Speaker
Angelica Albertini
(Charles U)
Description
The effective-one-body (EOB) approach is a powerful formalism that maps the two-body problem in general relativity into the motion of a single body in an effective metric. EOB-based waveform models are nowadays providing fast and accurate templates for comparable-mass coalescing compact binaries, where the latter are the events observed by the currently operating detectors. Third-generation detectors will instead allow us to detect different signals, like the ones coming from black hole binaries with a larger mass ratio. I will present an EOB waveform model that has been adapted to better suit the large-mass-ratio regime, that also includes eccentricity and precessing spins.
