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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 95, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.95.104023
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- Sherman Fairchild Foundation
- NSF at Caltech [PHY-1404569]
- NSERC of Canada
- NSF [PHY-0960291, PHY-1429873]
- Research Corporation for Science Advancement
- California State University at Fullerton
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Physics [1404569] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1333520] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We present the first surrogate model for gravitational waveforms from the coalescence of precessing binary black holes. We call this surrogate model NRSur4d2s. Our methodology significantly extends recently introduced reduced-order and surrogate modeling techniques, and is capable of directly modeling numerical relativity waveforms without introducing phenomenological assumptions or approximations to general relativity. Motivated by GW150914, LIGO's first detection of gravitational waves from merging black holes, the model is built from a set of 276 numerical relativity (NR) simulations with mass ratios q <= 2, dimensionless spin magnitudes up to 0.8, and the restriction that the initial spin of the smaller black hole lies along the axis of orbital angular momentum. It produces waveforms which begin similar to 30 gravitational wave cycles before merger and continue through ringdown, and which contain the effects of precession as well as all l is an element of{2,3} spin-weighted spherical-harmonic modes. We perform cross-validation studies to compare the model to NR waveforms not used to build the model and find a better agreement within the parameter range of the model than other, state-of-the-art precessing waveform models, with typical mismatches of 10(-3). We also construct a frequency domain surrogate model (called NRSur4d2s_FDROM) which can be evaluated in 50 ms and is suitable for performing parameter estimation studies on gravitational wave detections similar to GW150914.
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