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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…

gr-qc2018★ 535 cited

KAGRA: 2.5 Generation Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detector

T. Akutsu, M. Ando, K. Arai +188

The recent detections of gravitational waves (GWs) reported by LIGO/Virgo collaborations have made significant impact on physics and astronomy. A global network of GW detectors wil…

cs.CV2018★ 31 cited

Automatic Three-Dimensional Cephalometric Annotation System Using Three-Dimensional Convolutional Neural Networks

Sung Ho Kang, Kiwan Jeon, Hak-Jin Kim +2

Background: Three-dimensional (3D) cephalometric analysis using computerized tomography data has been rapidly adopted for dysmorphosis and anthropometry. Several different approach…

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.IM2018

Generating Event Triggers Based on Hilbert-Huang Transform and Its Application to Gravitational-Wave Data

Edwin J. Son, Whansun Kim, Young-Min Kim +3

We present a new event trigger generator based on the Hilbert-Huang transform, named EtaGen (Gen). It decomposes a time-series data into several adaptive modes without imposing…

gr-qc2018★ 11 cited

Neutron Star Structure in Hořava-Lifshitz Gravity

Kyungmin Kim, John J. Oh, Chan Park +1

We present interesting aspects of neutron stars (NSs) from the standpoint of a modified theory of gravity called Hořava-Lifshitz (HL) gravity. A deviation from general relativity (…

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.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…

math.AG2018

Multiplicative property of localized Chern characters for 2-periodic complexes

Jeongseok Oh

We prove the multiplicative property of localized Chern characters. As a direct consequence, a localized Chern character gives rise to a ring homomorphism from the K-group of perio…

math.CO2018★ 2 cited

Bounds on multiple self-avoiding polygons

Kyungpyo Hong, Seungsang Oh

A self-avoiding polygon is a lattice polygon consisting of a closed self-avoiding walk on a square lattice. Surprisingly little is known rigorously about the enumeration of self-av…

gr-qc2018★ 3 cited

Sensing and vetoing loud transient noises for the gravitational-wave detection

Pil-Jong Jung, Keun-Young Kim, Young-Min Kim +3

Since the first detection of gravitational-wave (GW), GW150914, September 14th 2015, the multi-messenger astronomy added a new way of observing the Universe together with electroma…

gr-qc2018★ 2.4k cited

GW170817: Measurements of Neutron Star Radii and Equation of State

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1149

On 17 August 2017, the LIGO and Virgo observatories made the first direct detection of gravitational waves from the coalescence of a neutron star binary system. The detection of th…

gr-qc2018★ 1.3k cited

Properties of the binary neutron star merger GW170817

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

On August 17, 2017, the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo gravitational-wave detectors observed a low-mass compact binary inspiral. The initial sky localization of the source of the…

math.GT2018★ 13 cited

Trisections of surface complements and the Price twist

Seungwon Kim, Maggie Miller

Given an smoothly embedded in a 4-manifold with Euler number 2 or -2, the Price twist is a surgery operation on yielding (up to) three different…

gr-qc2018★ 76 cited

Full Band All-sky Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves in the O1 LIGO Data

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1099

We report on a new all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the frequency band 475-2000 Hz and with a frequency time derivative in the range of [-1.0e-8, +1e-9] Hz/s. Pot…

gr-qc2018★ 128 cited

A Search for Tensor, Vector, and Scalar Polarizations in the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1097

The detection of gravitational waves with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo has enabled novel tests of general relativity, including direct study of the polarization of gravitationa…

math.AG2018

Lower semi-continuity of the Waldschmidt constants

Daseul Bae

In this paper, we study the Waldschmidt constant of a generalized fat point subscheme of , where are essentially distinct po…

math.AP2018

Regularity Results of the Thin Obstacle Problem for the -Laplacian

Sun-sig Byun, Ki-ahm Lee, Jehan Oh +1

We study thin obstacle problems involving the energy functional with -growth. We prove higher integrability and Hölder regularity for the gradient of minimizers of the thin o…

hep-ph2018

Constraints from Heavy Higgs boson masses in the two Higgs doublet model

Jin-Hwan Cho, Tae Young Kim, Jeonghyeon Song

Upon the absence of signals of new physics at the LHC, a reasonable strategy is to assume that new particles are very heavy and the other model parameters are unknown yet. In the a…