An improved effective-one-body model of spinning, nonprecessing binary black holes for the era of gravitational-wave astrophysics with advanced detectors

Alejandro Bohé,1, ∗ Lijing Shao,1, † Andrea Taracchini,1, ‡ Alessandra Buonanno,1, 2 Stanislav Babak,1 Ian W. Harry,1 Ian Hinder,1 Serguei Ossokine,1 Michael Pürrer,1 Vivien Raymond,1 Tony Chu,3, 4 Heather Fong,4, 5 Prayush Kumar,4, 5 Harald P. Pfeiffer,4, 1, 6 Michael Boyle,7 Daniel A. Hemberger,8 Lawrence E. Kidder,7 Geoffrey Lovelace,9 Mark A. Scheel,8 and Béla Szilágyi8, 10 1Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), Am Mühlenberg 1, Potsdam 14476, Germany 2Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA 3Department of Physics, Princeton University, Jadwin Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA 4Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto M5S 3H8, Canada 5Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto M5S 3H8, Canada 6Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto M5G 1Z8, Canada 7Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 14853, USA 8Theoretical Astrophysics 350-17, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA 9Gravitational Wave Physics and Astronomy Center, California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, California 92834, USA 10Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA (Dated: March 30, 2017)