Significant progress has been made in recent years on the development of gravitational-
wave detectors. Sources such as coalescing compact binary systems, neutron stars in low …

Understanding the predictions of general relativity for the dynamical interactions of two black
holes has been a long-standing unsolved problem in theoretical physics. Black-hole …

Accurate models of gravitational waves from merging black holes are necessary for
detectors to observe as many events as possible while extracting the maximum science …

The goal of the Laser Interferometric Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is to detect and
study gravitational waves (GWs) of astrophysical origin. Direct detection of GWs holds the …

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 …

We present a new phenomenological gravitational waveform model for the inspiral and
coalescence of nonprecessing spinning black hole binaries. Our approach is based on a …

Matched-filter searches for gravitational waves from coalescing compact binaries by the
LIGO Scientific Collaboration use the findchirp algorithm: an implementation of the optimal …

A generic, noneccentric binary black hole (BBH) system emits gravitational waves (GWs)
that are completely described by seven intrinsic parameters: the black hole spin vectors and …

This Letter presents a publicly available catalog of 174 numerical binary black hole
simulations following up to 35 orbits. The catalog includes 91 precessing binaries, mass …

Scientific analysis for the gravitational wave detector LISA will require theoretical waveforms
from extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) that extensively cover all possible orbital and spin …