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Exploring Particle Geodesics in a Warp Drive Spacetime

Lucas Timotheo Sanches, Max Morris, Steven Robert Brandt

Although the Alcubierre Warp Drive is theoretically capable of providing faster-than-light travel, it may be difficult to use for this purpose. But is it useful for slower-than-lig…

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

Accelerating Numerical Relativity Simulations with New Multistep Fourth-Order Runge-Kutta Methods

Lucas Timotheo Sanches, Steven Robert Brandt, Jay Kalinani +2

Many HPC applications that solve differential equations rely on the Runge-Kutta family of methods for time integration. Among these methods, the fourth-order accurate RK4 scheme is…

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

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-qc2025

Vacuum-purified Hawking radiation from evaporating black holes: Lessons from moving mirrors

Ivan Agullo, Paula Calizaya Cabrera, Beatriz Elizaga Navascués

This article investigates the possibility that Hawking-like quanta emitted by a moving mirror can be purified by late-time vacuum fluctuations, as proposed in Hotta, Schützhold and…

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

Quantum Cosmology in Krylov Space: Complexity and Entropy

Meysam Motaharfar, Maxwell R. Siebersma, Parampreet Singh

We study the quantum dynamics in Krylov space of a spatially flat, homogeneous, and isotropic universe sourced with a massless scalar field within Wheeler-DeWitt (WDW) quantum cosm…

gr-qc2025★ 3 cited

Entanglement and correlations between local observables in de Sitter spacetime

Patricia Ribes-Metidieri, Ivan Agullo, Béatrice Bonga

Studies of quantum field entanglement in de Sitter space based on the von Neumann entropy of local patches have concluded that curvature enhances entanglement between regions and t…

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★ 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★ 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…

gr-qc2025★ 2 cited

PINCH: Pipeline-Informed Noise Characterization in LIGO's Third Observing Run

Zach Yarbrough, Andre Guimaraes, Prathamesh Joshi +2

We present a method to identify and categorize gravitational wave candidate triggers identified by matched filtering gravitational wave searches (pipelines) caused by transient noi…

gr-qc2025★ 1 cited

Numerical evolution of Maxwell's equations for wavefronts propagating through a spherical gravitational potential

Annamalai P. Shanmugaraj, Erik Schnetter, Sofie Marie Koksbang

We present a scheme for numerically solving Maxwell's equations in a weakly perturbed spacetime without introducing the usual geometric optics approximation. Using this scheme, we…

gr-qc2025★ 1 cited

Parameter Estimation Precision with Geocentric Gravitational Wave Interferometers: Monochromatic Signals

Manoel Felipe Sousa, Tabata Aira Ferreira, Massimo Tinto

We present a Fisher information matrix study of the parameter estimation precision achievable by a class of future space-based, "mid-band", gravitational wave (GW) interferometers…

gr-qc2025★ 4 cited

Lessons from gauge fixing and polymerization of loop quantum black holes with a cosmological constant

Geeth Ongole, Parampreet Singh, Anzhong Wang

Loop quantization of Schwarzschild black holes with a cosmological constant for polymerization parameters which are constant is studied in the effective spacetime description. We s…

gr-qc2024★ 1 cited

Ekpyrosis in Quantum Gravitational Anisotropic Bouncing Models

Rachel Brown, A. Meenakshi McNamara, Sahil Saini +1

We explore the isotropization of a model anisotropic universe in the bouncing models using the ekpyrotic potential without assuming initial conditions corresponding to an ekpyrotic…

gr-qc2024★ 104 cited

Advanced LIGO detector performance in the fourth observing run

E. Capote, W. Jia, N. Aritomi +193

On May 24th, 2023, the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), joined by the Advanced Virgo and KAGRA detectors, began the fourth observing run for a t…

gr-qc2024★ 16 cited

Toward the Observation of Entangled Pairs in BEC analogue Expanding Universes

Ivan Agullo, Adrià Delhom, Álvaro Parra-López

Pair creation is a fundamental prediction of quantum field theory in curved spacetimes. While classical aspects of this phenomenon have been observed, the experimental confirmation…

gr-qc2024★ 1 cited

Scalable matched-filtering pipeline for gravitational-wave searches of compact binary mergers

Yun-Jing Huang, Chad Hanna, Becca Ewing +11

As gravitational-wave observations expand in scope and detection rate, the data analysis infrastructure must be modernized to accommodate rising computational demands and ensure su…