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Convergence of Fourier-domain templates for inspiraling eccentric compact binaries

21 May 2019arXiv:1905.08811links table onlyarchive 2025-07-28

Sashwat Tanay, Antoine Klein, Emanuele Berti, Atsushi Nishizawa

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The space-based detector LISA may observe gravitational waves from the early inspiral of stellar-mass black hole binaries, some of which could have significant eccentricity. Current gravitational waveform templates are only valid for small orbital velocities (i.e., in a post-Newtonian expansion) and small initial eccentricity e₀ ("post-circular" expansion). We conventionally define e₀ as the eccentricity corresponding to an orbital frequency of 5 mHz, and we study the convergence properties of frequency-domain inspiral templates that are accurate up to 2PN and order e₀⁶ in eccentricity. We compute the so-called "unfaithfulness" between the full template and "reduced" templates obtained by dropping some terms in the phasing series; we investigate the conditions under which systematic errors are negligible with respect to statistical errors, and we study the convergence properties of statistical errors. In general, eccentric waveforms lead to larger statistical errors than circular waveforms due to correlations between the parameters, but the error estimates do not change significantly as long as we include terms of order e₀² or higher in the phasing.

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