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astro-ph.IM2020★ 13 cited

LION :Laser Interferometer On the mooN

Pau Amaro-Seoane, Lea Bischof, Jonathan J. Carter +2

Gravitational wave astronomy has now left its infancy and has become an important tool for probing the most violent phenomena in our universe. The LIGO/Virgo-KAGRA collaboration op…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 81 cited

SWIGLAL: Python and Octave interfaces to the LALSuite gravitational-wave data analysis libraries

Karl Wette

The LALSuite data analysis libraries, written in C, implement key routines critical to the successful detection of gravitational waves, such as the template waveforms describing th…

gr-qc2020★ 52 cited

Propagation of polarized gravitational waves

Lars Andersson, Jérémie Joudioux, Marius A. Oancea +1

The propagation of high-frequency gravitational waves can be analyzed using the geometrical optics approximation. In the case of large but finite frequencies, the geometrical optic…

gr-qc2020★ 16 cited

Sourcing curvature modes with entropy perturbations in non-singular bouncing cosmologies

Anna Ijjas, Roman Kolevatov

The observed temperature fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background can be traced back to primordial curvature modes that are sourced by adiabatic and/or entropic matter pertu…

gr-qc2020★ 20 cited

Frequentist versus Bayesian analyses: Cross-correlation as an (approximate) sufficient statistic for LIGO-Virgo stochastic background searches

Andrew Matas, Joseph D. Romano

Sufficient statistics are combinations of data in terms of which the likelihood function can be rewritten without loss of information. Depending on the data volume reduction, the u…

hep-th2020★ 34 cited

Convergence of hydrodynamic modes: insights from kinetic theory and holography

Michal P. Heller, Alexandre Serantes, Michał Spaliński +2

We study the mechanisms setting the radius of convergence of hydrodynamic dispersion relations in kinetic theory in the relaxation time approximation. This introduces a qualitative…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 59 cited

A low-mass binary neutron star: long-term ejecta evolution and kilonovae with weak blue emission

Kyohei Kawaguchi, Sho Fujibayashi, Masaru Shibata +2

We study the long-term evolution of ejecta formed in a binary neutron star (BNS) merger that results in a long-lived remnant NS by performing a hydrodynamics simulation with the ou…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 51 cited

Diving below the spin-down limit: Constraints on gravitational waves from the energetic young pulsar PSR J0537-6910

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

We present a search for continuous gravitational-wave signals from the young, energetic X-ray pulsar PSR J0537-6910 using data from the second and third observing runs of LIGO and…

physics.optics2020★ 2 cited

Helicity, Spin, and Infra-zilch of Light: a Lorentz Covariant Formulation

Sajad Aghapour, Lars Andersson, Kjell Rosquist

In this paper, a novel conserved Lorentz covariant tensor, termed the helicity tensor, is introduced in Maxwell theory. The conservation of the helicity tensor expresses the conser…

gr-qc2020★ 71 cited

All-sky search in early O3 LIGO data for continuous gravitational-wave signals from unknown neutron stars in binary systems

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, R. Abbott +1369

Rapidly spinning neutron stars are promising sources of persistent, continuous gravitational waves. Detecting such a signal would allow probing of the physical properties of matter…

hep-th2020★ 96 cited

A worldsheet for Kerr

Alfredo Guevara, Ben Maybee, Alexander Ochirov +2

We show that the Newman-Janis shift property of the exact Kerr solution can be interpreted in terms of a worldsheet effective action. This holds both in gravity, and for the single…

hep-th2020★ 8 cited

Higher spins from exotic dualisations

Nicolas Boulanger, Victor Lekeu

At the free level, a given massless field can be described by an infinite number of different potentials related to each other by dualities. In terms of Young tableaux, dualities r…

hep-th2020★ 8 cited

Correlation functions and quantum measures of descendant states

Enrico M. Brehm, Matteo Broccoli

We discuss a computer implementation of a recursive formula to calculate correlation functions of descendant states in two-dimensional CFT. This allows us to obtain any -point f…

gr-qc2020★ 113 cited

Dynamical descalarization in binary black hole mergers

Hector O. Silva, Helvi Witek, Matthew Elley +1

Scalar fields coupled to the Gauss-Bonnet invariant can undergo a tachyonic instability, leading to spontaneous scalarization of black holes. Studies of this effect have so far bee…

hep-th2020★ 18 cited

Elliptic modular graph forms I: Identities and generating series

Eric D'Hoker, Axel Kleinschmidt, Oliver Schlotterer

Elliptic modular graph functions and forms (eMGFs) are defined for arbitrary graphs as natural generalizations of modular graph functions and forms obtained by including the charac…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 37 cited

Gmunu: Paralleled, grid-adaptive, general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics in curvilinear geometries in dynamical spacetimes

Patrick Chi-Kit Cheong, Alan Tsz-Lok Lam, Harry Ho-Yin Ng +1

We present an update of the General-relativistic multigrid numerical (Gmunu) code, a parallelized, multi-dimensional curvilinear, general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics code wit…

gr-qc2020★ 14 cited

Up-down instability of binary black holes in numerical relativity

Vijay Varma, Matthew Mould, Davide Gerosa +3

Binary black holes with spins that are aligned with the orbital angular momentum do not precess. However, post-Newtonian calculations predict that "up-down" binaries, in which the…

gr-qc2020★ 30 cited

Plasma-photon interaction in curved spacetime I: formalism and quasibound states around nonspinning black holes

Enrico Cannizzaro, Andrea Caputo, Laura Sberna +1

We investigate the linear dynamics of an electromagnetic field propagating in curved spacetime in the presence of plasma. The dynamical equations are generically more involved and…

hep-th2020★ 24 cited

Quantum Circuit Complexity of Primordial Perturbations

Jean-Luc Lehners, Jerome Quintin

We study the quantum circuit complexity of cosmological perturbations in different models of the early universe. A natural measure for the complexity of cosmological perturbations…

gr-qc2020★ 26 cited

Deep learning for clustering of continuous gravitational wave candidates II: identification of low-SNR candidates

Banafsheh Beheshtipour, Maria Alessandra Papa

Broad searches for continuous gravitational wave signals rely on hierarchies of follow-up stages for candidates above a given significance threshold. An important step to simplify…

gr-qc2020★ 34 cited

Results from high-frequency all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves from small-ellipticity sources

Vladimir Dergachev, Maria Alessandra Papa

We present the results of an all-sky search for continuous gravitational wave signals with frequencies in the 1700-2000 Hz range from neutron stars with ellipticity of 1e-8. The se…

gr-qc2020★ 54 cited

Inference of proto-neutron star properties from gravitational-wave data in core-collapse supernovae

Marie-Anne Bizouard, Patricio Maturana-Russel, Alejandro Torres-Forné +5

The eventual detection of gravitational waves from core-collapse supernovae (CCSN) will help improve our current understanding of the explosion mechanism of massive stars. The stoc…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 117 cited

GW190521 may be an intermediate mass ratio inspiral

Alexander H. Nitz, Collin D. Capano

GW190521 is the first confident observation of a binary black hole merger with total mass . Given the lack of observational constraints at these masses…

gr-qc2020★ 21 cited

Exploring gravitational-wave detection and parameter inference using Deep Learning methods

João D. Álvares, José A. Font, Felipe F. Freitas +5

We explore machine learning methods to detect gravitational waves (GW) from binary black hole (BBH) mergers using deep learning (DL) algorithms. The DL networks are trained with gr…