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Towards models of gravitational waveforms from generic binaries: A simple approximate mapping between precessing and nonprecessing inspiral signals

Schmidt, Patricia, Hannam, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5571-325X and Husa, Sascha 2012. Towards models of gravitational waveforms from generic binaries: A simple approximate mapping between precessing and nonprecessing inspiral signals. Physical Review D 86 (10) , 104063 (. 10.1103/PhysRevD.86.104063

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Abstract

One of the greatest theoretical challenges in the buildup to the era of second-generation gravitational-wave detectors is the modeling of generic binary waveforms. We introduce an approximation that has the potential to significantly simplify this problem. We show that generic precessing-binary inspiral waveforms (covering a seven-dimensional space of intrinsic parameters) can be mapped to a two-dimensional space of nonprecessing binaries, characterized by the mass ratio and a single effective total spin. The mapping consists of a time-dependent rotation of the waveforms into the quadrupole-aligned frame and is extremely accurate (matches >0.99 with parameter biases in the total spin of Δχ≤0.04), even in the case of transitional precession. In addition, we demonstrate a simple method to construct hybrid post-Newtonian–numerical relativity precessing-binary waveforms in the quadrupole-aligned frame and provide evidence that our approximate mapping can be used all the way to the merger. Finally, based on these results, we outline a general proposal for the construction of generic waveform models, which will be the focus of future work.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Physics and Astronomy
Subjects: Q Science > QC Physics
Publisher: American Physical Society
ISSN: 1550-7998
Last Modified: 24 Oct 2022 10:57
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/46523

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