Gravitational Waveform Modeling I

Presentations

• Improved numerical relativity surrogates using domain decomposition

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 10:30 AM – March 17, 2026, 10:42 AM

  Presenters

  • Abhishek Ravishankar

    • University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

  Authors

  • Abhishek Ravishankar

    • University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

  • Scott Field

    • University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

  • Vijay Varma

    • University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

  • Keefe Mitman

    • Cornell University

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• Quasi-normal mode excitations in precessing binary black hole coalescences

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 10:42 AM – March 17, 2026, 10:54 AM

  Presenters

  • Keefe Mitman

    • Cornell University

  Authors

  • Keefe Mitman

    • Cornell University

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• Parameter matching between PN and NR via an inner-zone matching for binary black holes

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 10:54 AM – March 17, 2026, 11:06 AM

  Presenters

  • Dongze Sun

    • Caltech

  Authors

  • Dongze Sun

    • Caltech

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• Preparing Binary Neutron Star Simulations for Precision Gravitational Wave Astronomy

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 11:06 AM – March 17, 2026, 11:18 AM

  Publication: A manuscript describing this work is currently in preparation and is expected to be submitted prior to the meeting.

  Presenters

  • Maria Hamilton

    • Marshall University

  Authors

  • Maria Hamilton

    • Marshall University

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• Dissipative Tidal Effects to Next-to-leading Order in Spinning Binaries

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 11:18 AM – March 17, 2026, 11:30 AM

  Presenters

  • Anand Balivada

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  Authors

  • Anand Balivada

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Abhishek Hegade K R

    • Princeton Gravity Initiative

  • Nicolas Yunes

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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• On the Identification of Exotic Compact Binaries with Gravitational Waves: a Phenomenological approach

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 11:30 AM – March 17, 2026, 11:42 AM

  Publication: arxiv: 2505.16380

  Presenters

  • Shrobana Ghosh

    • Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics

  Authors

  • Shrobana Ghosh

    • Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics

  • Mark Hannam

    • Cardiff University

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• Detecting nutation of the orbital angular momentum in the gravitational waves emitted during binary black-hole inspirals

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 11:42 AM – March 17, 2026, 11:54 AM

  Presenters

  • Michael Kesden

    • University of Texas at Dallas

  Authors

  • Michael Kesden

    • University of Texas at Dallas

  • Tamanjyot Singh

    • University of Texas at Dallas

  • Lindsay King

    • University of Texas at Dallas

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• Misinterpreting the spins of high-mass precessing binary black holes: insights from time-domain morphology

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 11:54 AM – March 17, 2026, 12:06 PM

  Publication: We plan to publish the work presented here some time in early 2026 before the APS meeting.
  Past related work: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.01544, https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.14573

  Presenters

  • Simona Miller

    • LIGO Laboratory, Caltech

  Authors

  • Simona Miller

    • LIGO Laboratory, Caltech

  • Maximiliano Isi

    • Simons Foundation (Flatiron Institute)

  • Katerina Chatziioannou

    • Caltech

  • Vijay Varma

    • University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

  • Sophie Hourihane

    • Caltech

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• Semianalytic Quasinormal Modes for Kerr black holes: A resummed WKB approach

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 12:06 PM – March 17, 2026, 12:18 PM

  Publication: Semianalytic Quasinormal Modes for Kerr black holes: A resummed WKB approach (in preparation)

  Presenters

  • Jierui Hu

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  Authors

  • Jierui Hu

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Kent Yagi

    • University of Virginia

  • Nicolas Yunes

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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