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gr-qc2025★ 1 cited

Are dark matter and dark energy omnipresent?

Richard Lieu

A set of temporal singularities (transients) in the mass-energy density and pressure, bearing a specific mathematical structure which represents a new solution to the continuity eq…

gr-qc2024★ 2 cited

Inferred Hubble Parameter from Gravitational Waves in a Perturbative Bianchi I Background

Kevin J. Ludwick, Peter L. Williams

It is straightforward to take the gravitational wave solution to first order in far from a binary source in a Minkowski background and adapt it to the Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robe…

gr-qc2024★ 11 cited

Constant Velocity Physical Warp Drive Solution

Jared Fuchs, Christopher Helmerich, Alexey Bobrick +3

Warp drives are exotic solutions of general relativity that offer novel means of transportation. In this study, we present a solution for a constant-velocity subluminal warp drive…

gr-qc2024★ 2 cited

Warp Factory: A Numerical Toolkit for the Analysis and Optimization of Warp Drive Geometries

Christopher Helmerich, Jared Fuchs, Alexey Bobrick +3

The last few decades of warp drive research have focused on analytic methods to explore warp solutions to Einstein's field equations. These analytic solutions tend to favor simple…

gr-qc2024★ 4 cited

Analyzing Warp Drive Spacetimes with Warp Factory

Christopher Helmerich, Jared Fuchs, Alexey Bobrick +3

The field of warp research has been dominated by analytical methods to investigate potential solutions. However, these approaches often favor simple metric forms that facilitate an…

gr-qc2022★ 28 cited

Template bank for compact binary mergers in the fourth observing run of Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo, and KAGRA

Shio Sakon, Leo Tsukada, Heather Fong +34

Matched-filtering gravitational wave search pipelines identify gravitational wave signals by computing correlations, i.e., signal-to-noise ratios, between gravitational wave detect…

gr-qc2022★ 5 cited

Damping of long wavelength gravitational waves by the intergalactic medium

Richard Lieu, Kristen Lackeos, Bing Zhang

The problem of radiation by the charged particles of the intergalactic medium (IGM) when a passing gravitational wave (GW) accelerate them is investigated. The largest acceleration…

gr-qc2021★ 23 cited

Bayesian Time Delay Interferometry

Jessica Page, Tyson Littenberg

Laser frequency noise (LFN) is the dominant source of noise expected in the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission, at 7 orders of magnitude greater than the typic…

gr-qc2020★ 12 cited

Search for Advanced LIGO Single Interferometer Compact Binary Coalescence Signals in Coincidence with Gamma-Ray Events in Fermi-GBM

C. Stachie, T. Dal Canton, E. Burns +11

Presented is the description of a new and general method used to search for -ray counterparts to gravitational-wave (GW) triggers. This method is specifically applied to single…

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★ 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★ 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…

gr-qc2016★ 3.5k cited

GW151226: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a 22-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration

We report the observation of a gravitational-wave signal produced by the coalescence of two stellar-mass black holes. The signal, GW151226, was observed by the twin detectors of th…

gr-qc2016★ 155 cited

Directly comparing GW150914 with numerical solutions of Einstein's equations for binary black hole coalescence

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +979

We compare GW150914 directly to simulations of coalescing binary black holes in full general relativity, accounting for all the spin-weighted quadrupolar modes, and separately acco…

gr-qc2016★ 163 cited

An improved analysis of GW150914 using a fully spin-precessing waveform model

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +973

This paper presents updated estimates of source parameters for GW150914, a binary black-hole coalescence event detected by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (…

gr-qc2016★ 1.2k cited

Binary Black Hole Mergers in the first Advanced LIGO Observing Run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +972

The first observational run of the Advanced LIGO detectors, from September 12, 2015 to January 19, 2016, saw the first detections of gravitational waves from binary black hole merg…

gr-qc2016★ 92 cited

A First Targeted Search for Gravitational-Wave Bursts from Core-Collapse Supernovae in Data of First-Generation Laser Interferometer Detectors

B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott +964

We present results from a search for gravitational-wave bursts coincident with a set of two core-collapse supernovae observed between 2007 and 2011. We employ data from the Laser I…

gr-qc2016★ 42 cited

Comprehensive All-sky Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves in the Sixth Science Run LIGO Data

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +959

We report on a comprehensive all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the frequency band 100-1500 Hz and with a frequency time derivative in the range of $[-1.18, +1.00]\…