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astro-ph.HE2018★ 80 cited

Searches for Continuous Gravitational Waves from Fifteen Supernova Remnants and Fomalhaut b with Advanced LIGO

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1129

We describe directed searches for continuous gravitational waves from sixteen well localized candidate neutron stars assuming none of the stars has a binary companion. The searches…

quant-ph2018★ 9 cited

Spontaneous Emission in Quantum Walks of a Kicked Bose-Einstein Condensate

Caspar Groiseau, Sandro Wimberger

We analytically investigate the recently proposed and implemented discrete-time quantum walk based on a kicked Bose-Einstein condensate. We extend previous work on the effective dy…

cond-mat.quant-gas2018★ 24 cited

Landauer-Büttiker equation for bosonic carriers

Andrey R. Kolovsky, Zakari Denis, Sandro Wimberger

We study the current of Bose particles between two reservoirs connected by a one-dimensional channel. We analyze the problem from first principles by considering a microscopic mode…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 901 cited

Binary Black Hole Population Properties Inferred from the First and Second Observing Runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1138

We present results on the mass, spin, and redshift distributions with phenomenological population models using the ten binary black hole mergers detected in the first and second ob…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 3.5k cited

GWTC-1: A Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog of Compact Binary Mergers Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First and Second Observing Runs

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1148

We present the results from three gravitational-wave searches for coalescing compact binaries with component masses above 1 during the first and second observing…

gr-qc2018★ 632 cited

Tests of General Relativity with GW170817

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1145

The recent discovery by Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo of a gravitational wave signal from a binary neutron star inspiral has enabled tests of general relativity (GR) with this n…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 44 cited

A Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor Search for Electromagnetic Signals Coincident with Gravitational-Wave Candidates in Advanced LIGO's First Observing Run

ray Burst Monitor Team, The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration +1160

We present a search for prompt gamma-ray counterparts to compact binary coalescence gravitational wave (GW) candidates from Advanced LIGO's first observing run (O1). As demonstrate…

gr-qc2018★ 136 cited

Search for gravitational waves from a long-lived remnant of the binary neutron star merger GW170817

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1138

One unanswered question about the binary neutron star coalescence GW170817 is the nature of its post-merger remnant. A previous search for post-merger gravitational waves targeted…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 49 cited

Constraining the p-mode--g-mode tidal instability with GW170817

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1136

We analyze the impact of a proposed tidal instability coupling -modes and -modes within neutron stars on GW170817. This non-resonant instability transfers energy from the orb…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 76 cited

Viscous-Dynamical Ejecta from Binary Neutron Star Merger

David Radice, Albino Perego, Kenta Hotokezaka +3

General-relativistic simulations of binary neutron star mergers with viscosity reveal a new outflow mechanism operating in unequal mass binaries on dynamical timescales and enabled…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 464 cited

Binary Neutron Star Mergers: Mass Ejection, Electromagnetic Counterparts and Nucleosynthesis

David Radice, Albino Perego, Kenta Hotokezaka +3

We present a systematic numerical relativity study of the mass ejection and the associated electromagnetic transients and nucleosynthesis from binary neutron star (NS) mergers. We…

quant-ph2018★ 31 cited

Experimental realization of a momentum-space quantum walk

Siamak Dadras, Alexander Gresch, Caspar Groiseau +2

We report on a discrete-time quantum walk that uses the momentum of ultra-cold rubidium-87 atoms as the walk space and two internal atomic states as the coin degree of freedom. Eac…

gr-qc2018★ 60 cited

Relevance of tidal effects and post-merger dynamics for binary neutron star parameter estimation

Reetika Dudi, Francesco Pannarale, Tim Dietrich +4

Measurements of the properties of binary neutron star systems from gravitational-wave observations require accurate theoretical models for such signals. However, current models are…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 122 cited

Search for sub-solar mass ultracompact binaries in Advanced LIGO's first observing run

B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott +1135

We present the first Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo search for ultracompact binary systems with component masses between 0.2 - 1.0 using data taken between Se…

hep-lat2018★ 7 cited

The curvature of the chiral pseudocritical line from LQCD: analytic continuation and Taylor expansion compared

Claudio Bonati, Massimo D'Elia, Francesco Negro +2

We present a determination of the curvature of the chiral pseudocritical line from lattice QCD at the physical point obtained by adopting the Taylor expansion approac…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 3 cited

Unveiling the enigma of ATLAS17aeu

A. Melandri, A. Rossi, S. Benetti +42

Aim. The unusual transient ATLAS17aeu was serendipitously detected within the sky localisation of the gravitational wave trigger GW170104. The importance of a possible association…

physics.soc-ph2018★ 38 cited

Epidemic Spreading and Aging in Temporal Networks with Memory

Michele Tizzani, Simone Lenti, Enrico Ubaldi +3

Time-varying network topologies can deeply influence dynamical processes mediated by them. Memory effects in the pattern of interactions among individuals are also known to affect…

quant-ph2018★ 58 cited

Fast adiabatic evolution by oscillating initial Hamiltonians

Francesco Petiziol, Benjamin Dive, Florian Mintert +1

We propose a method to produce fast transitionless dynamics for finite-dimensional quantum systems without requiring additional Hamiltonian components not included in the initial c…

hep-lat2018★ 18 cited

Large-order NSPT for lattice gauge theories with fermions: the plaquette in massless QCD

Luigi Del Debbio, Francesco Di Renzo, Gianluca Filaci

Numerical Stochastic Perturbation Theory (NSPT) allows for perturbative computations in quantum field theory. We present an implementation of NSPT that yields results for high orde…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 239 cited

A standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant from GW170817 without the electromagnetic counterpart

M. Fishbach, R. Gray, I. Magaña Hernandez +316

We perform a statistical standard siren analysis of GW170817. Our analysis does not utilize knowledge of NGC 4993 as the unique host galaxy of the optical counterpart to GW170817.…

gr-qc2018★ 58 cited

Calibration of Advanced Virgo and Reconstruction of the Gravitational Wave Signal h(t) during the Observing Run O2

Virgo Collaboration, F. Acernese, T. Adams +281

In August 2017, Advanced Virgo joined Advanced LIGO for the end of the O2 run, leading to the first gravitational waves detections with the three-detector network. This paper descr…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 36 cited

The Impact of Different Neutrino Transport Methods on Multidimensional Core-collapse Supernova Simulations

Kuo-Chuan Pan, Carlos Mattes, Evan P. O'Connor +3

Neutrinos play a crucial role in the core-collapse supernova (CCSN) explosion mechanism. The requirement of accurately calculating the transport of neutrinos makes simulations of t…

gr-qc2018★ 742 cited

Black holes, gravitational waves and fundamental physics: a roadmap

Leor Barack, Vitor Cardoso, Samaya Nissanke +203

The grand challenges of contemporary fundamental physics---dark matter, dark energy, vacuum energy, inflation and early universe cosmology, singularities and the hierarchy problem-…

gr-qc2018★ 313 cited

Time-domain effective-one-body gravitational waveforms for coalescing compact binaries with nonprecessing spins, tides and self-spin effects

Alessandro Nagar, Sebastiano Bernuzzi, Walter Del Pozzo +21

We present TEOBResumS, a new effective-one-body (EOB) waveform model for nonprecessing (spin-aligned) and tidally interacting compact binaries.Spin-orbit and spin-spin effects are…