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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

Persistence and Transition Varieties in Scalar Field Cosmology

Spiros Cotsakis

We develop a unified bifurcation-theoretic description of Friedmann--Robertson--Walker cosmologies with a scalar field, a barotropic fluid of index , and spatial curvature. For…

gr-qc2026

Narrowband searches for continuous gravitational waves from known pulsars in the first two parts of the fourth LIGO--Virgo--KAGRA observing run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1853

Rotating non-axisymmetric neutron stars (NSs) are promising sources for continuous gravitational waves (CWs). Such CWs can, if detected, inform us about the internal structure and…

gr-qc2026★ 1 cited

Radial Oscillations of Viscous Stars

Lennox S. Keeble, Jaime Redondo-Yuste

Oscillation modes of neutron stars, a key target for third-generation gravitational wave detectors, encode key information about their constituent nuclear matter. In this work, we…

gr-qc2026

Black Hole Mergers as the Fastest Photon Ring Scramblers

D. Giataganas, G. F. Giudice, A. Ianniccari +5

Black holes are the most efficient scramblers in nature. By mapping the instantaneous mass and angular momentum of two spinless black holes in a quasi-circular binary onto those of…

gr-qc2026★ 1 cited

The initial data of effective field theories of relativistic viscous fluids and gravity

Lorenzo Gavassino, Áron D. Kovács, Harvey S. Reall

There has been recent progress in developing well-posed theories of relativistic viscous hydrodynamics and of gravitational effective field theories. These have in common the featu…

gr-qc2026

Spacetime of rotating black holes surrounded by massive scalar charges

Adrian Ka-Wai Chung

Massive scalar charges are ubiquitous in extensions to General Relativity and the Standard Model in particle physics. We describe spectral methods which can accurately construct th…

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-qc2026

The diffusion equation is compatible with special relativity

Lorenzo Gavassino

Due to its parabolic character, the diffusion equation exhibits instantaneous spatial spreading, and becomes unstable when Lorentz-boosted. According to the conventional interpreta…

gr-qc2026★ 1 cited

How Lorentz boosts reshape relaxation spectra

Lorenzo Gavassino

In relativity, relaxation processes are often assumed to undergo time dilation under Lorentz boosts. We show that this intuition fails generically. Due to relativity of simultaneit…

gr-qc2025★ 2 cited

Stochastic Inflation in Numerical Relativity

Yoann L. Launay, Gerasimos I. Rigopoulos, E. Paul S. Shellard

A set of 3+1 equations for stochastic inflation incorporating all metric and scalar matter degrees of freedom, first presented in previous work, are re-derived in a gauge invariant…

gr-qc2025★ 2 cited

Twist and higher modes of a complex scalar field at the threshold of collapse

Krinio Marouda, Daniela Cors, Hannes R. Rüter +2

We investigate the threshold of collapse of a massless complex scalar field in axisymmetric spacetimes under the ansatz of Choptuik et al. 2004, in which a symmetry depending on th…

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

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★ 1 cited

Boson Stars in Dimensions: Stability, Oscillation Frequencies, and Dynamical Evolutions

Gareth Arturo Marks, Abdullah Al Zaif

We construct spherically symmetric boson star solutions in spacetime dimensions, considering the effects of both a quartic self-interaction term and a solitonic p…

gr-qc2025★ 2 cited

Quasinormal mode content of binary black hole ringdowns

Richard Dyer, Christopher J. Moore

We present a fully Bayesian, data-driven framework for identifying quasinormal modes in high-accuracy Cauchy-Characteristic Evolution (CCE) gravitational waveforms. Applying this t…

gr-qc2025★ 1 cited

Quasinormal modes from numerical relativity with Bayesian inference

Richard Dyer, Christopher J. Moore

Numerical relativity (NR) enables the study of physics in strong and dynamical gravitational fields and provides predictions for the gravitational-wave signals produced by merging…

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

Thermoelectric Conduction in General Relativity: A Causal, Stable, and Well Posed Theory

Lorenzo Gavassino

We present a covariantly stable first-order framework for describing charge and heat transport in isotropic rigid media embedded in curved spacetime. Working in the Lorenz gauge, w…

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★ 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★ 9 cited

GWTC-4.0: Methods for Identifying and Characterizing Gravitational-wave Transients

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1809

The Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC) is a collection of candidate gravitational-wave transient signals identified and characterized by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration…

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…