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gr-qc2020★ 71 cited

All-sky search in early O3 LIGO data for continuous gravitational-wave signals from unknown neutron stars in binary systems

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, R. Abbott +1369

Rapidly spinning neutron stars are promising sources of persistent, continuous gravitational waves. Detecting such a signal would allow probing of the physical properties of matter…

gr-qc2020★ 14 cited

Up-down instability of binary black holes in numerical relativity

Vijay Varma, Matthew Mould, Davide Gerosa +3

Binary black holes with spins that are aligned with the orbital angular momentum do not precess. However, post-Newtonian calculations predict that "up-down" binaries, in which the…

gr-qc2020★ 135 cited

Testing the black-hole area law with GW150914

Maximiliano Isi, Will M. Farr, Matthew Giesler +2

We present observational confirmation of Hawking's black-hole area theorem based on data from GW150914, finding agreement with the prediction with 97% (95%) probability when we mod…

gr-qc2020★ 28 cited

Deep Learning with Quantized Neural Networks for Gravitational Wave Forecasting of Eccentric Compact Binary Coalescence

Wei Wei, E. A. Huerta, Mengshen Yun +5

We present the first application of deep learning forecasting for binary neutron stars, neutron star - black hole systems, and binary black hole mergers that span an eccentricity r…

gr-qc2020★ 12 cited

Gravitational wave peak luminosity model for precessing binary black holes

Afura Taylor, Vijay Varma

When two black holes merge, a tremendous amount of energy is released in the form of gravitational radiation in a short span of time, making such events among the most luminous phe…

gr-qc2020★ 81 cited

Adding Gravitational Memory to Waveform Catalogs using BMS Balance Laws

Keefe Mitman, Dante A. B. Iozzo, Neev Khera +9

Accurate models of gravitational waves from merging binary black holes are crucial for detectors to measure events and extract new science. One important feature that is currently…

gr-qc2020★ 21 cited

High-accuracy waveforms for black hole-neutron star systems with spinning black holes

Francois Foucart, Alexander Chernoglazov, Michael Boyle +10

The availability of accurate numerical waveforms is an important requirement for the creation and calibration of reliable waveform models for gravitational wave astrophysics. For b…

gr-qc2020★ 2 cited

Oscillations of hypermassive compact stars with gravitational radiation and viscosity

Peter B. Rau, Armen Sedrakian

Binary neutron star mergers, such as the multimessenger GW170817 event, may produce hypermassive compact objects which are supported against collapse by the internal circulation of…

gr-qc2020★ 347 cited

Gravitational Test Beyond the First Post-Newtonian Order with the Shadow of the M87 Black Hole

Dimitrios Psaltis, Lia Medeiros, Pierre Christian +185

The 2017 Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observations of the central source in M87 have led to the first measurement of the size of a black-hole shadow. This observation offers a new…

gr-qc2020★ 33 cited

Extending Gravitational Wave Extraction Using Weyl Characteristic Fields

Dante A. B. Iozzo, Michael Boyle, Nils Deppe +5

We present a detailed methodology for extracting the full set of Newman-Penrose Weyl scalars from numerically generated spacetimes without requiring a tetrad that is completely ort…

gr-qc2020★ 807 cited

Tests of General Relativity with Binary Black Holes from the second LIGO-Virgo Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, R. Abbott +1344

Gravitational waves enable tests of general relativity in the highly dynamical and strong-field regime. Using events detected by LIGO-Virgo up to 1 October 2019, we evaluate the co…

gr-qc2020★ 2.4k cited

GWTC-2: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo During the First Half of the Third Observing Run

R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, S. Abraham +1349

We report on gravitational wave discoveries from compact binary coalescences detected by Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo in the first half of the third observing run (O3a) between…

gr-qc2020★ 14 cited

Spin-Orbit Misalignments in Tertiary-Induced Black-Hole Binary Mergers: Theoretical Analysis

Yubo Su, Dong Lai, Bin Liu

Black-hole (BH) binary mergers driven by gravitational perturbations of tertiary companions constitute an important class of dynamical formation channels for compact binaries detec…

gr-qc2020★ 1.3k cited

GW190521: A Binary Black Hole Merger with a Total Mass of

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, R. Abbott +1253

On May 21, 2019 at 03:02:29 UTC Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo observed a short duration gravitational-wave signal, GW190521, with a three-detector network signal-to-noise ratio…

gr-qc2020★ 20 cited

A comparison of momentum transport models for numerical relativity

Matthew D. Duez, Alexander Knight, Francois Foucart +6

The main problems of nonvacuum numerical relativity, compact binary mergers and stellar collapse, involve hydromagnetic instabilities and turbulent flows, so that kinetic energy at…

gr-qc2020★ 26 cited

Observation of eccentric binary black hole mergers with second and third generation gravitational wave detector networks

Zhuo Chen, E. A. Huerta, Joseph Adamo +4

[Abridged] We introduce an improved version of the Eccentric, Non-spinning, Inspiral-Gaussian-process Merger Approximant (ENIGMA) waveform model. We find that this ready-to-use mod…

gr-qc2020★ 95 cited

Computation of Displacement and Spin Gravitational Memory in Numerical Relativity

Keefe Mitman, Jordan Moxon, Mark A. Scheel +5

We present the first numerical relativity waveforms for binary black hole mergers produced using spectral methods that show both the displacement and the spin memory effects. Expli…

gr-qc2020★ 77 cited

Improved Cauchy-characteristic evolution system for high-precision numerical relativity waveforms

Jordan Moxon, Mark A. Scheel, Saul A. Teukolsky

We present several improvements to the Cauchy-characteristic evolution procedure that generates high-fidelity gravitational waveforms at from numerical relativity s…

gr-qc2020★ 26 cited

Statistical and systematic uncertainties in extracting the source properties of neutron star - black hole binaries with gravitational waves

Yiwen Huang, Carl-Johan Haster, Salvatore Vitale +3

Gravitational waves emitted by neutron star black hole mergers encode key properties of neutron stars - such as their size, maximum mass and spins - and black holes. However, the p…

gr-qc2020★ 8 cited

A class of conserved currents for linearized gravity in the Kerr spacetime

Alexander M. Grant, Éanna É. Flanagan

We construct a class of conserved currents for linearized gravity on a Kerr background. Our procedure, motivated by the current for scalar fields discovered by Carter (1977), is gi…

gr-qc2020★ 6 cited

Axisymmetric Hydrodynamics in Numerical Relativity Using a Multipatch Method

Jerred Jesse, Matthew D. Duez, Francois Foucart +7

We describe a method of implementing the axisymmetric evolution of general-relativistic hydrodynamics and magnetohydrodynamics through modification of a multipatch grid scheme. In…

gr-qc2020★ 327 cited

Multipolar Effective-One-Body Waveforms for Precessing Binary Black Holes: Construction and Validation

Serguei Ossokine, Alessandra Buonanno, Sylvain Marsat +12

As gravitational-wave detectors become more sensitive, we will access a greater variety of signals emitted by compact binary systems, shedding light on their astrophysical origin a…

gr-qc2020★ 91 cited

An aligned-spin neutron-star--black-hole waveform model based on the effective-one-body approach and numerical-relativity simulations

Andrew Matas, Tim Dietrich, Alessandra Buonanno +8

After the discovery of gravitational waves from binary black holes (BBHs) and binary neutron stars (BNSs) with the LIGO and Virgo detectors, neutron-star--black-holes (NSBHs) are t…

gr-qc2020★ 401 cited

Prospects for Fundamental Physics with LISA

Enrico Barausse, Emanuele Berti, Thomas Hertog +318

In this paper, which is of programmatic rather than quantitative nature, we aim to further delineate and sharpen the future potential of the LISA mission in the area of fundamental…