Characterizing eccentricity in gravitational-wave data with time domain inference

ORAL

Abstract

Unambiguous evidence for eccentricity in gravitational-wave signals from compact binary coalescences is difficult to determine, particularly in high mass, merger dominated systems. Using cycle-by-cycle time domain inference as in Miller et. al. 2024, we explore the impact of eccentricity on merger dominated signals and contrast it to that of spin-precession.

*This material is based upon work supported by NSF's LIGO Laboratory which is a major facility fully funded by the National Science Foundation. The authors were supported by NSF Grant PHY-2110111.

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Presenters

  • Sophie R Hourihane

    • Caltech

Authors

  • Sophie R Hourihane

    • Caltech

  • Simona J Miller

    • Caltech

  • Katerina Chatziioannou

    • Caltech

  • Maximiliano Isi

    • Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT