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gr-qc2026★ 2 cited

GW240925 and GW250207: Astrophysical Calibration of Gravitational-wave Detectors

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1839

GW240925 and GW250207 are two loud gravitational-wave signals from binary black hole coalescences observed with network signal-to-noise ratios and , respectively…

gr-qc2026★ 1 cited

Searches for Continuous Gravitational Waves from Supernova Remnants in the first part of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Fourth Observing run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1764

We present results from directed searches for continuous gravitational waves from a sample of 15 nearby supernova remnants, likely hosting young neutron star candidates, using data…

gr-qc2026

Thermodynamics of dynamical black holes beyond perturbation theory

Abhay Ashtekar, Daniel E. Paraizo, Jonathan Shu

The close similarities of the three laws of black hole mechanics, discovered by Bardeen, Carter and Hawking, with the laws of thermodynamics led to the identification of a multiple…

gr-qc2026★ 1 cited

Constraints on gravitational waves from the 2024 Vela pulsar glitch

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1774

Among known neutron stars, the Vela pulsar is one of the best targets for gravitational-wave searches. It is also one of the most prolific in terms of glitches, sudden frequency ch…

gr-qc2025★ 3 cited

Thermodynamics of Black Holes, far from Equilibrium

Abhay Ashtekar, Daniel E. Paraizo, Jonathan Shu

As in thermodynamics, the celebrated first law of black hole mechanics relates infinitesimal changes in the properties of nearby equilibrium states of black holes (without referenc…

gr-qc2025

Search for planetary-mass ultra-compact binaries using data from the first part of the LIGO--Virgo--KAGRA fourth observing run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1765

We present a search for gravitational waves from inspiraling, planetary-mass ultra-compact binaries using data from the first part of the fourth observing run of LIGO, Virgo and KA…

gr-qc2025★ 2 cited

Testing general relativity with amplitudes of subdominant gravitational-wave modes

Ish Gupta, Purnima Narayan, Lionel London +2

We present an improved subdominant-mode amplitude (SMA) test of general relativity (GR), which probes amplitude-level deviations in the higher-order modes of gravitational-wave (GW…

gr-qc2025

Directional Search for Persistent Gravitational Waves: Results from the First Part of LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA's Fourth Observing Run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1765

The angular distribution of gravitational-wave power from persistent sources may exhibit anisotropies arising from the large-scale structure of the Universe. This motivates directi…

gr-qc2025

Simulations of Spinning Binary Black Hole Mergers

Estuti Shukla, Alireza Rashti, Rossella Gamba +2

We present the second release of the waveform catalog, comprising four new quasi-circular, non-precessing, spinning binary black hole simulations. These simu…

gr-qc2025★ 6 cited

Biased parameter inference of eccentric, spin-precessing binary black holes

Divyajyoti, Isobel M. Romero-Shaw, Vaishak Prasad +8

While the majority of gravitational wave (GW) events observed by the LIGO and Virgo detectors are consistent with mergers of binary black holes (BBHs) on quasi-circular orbits, som…

gr-qc2025★ 100 cited

GW250114: testing Hawking's area law and the Kerr nature of black holes

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1785

The gravitational-wave signal GW250114 was observed by the two LIGO detectors with a network matched-filter signal-to-noise ratio of 80. The signal was emitted by the coalescence o…

gr-qc2025★ 5 cited

GW230814: investigation of a loud gravitational-wave signal observed with a single detector

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration, The Kagra Collaboration +1783

GW230814, detected by the LIGO Livingston observatory with a signal-to-noise ratio of 42.4, represents the loudest gravitational-wave signal in the GWTC-4.0 catalog. Its source is…

gr-qc2025★ 1 cited

Hamiltonian gravity in tetrad-connection variables

Erick I. Duque

A systematic Hamiltonian formulation of the Einstein-Cartan system, based on the Hilbert-Palatini action with the Barbero-Immirzi and cosmological constants, is performed using the…

gr-qc2025

Persistence of post-Newtonian amplitude structure in binary black hole mergers

Viviana A. Cáceres-Barbosa

We analyze the spherical harmonic mode amplitudes of quasicircular, nonprecessing binary black hole mergers using 275 numerical relativity simulations from the SXS, RIT, and MAYA c…

gr-qc2025★ 64 cited

GWTC-4.0: Updating the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog with Observations from the First Part of the Fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observing Run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1786

Version 4.0 of the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC-4.0) adds new candidates detected by the LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA observatories through the first part of the fourth obs…

gr-qc2025★ 8 cited

Confronting general relativity with principal component analysis: Simulations and results from GWTC-3 events

Parthapratim Mahapatra, Sayantani Datta, Ish Gupta +10

We present a comprehensive assessment of multiparameter tests of general relativity (GR) in the inspiral regime of compact binary coalescences using principal component analysis (P…

gr-qc2025★ 3 cited

All-sky search for long-duration gravitational-wave transients in the first part of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observing run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1772

We present an all-sky search for long-duration gravitational waves (GWs) from the first part of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA fourth observing run (O4), called O4a and comprising data taken…

gr-qc2025

Perturbative emergent modified gravity on cosmological backgrounds: Kinematics

Martin Bojowald, Manuel Diaz, Erick I. Duque

Emergent modified gravity has shown that the canonical formulation of general relativity gives rise to a larger class of covariant modifications than action-based approaches, so fa…

gr-qc2025

Singularities in loop quantum cosmology

Martin Bojowald, Manuel Diaz, Erick I. Duque

Quantum effects are expected to modify the cosmological dynamics of the early universe while maintaining some (potentially discrete) notion of space-time structure. In one approach…

gr-qc2025★ 1 cited

Kilohertz Gravitational Waves from Binary Neutron Star Mergers: Full Spectrum Analyses and High-density Constraints on Neutron Star Matter

Giulia Huez, Sebastiano Bernuzzi, Matteo Breschi +1

We demonstrate Bayesian analyses of the complete gravitational-wave spectrum of binary neutron star mergers events with the next-generation detector Einstein Telescope. Our mock an…

gr-qc2025★ 1 cited

Dynamical Horizon Segments and Spacetime Isometries

Abhay Ashtekar, Badri Krishnan

Given a space-time admitting a dynamical horizon segment (DHS) , we show that there are stringent constraints on the Killing fields that…

gr-qc2025★ 5 cited

Precision predictions of Starobinsky inflation with self-consistent Weyl-squared corrections

Eugenio Bianchi, Mauricio Gamonal

Starobinsky's inflation provides a compelling one-parameter inflationary model that is supported by current cosmological observations. However, at the same order in spacet…

gr-qc2025

AthenaK simulations of the binary black hole merger GW150914

David Radice, Rossella Gamba, Hengrui Zhu +1

We present new binary black hole simulations targeted to GW150914 using the GPU-accelerated code AthenaK. We compute the properties of the final remnant with the isolated horizon f…

gr-qc2025★ 2 cited

PINCH: Pipeline-Informed Noise Characterization in LIGO's Third Observing Run

Zach Yarbrough, Andre Guimaraes, Prathamesh Joshi +2

We present a method to identify and categorize gravitational wave candidate triggers identified by matched filtering gravitational wave searches (pipelines) caused by transient noi…