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Black-hole scattering with numerical relativity: Self-force extraction and post-Minkowskian validation
Oliver Long, Harald P. Pfeiffer, Lawrence E. Kidder +1
The asymptotic nature of unbound binary-black-hole encounters provides a clean method for comparing different approaches for modeling the two-body problem in general relativity. In…
Search for planetary-mass ultra-compact binaries using data from the first part of the LIGO--Virgo--KAGRA fourth observing run
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1765
We present a search for gravitational waves from inspiraling, planetary-mass ultra-compact binaries using data from the first part of the fourth observing run of LIGO, Virgo and KA…
Learning Post-Newtonian Corrections from Numerical Relativity
Jooheon Yoo, Michael Boyle, Nils Deppe
Accurate modeling of gravitational waveforms from compact binary coalescences remains central to gravitational-wave (GW) astronomy. Post-Newtonian (PN) approximations capture the e…
Directional Search for Persistent Gravitational Waves: Results from the First Part of LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA's Fourth Observing Run
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1765
The angular distribution of gravitational-wave power from persistent sources may exhibit anisotropies arising from the large-scale structure of the Universe. This motivates directi…
Gauge Boundary conditions to mitigate center-of-mass drift in BBH simulations
Dongze Sun, Sizheng Ma, Mark A. Scheel +1
Long-term numerical relativity (NR) simulations of binary black hole (BBH) systems in the Spectral Einstein Code (SpEC) code exhibit an unexpected exponential drift of the center-o…
A comprehensive look into the accuracy of SpEC binary black hole waveforms
Taylor Knapp, Katerina Chatziioannou, Keefe Mitman +4
Numerical relativity simulations provide a full description of the dynamics of binary systems, including gravitational radiation. The waveforms produced by these simulations have a…
Biased parameter inference of eccentric, spin-precessing binary black holes
Divyajyoti, Isobel M. Romero-Shaw, Vaishak Prasad +8
While the majority of gravitational wave (GW) events observed by the LIGO and Virgo detectors are consistent with mergers of binary black holes (BBHs) on quasi-circular orbits, som…
GW250114: testing Hawking's area law and the Kerr nature of black holes
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1785
The gravitational-wave signal GW250114 was observed by the two LIGO detectors with a network matched-filter signal-to-noise ratio of 80. The signal was emitted by the coalescence o…
GW230814: investigation of a loud gravitational-wave signal observed with a single detector
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration, The Kagra Collaboration +1783
GW230814, detected by the LIGO Livingston observatory with a signal-to-noise ratio of 42.4, represents the loudest gravitational-wave signal in the GWTC-4.0 catalog. Its source is…
GWTC-4.0: Updating the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog with Observations from the First Part of the Fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observing Run
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1786
Version 4.0 of the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC-4.0) adds new candidates detected by the LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA observatories through the first part of the fourth obs…
GWTC-4.0: Methods for Identifying and Characterizing Gravitational-wave Transients
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1809
The Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC) is a collection of candidate gravitational-wave transient signals identified and characterized by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration…
Emergent Turbulence in Nonlinear Gravity
Sizheng Ma, Luis Lehner, Huan Yang +3
Gravity in nonlinear and dynamical regimes underpins spectacular astrophysical phenomena and observable consequences, from the early universe to black hole collisions. In these ext…
Self-Gravity in Superradiance Clouds: Implications for Binary Dynamics and Observational Prospects
Hyungjin Kim, Alessandro Lenoci
Spinning black holes could produce ultralight particles via the superradiance instability. These particles form a dense cloud around the host black hole, introducing new opportunit…
All-sky search for long-duration gravitational-wave transients in the first part of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observing run
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1772
We present an all-sky search for long-duration gravitational waves (GWs) from the first part of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA fourth observing run (O4), called O4a and comprising data taken…
Defining eccentricity for spin-precessing binaries
Md Arif Shaikh, Vijay Varma, Antoni Ramos-Buades +4
Standardizing the definition of eccentricity is necessary for unambiguous inference of the orbital eccentricity of compact binaries from gravitational wave observations. In previou…
Highly accurate simulations of asymmetric black-hole scattering and cross validation of effective-one-body models
Oliver Long, Harald P. Pfeiffer, Alessandra Buonanno +6
The study of unbound binary-black-hole encounters provides a gauge-invariant approach to exploring strong-field gravitational interactions in two-body systems, which can subsequent…
The SXS Collaboration's third catalog of binary black hole simulations
Mark A. Scheel, Michael Boyle, Keefe Mitman +56
We present a major update to the Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes (SXS) Collaboration's catalog of binary black hole simulations. Using highly efficient spectral methods implemented i…
Modeling the BMS transformation induced by a binary black hole merger
Guido Da Re, Keefe Mitman, Leo C. Stein +12
Understanding the characteristics of the remnant black hole formed in a binary black hole merger is crucial for conducting gravitational wave astronomy. Typically, models of remnan…
Impact of eccentricity and mean anomaly in numerical relativity mergers
Peter James Nee, Aldo Gamboa, Harald P. Pfeiffer +8
Accurate modelling of black hole binaries is critical to achieve the science goals of gravitational-wave detectors. Modelling such configurations relies strongly on calibration to…
Signatures of Quantum Gravity in Gravitational Wave Memory
Nils Deppe, Lavinia Heisenberg, Lawrence E. Kidder +6
We study the impact of quantum corrections to gravitational waveforms on the gravitational wave memory effect. In certain quantum gravity theories and semi-classical frameworks, bl…
Robustness of extracting quasinormal mode information from black hole merger simulations
Leda Gao, Gregory B. Cook, Lawrence E. Kidder +8
In linear perturbation theory, the ringdown of a gravitational wave (GW) signal is described by a linear combination of quasinormal modes (QNMs). Detecting QNMs from GW signals is…
Length dependence of waveform mismatch: a caveat on waveform accuracy
Keefe Mitman, Leo C. Stein, Michael Boyle +4
The Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes Collaboration's code SpEC can now routinely simulate binary black hole mergers undergoing orbits, with the longest simulations undergoing…