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gr-qc2020★ 71 cited

All-sky search in early O3 LIGO data for continuous gravitational-wave signals from unknown neutron stars in binary systems

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, R. Abbott +1369

Rapidly spinning neutron stars are promising sources of persistent, continuous gravitational waves. Detecting such a signal would allow probing of the physical properties of matter…

gr-qc2020★ 50 cited

Nonlinear curvature effects in gravitational waves from inspiralling black hole binaries

Banafsheh Shiralilou, Tanja Hinderer, Samaya Nissanke +2

Gravitational waves (GWs) from merging black holes allow for unprecedented probes of strong-field gravity. Testing gravity in this regime requires accurate predictions of gravitati…

gr-qc2020★ 96 cited

Constraints on ultralight scalar bosons within black hole spin measurements from LIGO-Virgo's GWTC-2

Ken K. Y. Ng, Salvatore Vitale, Otto A. Hannuksela +1

Clouds of ultralight bosons - such as axions - can form around a rapidly spinning black hole, if the black hole radius is comparable to the bosons' wavelength. The cloud rapidly ex…

gr-qc2020★ 35 cited

Relativistic effective action of dynamical gravitomagnetic tides for slowly rotating neutron stars

Pawan Kumar Gupta, Jan Steinhoff, Tanja Hinderer

Gravitomagnetic quasi-normal modes of neutron stars are resonantly excited by tidal effects during a binary inspiral, leading to a potentially measurable effect in the gravitationa…

gr-qc2020★ 21 cited

High-accuracy waveforms for black hole-neutron star systems with spinning black holes

Francois Foucart, Alexander Chernoglazov, Michael Boyle +10

The availability of accurate numerical waveforms is an important requirement for the creation and calibration of reliable waveform models for gravitational wave astrophysics. For b…

gr-qc2020★ 807 cited

Tests of General Relativity with Binary Black Holes from the second LIGO-Virgo Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, R. Abbott +1344

Gravitational waves enable tests of general relativity in the highly dynamical and strong-field regime. Using events detected by LIGO-Virgo up to 1 October 2019, we evaluate the co…

gr-qc2020★ 2.4k cited

GWTC-2: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo During the First Half of the Third Observing Run

R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, S. Abraham +1349

We report on gravitational wave discoveries from compact binary coalescences detected by Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo in the first half of the third observing run (O3a) between…

gr-qc2020★ 24 cited

Identification of Lensed Gravitational Waves with Deep Learning

Kyungmin Kim, Joongoo Lee, Robin S. H. Yuen +2

Similar to light, gravitational waves (GWs) can be lensed. Such lensing phenomena can magnify the waves, create multiple images observable as repeated events, and superpose several…

gr-qc2020★ 1.3k cited

GW190521: A Binary Black Hole Merger with a Total Mass of

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, R. Abbott +1253

On May 21, 2019 at 03:02:29 UTC Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo observed a short duration gravitational-wave signal, GW190521, with a three-detector network signal-to-noise ratio…

gr-qc2020★ 76 cited

Testing the nature of gravitational-wave polarizations using strongly lensed signals

Srashti Goyal, K. Haris, Ajit Kumar Mehta +1

Gravitational-wave (GW) observations by a network of ground-based laser interferometric detectors allow us to probe the nature of GW polarizations. This would be an interesting tes…

gr-qc2020★ 7 cited

One-loop Graviton Corrections to Conformal Scalars on a de Sitter Background

D. Glavan, S. P. Miao, T. Prokopec +1

We exploit a recent computation of one graviton loop corrections to the self-mass [1] to quantum-correct the field equation for a massless, conformally coupled scalar on a de Sitte…

gr-qc2020★ 7 cited

Abelian Higgs model in power-law inflation: the propagators in the unitary gauge

Dražen Glavan, Anja Marunović, Tomislav Prokopec +1

We consider the Abelian Higgs model in the broken phase as a spectator in cosmological spaces of general space-time dimensions, and allow for the condensate to be time-dependen…

gr-qc2020★ 13 cited

Probing resonant excitations in exotic compact objects via gravitational waves

Yasmeen Asali, Peter T. H. Pang, Anuradha Samajdar +1

Gravitational waves (GWs) from presumed binary black hole mergers are now being detected on a regular basis with the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo interferometers. Exotic compac…

gr-qc2020★ 113 cited

Interpreting Binary Neutron Star Mergers: Describing the Binary Neutron Star Dynamics, Modelling Gravitational Waveforms, and Analyzing Detections

Tim Dietrich, Tanja Hinderer, Anuradha Samajdar

Gravitational waves emitted from the coalescence of neutron star binaries open a new window to probe matter and fundamental physics in unexplored, extreme regimes. To extract infor…

gr-qc2020★ 41 cited

Recognizing black holes in gravitational-wave observations: Challenges in telling apart impostors in mass-gap binaries

Sayak Datta, Khun Sang Phukon, Sukanta Bose

We study how by careful monitoring of the presence or absence of tidal deformability (TD) and tidal-heating (TH) in the inspiral signal of compact object binaries in ground-based g…

gr-qc2020★ 23 cited

Evolution of black hole shadows from superradiance

Gastón Creci, Stefan Vandoren, Helvi Witek

Black holes have turned into cosmic laboratories to search for ultra-light scalars by virtue of the superradiant instability. In this paper we present a detailed study of the impac…

gr-qc2020★ 53 cited

Generic searches for alternative gravitational wave polarizations with networks of interferometric detectors

Peter T. H. Pang, Rico K. L. Lo, Isaac C. F. Wong +2

The detection of gravitational wave signals by Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo enables us to probe the polarization content of gravitational waves. In general relativity, only ten…

gr-qc2020★ 12 cited

On the quantization of the extremal Reissner-Nordstrom black hole

C. Corda, F. Feleppa, F. Tamburini

Following Rosen's quantization rules, two of the Authors (CC and FF) recently described the Schwarzschild black hole (BH) formed after the gravitational collapse of a pressureless…

gr-qc2020★ 15 cited

Single Graviton Loop Contribution to the Self-Mass of a Massless, Conformally Coupled Scalar on de Sitter Background

D. Glavan, S. P. Miao, T. Prokopec +1

We use a simplified formalism to re-compute the single graviton loop contribution to the self-mass of a massless, conformally coupled scalar on de Sitter background which was origi…

gr-qc2020★ 14 cited

Constructing Love-Q-Relations with Gravitational Wave Detections

Anuradha Samajdar, Tim Dietrich

Quasi-universal relations connecting the tidal deformability and the quadrupole moment of individual neutron stars are predicted by theoretical computations, but have not been meas…

gr-qc2020★ 401 cited

Prospects for Fundamental Physics with LISA

Enrico Barausse, Emanuele Berti, Thomas Hertog +318

In this paper, which is of programmatic rather than quantitative nature, we aim to further delineate and sharpen the future potential of the LISA mission in the area of fundamental…