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Signatures in the local interstellar medium of electromagnetic radiation produced by neutron star gravitational waves

Preston Jones, Pragati Pradhan, Douglas Singleton

The Voyager spacecraft have been detecting plasma oscillations of a few kHz for over 40 years. However, there is still no widely accepted hypothesis for the astrophysical source of…

gr-qc2026

The impact of physically motivated calibration errors on search pipeline detection parameters for broadband burst Signals

Milan Wils, Brad Ratto, Jeffrey S. Kissel +4

Imperfections in the calibration of gravitational wave observatories introduce frequency dependent amplitude and phase errors on the measured GW signal. Previous unmodelled burst s…

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★ 9 cited

Bumblebee gravity: spherically-symmetric solutions away from the potential minimum

Quentin G. Bailey, Hailey S. Murray, Dario T. Walter-Cardona

In this work, we study a vector model of spontaneous spacetime-symmetry breaking coupled to gravity: the bumblebee model. The primary focus is on static spherically symmetric solut…

gr-qc2024★ 2 cited

Measurement-induced entanglement entropy of gravitational wave detections

Preston Jones, Quentin G. Bailey, Andri Gretarsson +1

Research on the projective measurement of gravitons increasingly supports Dysons conclusions that the detection of single gravitons is not physically possible. It is therefore prud…

gr-qc2023★ 8 cited

Classical radiation fields for scalar, electromagnetic, and gravitational waves with spacetime-symmetry breaking

Quentin G. Bailey, Alexander S. Gard, Nils A. Nilsson +2

An effective field theory framework is used to investigate some Lorentz-violating effects on the generation of electromagnetic and gravitational waves, complementing previous work…

gr-qc2023★ 331 cited

Open data from the third observing run of LIGO, Virgo, KAGRA and GEO

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1741

The global network of gravitational-wave observatories now includes five detectors, namely LIGO Hanford, LIGO Livingston, Virgo, KAGRA, and GEO 600. These detectors collected data…

gr-qc2022★ 7 cited

Short-range forces due to Lorentz-symmetry violation

Quentin G. Bailey, Jennifer L. James, Janessa R. Slone +1

Complementing previous theoretical and experimental work, we explore new types of short-range modifications to Newtonian gravity arising from spacetime-symmetry breaking. The first…

gr-qc2022★ 34 cited

Search for anisotropic, birefringent spacetime-symmetry breaking in gravitational wave propagation from GWTC-3

Leïla Haegel, Kellie O'Neal-Ault, Quentin G. Bailey +3

An effective field theory framework, the Standard-Model Extension, is used to investigate the existence of Lorentz and CPT-violating effects during gravitational wave propagation.…

gr-qc2022★ 3 cited

First joint observation by the underground gravitational-wave detector, KAGRA, with GEO600

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1669

We report the results of the first joint observation of the KAGRA detector with GEO600. KAGRA is a cryogenic and underground gravitational-wave detector consisting of a laser inter…

gr-qc2022★ 37 cited

Search for gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1 with a hidden Markov model in O3 LIGO data

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1669

Results are presented for a semi-coherent search for continuous gravitational waves from the low-mass X-ray binary Scorpius X-1, using a hidden Markov model (HMM) to allow for spin…

gr-qc2022★ 103 cited

All-sky search for continuous gravitational waves from isolated neutron stars using Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo O3 data

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1667

We present results of an all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves which can be produced by spinning neutron stars with an asymmetry around their rotation axis, using data…

gr-qc2021★ 74 cited

Narrowband searches for continuous and long-duration transient gravitational waves from known pulsars in the LIGO-Virgo third observing run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1658

Isolated neutron stars that are asymmetric with respect to their spin axis are possible sources of detectable continuous gravitational waves. This paper presents a fully-coherent s…

gr-qc2021★ 133 cited

Tests of General Relativity with GWTC-3

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1682

The ever-increasing number of detections of gravitational waves (GWs) from compact binaries by the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors allows us to perform ever-more sensiti…

gr-qc2021★ 16 cited

Using supervised learning algorithms as a follow-up method in the search of gravitational waves from core-collapse supernovae

Javier M. Antelis, Marco Cavaglia, Travis Hansen +5

We present a follow-up method based on supervised machine learning (ML) to improve the performance in the search of gravitational wave (GW) burts from core-collapse supernovae (CCS…

gr-qc2021★ 40 cited

Search of the Early O3 LIGO Data for Continuous Gravitational Waves from the Cassiopeia A and Vela Jr. Supernova Remnants

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, R. Abbott +1411

We present directed searches for continuous gravitational waves from the neutron stars in the Cassiopeia A (Cas A) and Vela Jr. supernova remnants. We carry out the searches in the…

gr-qc2021★ 35 cited

All-sky, all-frequency directional search for persistent gravitational-waves from Advanced LIGO's and Advanced Virgo's first three observing runs

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1627

We present the first results from an all-sky all-frequency (ASAF) search for an anisotropic stochastic gravitational-wave background using the data from the first three observing r…

gr-qc2021★ 32 cited

Analysis of birefringence and dispersion effects from spacetime-symmetry breaking in gravitational waves

Kellie O'Neal-Ault, Quentin G. Bailey, Tyann Dumerchat +2

In this work, we review the effective field theory framework to search for Lorentz and CPT symmetry breaking during the propagation of gravitational waves. The article is written s…

gr-qc2021★ 3 cited

All-sky search for long-duration gravitational-wave bursts in the third Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1627

After the detection of gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences, the search for transient gravitational-wave signals with less well-defined waveforms for which matched…

gr-qc2021★ 82 cited

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

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1630

This paper presents the results of a search for generic short-duration gravitational-wave transients in data from the third observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo. Trans…

gr-qc2021★ 69 cited

All-sky Search for Continuous Gravitational Waves from Isolated Neutron Stars in the Early O3 LIGO Data

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1587

We report on an all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves in the frequency band 20-2000\,Hz and with a frequency time derivative in the range of …

gr-qc2021★ 7 cited

Construction of higher-order metric fluctuation terms in spacetime symmetry-breaking effective field theory

Quentin G. Bailey

We examine the basic conservation laws for diffeomorphism symmetry in the context of spontaneous diffeomorphism and local Lorentz-symmetry breaking. The conservation laws are used…

gr-qc2021★ 115 cited

Search for anisotropic gravitational-wave backgrounds using data from Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo's first three observing runs

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1589

We report results from searches for anisotropic stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds using data from the first three observing runs of the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo det…

gr-qc2021★ 199 cited

Constraints on cosmic strings using data from the third Advanced LIGO-Virgo observing run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1586

We search for gravitational-wave signals produced by cosmic strings in the Advanced LIGO and Virgo full O3 data set. Search results are presented for gravitational waves produced b…