Error-analysis and comparison to analytical models of numerical waveforms produced by the NRAR Collaboration
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Abstract
The Numerical-Relativity-Analytical-Relativity (NRAR) collaboration is a<br>joint effort between members of the numerical relativity, analytical relativity<br>and gravitational-wave data analysis communities. The goal of the NRAR<br>collaboration is to produce numerical-relativity simulations of compact<br>binaries and use them to develop accurate analytical templates for the<br>LIGO/Virgo Collaboration to use in detecting gravitational-wave signals and<br>extracting astrophysical information from them. We describe the results of the<br>first stage of the NRAR project, which focused on producing an initial set of<br>numerical waveforms from binary black holes with moderate mass ratios and<br>spins, as well as one non-spinning binary configuration which has a mass ratio<br>of 10. All of the numerical waveforms are analysed in a uniform and consistent<br>manner, with numerical errors evaluated using an analysis code created by<br>members of the NRAR collaboration. We compare previously-calibrated,<br>non-precessing analytical waveforms, notably the effective-one-body (EOB) and<br>phenomenological template families, to the newly-produced numerical waveforms.<br>We find that when the binary's total mass is ~100-200 solar masses, current EOB<br>and phenomenological models of spinning, non-precessing binary waveforms have<br>overlaps above 99% (for advanced LIGO) with all of the non-precessing-binary<br>numerical waveforms with mass ratios <= 4, when maximizing over binary<br>parameters. This implies that the loss of event rate due to modelling error is<br>below 3%. Moreover, the non-spinning EOB waveforms previously calibrated to<br>five non-spinning waveforms with mass ratio smaller than 6 have overlaps above<br>99.7% with the numerical waveform with a mass ratio of 10, without even<br>maximizing on the binary parameters.<br>
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