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gr-qc2025★ 100 cited

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…

gr-qc2025★ 1 cited

Hunting for new glitches in LIGO data using community science

E Mackenzie, C P L Berry, G Niklasch +5

Data from ground-based gravitational-wave detectors like LIGO contain many types of noise. Glitches are short bursts of non-Gaussian noise that may hinder our ability to identify o…

gr-qc2024★ 10 cited

Simulating binary black hole mergers using discontinuous Galerkin methods

Geoffrey Lovelace, Kyle C. Nelli, Nils Deppe +28

Binary black holes are the most abundant source of gravitational-wave observations. Gravitational-wave observatories in the next decade will require tremendous increases in the acc…

gr-qc2024★ 9 cited

What is the nature of GW230529? An exploration of the gravitational lensing hypothesis

Justin Janquart, David Keitel, Rico K. L. Lo +26

On the 29th of May 2023, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration observed a compact binary coalescence event consistent with a neutron star-black hole merger, though the heavier object…

gr-qc2024★ 7 cited

Advancing Glitch Classification in Gravity Spy: Multi-view Fusion with Attention-based Machine Learning for Advanced LIGO's Fourth Observing Run

Yunan Wu, Michael Zevin, Christopher P. L. Berry +7

The first successful detection of gravitational waves by ground-based observatories, such as the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), marked a breakthrough i…

gr-qc2023★ 17 cited

How to Detect an Astrophysical Nanohertz Gravitational-Wave Background

Bence Bécsy, Neil J. Cornish, Patrick M. Meyers +93

Analysis of pulsar timing data have provided evidence for a stochastic gravitational wave background in the nHz frequency band. The most plausible source of such a background is th…

gr-qc2023★ 28 cited

Gravity Spy: Lessons Learned and a Path Forward

Michael Zevin, Corey B. Jackson, Zoheyr Doctor +23

The Gravity Spy project aims to uncover the origins of glitches, transient bursts of noise that hamper analysis of gravitational-wave data. By using both the work of citizen-scienc…

gr-qc2023★ 14 cited

Measurement of the Cross-Correlation Angular Power Spectrum Between the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background and Galaxy Over-Density

Kate Z. Yang, Jishnu Suresh, Giulia Cusin +5

We study the cross-correlation between the stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) generated by binary black hole (BBH) mergers across the universe and the distribution of…

gr-qc2023★ 29 cited

pygwb: Python-based library for gravitational-wave background searches

Arianna I. Renzini, Alba Romero-Rodrguez, Colm Talbot +31

The collection of gravitational waves (GWs) that are either too weak or too numerous to be individually resolved is commonly referred to as the gravitational-wave background (GWB).…

gr-qc2023★ 76 cited

Searching for continuous Gravitational Waves in the second data release of the International Pulsar Timing Array

M. Falxa, S. Babak, P. T. Baker +123

The International Pulsar Timing Array 2nd data release is the combination of datasets from worldwide collaborations. In this study, we search for continuous waves: gravitational wa…

gr-qc2023★ 159 cited

Laying the foundation of the effective-one-body waveform models SEOBNRv5: improved accuracy and efficiency for spinning non-precessing binary black holes

Lorenzo Pompili, Alessandra Buonanno, Héctor Estellés +21

We present SEOBNRv5HM, a more accurate and faster inspiral-merger-ringdown gravitational waveform model for quasi-circular, spinning, nonprecessing binary black holes within the ef…

gr-qc2023★ 16 cited

Triple Interference, Non-linear Talbot Effect and Gravitization of the Quantum

Per Berglund, Andrew Geraci, Tristan Hübsch +2

Recently we have discussed a new approach to the problem of quantum gravity in which the quantum mechanical structures that are traditionally fixed, such as the Fubini-Study metric…

gr-qc2023★ 331 cited

Open data from the third observing run of LIGO, Virgo, KAGRA and GEO

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1741

The global network of gravitational-wave observatories now includes five detectors, namely LIGO Hanford, LIGO Livingston, Virgo, KAGRA, and GEO 600. These detectors collected data…

gr-qc2022★ 40 cited

Third post-Newtonian effective-one-body Hamiltonian in scalar-tensor and Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity

Félix-Louis Julié, Vishal Baibhav, Emanuele Berti +1

We build an effective-one-body (EOB) Hamiltonian at third post-Newtonian (3PN) order in scalar-tensor (ST) and Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet (ESGB) theories of gravity. The latter i…

gr-qc2022★ 23 cited

Correlated 1-1000 Hz magnetic field fluctuations from lightning over earth-scale distances and their impact on gravitational wave searches

Kamiel Janssens, Matthew Ball, Robert M. S. Schofield +9

We report Earth-scale distance magnetic correlations from lightning strokes in the frequency range 1-1000 Hz at several distances ranging from 1100 to 9000 km. Noise sources which…

gr-qc2022★ 58 cited

Data quality up to the third observing run of Advanced LIGO: Gravity Spy glitch classifications

J. Glanzer, S. Banagiri, S. B. Coughlin +10

Understanding the noise in gravitational-wave detectors is central to detecting and interpreting gravitational-wave signals. Glitches are transient, non-Gaussian noise features tha…

gr-qc2022★ 171 cited

Nonlinear effects in black hole ringdown

Mark Ho-Yeuk Cheung, Vishal Baibhav, Emanuele Berti +8

We report evidence for nonlinear modes in the ringdown stage of the gravitational waveform produced by the merger of two comparable-mass black holes. We consider both the coalescen…

gr-qc2022★ 11 cited

Late-time post-merger modeling of a compact binary: effects of relativity, r-process heating, and treatment of transport effects

Milad Haddadi, Matthew D. Duez, Francois Foucart +8

Detectable electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational waves from compact binary mergers can be produced by outflows from the black hole-accretion disk remnant during the first t…

gr-qc2022★ 1 cited

The impact of relativistic corrections on the detectability of dark-matter spikes with gravitational waves

Nicholas Speeney, Andrea Antonelli, Vishal Baibhav +1

Black holes located within a dark matter cloud can create overdensity regions known as dark matter spikes. The presence of spikes modifies the gravitational-wave signals from binar…

gr-qc2022★ 3 cited

First joint observation by the underground gravitational-wave detector, KAGRA, with GEO600

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1669

We report the results of the first joint observation of the KAGRA detector with GEO600. KAGRA is a cryogenic and underground gravitational-wave detector consisting of a laser inter…

gr-qc2022★ 37 cited

Search for gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1 with a hidden Markov model in O3 LIGO data

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1669

Results are presented for a semi-coherent search for continuous gravitational waves from the low-mass X-ray binary Scorpius X-1, using a hidden Markov model (HMM) to allow for spin…

gr-qc2022★ 103 cited

All-sky search for continuous gravitational waves from isolated neutron stars using Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo O3 data

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1667

We present results of an all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves which can be produced by spinning neutron stars with an asymmetry around their rotation axis, using data…

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…