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gr-qc2021★ 74 cited

Narrowband searches for continuous and long-duration transient gravitational waves from known pulsars in the LIGO-Virgo third observing run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1658

Isolated neutron stars that are asymmetric with respect to their spin axis are possible sources of detectable continuous gravitational waves. This paper presents a fully-coherent s…

gr-qc2021★ 133 cited

Tests of General Relativity with GWTC-3

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1682

The ever-increasing number of detections of gravitational waves (GWs) from compact binaries by the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors allows us to perform ever-more sensiti…

gr-qc2021★ 40 cited

Search of the Early O3 LIGO Data for Continuous Gravitational Waves from the Cassiopeia A and Vela Jr. Supernova Remnants

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, R. Abbott +1411

We present directed searches for continuous gravitational waves from the neutron stars in the Cassiopeia A (Cas A) and Vela Jr. supernova remnants. We carry out the searches in the…

gr-qc2021★ 61 cited

A general framework for gravitational charges and holographic renormalization

Venkatesa Chandrasekaran, Eanna E. Flanagan, Ibrahim Shehzad +1

We develop a general framework for constructing charges associated with diffeomorphisms in gravitational theories using covariant phase space techniques. This framework encompasses…

gr-qc2021★ 16 cited

A scalable elliptic solver with task-based parallelism for the SpECTRE numerical relativity code

Nils L. Vu, Harald P. Pfeiffer, Gabriel S. Bonilla +10

Elliptic partial differential equations must be solved numerically for many problems in numerical relativity, such as initial data for every simulation of merging black holes and n…

gr-qc2021

Fractality in Cosmic Topology Models with Spectral Action Gravity

Pedro Guicardi, Matilde Marcolli

We consider cosmological models based on the spectral action formulation of (modified) gravity. We analyze the coupled effects, in this model, of the presence of nontrivial cosmic…

gr-qc2021★ 61 cited

High Precision Ringdown Modeling: Multimode Fits and BMS Frames

Lorena Magaña Zertuche, Keefe Mitman, Neev Khera +12

Quasi-normal mode (QNM) modeling is an invaluable tool for characterizing remnant black holes, studying strong gravity, and testing GR. Only recently have QNM studies begun to focu…

gr-qc2021★ 35 cited

All-sky, all-frequency directional search for persistent gravitational-waves from Advanced LIGO's and Advanced Virgo's first three observing runs

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1627

We present the first results from an all-sky all-frequency (ASAF) search for an anisotropic stochastic gravitational-wave background using the data from the first three observing r…

gr-qc2021★ 41 cited

Conservation of asymptotic charges from past to future null infinity: Lorentz charges in general relativity

Kartik Prabhu, Ibrahim Shehzad

We show that the asymptotic charges associated with Lorentz symmetries on past and future null infinity match in the limit to spatial infinity in a class of asymptotically-flat spa…

gr-qc2021★ 62 cited

The NANOGrav 12.5-year data set: Search for Non-Einsteinian Polarization Modes in theGravitational-Wave Background

Zaven Arzoumanian, Paul T. Baker, Harsha Blumer +68

We search NANOGrav's 12.5-year data set for evidence of a gravitational wave background (GWB) with all the spatial correlations allowed by general metric theories of gravity. We fi…

gr-qc2021★ 16 cited

Simulating magnetized neutron stars with discontinuous Galerkin methods

Nils Deppe, François Hébert, Lawrence E. Kidder +33

Discontinuous Galerkin methods are popular because they can achieve high order where the solution is smooth, because they can capture shocks while needing only nearest-neighbor com…

gr-qc2021★ 12 cited

A high-order shock capturing discontinuous Galerkin-finite-difference hybrid method for GRMHD

Nils Deppe, François Hébert, Lawrence E. Kidder +1

We present a discontinuous Galerkin-finite-difference hybrid scheme that allows high-order shock capturing with the discontinuous Galerkin method for general relativistic magnetohy…

gr-qc2021★ 3 cited

Unstable modes of hypermassive compact stars driven by viscosity and gravitational radiation

Peter B. Rau, Armen Sedrakian

We study the oscillations modes of differential rotating remnants of binary neutron star inspirals by modeling them as incompressible Riemann ellipsoids parametrized by the ratio $…

gr-qc2021★ 9 cited

Efficient simulations of high-spin black holes with a new gauge

Yitian Chen, Nils Deppe, Lawrence E. Kidder +1

We present a new choice of initial data for binary black hole simulations that significantly improves the efficiency of high-spin simulations. We use spherical Kerr-Schild coordina…

gr-qc2021★ 3 cited

All-sky search for long-duration gravitational-wave bursts in the third Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1627

After the detection of gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences, the search for transient gravitational-wave signals with less well-defined waveforms for which matched…

gr-qc2021★ 26 cited

Universal features of gravitational waves emitted by superkick binary black hole systems

Sizheng Ma, Matthew Giesler, Vijay Varma +2

We use numerical relativity to study the merger and ringdown stages of "superkick" binary black hole systems (those with equal mass and anti-parallel spins). We find a universal wa…

gr-qc2021★ 82 cited

All-sky search for short gravitational-wave bursts in the third Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1630

This paper presents the results of a search for generic short-duration gravitational-wave transients in data from the third observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo. Trans…

gr-qc2021★ 69 cited

All-sky Search for Continuous Gravitational Waves from Isolated Neutron Stars in the Early O3 LIGO Data

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1587

We report on an all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves in the frequency band 20-2000\,Hz and with a frequency time derivative in the range of …

gr-qc2021★ 41 cited

Measuring the spins of heavy binary black holes

Sylvia Biscoveanu, Maximiliano Isi, Vijay Varma +1

An accurate and precise measurement of the spins of individual merging black holes is required to understand their origin. While previous studies have indicated that most of the sp…

gr-qc2021★ 350 cited

Constraints on black-hole charges with the 2017 EHT observations of M87*

Prashant Kocherlakota, Luciano Rezzolla, Heino Falcke +234

Our understanding of strong gravity near supermassive compact objects has recently improved thanks to the measurements made by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). We use here the M8…

gr-qc2021★ 36 cited

The Wald-Zoupas prescription for asymptotic charges at null infinity in general relativity

Alexander M. Grant, Kartik Prabhu, Ibrahim Shehzad

We use the formalism developed by Wald and Zoupas to derive explicit covariant expressions for the charges and fluxes associated with the Bondi-Metzner-Sachs symmetries at null inf…

gr-qc2021★ 56 cited

Fixing the BMS Frame of Numerical Relativity Waveforms

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

Understanding the Bondi-Metzner-Sachs (BMS) frame of the gravitational waves produced by numerical relativity is crucial for ensuring that analyses on such waveforms are performed…

gr-qc2021★ 30 cited

Comparing Remnant Properties from Horizon Data and Asymptotic Data in Numerical Relativity

Dante A. B. Iozzo, Neev Khera, Leo C. Stein +10

We present a new study of remnant black hole properties from 13 binary black hole systems, numerically evolved using the Spectral Einstein Code. The mass, spin, and recoil velocity…

gr-qc2021★ 115 cited

Search for anisotropic gravitational-wave backgrounds using data from Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo's first three observing runs

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1589

We report results from searches for anisotropic stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds using data from the first three observing runs of the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo det…