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20192026
most citedGWTC-3: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo During the Second Part of the Third Observing Run

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57 papers

astro-ph.HE2026

Archival Multiband Gravitational-Wave Signals from Massive Black Hole Binary Mergers

Alexander W. Criswell, Stephen R. Taylor, Kris Pardo +4

While massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) merge at gravitational-wave frequencies above the pulsar timing array (PTA) sensitivity band, we show that they leave orphaned low-frequen…

astro-ph.IM2026

A Foundation for Gravitational-Wave Population Inference within the LISA Global Fit

Alexander W. Criswell, Sharan Banagiri, Vera Delfavero +3

Population inference in gravitational-wave astronomy allows us to connect individual detections to the astrophysics of compact objects and their environments. Current approaches em…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 8 cited

GWTC-4.0: Population Properties of Merging Compact Binaries

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1805

We detail the population properties of merging compact objects using 158 mergers from the cumulative Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog 4.0, which includes three types of binary…

astro-ph.IM2025

Flexible Spectral Separation of Multiple Isotropic and Anisotropic Stochastic Gravitational Wave Backgrounds in LISA

Alexander W. Criswell, Sharan Banagiri, Jessica Lawrence +4

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will observe mHz gravitational waves from a wide variety of astrophysical sources. Of these, some will be characterizable as individua…

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★ 53 cited

GWTC-4.0: An Introduction to Version 4.0 of the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1808

The Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC) is a collection of short-duration (transient) gravitational wave signals identified by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration in gravita…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 4 cited

Optimal Follow-Up of Gravitational-Wave Events with the UltraViolet EXplorer (UVEX)

Leo P. Singer, Alexander W. Criswell, Sydney C. Leggio +10

The UltraViolet EXplorer (UVEX) is a wide-field ultraviolet space telescope selected as a NASA Medium-Class Explorer (MIDEX) mission for launch in 2030. UVEX will undertake deep, c…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 3 cited

Electromagnetic Follow-up to Gravitational Wave Events with the UltraViolet EXplorer (UVEX)

Alexander W. Criswell, Sydney C. Leggio, Michael W. Coughlin +9

The Ultraviolet Explorer (UVEX) is expected to fly in 2030 and will have the opportunity -- and the rapid near/far ultraviolet (UV) capabilities -- to glean unprecedented insight i…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 17 cited

Search for continuous gravitational waves from known pulsars in the first part of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1816

Continuous gravitational waves (CWs) emission from neutron stars carries information about their internal structure and equation of state, and it can provide tests of General Relat…

gr-qc2024

Angular Resolution of a Bayesian Search for Anisotropic Stochastic Gravitational Wave Backgrounds with LISA

Malachy Bloom, Alexander Criswell, Vuk Mandic

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), a spaceborne gravitational wave (GW) detector set to launch in 2035, will observe several stochastic GW backgrounds in the mHz freque…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 11 cited

Templated Anisotropic Analyses of the LISA Galactic Foreground

Alexander W. Criswell, Steven Rieck, Vuk Mandic

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will feature a prominent anisotropic astrophysical stochastic gravitational wave signal, arising from the tens of millions of unresolv…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 14 cited

Search for gravitational waves emitted from SN 2023ixf

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1780

We present the results of a search for gravitational-wave transients associated with core-collapse supernova SN 2023ixf, which was observed in the galaxy Messier 101 via optical em…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 5 cited

A search using GEO600 for gravitational waves coincident with fast radio bursts from SGR 1935+2154

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1780

The magnetar SGR 1935+2154 is the only known Galactic source of fast radio bursts (FRBs). FRBs from SGR 1935+2154 were first detected by CHIME/FRB and STARE2 in 2020 April, after t…

astro-ph.HE2024

Swift-BAT GUANO follow-up of gravitational-wave triggers in the third LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing run

Gayathri Raman, Samuele Ronchini, James Delaunay +1819

We present results from a search for X-ray/gamma-ray counterparts of gravitational-wave (GW) candidates from the third observing run (O3) of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) network usin…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 201 cited

Observation of Gravitational Waves from the Coalescence of a Compact Object and a Neutron Star

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1793

We report the observation of a coalescing compact binary with component masses and (all measurements quoted at the 90% credible le…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 1 cited

Ultralight vector dark matter search using data from the KAGRA O3GK run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1800

Among the various candidates for dark matter (DM), ultralight vector DM can be probed by laser interferometric gravitational wave detectors through the measurement of oscillating l…

astro-ph.HE2023

A Joint Fermi-GBM and Swift-BAT Analysis of Gravitational-Wave Candidates from the Third Gravitational-wave Observing Run

C. Fletcher, J. Wood, R. Hamburg +1696

We present Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (Fermi-GBM) and Swift Burst Alert Telescope (Swift-BAT) searches for gamma-ray/X-ray counterparts to gravitational wave (GW) candidate even…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 6 cited

Search for Eccentric Black Hole Coalescences during the Third Observing Run of LIGO and Virgo

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1772

Despite the growing number of confident binary black hole coalescences observed through gravitational waves so far, the astrophysical origin of these binaries remains uncertain. Or…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 9 cited

A Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background in LISA from Unresolved White Dwarf Binaries in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Steven Rieck, Alexander W. Criswell, Valeriya Korol +3

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is expected to detect a wide variety of gravitational wave sources in the mHz band. Some of these signals will elude individual detect…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 1 cited

Enabling Kilonova Science with Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Igor Andreoni, Michael W. Coughlin, Alexander W. Criswell +16

Binary neutron star mergers and neutron star-black hole mergers are multi-messenger sources that can be detected in gravitational waves and in electromagnetic radiation. The low el…

gr-qc2023★ 19 cited

Search for gravitational-lensing signatures in the full third observing run of the LIGO-Virgo network

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1692

Gravitational lensing by massive objects along the line of sight to the source causes distortions of gravitational wave-signals; such distortions may reveal information about funda…

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…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 31 cited

Search for subsolar-mass black hole binaries in the second part of Advanced LIGO's and Advanced Virgo's third observing run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1702

We describe a search for gravitational waves from compact binaries with at least one component with mass 0.2 -- and mass ratio in Advanced LIGO…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 17 cited

Needle in a Bayes Stack: a Hierarchical Bayesian Method for Constraining the Neutron Star Equation of State with an Ensemble of Binary Neutron Star Post-merger Remnants

Alexander W. Criswell, Jesse Miller, Noah Woldemariam +6

Binary neutron star (BNS) post-merger gravitational-wave emission can occur in the aftermath of a BNS merger -- provided the system avoids prompt collapse to a black hole -- as a q…