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gr-qc2026

Probing Kerr symmetry breaking with LISA extreme-mass-ratio inspirals

Pablo F. Muguruza, Carlos F. Sopuerta

[abridged] Extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are one of the main sources of gravitational waves (GWs) for LISA. The large number of GW cycles in the EMRI signal makes them very…

gr-qc2026

Rethinking Resonance Detectability during Binary Neutron Star Inspiral: Accurate Mismatch Computations for Low-lying Dynamical Tides

Alberto Revilla-Peña, Ruxandra Bondarescu, Andrew P. Lundgren +1

We compute deviations from observed gravitational wave signals, where the amplitude of the signal is unchanged. As an example, we consider the detectability of low lying dynamical…

gr-qc2025★ 1 cited

Search for Peak Structures in the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background in LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA O1-O4a Datasets

Catalina-Ana Miritescu, Mario Martinez, Oriol Pujolas

We present a dedicated search for gravitational-wave backgrounds with nontrivial peak structures using data from the first three and the initial part of the fourth observing runs o…

gr-qc2025

Prospects for gravitational wave and ultra-light dark matter detection with binary resonances beyond the secular approximation

Joshua W. Foster, Diego Blas, Adrien Bourgoin +4

Precision observations of orbital systems have recently emerged as a promising new means of detecting gravitational waves and ultra-light dark matter, offering sensitivity in new r…

gr-qc2024

Searches for Compact Binary Coalescence Events Using Neural Networks in LIGO/Virgo Third Observation Period

Alexis Menéndez-Vázquez, Marc Andrés-Carcasona, Mario Martínez +1

We present the results on the search for the coalescence of compact binary mergers using convolutional neural networks and the LIGO/Virgo data for the O3 observation period. Two-di…

gr-qc2023★ 331 cited

Open data from the third observing run of LIGO, Virgo, KAGRA and GEO

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1741

The global network of gravitational-wave observatories now includes five detectors, namely LIGO Hanford, LIGO Livingston, Virgo, KAGRA, and GEO 600. These detectors collected data…

gr-qc2023★ 43 cited

Can gravitational-wave memory help constrain binary black-hole parameters? A LISA case study

Silvia Gasparotto, Rodrigo Vicente, Diego Blas +2

Besides the transient effect, the passage of a gravitational wave also causes a persistent displacement in the relative position of an interferometer's test masses through the \emp…

gr-qc2022★ 75 cited

The Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy catalog approach for gravitational wave cosmology

Jonathan R. Gair, Archisman Ghosh, Rachel Gray +28

We outline the ``dark siren'' galaxy catalog method for cosmological inference using gravitational wave (GW) standard sirens, clarifying some common misconceptions in the implement…

gr-qc2022★ 22 cited

The Virgo O3 run and the impact of the environment

F. Acernese, M. Agathos, A. Ain +486

Sources of geophysical noise (such as wind, sea waves and earthquakes) or of anthropogenic noise impact ground-based gravitational-wave interferometric detectors, causing transient…

gr-qc2022★ 3 cited

First joint observation by the underground gravitational-wave detector, KAGRA, with GEO600

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1669

We report the results of the first joint observation of the KAGRA detector with GEO600. KAGRA is a cryogenic and underground gravitational-wave detector consisting of a laser inter…

gr-qc2022★ 37 cited

Search for gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1 with a hidden Markov model in O3 LIGO data

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1669

Results are presented for a semi-coherent search for continuous gravitational waves from the low-mass X-ray binary Scorpius X-1, using a hidden Markov model (HMM) to allow for spin…

gr-qc2022★ 103 cited

All-sky search for continuous gravitational waves from isolated neutron stars using Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo O3 data

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1667

We present results of an all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves which can be produced by spinning neutron stars with an asymmetry around their rotation axis, using data…

gr-qc2021★ 133 cited

Tests of General Relativity with GWTC-3

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1682

The ever-increasing number of detections of gravitational waves (GWs) from compact binaries by the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors allows us to perform ever-more sensiti…

gr-qc2021

Unifying an asymmetric bounce to the dark energy in Chern-Simons F(R) gravity

Sergei D. Odintsov, Tanmoy Paul, Indrani Banerjee +2

We propose a cosmological scenario in which the universe undergoes through a non-singular bounce, and after the bounce, it decelerates having a matter-like dominated evolution duri…

gr-qc2021★ 46 cited

Detecting stochastic gravitational waves with binary resonance

Diego Blas, Alexander C. Jenkins

LIGO and Virgo have initiated the era of gravitational-wave (GW) astronomy; but in order to fully explore GW frequency spectrum, we must turn our attention to innovative techniques…

gr-qc2020★ 1 cited

Cosmological implications of the hydrodynamical phase of group field theory

Luciano Gabbanelli, Silvia De Bianchi

In this review we focus on the main cosmological implications of the Group Field Theory approach, according to which an effective continuum macroscopic dynamics can be extracted fr…

gr-qc2020★ 2 cited

On the degrees of freedom of a black hole

Diego Pavon

By examining whether black holes fulfill the theorem of equipartition of energy we find that the notion of degrees of freedom, previously introduced for cosmic horizons, is meaning…

gr-qc2019★ 1 cited

Reconstruction Procedure for Nonlocal Gauss-Bonnet Models

Emilio Elizalde, Ekaterina O. Pozdeeva, Sergey Yu. Vernov

We investigate the cosmological dynamics of nonlocally corrected gravity involving a function of the inverse d'Alembertian acting on the Gauss-Bonnet term. Casting the dynamical eq…

gr-qc2019★ 10 cited

Motion of localized sources in general relativity: gravitational self-force from quasilocal conservation laws

Marius Oltean, Richard J. Epp, Carlos F. Sopuerta +2

An idealized "test" object in general relativity moves along a geodesic. However, if the object has a finite mass, this will create additional curvature in the spacetime, causing i…

gr-qc2018★ 9 cited

Fluctuations of the flux of energy on the apparent horizon

Jose P. Mimoso, Diego Pavon

Adopting the Landau-Lifshiftz method of classical fluctuations we determine the statistical average strength of the fluctuations of the energy flux on the apparent horizon of a hom…

gr-qc2018★ 1 cited

Constraints on the radiation temperature before inflation

Ramon Herrera, Diego Pavon, Joel Saavedra

We consider the short period of cosmic expansion ranging from the end of the Planck era to the beginning of inflation and set upper and lower limits on the temperature of the radia…

gr-qc2017★ 1 cited

A frequency-domain implementation of the particle-without-particle approach to EMRIs

Marius Oltean, Carlos F. Sopuerta, Alessandro D. A. M. Spallicci

The gravitational waves emitted by binary systems with extreme mass ratios carry unique astrophysical information expected to be probed by the next generation of gravitational wave…

gr-qc2016★ 38 cited

Considerations on the thermal equilibrium between matter and the cosmic horizon

José Pedro Mimoso, Diego Pavón

A common feature in the thermodynamic analysis of homogeneous and isotropic world models is the assumption that the temperature of the fluids inside the cosmic horizon (including d…

gr-qc2016★ 2 cited

Entropy theorems in classical mechanics, general relativity, and the gravitational two-body problem

Marius Oltean, Luca Bonetti, Alessandro D. A. M. Spallicci +1

In classical Hamiltonian theories, entropy may be understood either as a statistical property of canonical systems, or as a mechanical property, that is, as a monotonic function of…