Accurate effective-one-body waveforms of inspiralling and coalescing black-hole binaries
Accurate effective-one-body waveforms of inspiralling and coalescing black-hole binaries
The effective-one-body (EOB) formalism contains several flexibility parameters, notably ${a}_{5}$, ${v}_{\mathrm{pole}}$, and ${\overline{a}}_{\mathrm{RR}}$. We show here how to jointly constrain the values of these parameters by simultaneously best-fitting the EOB waveform to two, independent, numerical relativity (NR) simulations of inspiralling and/or coalescing binary black-hole systems: published Caltech-Cornell inspiral data (considered …