Template bank for gravitational waveforms from coalescing binary black holes: Nonspinning binaries
P. Ajith,S. Babak,Yi Chen,Martin Hewitson,Badri Krishnan,Alicia M. Sintes,James Whelan,Bernd Brügmann,Peter Diener,Nils Dorband,José A. González,José A. González,Mark Hannam,Sascha Husa,Denis Pollney,Luciano Rezzolla,Lucía Santamaría,Lucía Santamaría,Ulrich Sperhake,Jonathan Thornburg,Jonathan Thornburg +20 more
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In this paper, a family of template waveforms is proposed to model the inspiral, merger, and ring-down stages of the coalescence of nonspinning binary black holes that follow quasicircular inspiral.Abstract:
Gravitational waveforms from the inspiral and ring-down stages of the binary black-hole coalescences can be modeled accurately by approximation/perturbation techniques in general relativity. Recent progress in numerical relativity has enabled us to model also the nonperturbative merger phase of the binary black-hole coalescence problem. This enables us to coherently search for all three stages of the coalescence of nonspinning binary black holes using a single template bank. Taking our motivation from these results, we propose a family of template waveforms which can model the inspiral, merger, and ring-down stages of the coalescence of nonspinning binary black holes that follow quasicircular inspiral. This two-dimensional template family is explicitly parametrized by the physical parameters of the binary. We show that the template family is not only effectual in detecting the signals from black-hole coalescences, but also faithful in estimating the parameters of the binary. We compare the sensitivity of a search (in the context of different ground-based interferometers) using all three stages of the black-hole coalescence with other template-based searches which look for individual stages separately. We find that the proposed search is significantly more sensitive than other template-based searches for a substantial mass range, potentially bringing about remarkable improvement in the event rate of ground-based interferometers. As part of this work, we also prescribe a general procedure to construct interpolated template banks using nonspinning black-hole waveforms produced by numerical relativity.read more
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