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Publications (30)

gr-qc2024

Measuring Gravitational Wave Speed and Lorentz Violation with the First Three Gravitational-Wave Catalogs

Anarya Ray, Pinchen Fan, Vincent F. He +4

The speed of gravitational waves can be measured with the time delay between gravitational-wave detectors. Our study provides a more precise measurement of using gravit…

gr-qc2023

When to Point Your Telescopes: Gravitational Wave Trigger Classification for Real-Time Multi-Messenger Followup Observations

Anarya Ray, Wanting Niu, Shio Sakon +36

We develop a robust and self-consistent framework to extract and classify gravitational wave candidates from noisy data, for the purpose of assisting in real-time multi-messenger f…

gr-qc2026

New Methods for Offline GstLAL Analyses

Prathamesh Joshi, Leo Tsukada, Chad Hanna +38

In this work, we present new methods implemented in the GstLAL offline gravitational wave search. These include a technique to reuse the matched filtering data products from a GstL…

astro-ph.HE2025

Emulating compact binary population synthesis simulations with uncertainty quantification and model comparison using Bayesian normalizing flows

Anarya Ray

Population synthesis simulations of compact binary coalescences~(CBCs) play a crucial role in extracting astrophysical insights from an ensemble of gravitational wave~(GW) observat…

gr-qc2023

Performance of the low-latency GstLAL inspiral search towards LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA's fourth observing run

Becca Ewing, Rachael Huxford, Divya Singh +40

GstLAL is a stream-based matched-filtering search pipeline aiming at the prompt discovery of gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences such as the mergers of black holes…

astro-ph.HE2026

On the Astrophysical Origin of Binary Black Hole Subpopulations: A Tale of Three Channels?

Anarya Ray, Shirsha Mukherjee, Michael Zevin +1

There is increasing evidence for multiple binary black hole~(BBH) subpopulations in the cumulative gravitational wave catalog by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration. The astrophysic…

astro-ph.HE2026

High-mass binary black hole mergers from detailed binary evolution models

Max M. Briel, Olcay Bıyıklı, Tassos Fragos +10

The paper uses detailed binary evolution simulations to test whether super‑Eddington mass transfer in isolated binaries can produce the observed high‑mass binary black hole mergers…

#binary black holes#gravitational waves#stellar evolution#accretion
astro-ph.HE2026

A case for Case A: detailed look at binary black hole formation through stable mass transfer

Max M. Briel, Tassos Fragos, Monica Gallegos-Garcia +8

In isolated binary evolution, binary black hole (BBH) mergers are generally formed through stable mass transfer (SMT) or common envelope evolution. In recent years, the SMT channel…

astro-ph.HE2026

Reexamining Evidence of a Pair-Instability Mass Gap in the Binary Black Hole Population

Anarya Ray, Vicky Kalogera

The fourth gravitational wave transient catalog~(GWTC-4) has enabled empirical probes of the theorized pair-instability gap in the higher end of the binary black hole~(BBH) mass-sp…

gr-qc2024

Searching for asymmetric and heavily precessing Binary Black Holes in the gravitational wave data from the LIGO and Virgo third Observing Run

Stefano Schmidt, Sarah Caudill, Jolien D. E. Creighton +37

Leveraging the features of the GstLAL pipeline, we present the results of a matched filtering search for asymmetric binary black hole systems with heavily misaligned spins in LIGO…

physics.class-ph2019

The Relativistic Point Charge Revisited : Novel Features

Anarya Ray, Parthasarathi Majumdar, Zahid Ansari

A fully relativistically covariant formulation of the classical Maxwell electrodynamics of an arbitrarily-moving point charge is presented, purely in terms of gauge invariant poten…

gr-qc2025

GW231123: extreme spins or microglitches?

Anarya Ray, Sharan Banagiri, Eric Thrane +1

The recently reported binary black hole merger, GW231123, has unusual properties that make it hard to explain astrophysically. Parameter estimation studies are consistent with maxi…

astro-ph.HE2026

Characterizing Binary Black Hole Subpopulations in GWTC-4 with Binned Gaussian Processes: On the Origins of the Peak

Omkar Sridhar, Anarya Ray, Vicky Kalogera

Understanding the astrophysical origins of binary black holes requires accurate and flexible modeling of multi-dimensional population properties. In this \textit{Letter}, using a d…

astro-ph.IM2026

Method to get Better Sky Maps in a GstLAL Low-Latency Analysis

Prathamesh Joshi, Becca Ewing, Chad Hanna +40

Modeled gravitational wave searches correlate the strain data with a bank of gravitational wave template waveforms to make detections of gravitational wave candidates, and these re…

astro-ph.HE2024

Searching for binary black hole sub-populations in gravitational wave data using binned Gaussian processes

Anarya Ray, Ignacio Magaña Hernandez, Katelyn Breivik +1

Astrophysically motivated population models for binary black hole observables are often insufficient to capture the imprints of multiple formation channels. This is mainly due to t…

gr-qc2025

Template bank for sub solar mass compact binary mergers in the fourth observing run of Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo, and KAGRA

Chad Hanna, James Kennington, Wanting Niu +38

Matched-filtering searches for gravitational-wave signals from compact binary mergers employ template banks which are a collection of modeled waveforms described by unique intrinsi…

gr-qc2021

Holographic Bound on Area of Compact Binary Merger Remnant

Parthasarathi Majumdar, Anarya Ray

Using concomitantly the Generalized Second Law of black hole thermodynamics and the holographic Bekenstein entropy bound embellished by Loop Quantum Gravity corrections to quantum…

physics.gen-ph2019

Maxwell Electrodynamics in terms of Physical Potentials

Parthasarathi Majumdar, Anarya Ray

A fully relativistically covariant and manifestly gauge invariant formulation of classical Maxwell electrodynamics is presented, purely in terms of gauge invariant potentials witho…

astro-ph.CO2024

Beyond Gaps and Bumps: Spectral Siren Cosmology with Non-Parametric Population Models

Ignacio Magaña Hernandez, Anarya Ray

Gravitational wave standard sirens typically require electromagnetic (EM) data to obtain redshift information to constrain cosmology. Difficult to find EM counterparts for bright s…

gr-qc2020

Gravitational Waves with Orbital Angular Momentum

Pratyusava Baral, Anarya Ray, Ratna Koley +1

Compact orbiting binaries like the black hole binary system observed in GW150914 carry large amount of orbital angular momentum. The post-ringdown compact object formed after merge…

astro-ph.HE2025

Hiding Out at the Low End: No Gap and a Peak in the Black-Hole Mass Spectrum

Anarya Ray, Will Farr, Vicky Kalogera

In recent years, the existence of a gap in the mass spectrum of compact objects formed from stellar collapse, between the heaviest neutron stars and the lightest black holes, has b…

gr-qc2023

Non-parametric inference of the population of compact binaries from gravitational wave observations using binned Gaussian processes

Anarya Ray, Ignacio Magaña Hernandez, Siddharth Mohite +2

The observation of gravitational waves from multiple compact binary coalescences by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA detector networks has enabled us to infer the underlying distribution of co…

astro-ph.IM2023

Improved ranking statistics of the GstLAL inspiral search for compact binary coalescences

Leo Tsukada, Prathamesh Joshi, Shomik Adhicary +37

Starting from May 2023, the LIGO Scientific, Virgo and KAGRA Collaboration is planning to conduct the fourth observing run with improved detector sensitivities and an expanded dete…

astro-ph.CO2025

Cosmology with Binary Neutron Stars: Does Mass-Redshift Correlation Matter?

Soumendra Kishore Roy, Lieke A. C. van Son, Anarya Ray +1

Next-generation gravitational wave detectors are expected to detect millions of compact binary mergers across cosmological distances. The features of the mass distribution of these…

gr-qc2024

Searching for gravitational-wave signals from precessing black hole binaries with the GstLAL pipeline

Stefano Schmidt, Sarah Caudill, Jolien D. E. Creighton +36

Precession in Binary Black Holes (BBH) is caused by the failure of the Black Hole spins to be aligned and its study can open up new perspectives in gravitational waves (GW) astrono…

astro-ph.HE2026

A Four-dimensional Model-agnostic Probe into the Astrophysical Origins of Binary Black Hole Subpopulations

Anarya Ray, Vicky Kalogera

The paper presents a data-driven reconstruction of the four-dimensional joint distribution of binary black hole primary masses, mass ratios, effective inspiral spin, and effective…

#binary black holes#gravitational waves#population inference#spin distributions
gr-qc2022

Rapid Hierarchical Inference of Neutron Star Equation of State from multiple Gravitational Wave Observations of Binary Neutron Star Coalescences

Anarya Ray, Michael Camilo, Jolien Creighton +2

Bayesian hierarchical inference of phenomenological parameterized neutron star equations of state (EoS) from multiple gravitational wave observations of binary neutron star mergers…

gr-qc2026

How Many Times Should We Matched Filter Gravitational Wave Data? A Comparison of GstLAL's Online and Offline Performance

Prathamesh Joshi, Wanting Niu, Chad Hanna +34

Searches for gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences employ a process called matched filtering, in which gravitational wave strain data is cross-correlated against a b…

gr-qc2026

GstLAL O4 Online Results Paper

Shomik Adhicary, Pratyusava Baral, Amanda Baylor +39

Gravitational-wave observations of merging binary neutron stars and black holes are now routinely made by detectors in the Advanced LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA network. Neutron star binary sy…

gr-qc2017

Self-gravity Correction to the Chandrasekhar Limiting Mass of White Dwarfs

Anarya Ray, Pronobesh Maity, Parthasarathi Majumdar

While computing the Fermi degeneracy pressure of electrons in a white dwarf star within the framework of hydrostatic equilibrium, we depart from the extant practice of treating the…