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gr-qc2015★ 73 cited

Towards Robust Gravitational Wave Detection with Pulsar Timing Arrays

Neil J. Cornish, Laura M. Sampson

Precision timing of highly stable milli-second pulsars is a promising technique for the detection of very low frequency sources of gravitational waves. In any single pulsar, a stoc…

gr-qc2015★ 46 cited

Extremal Black Holes in Dynamical Chern-Simons Gravity

Robert McNees, Leo C. Stein, Nicolás Yunes

Rapidly rotating black hole solutions in theories beyond general relativity play a key role in experimental gravity, as they allow us to compute observables in extreme spacetimes t…

gr-qc2015★ 106 cited

Binary Love Relations

Kent Yagi, Nicolas Yunes

When in a tight binary, the mutual tidal deformations of neutron stars imprint onto observables, encoding information about their internal structure at supranuclear densities and g…

gr-qc2015★ 49 cited

Enabling high confidence detections of gravitational-wave bursts

Tyson B. Littenberg, Jonah B. Kanner, Neil J. Cornish +1

With the advanced LIGO and Virgo detectors taking observations the detection of gravitational waves is expected within the next few years. Extracting astrophysical information from…

gr-qc2015★ 33 cited

All-sky search for long-duration gravitational wave transients with LIGO

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +934

We present the results of a search for long-duration gravitational wave transients in two sets of data collected by the LIGO Hanford and LIGO Livingston detectors between November…

gr-qc2015★ 23 cited

A search of the Orion spur for continuous gravitational waves using a "loosely coherent" algorithm on data from LIGO interferometers

J. Aasi, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott +920

We report results of a wideband search for periodic gravitational waves from isolated neutron stars within the Orion spur towards both the inner and outer regions of our Galaxy. As…

gr-qc2015

Is Einstein Still Right?

Nicolas Yunes

This is an article commissioned by the Spanish Physics Magazine ("Revista Española de Física") for the Centennial Anniversary of the discovery of General Relativity. The article re…

gr-qc2015★ 133 cited

Challenging the Presence of Scalar Charge and Dipolar Radiation in Binary Pulsars

Kent Yagi, Leo C. Stein, Nicolas Yunes

Corrections to general relativity that introduce long-ranged scalar fields which are non-minimally coupled to curvature typically predict that neutron stars possess a non-trivial s…

gr-qc2015★ 63 cited

Gravitational-wave emission in shift-symmetric Horndeski theories

Enrico Barausse, Kent Yagi

Gravity theories beyond General Relativity typically predict dipolar gravitational emission by compact-star binaries. This emission is sourced by "sensitivity" parameters depending…

gr-qc2015★ 67 cited

Probing the Internal Composition of Neutron Stars with Gravitational Waves

Katerina Chatziioannou, Kent Yagi, Antoine Klein +2

Gravitational waves from neutron star binary inspirals contain information about the equation of state of supranuclear matter. In the absence of definitive experimental evidence th…

gr-qc2015★ 8 cited

Four-Hair Relations for Differentially Rotating Neutron Stars in the Weak-Field Limit

Joseph Bretz, Kent Yagi, Nicolas Yunes

The opportunity to study physics at supra-nuclear densities through X-ray observations of neutron stars has led to in-depth investigations of certain approximately universal relati…

gr-qc2015★ 24 cited

When is a gravitational-wave signal stochastic?

Neil J. Cornish, Joseph D. Romano

We discuss the detection of gravitational-wave backgrounds in the context of Bayesian inference and suggest a practical definition of what it means for a signal to be considered st…

gr-qc2015★ 28 cited

Phase-coherent mapping of gravitational-wave backgrounds using ground-based laser interferometers

Joseph D. Romano, Stephen R. Taylor, Neil J. Cornish +3

We extend the formalisms developed in Gair et al. and Cornish and van Haasteren to create maps of gravitational-wave backgrounds using a network of ground-based laser interferomete…

gr-qc2015★ 47 cited

Gravitational Collapse in Gravity's Rainbow

Ahmed Farag Ali, Mir Faizal, Barun Majumder +1

In this paper, we will analyze the gravitational collapse in the framework of gravity's rainbow. We will demonstrate that the position of the horizon for a particle inside the blac…

gr-qc2015★ 32 cited

Improved Universality in the Neutron Star Three-Hair Relations

Barun Majumder, Kent Yagi, Nicolas Yunes

No-hair like relations between the multipole moments of the exterior gravitational field of neutron stars have recently been found to be approximately independent of the star's int…

gr-qc2015★ 82 cited

Constraining the Solution to the Last Parsec Problem with Pulsar Timing

Laura Sampson, Neil J. Cornish, Sean T. McWilliams

The detection of a stochastic gravitational-wave signal from the superposition of many inspiraling supermassive black holes with pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) is likely to occur with…

gr-qc2015★ 83 cited

I-Love-Q anisotropically: Universal relations for compact stars with scalar pressure anisotropy

Kent Yagi, Nicolas Yunes

Certain physical quantities that characterize neutron stars and quark stars (e.g. their mass, spin angular momentum and quadrupole moment) are interrelated in a way that is approxi…

gr-qc2015★ 30 cited

Fisher vs. Bayes : A comparison of parameter estimation techniques for massive black hole binaries to high redshifts with eLISA

Edward K. Porter, Neil J. Cornish

Massive black hole binaries are the primary source of gravitational waves (GW) for the future eLISA observatory. The detection and parameter estimation of these sources to high red…

gr-qc2015★ 32 cited

Relating Follicly-Challenged Compact Stars to Bald Black Holes

Kent Yagi, Nicolas Yunes

Compact stars satisfy certain no-hair relations through which their multipole moments are given by their mass, spin and quadrupole moment. These relations are approximately indepen…

gr-qc2015★ 1.5k cited

Testing General Relativity with Present and Future Astrophysical Observations

Emanuele Berti, Enrico Barausse, Vitor Cardoso +50

One century after its formulation, Einstein's general relativity has made remarkable predictions and turned out to be compatible with all experimental tests. Most of these tests pr…