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# Parametrized post-Einsteinian framework for gravitational wave bursts

## Author(s): Loutrel, Nicholas; Yunes, Nicolas; Pretorius, Frans

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 Abstract: The population of stellar-mass, compact object binaries that merge with non-negligible eccentricity may be large enough to motivate searches with ground-based gravitational wave detectors. Such events could be exceptional laboratories to test General Relativity in the dynamical, strong-field regime, as a larger fraction of the energy is emitted at high velocities, compared to quasicircular inspirals. A serious obstacle here, however, is the challenge of computing theoretical waveforms for eccentric systems with the requisite accuracy for use in a matched-filter search. The corresponding waveforms are more a sequence of concentrated bursts of energy emitted near periapse than a continuous waveform. Based on this, an alternative approach, stacking excess power over the set of time-frequency tiles coincident with the bursts, was recently suggested as a more practical (though suboptimal) detection strategy. The leading-order “observable” that would be inferred from such a detection would be a sequence of discrete numbers characterizing the position and size of each time-frequency tile. In General Relativity, this (possibly large) sequence of numbers is uniquely determined by the small set of parameters describing the binary at formation. In this paper, following the spirit of the parametrized post-Einsteinian framework developed for quasicircular inspiral, we propose a simple, parametrized deformation of the baseline general relativistic burst algorithm for eccentric inspiral events that would allow for model-independent tests of Einstein’s theory in this high-velocity, strong-field regime. Publication Date: 15-Nov-2014 Electronic Publication Date: 11-Nov-2014 Citation: Loutrel, Nicholas, Yunes, Nicolas, Pretorius, Frans. (2014). Parametrized post-Einsteinian framework for gravitational wave bursts. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 90 (10.1103/PhysRevD.90.104010 DOI: doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.90.104010 ISSN: 1550-7998 EISSN: 1550-2368 Type of Material: Journal Article Journal/Proceeding Title: PHYSICAL REVIEW D Version: Final published version. Article is made available in OAR by the publisher's permission or policy.

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