PIRSA:22120052

# Surrogate model for gravitational wave signals from black hole binaries built on black hole perturbation theory waveforms calibrated to numerical relativity : one model to rule both comparable and extreme mass ratio regime

### APA

Islam, T. (2022). Surrogate model for gravitational wave signals from black hole binaries built on black hole perturbation theory waveforms calibrated to numerical relativity : one model to rule both comparable and extreme mass ratio regime. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/22120052

### MLA

Islam, Tousif. Surrogate model for gravitational wave signals from black hole binaries built on black hole perturbation theory waveforms calibrated to numerical relativity : one model to rule both comparable and extreme mass ratio regime. Perimeter Institute, Dec. 01, 2022, https://pirsa.org/22120052

### BibTex

          @misc{ pirsa_22120052,
doi = {10.48660/22120052},
url = {https://pirsa.org/22120052},
author = {Islam, Tousif},
keywords = {Strong Gravity},
language = {en},
title = {Surrogate model for gravitational wave signals from black hole binaries built on black hole perturbation theory waveforms calibrated to numerical relativity : one model to rule both comparable and extreme mass ratio regime},
publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
year = {2022},
month = {dec},
note = {PIRSA:22120052 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
}


Tousif Islam University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

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## Abstract

We present a reduced-order surrogate model of gravitational waveforms from non-spinning binary black hole systems with comparable to large mass-ratio configurations. This surrogate model, BHPTNRSur1dq1e4, is trained on waveform data generated by point-particle black hole perturbation theory (ppBHPT) with mass ratios varying from 2.5 to 10,000. BHPTNRSur1dq1e4 can generate waveforms up to 30,500 m1(where m1 is the mass of the primary black hole), includes several more spherical harmonic modes up to \ell=10, and calibrates both dominant and subdominant modes to numerical relativity (NR) data. In the comparable mass-ratio regime, including mass ratios as low as 2.5, the gravitational waveforms generated through ppBHPT agree surprisingly well with those from NR after this simple calibration step. We argue that this scaling essentially captures higher order self-force corrections in a much simpler way. We also compare our model to recent SXS and RIT NR simulations at mass ratios ranging from 15 to 32, and find the dominant quadrupolar modes agree to better than≈10−3. We expect our model to be useful to study intermediate-mass-ratio binary systems in current and future gravitational-wave detectors. Finally, we discuss avenues for improving the model by extending its region of validity.