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gr-qc2025★ 9 cited

Generic EFT-motivated beyond General Relativity gravitational wave tests and their curvature dependence: from observation to interpretation

Laura Bernard, Suvendu Giri, Luis Lehner +1

We present a "dictionary" to expedite the identification of potential deviations in gravitational waveforms from those predicted by General Relativity (GR) during the inspiral phas…

gr-qc2024★ 4 cited

Wheeler-DeWitt equation and the late gravitational collapse: effects of factor ordering and the tunneling scenario

Davide Batic, Marek Nowakowski, Neelima Govind Kelkar

We set up the Wheeler-DeWitt (WDW) equation for late gravitational collapse. The fact that the gravitational collapse and the expanding/ collapsing universe can be described within…

gr-qc2024★ 2 cited

The Universe according to DESI results

Davide Batic, Sergio Bravo Medina, Marek Nowakowski

The recent fit of cosmological parameters by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration will have a significant impact on our understanding of the universe. Give…

gr-qc2024★ 2 cited

Cosmologies in theory with non-minimal coupling between geometry and matter

Sergio Bravo Medina, Marek Nowakowski, Ronaldo V. Lobato +1

Among the recent extensions to standard General Relativity, gravity has risen an interest given the possibility of coupling between geometry and matter. We exa…

gr-qc2024★ 5 cited

Gravitational Collapse via Wheeler-DeWitt Equation

Davide Batic, Marek Nowakowski

We analyze the Wheeler-DeWitt (WDW) equation in the context of a gravitational collapse. The physics of an expanding/collapsing universe and many details of a collapsing star can c…

gr-qc2023

A comment on singular and non-singular black holes using the Gaussian distribution

D. Batic, M. Nowakowski, S. A. Salim

In this work, we join the controversial discussion on singular and non-singular black holes using the Gaussian distribution. Our result which uses correct boundary conditions shift…

gr-qc2023★ 1 cited

Axisymmetric Solutions to Einstein Field Equations via Integral Transforms

D. Batic, N. B. Debru, M. Nowakowski

In this paper, we present new axisymmetric and reflection symmetric vacuum solutions to the Einstein field equations. They are obtained using the Hankel integral transform method a…

gr-qc2023★ 8 cited

Luminosity distance uncertainties from gravitational wave detections by third generation observatories

Josiel Mendonça Soares de Souza, Riccardo Sturani

A new generation of terrestrial gravitational wave detectors is currently being planned for the next decade, and it is expected to detect most of the coalescences of compact object…

gr-qc2018★ 298 cited

Probing Ultralight Bosons with Binary Black Holes

Daniel Baumann, Horng Sheng Chia, Rafael A. Porto

We study the gravitational-wave (GW) signatures of clouds of ultralight bosons around black holes (BHs) in binary inspirals. These clouds, which are formed via superradiance instab…

gr-qc2017★ 34 cited

All-sky search for long-duration gravitational wave transients in the first Advanced LIGO observing run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +990

We present the results of a search for long-duration gravitational wave transients in the data of the LIGO Hanford and LIGO Livingston second generation detectors between September…

gr-qc2017★ 136 cited

Effects of Data Quality Vetoes on a Search for Compact Binary Coalescences in Advanced LIGO's First Observing Run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +957

The first observing run of Advanced LIGO spanned 4 months, from September 12, 2015 to January 19, 2016, during which gravitational waves were directly detected from two binary blac…

gr-qc2017★ 18 cited

Gravitational waves from neutron star excitations in binary inspirals

A. Parisi, R. Sturani

In the context of binary inspiral of mixed neutron star - black hole systems, we investigate the excitation of the neutron star oscillation modes by the orbital motion. We study ge…

gr-qc2017★ 63 cited

Radiation reaction for spinning bodies in effective field theory II: Spin-spin effects

Natália T. Maia, Chad R. Galley, Adam K. Leibovich +1

We compute the leading Post-Newtonian (PN) contributions at quadratic order in the spins to the radiation-reaction acceleration and spin evolution for binary systems, entering at f…

gr-qc2017★ 62 cited

Radiation reaction for spinning bodies in effective field theory I: Spin-orbit effects

Natália T. Maia, Chad R. Galley, Adam K. Leibovich +1

We compute the leading Post-Newtonian (PN) contributions at linear order in the spin to the radiation-reaction acceleration and spin evolution for binary systems, which enter at fo…

gr-qc2017★ 31 cited

The Lamb shift and the gravitational binding energy for binary black holes

Rafael A. Porto

We show that the correction to the gravitational binding energy for binary black holes due to the tail effect resembles the Lamb shift in the Hydrogen atom. In both cases a 'conser…

gr-qc2017★ 94 cited

On the Apparent Ambiguities in the Post-Newtonian Expansion for Binary Systems

Rafael A. Porto, Ira Z. Rothstein

We discuss the source of the apparent ambiguities arising in the calculation of the dynamics of binary black holes within the Post-Newtonian framework. Divergences appear in both t…

gr-qc2017★ 139 cited

Directional limits on persistent gravitational waves from Advanced LIGO's first observing run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +993

We employ gravitational-wave radiometry to map the gravitational waves stochastic background expected from a variety of contributing mechanisms and test the assumption of isotropy…

gr-qc2016★ 312 cited

Upper Limits on the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Advanced LIGO's First Observing Run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +992

A wide variety of astrophysical and cosmological sources are expected to contribute to a stochastic gravitational-wave background. Following the observations of GW150914 and GW1512…

gr-qc2016★ 102 cited

All-sky search for short gravitational-wave bursts in the first Advanced LIGO run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +986

We present the results from an all-sky search for short-duration gravitational waves in the data of the first run of the Advanced LIGO detectors between September 2015 and January…

gr-qc2016★ 138 cited

Effects of waveform model systematics on the interpretation of GW150914

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +999

Parameter estimates of GW150914 were obtained using Bayesian inference, based on three semi-analytic waveform models for binary black hole coalescences. These waveform models diffe…

gr-qc2016★ 16 cited

The Impact of Particle Production on Gravitational Baryogenesis

J. A. S. Lima, Douglas Singleton

Baryogenesis driven by curvature effects is investigated by taking into account gravitationally induced particle production in the very early Universe. In our scenario, the baryon…

gr-qc2016★ 105 cited

The basic physics of the binary black hole merger GW150914

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +953

The first direct gravitational-wave detection was made by the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory on September 14, 2015. The GW150914 signal was strong eno…

gr-qc2016★ 25 cited

Search for continuous gravitational waves from neutron stars in globular cluster NGC 6544

B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott +953

We describe a directed search for continuous gravitational waves in data from the sixth LIGO science run. The target was the nearby globular cluster NGC 6544 at a distance of 2.7 k…

gr-qc2016★ 35 cited

Results of the deepest all-sky survey for continuous gravitational waves on LIGO S6 data running on the Einstein@Home volunteer distributed computing project

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration

We report results of a deep all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves from isolated neutron stars in data from the S6 LIGO science run. The search was possible thanks to the…