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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…

gr-qc2020★ 36 cited

Archival searches for stellar-mass binary black holes in LISA

Becca Ewing, Surabhi Sachdev, Ssohrab Borhanian +1

Stellar-mass binary black holes will sweep through the frequency band of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) for months to years before appearing in the audio-band of gro…

gr-qc2020★ 370 cited

Challenges and Opportunities of Gravitational Wave Searches at MHz to GHz Frequencies

N. Aggarwal, O. D. Aguiar, A. Bauswein +22

The first direct measurement of gravitational waves by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations has opened up new avenues to explore our Universe. This white paper outlines the challenges…

gr-qc2020★ 807 cited

Tests of General Relativity with Binary Black Holes from the second LIGO-Virgo Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, R. Abbott +1344

Gravitational waves enable tests of general relativity in the highly dynamical and strong-field regime. Using events detected by LIGO-Virgo up to 1 October 2019, we evaluate the co…

gr-qc2020★ 2.4k cited

GWTC-2: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo During the First Half of the Third Observing Run

R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, S. Abraham +1349

We report on gravitational wave discoveries from compact binary coalescences detected by Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo in the first half of the third observing run (O3a) between…

gr-qc2020★ 43 cited

Identifying when Precession can be Measured in Gravitational Waveforms

Rhys Green, Charlie Hoy, Stephen Fairhurst +3

In binary-black-hole systems where the black-hole spins are misaligned with the orbital angular momentum, precession effects leave characteristic modulations in the emitted gravita…

gr-qc2020★ 1.3k cited

GW190521: A Binary Black Hole Merger with a Total Mass of

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, R. Abbott +1253

On May 21, 2019 at 03:02:29 UTC Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo observed a short duration gravitational-wave signal, GW190521, with a three-detector network signal-to-noise ratio…

gr-qc2020★ 19 cited

PyROQ: a Python-based Reduced Order Quadrature Building Code for Fast Gravitational Wave Inference

Hong Qi, Vivien Raymond

The next generation of gravitational-wave observatories will reach low frequency limits on the orders of a few Hz, thus enabling the detection of gravitational wave signals of very…

gr-qc2020★ 61 cited

Gravitational-wave surrogate models powered by artificial neural networks: The ANN-Sur for waveform generation

Sebastian Khan, Rhys Green

Inferring the properties of black holes and neutron stars is a key science goal of gravitational-wave (GW) astronomy. To extract as much information as possible from GW observation…

gr-qc2020★ 19 cited

Investigating the effect of in-plane spin directions for Precessing BBH systems

Chinmay Kalaghatgi, Mark Hannam

Morphology of coalescing BBH waveforms are affected by its spins. Waveform models built for inference of source parameters have several in-built approximations. In current precessi…

gr-qc2020★ 47 cited

An Experiment for Observing Quantum Gravity Phenomena using Twin Table-Top 3D Interferometers

Sander M Vermeulen, Lorenzo Aiello, Aldo Ejlli +4

Theories of quantum gravity based on the holographic principle predict the existence of quantum fluctuations of distance measurements that accumulate and exhibit correlations over…

gr-qc2020★ 84 cited

Measuring gravitational-wave higher-order modes

Cameron Mills, Stephen Fairhurst

We investigate the observability of higher harmonics in gravitational wave signals emitted during the coalescence of binary black holes. We decompose each mode into an overall ampl…

gr-qc2020★ 60 cited

Rapid Parameter Estimation of Gravitational Waves from Binary Neutron Star Coalescence using Focused Reduced Order Quadrature

Soichiro Morisaki, Vivien Raymond

Rapid parameter estimation of gravitational waves from binary neutron star coalescence, in particular accurate sky localisation in minutes after the initial detection stage, is cru…

gr-qc2020★ 101 cited

Coherent WaveBurst, a pipeline for unmodeled gravitational-wave data analysis

M. Drago, V. Gayathri, S. Klimenko +12

coherent WaveBurst (cWB) is a highly configurable pipeline designed to detect a broad range of gravitational-wave (GW) transients in the data of the worldwide network of GW detecto…

gr-qc2020★ 46 cited

Tests of general relativity using multiband observations of intermediate mass binary black hole mergers

Sayantani Datta, Anuradha Gupta, Shilpa Kastha +2

Observation of gravitational waves (GWs) in two different frequency bands is referred to as multiband GW astronomy. With the planned Laser Interferometric Space Antenna (LISA) oper…

gr-qc2020★ 64 cited

Multiparameter tests of general relativity using multiband gravitational-wave observations

Anuradha Gupta, Sayantani Datta, Shilpa Kastha +3

In this Letter we show that multiband observations of stellar-mass binary black holes by the next generation of ground-based observatories (3G) and the space-based Laser Interferom…

gr-qc2020★ 581 cited

Computationally efficient models for the dominant and sub-dominant harmonic modes of precessing binary black holes

Geraint Pratten, Cecilio García-Quirós, Marta Colleoni +8

We present IMRPhenomXPHM, a phenomenological frequency-domain model for the gravitational-wave signal emitted by quasi-circular precessing binary black holes, which incorporates mu…

gr-qc2020★ 14 cited

Graviton-photon mixing. Exact solution in a constant magnetic field

Damian Ejlli

In this work I study the effect of graviton-photon mixing in a constant external magnetic field and find for the first time in the literature exact solution of the equations of mot…

gr-qc2020★ 84 cited

Subtracting compact binary foreground sources to reveal primordial gravitational-wave backgrounds

Surabhi Sachdev, Tania Regimbau, B. S. Sathyaprakash

Detection of primordial gravitational-wave backgrounds generated during the early universe phase transitions is a key science goal for future ground-based detectors. The rate of co…

gr-qc2020★ 112 cited

Modeling the gravitational wave signature of neutron star black hole coalescences: PhenomNSBH

Jonathan E. Thompson, Edward Fauchon-Jones, Sebastian Khan +4

Accurate gravitational-wave (GW) signal models exist for black hole binary (BBH) and neutron-star binary (BNS) systems, which are consistent with all of the published GW observatio…

gr-qc2020★ 401 cited

Prospects for Fundamental Physics with LISA

Enrico Barausse, Emanuele Berti, Thomas Hertog +318

In this paper, which is of programmatic rather than quantitative nature, we aim to further delineate and sharpen the future potential of the LISA mission in the area of fundamental…