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Universality in the Transition from Inspiral to Plunge for Extreme-Mass-Ratio-Inspirals: High-Accuracy Analytic Solutions and Catastrophe Theory

Ariadna Ribes Metidieri, Béatrice Bonga, Badri Krishnan +1

We revisit the transition from inspiral to plunge for extreme mass-ratio inspirals on quasi-circular, inclined orbits in Kerr spacetime from the perspective of catastrophe theory.…

gr-qc2026

Horizon absorption in eccentric precessing binary black hole inspirals and its importance for gravitational wave data analysis

Alberto Álvaro-Díaz, Gonzalo Morras

During the evolution of a binary black hole, energy and angular momentum are exchanged between the orbital motion and the individual black holes through horizon absorption, modifyi…

gr-qc2026★ 2 cited

GW240925 and GW250207: Astrophysical Calibration of Gravitational-wave Detectors

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1839

GW240925 and GW250207 are two loud gravitational-wave signals from binary black hole coalescences observed with network signal-to-noise ratios and , respectively…

gr-qc2026

Implications of the LISA stochastic signal from eccentric stellar mass black hole binaries in vacuum

Ran Chen, Rohit S. Chandramouli, Federico Pozzoli +2

Astrophysical formation channels of stellar-mass binary black holes (sBBHs) can induce significant orbital eccentricities in their early inspiral. We analyze the implications on th…

gr-qc2026★ 1 cited

Searches for Continuous Gravitational Waves from Supernova Remnants in the first part of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Fourth Observing run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1764

We present results from directed searches for continuous gravitational waves from a sample of 15 nearby supernova remnants, likely hosting young neutron star candidates, using data…

gr-qc2026

Post-Newtonian inspiral waveform model for eccentric precessing binaries with higher-order modes and matter effects

Gonzalo Morras, Geraint Pratten, Patricia Schmidt +1

We introduce pyEFPEHM, a post-Newtonian (PN) inspiral waveform model for eccentric and spin-precessing compact binaries that includes higher-order modes and matter effects. Accurat…

gr-qc2026★ 4 cited

Advancing the Effective-One-Body Framework in the Test-Mass Limit

Nami Nishimura, Alessandra Buonanno, Guglielmo Faggioli +2

We present SEOB-TML, an enhanced effective-one-body (EOB) framework for the test-mass limit, optimized for quasi-circular, spin-aligned binary black holes. On the dynamical side, w…

gr-qc2026

Narrowband searches for continuous gravitational waves from known pulsars in the first two parts of the fourth LIGO--Virgo--KAGRA observing run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1853

Rotating non-axisymmetric neutron stars (NSs) are promising sources for continuous gravitational waves (CWs). Such CWs can, if detected, inform us about the internal structure and…

gr-qc2026

Uncovering subdominant multipole asymmetries in binary black-hole mergers

Jannik Mielke, Angela Borchers, Frank Ohme

In dynamically formed binaries, the spins of the black holes tend to be misaligned with the system's orbital angular momentum. This causes the spins to precess and leads to an asym…

gr-qc2026★ 2 cited

Resummed energy loss in extreme-mass-ratio scattering using critical orbits

Leor Barack, Riccardo Gonzo, Benjamin Leather +2

Motivated by recent efforts to bridge between weak-field and strong-field descriptions of black-hole binary dynamics, we develop a resummation scheme for post-Minkowskian radiative…

gr-qc2026

Plunge-Merger-Ringdown Tests of General Relativity with GW250114

Leonardo Grimaldi, Elisa Maggio, Lorenzo Pompili +1

The binary black hole signal GW250114, the clearest gravitational wave detected to date, offers a unique opportunity to test general relativity in the relativistic strong-gravity r…

gr-qc2026★ 1 cited

Constraints on gravitational waves from the 2024 Vela pulsar glitch

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1774

Among known neutron stars, the Vela pulsar is one of the best targets for gravitational-wave searches. It is also one of the most prolific in terms of glitches, sudden frequency ch…

gr-qc2026★ 1 cited

Quasinormal modes and their excitation beyond general relativity. II: isospectrality loss in gravitational waveforms

Hector O. Silva, Giovanni Tambalo, Kostas Glampedakis +1

We continue our series of papers where we study the quasinormal modes, and their excitation, of black holes in the simplest beyond general relativity model in which first-principle…

gr-qc2026★ 1 cited

Confronting eikonal and post-Kerr methods with numerical evolution of scalar field perturbations in spacetimes beyond Kerr

Ciro De Simone, Sebastian H. Völkel, Kostas D. Kokkotas +2

The accurate computation of quasinormal modes from rotating black holes beyond general relativity is crucial for testing fundamental physics with gravitational waves. In this study…

gr-qc2026

Combining simulation-based inference and universal relations for precise and accurate neutron star science

Christian J. Krüger, Sebastian H. Völkel

In this work, we propose a novel approach for identifying, constructing, and validating precise and accurate universal relations for neutron star bulk quantities. A central element…

gr-qc2026

Tidal perturbations of an extreme mass ratio inspiral around a Kerr black hole

Marta Cocco, Gianluca Grignani, Troels Harmark +3

We determine the metric of a Kerr black hole subject to external tidal fields using metric reconstruction techniques. Working within the Newman-Penrose formalism, we solve the Teuk…

gr-qc2025★ 3 cited

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…

gr-qc2025

Primary black-hole scalar charges and kinetic screening in -essence-Gauss-Bonnet gravity

Guillermo Lara, Georg Trenkler, Leonardo G. Trombetta

Black holes beyond General Relativity may carry non-standard charges that impact their phenomenology. We study how the scalar charge that is induced by the scalar-Gauss-Bonnet coup…

gr-qc2025★ 1 cited

Observable Gravitational Wave Strain at Second Order

Guillem Domènech, Shi Pi, Ao Wang

There is currently no rigorous definition of gravitational wave strain at second order in cosmological perturbation theory. The usual association of gravitational waves with transv…

gr-qc2025

Observational constraints on the spin/anisotropy of the CCOs of Cassiopeia A, Vela Jr. and G347.3-0.5 and a single surviving continuous gravitational wave candidate

Jing Ming, Maria Alessandra Papa, Heinz-Bernd Eggenstein +7

We carry out the deepest and broadest search for continuous gravitational-wave signals from three neutron stars at the center of the supernova remnants Cassiopeia A, Vela Jr., and…

gr-qc2025★ 5 cited

Detection of GW200105 with a targeted eccentric search

Khun Sang Phukon, Patricia Schmidt, Gonzalo Morras +1

The neutron star -- black hole (NSBH) binary GW200105 was recently found to have significant residual orbital eccentricity at a gravitational-wave frequency of 20 Hz~\cite{Morras:2…

gr-qc2025★ 1 cited

Flexible Gravitational-Wave Parameter Estimation with Transformers

Annalena Kofler, Maximilian Dax, Stephen R. Green +6

Gravitational-wave data analysis relies on accurate and efficient methods to extract physical information from noisy detector signals, yet the increasing rate and complexity of obs…

gr-qc2025★ 2 cited

Analysis of late-time tails in spin-aligned eccentric binary black hole mergers

Tousif Islam, Guglielmo Faggioli, Gaurav Khanna

We present a comprehensive analysis of late-time tails in gravitational radiation from merging spin-aligned eccentric binary black holes, using high-accuracy point-particle black h…

gr-qc2025

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…