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Discovery of two new millisecond pulsars towards the Galactic bulge

J. Berteaud, F. Calore, M. Clavel +13

The mysterious Galactic Center Excess of gamma rays could be explained by a large population of millisecond pulsars hiding in the Galactic bulge, too faint to be detected as indivi…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

The TRAPUM Large Magellanic Cloud pulsar survey with MeerKAT II: 12 new discoveries and timing solutions for 7 pulsars

V. Prayag, L. Levin, M. Geyer +15

We report the discovery of 12 new radio pulsars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) as part of the TRAPUM (TRAnsients and PUlsars with MeerKAT) Large Survey Project, using the Meer…

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…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

Optical Study of TRAPUM Pulsars and Modelling of the Redbacks: PSR J10364353 and PSR J18036707

A. Phosrisom, R. P. Breton, C. J. Clark +12

The Transients and Pulsars with MeerKAT (TRAPUM) project discovered eight binary millisecond pulsars in its first shallow \textit{L}-band survey of unidentified \textit{Fermi} -…

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…

astro-ph.IM2025

Searching systematically for coupling of laser and phase-modulation noise in heterodyne interferometry

Kohei Yamamoto, Olaf Hartwig, Lennart Wissel +3

Heterodyne interferometry for precision science often comes with an optical phase modulation, for example, for intersatellite clock noise transfer for gravitational wave (GW) detec…

astro-ph.GA2025

Across the Universe: GW231123 as a magnified and diffracted black hole merger

Srashti Goyal, Hector Villarrubia-Rojo, Miguel Zumalacarregui

GW231123 appears as the most massive binary black hole (BBH) ever observed by the LIGO interferometers with total mass . A high observed mass can be explained by t…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 5 cited

Astrophysical Implications of Eccentricity in Gravitational Waves from Neutron Star-Black Hole Binaries

Isobel Romero-Shaw, Jakob Stegmann, Gonzalo Morras +2

The gravitational-wave signal from the neutron star-black hole (NSBH) merger GW200105 is consistent with this binary having significant orbital eccentricity close to merger. This r…

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…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

Frequency- and phase-resolved polarimetry of millisecond pulsars and its application to timing

Małgorzata Curyło, Andrew Zic, Shuangqiang Wang +16

Pulsar timing is used for a variety of applications including tests of fundamental physics, probing the structure of neutron stars, and detecting nanohertz gravitational waves. Dev…

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…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 1 cited

Revisiting wideband pulsar timing measurements

Abhimanyu Susobhanan, Avinash Kumar Paladi, Réka Desmecht +28

In the wideband paradigm of pulsar timing, the time of arrival of a pulsar pulse is measured simultaneously with the corresponding dispersion measure from a frequency-resolved inte…

astro-ph.HE2025

Data span and frequency coverage requirements for robust detection and inference in PTAs: A case study with EPTA DR2

Irene Ferranti, Mikel Falxa, Federico Fantoccoli +2

Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) are approaching the sensitivity required for a detection of the nanohertz stochastic gravitational-wave background (GWB). This makes it crucial to…

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…

physics.optics2025

Experimental Demonstration of an On-Axis Laser Ranging Interferometer for Future Gravity Missions

Daikang Wei, Christoph Bode, Kohei Yamamoto +6

We experimentally demonstrate a novel interferometric architecture for next-generation gravity missions, featuring a laser ranging interferometer (LRI) that enables monoaxial trans…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 2 cited

Accelerated inference of microlensed gravitational waves with machine learning

Marienza Caldarola, Srashti Goyal, Nihar Gupte +2

Gravitational waves (GWs) within the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA sensitivity band can be microlensed by stellar and intermediate-mass black holes, producing a frequency-dependent modulation o…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 34 cited

GW241011 and GW241110: Exploring Binary Formation and Fundamental Physics with Asymmetric, High-Spin Black Hole Coalescence

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1783

We report the observation of gravitational waves from two binary black hole coalescences during the fourth observing run of the LIGO--Virgo--KAGRA detector network, GW241011 and GW…

gr-qc2025

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…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 9 cited

Improving cosmological reach of a gravitational wave observatory using Deep Loop Shaping

Jonas Buchli, Brendan Tracey, Tomislav Andric +28

Improved low-frequency sensitivity of gravitational wave observatories would unlock study of intermediate-mass black hole mergers, binary black hole eccentricity, and provide early…

astro-ph.HE2025

Sco X-1 as a continuous gravitational waves source: modelling the secular evolution using MESA

Gianluca Pagliaro, Maria Alessandra Papa, Jing Ming +1

We study the prospects for detecting continuous gravitational waves (GWs) from Sco X-1 and evaluate the most likely waveform and progenitor parameters. We model the spin of the neu…

gr-qc2025

Global time-frequency search for stellar-mass binary black holes in LISA

Diganta Bandopadhyay, Christian E. A. Chapman-Bird, Alberto Vecchio

We present a complete pipeline for detecting and characterizing gravitational waves (GWs) produced by the inspiral of stellar-mass binary black holes in data from the Laser Interfe…