papers

Publications (36)

gr-qc2024

Calibrating signal-to-noise ratio detection thresholds using gravitational-wave catalogs

Matthew Mould, Christopher J. Moore, Davide Gerosa

astro-ph.HE2023

One to many: comparing single gravitational-wave events to astrophysical populations

Matthew Mould, Davide Gerosa, Marco Dall'Amico +1

astro-ph.HE2026

Nowhere left to hide: revealing realistic gravitational-wave populations in high dimensions and high resolution with PixelPop

Sofia Alvarez-Lopez, Jack Heinzel, Matthew Mould +1

The paper presents PixelPop, a high‑resolution Bayesian non‑parametric framework that captures multidimensional correlations among masses, spins, and redshifts of binary black hole…

#gravitational waves#binary black holes#population inference#bayesian nonparametrics
astro-ph.HE2022

Which black hole formed first? Mass-ratio reversal in massive binary stars from gravitational-wave data

Matthew Mould, Davide Gerosa, Floor S. Broekgaarden +1

astro-ph.HE2022

Gravitational-wave population inference at past time infinity

Matthew Mould, Davide Gerosa

astro-ph.HE2025

Reconstructing parametric gravitational-wave population fits from non-parametric results without refitting the data

Cecilia Maria Fabbri, Davide Gerosa, Alessandro Santini +3

gr-qc2024

Squeezing the quantum noise of a gravitational-wave detector below the standard quantum limit

Wenxuan Jia, Victoria Xu, Kevin Kuns +168

astro-ph.HE2023

QLUSTER: quick clusters of merging binary black holes

Davide Gerosa, Matthew Mould

astro-ph.HE2026

Measurement prospects for the pair-instability mass cutoff with gravitational waves

Matthew Mould, Jack Heinzel, Sofia Alvarez-Lopez +3

gr-qc2026

Comparing astrophysical models to gravitational-wave data in the observable space

Alexandre Toubiana, Davide Gerosa, Matthew Mould +9

gr-qc2021

Up-down instability of binary black holes in numerical relativity

Vijay Varma, Matthew Mould, Davide Gerosa +3

astro-ph.HE2026

Evidence of the pair instability gap from black hole masses

Hui Tong, Maya Fishbach, Eric Thrane +13

gr-qc2022

Characterization of merging black holes with two precessing spins

Viola De Renzis, Davide Gerosa, Geraint Pratten +2

astro-ph.IM2026

Neural Bayesian updates to populations with growing gravitational-wave catalogs

Noah E. Wolfe, Matthew Mould, John Veitch +1

gr-qc2025

Studying the gravitational-wave population without looking that FAR out

Noah E. Wolfe, Matthew Mould, Jack Heinzel +1

astro-ph.HE2026

Simulation-calibrated Bayesian inference for progenitor properties of the microquasar SS 433

Nathan Steinle, Matthew Mould, Sarah Al-Humaikani +3

gr-qc2021

Looking for the parents of LIGO's black holes

Vishal Baibhav, Emanuele Berti, Davide Gerosa +2

astro-ph.IM2025

Rapid inference and comparison of gravitational-wave population models with neural variational posteriors

Matthew Mould, Noah E. Wolfe, Salvatore Vitale

gr-qc2023

Efficient multi-timescale dynamics of precessing black-hole binaries

Davide Gerosa, Giulia Fumagalli, Matthew Mould +4

gr-qc2021

Unstable binary black-hole spins: post-Newtonian theory and numerical relativity

Matthew Mould

astro-ph.HE2025

The Long Road to Alignment: Measuring Black Hole Spin Orientation with Expanding Gravitational-Wave Datasets

Salvatore Vitale, Matthew Mould

astro-ph.HE2022

Deep learning and Bayesian inference of gravitational-wave populations: Hierarchical black-hole mergers

Matthew Mould, Davide Gerosa, Stephen R. Taylor

astro-ph.HE2020

The mass gap, the spin gap, and the origin of merging binary black holes

Vishal Baibhav, Davide Gerosa, Emanuele Berti +3

gr-qc2023

Parameter estimation of binary black holes in the endpoint of the up-down instability

Viola De Renzis, Davide Gerosa, Matthew Mould +2

gr-qc2021

A generalized precession parameter to interpret gravitational-wave data

Davide Gerosa, Matthew Mould, Daria Gangardt +3

astro-ph.HE2025

Nonparametric analysis of correlations in the binary black hole population with LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA data

Jack Heinzel, Matthew Mould, Salvatore Vitale

gr-qc2025

Constraining Population III stellar demographics with next-generation gravitational-wave observatories

Cailin Plunkett, Matthew Mould, Salvatore Vitale

gr-qc2020

Endpoint of the up-down instability in precessing binary black holes

Matthew Mould, Davide Gerosa

gr-qc2025

Which is which? Identification of the two compact objects in gravitational-wave binaries

Davide Gerosa, Viola De Renzis, Federica Tettoni +3

astro-ph.HE2026

Joint population and strong-lensing inference for resolved gravitational-wave events probes the black-hole merger rate beyond the peak of star formation

Matthew Mould

astro-ph.HE2026

Variance of gravitational-wave populations

Alessia Corelli, Davide Gerosa, Matthew Mould +1

astro-ph.GA2025

Black Hole - Neutron Star and Binary Neutron Star Mergers from Population III and II stars

Benedetta Mestichelli, Michela Mapelli, Filippo Santoliquido +9

gr-qc2026

End-to-End Population Inference from Gravitational-Wave Strain using Transformers

Konstantin Leyde, Stephen R. Green, Maximilian Dax +3

gr-qc2026

Gravitational-wave astronomy requires population-informed parameter estimation

Matthew Mould, Rodrigo Tenorio, Davide Gerosa

astro-ph.HE2025

PixelPop: High Resolution Nonparameteric Inference of Gravitational-Wave Populations in Multiple Dimensions

Jack Heinzel, Matthew Mould, Sofía Álvarez-López +1

gr-qc2020

Mapping the asymptotic inspiral of precessing binary black holes to their merger remnants

Luca Reali, Matthew Mould, Davide Gerosa +1