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physics.space-ph2019★ 26 cited

New test of Lorentz invariance using the MICROSCOPE space mission

Hélène Pihan-le Bars, Christine Guerlin, Aurélien Hees +11

We use data from the T-SAGE instrument on board the MICROSCOPE space mission to search for Lorentz violation in matter-gravity couplings as described by the Lorentz violating Stand…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 73 cited

A sub-Neptune sized planet transiting the M2.5-dwarf G 9-40: Validation with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder

Gudmundur Stefansson, Caleb Cañas, John Wisniewski +32

We validate the discovery of a 2 Earth radii sub-Neptune-size planet around the nearby high proper motion M2.5-dwarf G 9-40 (EPIC 212048748), using high-precision near-infrared (NI…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 11 cited

The Chemical Evolution of Iron-Peak Elements with Hypernovae

J. J. Grimmett, Amanda I. Karakas, Alexander Heger +2

We calculate the mean evolution of the iron-peak abundance ratios [(Cr,Mn,Co,Zn)/Fe] in the Galaxy, using modern supernova and hypernova chemical yields and a Galactic Chemical Evo…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 83 cited

Evidence for He I 10830 Å~ absorption during the transit of a warm Neptune around the M-dwarf GJ 3470 with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder

Joe P. Ninan, Gudmundur Stefansson, Suvrath Mahadevan +21

Understanding the dynamics and kinematics of out-flowing atmospheres of hot and warm exoplanets is crucial to understanding the origins and evolutionary history of the exoplanets n…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 51 cited

Teamwork Makes the Dream Work: Optimizing Multi-Telescope Observations of Gravitational-Wave Counterparts

Michael W. Coughlin, Sarah Antier, David Corre +9

The ever-increasing sensitivity of the network of gravitational-wave detectors has resulted in the accelerated rate of detections from compact binary coalescence systems in the thi…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 119 cited

An Optically Targeted Search for Gravitational Waves emitted by Core-Collapse Supernovae during the First and Second Observing Runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1195

We present the results from a search for gravitational-wave transients associated with core-collapse supernovae observed within a source distance of approximately 20 Mpc during the…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 243 cited

A gravitational-wave measurement of the Hubble constant following the second observing run of Advanced LIGO and Virgo

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1186

This paper presents the gravitational-wave measurement of the Hubble constant () using the detections from the first and second observing runs of the Advanced LIGO and Virgo d…

gr-qc2019★ 147 cited

Model comparison from LIGO-Virgo data on GW170817's binary components and consequences for the merger remnant

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1191

GW170817 is the very first observation of gravitational waves originating from the coalescence of two compact objects in the mass range of neutron stars, accompanied by electromagn…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 57 cited

On standardizing kilonovae and their use as standard candles to measure the Hubble constant

Michael W. Coughlin, Tim Dietrich, Jack Heinzel +6

The detection of GW170817 is revolutionizing many areas of astrophysics with the joint observation of gravitational waves and electromagnetic emissions. These multi-messenger event…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 127 cited

Search for Eccentric Binary Black Hole Mergers with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo during their First and Second Observing Runs

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1183

When formed through dynamical interactions, stellar-mass binary black holes may retain eccentric orbits ( at 10 Hz) detectable by ground-based gravitational-wave detectors.…

math.GN2019★ 2 cited

The closure-complement-frontier problem in saturated polytopological spaces

Sara Canilang, Michael P. Cohen, Nicolas Graese +1

Let be a space equipped with topologies which are pairwise comparable and saturated, and for each let and be the associated topolo…

gr-qc2019★ 24 cited

Lorentz Violation and Sagnac Gyroscopes

Serena Moseley, Nicholas Scaramuzza, Jay D. Tasson +1

Sagnac gyroscopes with increased sensitivity are being developed and operated with a variety of goals including the measurement of General-Relativistic effects. We show that such s…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 42 cited

Search for gravitational-wave signals associated with gamma-ray bursts during the second observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo

B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott +1196

We present the results of targeted searches for gravitational-wave transients associated with gamma-ray bursts during the second observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo,…

gr-qc2019★ 66 cited

Search for gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1 in the second Advanced LIGO observing run with an improved hidden Markov model

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1134

We present results from a semicoherent search for continuous gravitational waves from the low-mass X-ray binary Scorpius X-1, using a hidden Markov model (HMM) to track spin wander…

gr-qc2019★ 76 cited

Search for intermediate mass black hole binaries in the first and second observing runs of the Advanced LIGO and Virgo network

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1196

Gravitational wave astronomy has been firmly established with the detection of gravitational waves from the merger of ten stellar mass binary black holes and a neutron star binary.…

physics.ed-ph2019★ 4 cited

Quantum matrix diagonalization visualized

Kevin Randles, Daniel V. Schroeder, Bruce R. Thomas

We show how to visualize the process of diagonalizing the Hamiltonian matrix to find the energy eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a generic one-dimensional quantum system. Starting i…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 188 cited

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

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1187

We present an Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo search for sub-solar mass ultracompact objects in data obtained during Advanced LIGO's second observing run. In contrast to a previou…

math.CO2019

Edge Disjoint Caterpillar Realizations

István Miklós, Geneva Schlafly, Yuheng Wang +1

In this paper, we consider the edge disjoint caterpillar realizations of tree degree sequences. We give the necessary and sufficient conditions when two tree degree sequences have…

gr-qc2019★ 98 cited

All-sky search for short gravitational-wave bursts in the second Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1186

We present the results of a search for short-duration gravitational-wave transients in the data from the second observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo. We search for gra…

math.AT2019★ 3 cited

Topological complexity of unordered configuration spaces of certain graphs

Steven Scheirer

The unordered configuration space of points on a graph denoted here by can be viewed as the space of all configurations of unlabeled robots on a system of o…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 14 cited

Fermi GBM follow-up of LIGO-Virgo binary black hole mergers -- detection prospects

P. Veres, T. Dal Canton, E. Burns +4

Fermi-Gamma-ray Burst Monitor observed a 1 s long gamma-ray signal (GW150914-GBM) starting 0.4 s after the first gravitational wave detection from the binary black hole merger GW15…

gr-qc2019★ 36 cited

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

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1183

We present the results of a search for long-duration gravitational-wave transients in the data from the Advanced LIGO second observation run; we search for gravitational-wave trans…

gr-qc2019★ 72 cited

Directional limits on persistent gravitational waves using data from Advanced LIGO's first two observing runs

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1132

We perform an unmodeled search for persistent, directional gravitational wave (GW) sources using data from the first and second observing runs of Advanced LIGO. We do not find evid…

gr-qc2019★ 818 cited

Tests of General Relativity with the Binary Black Hole Signals from the LIGO-Virgo Catalog GWTC-1

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1142

The detection of gravitational waves by Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo provides an opportunity to test general relativity in a regime that is inaccessible to traditional astronom…