Setting the cornerstone for the IMRPhenomX family of models for gravitational waves from compact binaries: The dominant harmonic for non-precessing quasi-circular black holes

1 code implementation • 30 Jan 2020 • Geraint Pratten, Sascha Husa, Cecilio Garcia-Quiros, Marta Colleoni, Antoni Ramos-Buades, Hector Estelles, Rafel Jaume

In this paper we present IMRPhenomXAS, a thorough overhaul of the IMRPhenomD [1, 2] waveform model, which describes the dominant $l=2, \:| m | = 2$ spherical harmonic mode of non-precessing coalescing black holes in terms of piecewise closed form expressions in the frequency domain.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics