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Intermediate-mass black hole binary parameter estimation with next-generation ground-based detector networks
Luca Reali, Roberto Cotesta, Andrea Antonelli +3
Astrophysical scenarios for the formation and evolution of intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) in the mass range remain uncertain,…
Systematic bias from waveform modeling for binary black hole populations in next-generation gravitational wave detectors
Veome Kapil, Luca Reali, Roberto Cotesta +1
Next-generation gravitational wave detectors such as the Einstein Telescope and Cosmic Explorer will have increased sensitivity and observing volumes, enabling unprecedented precis…
Simulation-based inference of black hole ringdowns in the time domain
Costantino Pacilio, Swetha Bhagwat, Roberto Cotesta
Gravitational waves emitted by a ringing black hole allow us to perform precision tests of general relativity in the strong field regime. With improvements to our current gravitati…
Reply to Comment on "Analysis of Ringdown Overtones in GW150914"
Gregorio Carullo, Roberto Cotesta, Emanuele Berti +1
In this Reply we include the corrections suggested in the Comment [Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 169001]. We show that their impact on our results is small, and that the overall conclusion…
Extracting linear and nonlinear quasinormal modes from black hole merger simulations
Mark Ho-Yeuk Cheung, Emanuele Berti, Vishal Baibhav +1
In general relativity, when two black holes merge they produce a rotating (Kerr) black hole remnant. According to perturbation theory, the remnant emits "ringdown" radiation: a sup…
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…
Formulation Improvements for Critical Collapse Simulations
Daniela Cors, Sarah Renkhoff, Hannes R. Rüter +2
The precise tuning required to observe critical phenomena in gravitational collapse poses a challenge for most numerical codes. First, threshold estimation searches may be obstruct…
Black-hole mergers in disklike environments could explain the observed - correlation
Alessandro Santini, Davide Gerosa, Roberto Cotesta +1
Current gravitational-wave data from stellar-mass black-hole binary mergers suggest a correlation between the binary mass ratio and the effective spin : more un…
Probing wave-optics effects and low-mass dark matter halos with lensing of gravitational waves from massive black holes
Mesut Çalışkan, Neha Anil Kumar, Lingyuan Ji +4
The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will detect gravitational waves (GWs) emitted by massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) in the low-frequency (mHz) band. Low-mass l…
Single-event likelihood of star cluster properties with LIGO-Virgo-Kagra binary black hole observations
Ken K. Y. Ng, Konstantinos Kritos, Andrea Antonelli +2
The population of binary black hole mergers observed in gravitational waves, together with astrophysical simulations, can help us to understand the properties of the progenitors an…
Classifying the generation and formation channels of individual LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observations from dynamically formed binaries
Andrea Antonelli, Konstantinos Kritos, Ken K. Y. Ng +2
We address two important questions in gravitational-wave astronomy. What is the astrophysical formation scenario leading to black-hole binary mergers? Did some of the merging black…
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…
Laying the foundation of the effective-one-body waveform models SEOBNRv5: improved accuracy and efficiency for spinning non-precessing binary black holes
Lorenzo Pompili, Alessandra Buonanno, Héctor Estellés +21
We present SEOBNRv5HM, a more accurate and faster inspiral-merger-ringdown gravitational waveform model for quasi-circular, spinning, nonprecessing binary black holes within the ef…
Agnostic black hole spectroscopy: Quasinormal mode content of numerical relativity waveforms and limits of validity of linear perturbation theory
Vishal Baibhav, Mark Ho-Yeuk Cheung, Emanuele Berti +5
Black hole spectroscopy is the program to measure the complex gravitational-wave frequencies of merger remnants, and to quantify their agreement with the characteristic frequencies…
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…
Search for gravitational-wave transients associated with magnetar bursts in Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo data from the third observing run
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1667
Gravitational waves are expected to be produced from neutron star oscillations associated with magnetar giant flares and short bursts. We present the results of a search for short-…
The impact of confusion noise on golden binary neutron-star events in next-generation terrestrial observatories
Luca Reali, Andrea Antonelli, Roberto Cotesta +4
Next-generation terrestrial gravitational-wave observatories will detect signals from compact binary coalescences every year. These signals can last for sever…
Model-based cross-correlation search for gravitational waves from the low-mass X-ray binary Scorpius X-1 in LIGO O3 data
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1692
We present the results of a model-based search for continuous gravitational waves from the low-mass X-ray binary Scorpius X-1 using LIGO detector data from the third observing run…
Nonlinear effects in black hole ringdown
Mark Ho-Yeuk Cheung, Vishal Baibhav, Emanuele Berti +8
We report evidence for nonlinear modes in the ringdown stage of the gravitational waveform produced by the merger of two comparable-mass black holes. We consider both the coalescen…
Observability of lensing of gravitational waves from massive black hole binaries with LISA
Mesut Çalışkan, Lingyuan Ji, Roberto Cotesta +3
The gravitational waves emitted by massive black hole binaries in the LISA band can be lensed. Wave-optics effects in the lensed signal are crucial when the Schwarzschild radius of…
Search for continuous gravitational wave emission from the Milky Way center in O3 LIGO--Virgo data
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1667
We present a directed search for continuous gravitational wave (CW) signals emitted by spinning neutron stars located in the inner parsecs of the Galactic Center (GC). Compelling e…
Tests of General Relativity with Gravitational-Wave Observations using a Flexible--Theory-Independent Method
Ajit Kumar Mehta, Alessandra Buonanno, Roberto Cotesta +3
We perform tests of General Relativity (GR) with gravitational waves (GWs) from the inspiral stage of compact binaries using a theory-independent framework, which adds generic phas…
Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with Fast Radio Bursts Detected by CHIME/FRB During the LIGO--Virgo Observing Run O3a
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1654
We search for gravitational-wave transients associated with fast radio bursts (FRBs) detected by the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment Fast Radio Burst Project (CHIME/…
First joint observation by the underground gravitational-wave detector, KAGRA, with GEO600
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1669
We report the results of the first joint observation of the KAGRA detector with GEO600. KAGRA is a cryogenic and underground gravitational-wave detector consisting of a laser inter…