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gr-qc2026

The impact of physically motivated calibration errors on search pipeline detection parameters for broadband burst Signals

Milan Wils, Brad Ratto, Jeffrey S. Kissel +4

Imperfections in the calibration of gravitational wave observatories introduce frequency dependent amplitude and phase errors on the measured GW signal. Previous unmodelled burst s…

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-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★ 1 cited

Observing Double White Dwarfs with the Lunar GW Antenna

Giovanni Benetti, Marica Branchesi, Jan Harms +1

The Lunar Gravitational Wave Antenna (LGWA) is a proposed gravitational-wave detector that will observe in the decihertz (dHz) frequency region. In this band, binary white dwarf sy…

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★ 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

Identification of Noise-Associated Glitches in KAGRA O3GK with Hveto

T. Akutsu, M. Ando, M. Aoumi +148

Transient noise ("glitches") in gravitational wave detectors can mimic or obscure true signals, significantly reducing detection sensitivity. Identifying and excluding glitch-conta…

gr-qc2025★ 97 cited

The Science of the Einstein Telescope

Adrian Abac, Raul Abramo, Simone Albanesi +485

Einstein Telescope (ET) is the European project for a gravitational-wave (GW) observatory of third-generation. In this paper we present a comprehensive discussion of its science ob…

gr-qc2025★ 6 cited

Scalar-Induced Gravitational Waves in Modified Gravity

Anjali Abirami Kugarajh, Marisol Traforetti, Andrea Maselli +2

Scalar-Induced Gravitational Waves (SIGWs), second-order tensor modes sourced by first-order scalar fluctuations in General Relativity (GR), are expected to contribute to the Stoch…

gr-qc2025★ 1 cited

Exploring gravitational impulse via quantum Boltzmann equation

Mohammad Sharifian, Moslem Zarei, Nicola Bartolo +1

We investigate the gravitational impulse by using the generalized formulation of the quantum Boltzmann equation (QBE), wherein the initial states are taken as wave packets rather t…

gr-qc2024★ 10 cited

Radiating Love: adiabatic tidal fluxes and modes up to next-to-next-to-leading post-Newtonian order

Manoj K. Mandal, Pierpaolo Mastrolia, Raj Patil +1

We present the analytic evaluation of the gravitational energy and of the angular momentum flux with tidal effects for inspiraling compact binaries, at next-to-next-to-leading post…

gr-qc2024★ 7 cited

Assessing the Impact of Unequal Noises and Foreground Modeling on SGWB Reconstruction with LISA

Jun'ya Kume, Marco Peloso, Mauro Pieroni +1

In the search for stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds (SGWB) of cosmological origin with LISA, it is crucial to account for realistic complications in the noise and astrophys…

gr-qc2024★ 9 cited

Gravitational effects on fluid dynamics in cosmological first-order phase transitions

Ryusuke Jinno, Jun'ya Kume

Cosmological first-order phase transition (FOPT) sources the stochastic gravitational wave background (SWGB) through bubble collisions, sound waves, and turbulence. So far, most st…

gr-qc2024★ 2 cited

In Search of the Biggest Bangs since the Big Bang

John Ellis, Malcolm Fairbairn, Juan Urrutia +1

Many galaxies contain supermassive black holes (SMBHs), whose formation and history raise many puzzles. Pulsar timing arrays have recently discovered a low-frequency cosmological "…

gr-qc2023★ 16 cited

Open Quantum System Approach to the Gravitational Decoherence of Spin-1/2 Particles

Mohammad Sharifian, Moslem Zarei, Mehdi Abdi +2

This paper investigates the decoherence effect resulting from the interaction of squeezed gravitational waves with a system of massive particles in spatial superposition. This pape…

gr-qc2023★ 39 cited

On the classification of Generalized Quasitopological Gravities

Javier Moreno, Ángel J. Murcia

Generalized Quasitopological Gravities (GQTGs) are higher-order extensions of Einstein gravity in dimensions satisfying a number of interesting properties, such as possessing s…

gr-qc2023★ 35 cited

Landscape of stellar-mass black-hole spectroscopy with third-generation gravitational-wave detectors

Swetha Bhagwat, Costantino Pacilio, Paolo Pani +1

Gravitational-wave black-hole spectroscopy provides a unique opportunity to test the strong-field regime of gravity and the nature of the final object formed in the aftermath of a…

gr-qc2023★ 27 cited

An autoencoder neural network integrated into gravitational-wave burst searches to improve the rejection of noise transients

Sophie Bini, Gabriele Vedovato, Marco Drago +2

The gravitational-wave (GW) detector data are affected by short-lived instrumental or terrestrial transients, called glitches, which can simulate GW signals. Mitigation of glitches…

gr-qc2023★ 402 cited

Science with the Einstein Telescope: a comparison of different designs

Marica Branchesi, Michele Maggiore, David Alonso +73

The Einstein Telescope (ET), the European project for a third-generation gravitational-wave detector, has a reference configuration based on a triangular shape consisting of three…

gr-qc2023★ 331 cited

Open data from the third observing run of LIGO, Virgo, KAGRA and GEO

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1741

The global network of gravitational-wave observatories now includes five detectors, namely LIGO Hanford, LIGO Livingston, Virgo, KAGRA, and GEO 600. These detectors collected data…

gr-qc2022★ 28 cited

New universal property of cosmological gravitational wave anisotropies

Ameek Malhotra, Ema Dimastrogiovanni, Guillem Domènech +2

The anisotropies of the stochastic gravitational wave background, as produced in the early phases of cosmological evolution, can act as a key probe of the primordial universe parti…

gr-qc2022★ 29 cited

Search for gravitational-wave bursts in the third Advanced LIGO-Virgo run with coherent WaveBurst enhanced by Machine Learning

Marek J. Szczepańczyk, Francesco Salemi, Sophie Bini +13

This paper presents a search for generic short-duration gravitational-wave (GW) transients (or GW bursts) in the data from the third observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Vir…

gr-qc2022★ 31 cited

Black Hole Multipoles in Higher-Derivative Gravity

Pablo A. Cano, Bogdan Ganchev, Daniel R. Mayerson +1

We consider a broad family of higher-derivative extensions of four-dimensional Einstein gravity and study the multipole moments of rotating black holes therein. We carefully show t…

gr-qc2022★ 24 cited

Addressing the challenges of detecting time-overlapping compact binary coalescences

Philip Relton, Andrea Virtuoso, Sophie Bini +6

Standard detection and analysis techniques for transient gravitational waves make the assumption that detector data contains, at most, one signal at any time. As detectors improve…