Frequency-domain gravitational waves from nonprecessing black-hole binaries. I. New numerical waveforms and anatomy of the signal

Husa, Sascha, Khan, Sebastian, Hannam, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5571-325X, Puerrer, Michael, Ohme, Frank, Forteza, Xisco Jiménez and Bohé, Alejandro 2016. Frequency-domain gravitational waves from nonprecessing black-hole binaries. I. New numerical waveforms and anatomy of the signal. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 93 (4) , 044006. 10.1103/PhysRevD.93.044006

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Abstract

In this paper we discuss the anatomy of frequency-domain gravitational-wave signals from nonprecessing black-hole coalescences with the goal of constructing accurate phenomenological waveform models. We first present new numerical-relativity simulations for mass ratios up to 18, including spins. From a comparison of different post-Newtonian approximants with numerical-relativity data we select the uncalibrated SEOBNRv2 model as the most appropriate for the purpose of constructing hybrid post-Newtonian/numerical-relativity waveforms, and we discuss how we prepare time-domain and frequency-domain hybrid data sets. We then use our data together with results in the literature to calibrate simple explicit expressions for the final spin and radiated energy. Equipped with our prediction for the final state we then develop a simple and accurate merger-ringdown model based on modified Lorentzians in the gravitational-wave amplitude and phase, and we discuss a simple method to represent the low frequency signal augmenting the TaylorF2 post-Newtonian approximant with terms corresponding to higher orders in the post-Newtonian expansion. We finally discuss different options for modelling the small intermediate frequency regime between inspiral and merger ringdown. A complete phenomenological model based on the present work is presented in a companion paper

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Advanced Research Computing @ Cardiff (ARCCA) Physics and Astronomy
Subjects:	Q Science > QC Physics
Publisher:	American Physical Society
ISSN:	1550-7998
Last Modified:	31 Oct 2022 10:56
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/86740

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