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20132026
most citedObservation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

14.2k citations

70 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Star Cluster Populations in 38 Spiral Galaxies: Evidence for Near-Universal Mass and Age Distributions from PHANGS

Rupali Chandar, Matthew R. Floyd, David A. Thilker +23

We present the largest study to date of star cluster mass and age distributions in nearby galaxies. The analysis is based on a uniformly selected catalog of over 15,000 (36,000) hu…

q-bio.TO2020

The origin of the allometric scaling of lung ventilation in mammals

Frédérique Noël, Cyril Karamaoun, Jerome A. Dempsey +1

A model of optimal control of ventilation has recently been developed for humans. This model highlights the importance of the localization of the transition between a convective an…

cs.CV2020★ 22 cited

Polygonal Building Segmentation by Frame Field Learning

Nicolas Girard, Dmitriy Smirnov, Justin Solomon +1

While state of the art image segmentation models typically output segmentations in raster format, applications in geographic information systems often require vector polygons. To h…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 683 cited

GW190412: Observation of a Binary-Black-Hole Coalescence with Asymmetric Masses

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, R. Abbott +1254

We report the observation of gravitational waves from a binary-black-hole coalescence during the first two weeks of LIGO's and Virgo's third observing run. The signal was recorded…

gr-qc2020★ 12 cited

Search for Advanced LIGO Single Interferometer Compact Binary Coalescence Signals in Coincidence with Gamma-Ray Events in Fermi-GBM

C. Stachie, T. Dal Canton, E. Burns +11

Presented is the description of a new and general method used to search for -ray counterparts to gravitational-wave (GW) triggers. This method is specifically applied to single…

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…

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.…

math.NA2019★ 16 cited

Riemann solver with internal reconstruction (RSIR) for compressible single-phase and non-equilibrium two-phase flows

Quentin Carmouze, Richard Saurel, Emmanuel Lapebie

A new Riemann solver is built to address numerical resolution of complex flow models. The research direction is closely linked to a variant of the Baer and Nunziato (1986) model de…

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…

physics.atom-ph2019★ 5 cited

An optical lattice based method for precise measurements of atomic parity violation

A. Kastberg, T. Aoki, B. K. Sahoo +2

We propose a method for measuring parity violation in neutral atoms. It is an adaptation of a seminal work by Fortson [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 70}, 2383 (1993)], proposing a scheme f…

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…

gr-qc2019★ 313 cited

Search for the isotropic stochastic background using data from Advanced LIGO's second observing run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1133

The stochastic gravitational-wave background is a superposition of sources that are either too weak or too numerous to detect individually. In this study we present the results fro…

cs.LG2019★ 8 cited

Robust supervised classification and feature selection using a primal-dual method

Michel Barlaud, Antonin Chambolle, Jean-Baptiste Caillau

This paper deals with supervised classification and feature selection in high dimensional space. A classical approach is to project data on a low dimensional space and classify by…

eess.SP2018

Data-driven cortical clustering to provide a family of plausible solutions to M/EEG inverse problem

Kostiantyn Maksymenko, Maureen Clerc, Théodore Papadopoulo

The M/EEG inverse problem is ill-posed. Thus additional hypotheses are needed to constrain the solution space. In this work, we consider that brain activity which generates an M/EE…

cond-mat.quant-gas2018★ 28 cited

Quantitative estimation of effective viscosity in quantum turbulence

Vishwanath Shukla, Pablo D. Mininni, Giorgio Krstulovic +2

We study freely decaying quantum turbulence by performing high resolution numerical simulations of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation (GPE) in the Taylor-Green geometry. We use resoluti…

math.DG2018

Math in the Black Forest: Workshop on New Directions in Shape Analysis

Martin Bauer, Nicolas Charon, Philipp Harms +9

These are the proceedings of the workshop "Math in the Black Forest", which brought together researchers in shape analysis to discuss promising new directions. Shape analysis is an…

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…

cs.SI2018★ 20 cited

Fairness in Online Social Network Timelines: Measurements, Models and Mechanism Design

Eduardo Hargreaves, Claudio Agosti, Daniel Menasché +3

Facebook News Feed personalization algorithm has a significant impact, on a daily basis, on the lifestyle, mood and opinion of millions of Internet users. Nonetheless, the behavior…

physics.ins-det2018

GaN Schottky diodes for proton beam monitoring

Jean-Yves Duboz, Julie Zucchi, Eric Frayssinet +7

We have demonstrated that GaN Schottky diodes can be used for high energy (64.8 MeV) proton detection. Such proton beams are used for tumor treatment, for which accurate and radiat…

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…