advanced LIGO: the next generation of gravitational wave detectors

(2010) Gregory M Harry et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

Simulations of black-hole binaries with unequal masses or nonprecessing spins: Accuracy, physical properties, and comparison with post-Newtonian results

(2010) Mark Hannam et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Matching post-Newtonian and numerical relativity waveforms: Systematic errors and a new phenomenological model for nonprecessing black hole binaries

(2010) L. Santamaría et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Effective-one-body waveforms calibrated to numerical relativity simulations: Coalescence of nonprecessing, spinning, equal-mass black holes

(2010) Yi Pan et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Length requirements for numerical-relativity waveforms

(2010) Mark Hannam et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Improved effective-one-body Hamiltonian for spinning black-hole binaries

(2010) Enrico Barausse et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Erratum: Higher-order spin effects in the dynamics of compact binaries. II. Radiation field [Phys. Rev. D74, 104034 (2006)]

(2010) Luc Blanchet et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Black-hole binaries, gravitational waves, and numerical relativity

(2010) Joan Centrella et al.   REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS

PREDICTING THE DIRECTION OF THE FINAL SPIN FROM THE COALESCENCE OF TWO BLACK HOLES

(2009) Enrico Barausse et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Testing gravitational-wave searches with numerical relativity waveforms: results from the first Numerical INJection Analysis (NINJA) project

(2009) Benjamin Aylott et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

Erratum: Template bank for gravitational waveforms from coalescing binary black holes: Nonspinning binaries [Phys. Rev. DPRVDAQ1550-799877, 104017 (2008)]

(2009) P. Ajith et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Improved resummation of post-Newtonian multipolar waveforms from circularized compact binaries

(2009) Thibault Damour et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Higher-order spin effects in the amplitude and phase of gravitational waveforms emitted by inspiraling compact binaries: Ready-to-use gravitational waveforms

(2009) K. G. Arun et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Comparison of post-Newtonian templates for compact binary inspiral signals in gravitational-wave detectors

(2009) Alessandra Buonanno et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Comparison between numerical-relativity and post-Newtonian waveforms from spinning binaries: The orbital hang-up case

(2008) Mark Hannam et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Where post-Newtonian and numerical-relativity waveforms meet

(2008) Mark Hannam et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Estimating the final spin of a binary black hole coalescence

(2008) Alessandra Buonanno et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Exploring black hole superkicks

(2008) Bernd Brügmann et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D