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Advanced Virgo during the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA fourth observing run
Virgo Collaboration, F Acernese, A Agapito +546
From April 10, 2024 to November 18, 2025 Advanced Virgo participated in the fourth observing run of the network of gravitational-wave detectors, together with Advanced LIGO and KAG…
Narrow spectral artifact investigation and mitigation in LIGO data from the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing run
E. Goetz, A. Neunzert, A. M. Knee +258
We present efforts to identify, characterize, and mitigate narrow spectral artifacts in LIGO detector data during the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing run. Narrow spectral artifac…
A thorough investigation of cross-correlation estimators for stochastic gravitational-wave background searches in ground-based detector data
Haowen Zhong, Joseph D. Romano, Vuk Mandic +2
Detecting a stochastic gravitational-wave background represents a crucial yet challenging objective within the field of gravitational-wave astronomy. Ground-based detectors current…
Advanced Virgo Plus for O5 -- Design Report Overview
F. Acernese, A. Agapito, D. Agarwal +578
This document presents an overview of the design, implementation, and expected performance of the Advanced Virgo Plus (AdV+) upgrades in view of the O5 observing run. Following the…
Impact of facility timing and coordination for next-generation gravitational-wave detectors
Ssohrab Borhanian, Arianna Renzini, Philippa S. Cole +3
While the Einstein Telescope and Cosmic Explorer proposals for next-generation, ground-based detectors promise vastly improved sensitivities to gravitational-wave signals, only joi…
Searching for Gravitational Waves with Gaia and its Cross-Correlation with PTA: Absolute vs Relative Astrometry
Massimo Vaglio, Mikel Falxa, Giorgio Mentasti +5
Astrometric missions like Gaia provide exceptionally precise measurements of stellar positions and proper motions. Gravitational waves traveling between the observer and distant st…
Model-agnostic gravitational-wave background characterization algorithm
Taylor Knapp, Patrick M. Meyers, Arianna I. Renzini
As ground-based gravitational-wave (GW) detectors improve in sensitivity, gravitational-wave background (GWB) signals will progressively become detectable. Currently, searches for…
Accelerated inference of binary black-hole populations from the stochastic gravitational-wave background
G. Giarda, A. I. Renzini, C. Pacilio +1
Third-generation ground-based gravitational wave detectors are expected to observe of overlapping signals per year from a multitude of astrophysical sources tha…
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…
LIGO Detector Characterization in the first half of the fourth Observing run
S. Soni, B. K. Berger, D. Davis +232
Progress in gravitational-wave astronomy depends upon having sensitive detectors with good data quality. Since the end of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA third Observing run in March 2020, de…
Projections of the uncertainty on the compact binary population background using popstock
Arianna I. Renzini, Jacob Golomb
The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration has announced the detection of almost 100 binary black holes so far, which have been used in several studies to infer the features of the underly…
Tomographic constraints on the production rate of gravitational waves from astrophysical sources
David Alonso, Mehraveh Nikjoo, Arianna I. Renzini +2
Using an optimal quadratic estimator, we measure the large-scale cross-correlation between maps of the stochastic gravitational-wave intensity, constructed from the first three LIG…
Background information: a study on the sensitivity of astrophysical gravitational-wave background searches
Arianna I. Renzini, Thomas A. Callister, Katerina Chatziioannou +1
The vast majority of gravitational-wave signals from stellar-mass compact binary mergers are too weak to be individually detected with present-day instruments and instead contribut…
Unbiased estimation of gravitational-wave anisotropies from noisy data
Nikolaos Kouvatsos, Alexander C. Jenkins, Arianna I. Renzini +2
One of the most exciting targets of current and future gravitational-wave observations is the angular power spectrum of the astrophysical GW background. This cumulative signal enco…
Angular power spectrum of gravitational-wave transient sources as a probe of the large-scale structure
Yanyan Zheng, Nikolaos Kouvatsos, Jacob Golomb +3
We present a new, simulation-based inference method to compute the angular power spectrum of the distribution of foreground gravitational-wave transient events. As a first applicat…
pygwb: Python-based library for gravitational-wave background searches
Arianna I. Renzini, Alba Romero-Rodrguez, Colm Talbot +31
The collection of gravitational waves (GWs) that are either too weak or too numerous to be individually resolved is commonly referred to as the gravitational-wave background (GWB).…
A stochastic search for intermittent gravitational-wave backgrounds
Jessica Lawrence, Kevin Turbang, Andrew Matas +3
A likely source of a gravitational-wave background (GWB) in the frequency band of the Advanced LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA detectors is the superposition of signals from the population o…
Model-independent search for anisotropies in stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds and application to LIGO-Virgo's first three observing Runs
Liting Xiao, Arianna I. Renzini, Alan J. Weinstein
A stochastic gravitational-wave (GW) background consists of a large number of weak, independent and uncorrelated events of astrophysical or cosmological origin. The GW power on the…
Cosmology with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
Pierre Auclair, David Bacon, Tessa Baker +177
The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) has two scientific objectives of cosmological focus: to probe the expansion rate of the universe, and to understand stochastic gravita…
Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Backgrounds: Current Detection Efforts and Future Prospects
Arianna I. Renzini, Boris Goncharov, Alexander C. Jenkins +1
The collection of individually resolvable gravitational wave (GW) events makes up a tiny fraction of all GW signals which reach our detectors, while most lie below the confusion li…
Probing Anisotropies of the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background with LISA
Nicola Bartolo, Daniele Bertacca, Robert Caldwell +19
We investigate the sensitivity of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) to the anisotropies of the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background (SGWB). We first discuss the mai…
Legacy of the First Workshop on Gravitational Wave Astrophysics for Early Career Scientists
Jean-Baptiste Bayle, Béatrice Bonga, Daniela Doneva +15
Gravitational wave science is a dynamical, fast-expanding research field founded on results, tools and methodologies drawn from different research areas and communities. Early care…
Comparison of maximum likelihood mapping methods for gravitational-wave backgrounds
Arianna I. Renzini, Joseph D. Romano, Carlo R. Contaldi +1
Detection of a stochastic background of gravitational waves is likely to occur in the next few years. Beyond searches for the isotropic component of SGWBs, there have been various…
Maximum likelihood map-making with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
Carlo R. Contaldi, Mauro Pieroni, Arianna I. Renzini +5
Given the recent advances in gravitational-wave detection technologies, the detection and characterisation of gravitational-wave backgrounds (GWBs) with the Laser Interferometer Sp…