Understanding spinning black-hole binaries: a new effective-one-body model

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:10060079,
            doi = {10.48660/10060079},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/10060079},
            author = {Barausse, Enrico},
            keywords = {},
            language = {en},
            title = {Understanding spinning black-hole binaries: a new effective-one-body model},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2010},
            month = {jun},
            note = {PIRSA:10060079 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }
          

Abstract

The dynamics of black-hole binaries is a very complex problem which has been solved only very recently through time-expensive numerical-relativity calculations. In spite of this mathematical complexity many results of these calculations can be accurately reproduced with phenomenological approaches based on test particles combined with Post-Newtonian theory and black-hole perturbation theory. In this talk I will focus on effective-one-body models, which have proved a useful and fast tool to accurately reproduce numerical-relativity waveforms. In particular I will present a novel, self-consistent effective-one-body model for spinning black-hole binaries, and show that this model does not suffer from the shortcomings of the existing models which have been put forward in the literature.