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gr-qc2017★ 16 cited

Lagrangian theory of structure formation in relativistic cosmology. IV. Lagrangian approach to gravitational waves

Fosca Al Roumi, Thomas Buchert, Alexander Wiegand

The relativistic generalization of the Newtonian Lagrangian perturbation theory is investigated. In previous works, the perturbation and solution schemes that are generated by the…

hep-th2017★ 31 cited

Cubic interactions of massless bosonic fields in three dimensions

Karapet Mkrtchyan

Parity-even cubic vertices of massless bosons of arbitrary spins in three dimensional Minkowski space are classified in the metric-like formulation. As opposed to higher dimensions…

math-ph2017★ 13 cited

Integrable lattice spin models from supersymmetric dualities

Ilmar Gahramanov, Shahriyar Jafarzade

Recently, there has been observed an interesting correspondence between supersymmetric quiver gauge theories with four supercharges and integrable lattice models of statistical mec…

gr-qc2017★ 29 cited

Targeted numerical simulations of binary black holes for GW170104

James Healy, Jacob Lange, Richard O'Shaughnessy +22

In response to LIGO's observation of GW170104, we performed a series of full numerical simulations of binary black holes, each designed to replicate likely realizations of its dyna…

gr-qc2017★ 31 cited

Assessing the Energetics of Spinning Binary Black Hole Systems

Serguei Ossokine, Tim Dietrich, Evan Foley +2

In this work we study the dynamics of spinning binary black hole systems in the strong field regime. For this purpose we extract from numerical relativity simulations the binding e…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 30 cited

The Einstein@Home Gamma-Ray Pulsar Survey II. Source Selection, Spectral Analysis and Multi-wavelength Follow-up

J. Wu, C. J. Clark, H. J. Pletsch +23

We report on the analysis of 13 gamma-ray pulsars discovered in the Einstein@Home blind search survey using Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) Pass 8 data. The 13 new gamma-ray pulsa…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 40 cited

Coincident detection significance in multimessenger astronomy

Gregory Ashton, Eric Burns, Tito Dal Canton +6

We derive a Bayesian criterion for assessing whether signals observed in two separate data sets originate from a common source. The Bayes factor for a common vs. unrelated origin o…

gr-qc2017★ 108 cited

Gravitational-wave luminosity of binary neutron stars mergers

Francesco Zappa, Sebastiano Bernuzzi, David Radice +2

We study the gravitational-wave peak luminosity and radiated energy of quasicircular neutron star mergers using a large sample of numerical relativity simulations with different bi…

gr-qc2017★ 86 cited

Construction of KAGRA: an Underground Gravitational Wave Observatory

T. Akutsu, M. Ando, S. Araki +222

Major construction and initial-phase operation of a second-generation gravitational-wave detector KAGRA has been completed. The entire 3-km detector is installed underground in a m…

gr-qc2017★ 42 cited

Numerical Relativity Simulations of Precessing Binary Neutron Star Mergers

Tim Dietrich, Sebastiano Bernuzzi, Bernd Bruegmann +2

We present the first set of numerical relativity simulations of binary neutron mergers that include spin precession effects and are evolved with multiple resolutions. Our simulatio…

hep-th2017★ 17 cited

Cancellation of divergences up to three loops in exceptional field theory

Guillaume Bossard, Axel Kleinschmidt

We consider the tetrahedral three-loop diagram in exceptional field theory evaluated as a scalar diagram for four external gravitons. At lowest order in momenta, this diagram…

hep-th2017★ 1 cited

Simplex-like Structures of Maximally Supersymmetric Scattering Amplitudes

Junjie Rao

We elaborate the two-fold simplex-like structures of tree amplitudes in planar maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills (N=4 SYM), through its connection to a mathematical structure kno…

hep-th2017★ 7 cited

All-loop Mondrian Diagrammatics and 4-particle Amplituhedron

Yang An, Yi Li, Zhinan Li +1

Based on 1712.09990 which handles the 4-particle amplituhedron at 3-loop, we have found an extremely simple pattern, yet far more non-trivial than one might naturally expect: the a…

hep-th2017★ 6 cited

4-particle Amplituhedron at 3-loop and its Mondrian Diagrammatic Implication

Junjie Rao

This article provides a direct calculation of the 4-particle amplituhedron at 3-loop order, by introducing a set of practical tricks. After delicately rearranging each piece of thi…

gr-qc2017★ 169 cited

Low significance of evidence for black hole echoes in gravitational wave data

Julian Westerweck, Alex B. Nielsen, Ofek Fischer-Birnholtz +6

Recent detections of merging black holes allow observational tests of the nature of these objects. In some proposed models, non-trivial structure at or near the black hole horizon…

hep-th2017★ 9 cited

Frame- and Metric-like Higher-Spin Fermions

Rakibur Rahman

Conventional descriptions of higher-spin fermionic gauge fields appear in two varieties: the Aragone-Deser-Vasiliev frame-like formulation and the Fang-Fronsdal metric-like formula…

gr-qc2017★ 80 cited

Parameterized tests of the strong-field dynamics of general relativity using gravitational wave signals from coalescing binary black holes: Fast likelihood calculations and sensitivity of the method

Jeroen Meidam, Ka Wa Tsang, Janna Goldstein +15

Thanks to the recent discoveries of gravitational wave signals from binary black hole mergers by Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory and Advanced Virgo, th…

gr-qc2017★ 27 cited

Gravitational waves from spinning binary black holes at the leading post-Newtonian orders at all orders in spin

Nils Siemonsen, Jan Steinhoff, Justin Vines

We determine the binding energy, the total gravitational wave energy flux, and the gravitational wave modes for a binary of rapidly spinning black holes, working in linearized grav…

hep-th2017★ 48 cited

Quantum entanglement in de Sitter space from Stringy Axion: An analysis using vacua

Sayantan Choudhury, Sudhakar Panda

In this work, we study the phenomena of quantum entanglement by computing de Sitter entanglement entropy from von Neumann measure. For this purpose we consider a bipartite quantum…

hep-th2017★ 87 cited

Universality at large transverse spin in defect CFT

Madalena Lemos, Pedro Liendo, Marco Meineri +1

We study the spectrum of local operators living on a defect in a generic conformal field theory, and their coupling to the local bulk operators. We establish the existence of unive…

gr-qc2017★ 25 cited

Cosmological evolution as squeezing: a toy model for group field cosmology

Eugene Adjei, Steffen Gielen, Wolfgang Wieland

We present a simple model of quantum cosmology based on the group field theory (GFT) approach to quantum gravity. The model is formulated on a subspace of the GFT Fock space for th…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 17 cited

Resampling to accelerate cross-correlation searches for continuous gravitational waves from binary systems

Grant David Meadors, Badri Krishnan, Maria Alessandra Papa +2

Continuous-wave (CW) gravitational waves (GWs) call for computationally-intensive methods. Low signal-to-noise ratio signals need templated searches with long coherent integration…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 2 cited

Efficient Estimation of Barycentered Relative Time Delays for Distant Gravitational Wave Sources

Orion Sauter, Vladimir Dergachev, Keith Riles

Accurate determination of gravitational wave source parameters relies on transforming between the source and detector frames. All-sky searches for continuous wave sources are compu…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 69 cited

Prospects for detecting gravitational waves at 5 Hz with ground-based detectors

Hang Yu, Denis Martynov, Salvatore Vitale +16

We propose an upgrade to Advanced LIGO (aLIGO), named LIGO-LF, that focuses on improving the sensitivity in the 5-30 Hz low-frequency band, and we explore the upgrade's astrophysic…