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Validating the effective-one-body model of spinning, precessing binary black holes against numerical relativity
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In Abbott et al. [Phys. Rev. X 6, 041014 (2016)], the properties of the first gravitational wave detected by LIGO, GW150914, were measured by employing an effective-one-body (EOB) model of precessing binary black holes whose underlying dynamics and waveforms were calibrated to numerical-relativity (NR) simulations. Here, we perform the first extensive comparison of such an EOBNR model to 70 precessing NR waveforms that span mass ratios from 1 to 5, dimensionless spin magnitudes up to 0.5, generic spin orientations, and length of about 20 orbits. We work in the observer's inertial frame and include all $\ensuremath{\ell}=2$ modes in the gravitational-wave polarizations. We introduce new prescriptions for the EOB ringdown signal concerning its spectrum and time of onset. For total masses between $10{\mathrm{M}}_{\ensuremath{\bigodot}}$ and $200{\mathrm{M}}_{\ensuremath{\bigodot}}$, we find that precessing EOBNR waveforms have unfaithfulness within about 3% to NR waveforms when considering the Advanced-LIGO design noise curve. This result is obtained without recalibration of the inspiral-plunge signal of the underlying nonprecessing EOBNR model. The unfaithfulness is computed with maximization over time and phase of arrival, sky location, and polarization of the EOBNR waveform, and it is averaged over sky location and polarization of the NR signal. We also present comparisons between NR and EOBNR waveforms in a frame that tracks the orbital precession.
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- Authors
- Babak, S., Taracchini, A., & Buonanno, A.
- Venue
- Physical Review D
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 2017-01-05
- Volume
- 95
- Issue
- 2
- ISSN
- 2470-0010 (ISSN-L)
- 2470-0029
- OpenAlex
- W2479210508
- Cited by
- 223
- References
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- FWCI
- 15.72
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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