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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…
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…
Reducing cosmological degeneracies by combining multiple classes of LISA gravitational-wave standard sirens
Danny Laghi, Nicola Tamanini, Alberto Sesana +6
We present the first joint gravitational-wave cosmological inference with LISA extreme mass-ratio inspirals at (galaxy redshifts) and massive black hole binaries at $z…
LISA science ground segment conventions
Quentin Baghi, Stanislas Babak, Leor Barack +22
This document sets out the conventions used for data simulations, waveforms, and analysis pipelines within the Distributed Data Processing Centre (DDPC) of the Laser Interferometer…
Systematic biases in parameter estimation on LISA binaries. II. The effect of excluding higher harmonics for spin-aligned, high-mass binaries
Sophia Yi, Francesco Iacovelli, Emanuele Berti +4
The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will observe massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) with astoundingly high signal-to-noise ratio, leaving parameter estimation with these…
A Parametrized Test of General Relativity for LISA Massive Black Hole Binary Inspirals
Manuel Piarulli, Sylvain Marsat, Elise M. Sänger +3
Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) observations of massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) will provide long duration inspiral signals with high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) data…
Fast detection and reconstruction of merging Massive Black Hole Binary signals
Senwen Deng, Stanislav Babak, Sylvain Marsat
The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will detect gravitational waves from the population of merging massive black holes binaries (MBHBs) throughout the Universe. The LISA…
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…
Searching for additional structure and redshift evolution in the observed binary black hole population with a parametric time-dependent mass distribution
Vasco Gennari, Simone Mastrogiovanni, Nicola Tamanini +2
The population of the observed gravitational wave events encodes unique information on the formation and evolution of stellar-mass black holes, from the underlying astrophysical pr…
Systematic biases in parameter estimation on LISA binaries: The effect of excluding higher harmonics for non-spinning binaries
Sophia Yi, Francesco Iacovelli, Sylvain Marsat +2
The remarkable sensitivity achieved by the planned Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will allow us to observe gravitational-wave signals from the mergers of massive black h…
Modular global-fit pipeline for LISA data analysis
Senwen Deng, Stanislav Babak, Maude Le Jeune +3
We anticipate that the data acquired by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will be dominated by the gravitational wave signals from several astrophysical populations. Th…
Hierarchical Bayesian inference on an analytical model of the LISA massive black hole binary population
Vivienne Langen, Nicola Tamanini, Sylvain Marsat +1
Massive black hole binary (MBHB) mergers will be detectable in large numbers by the Lisa Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), which will thus provide new insights on how they form…
The impact of a primordial gravitational wave background on LISA resolvable sources
Matteo Braglia, Mauro Pieroni, Sylvain Marsat
The existence of a primordial stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) is a common prediction in various models of the early Universe. Despite constraints at different frequ…
LISA Definition Study Report
Monica Colpi, Karsten Danzmann, Martin Hewitson +108
The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is the first scientific endeavour to detect and study gravitational waves from space. LISA will survey the sky for Gravitational Waves…
Massive black hole binaries in LISA: constraining cosmological parameters at high redshifts
Alberto Mangiagli, Chiara Caprini, Sylvain Marsat +3
One of the scientific objectives of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is to probe the expansion of the Universe using gravitational wave observations. Indeed, as gravit…
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…
The minimum measurable eccentricity from gravitational waves of LISA massive black hole binaries
Mudit Garg, Shubhanshu Tiwari, Andrea Derdzinski +3
We explore the eccentricity measurement threshold of LISA for gravitational waves radiated by massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) with redshifted BH masses in the range $10^{…
Implications of the pulsar timing array detections for massive black hole mergers in the LISA band
Enrico Barausse, Kallol Dey, Marco Crisostomi +3
The recent evidence of a stochastic background of gravitational waves in the nHz band by pulsar-timing array (PTA) experiments has shed new light on the formation and evolution of…
On the detectability of higher harmonics with LISA
Chantal Pitte, Quentin Baghi, Sylvain Marsat +2
Supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) are expected to be detected by the future space-based gravitational-wave detector LISA with a large signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). This pros…
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…
Dark siren cosmology with binary black holes in the era of third-generation gravitational wave detectors
Niccolò Muttoni, Danny Laghi, Nicola Tamanini +2
Third-generation (3G) gravitational wave detectors, in particular Einstein Telescope (ET) and Cosmic Explorer (CE), will explore unprecedented cosmic volumes in search for compact…
Chasing Super-Massive Black Hole merging events with and LISA
L. Piro, M. Colpi, J. Aird +15
The European Space Agency is studying two large-class missions bound to operate in the decade of the 30s, and aiming at investigating the most energetic and violent phenomena in th…
Virgo Detector Characterization and Data Quality: tools
F. Acernese, M. Agathos, A. Ain +491
Detector characterization and data quality studies -- collectively referred to as {\em DetChar} activities in this article -- are paramount to the scientific exploitation of the jo…
Virgo Detector Characterization and Data Quality: results from the O3 run
F. Acernese, M. Agathos, A. Ain +491
The Advanced Virgo detector has contributed with its data to the rapid growth of the number of detected gravitational-wave (GW) signals in the past few years, alongside the two Adv…