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most citedGW190412: Observation of a Binary-Black-Hole Coalescence with Asymmetric Masses

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gr-qc2025

Search for planetary-mass ultra-compact binaries using data from the first part of the LIGO--Virgo--KAGRA fourth observing run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1765

We present a search for gravitational waves from inspiraling, planetary-mass ultra-compact binaries using data from the first part of the fourth observing run of LIGO, Virgo and KA…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 34 cited

GW241011 and GW241110: Exploring Binary Formation and Fundamental Physics with Asymmetric, High-Spin Black Hole Coalescence

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1783

We report the observation of gravitational waves from two binary black hole coalescences during the fourth observing run of the LIGO--Virgo--KAGRA detector network, GW241011 and GW…

astro-ph.CO2025

Direct multi-model dark-matter search with gravitational-wave interferometers using data from the first part of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1767

We search data from the first part of the fourth observing run of LIGO--Virgo--KAGRA for three kinds of dark matter -- dilatons (spin-0), dark photons (spin-1) and tensor bosons (s…

gr-qc2025★ 100 cited

GW250114: testing Hawking's area law and the Kerr nature of black holes

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1785

The gravitational-wave signal GW250114 was observed by the two LIGO detectors with a network matched-filter signal-to-noise ratio of 80. The signal was emitted by the coalescence o…

gr-qc2025

Directed searches for gravitational waves from ultralight vector boson clouds around merger remnant and galactic black holes during the first part of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1769

We present the first directed searches for long-transient and continuous gravitational waves from ultralight vector boson clouds around known black holes (BHs). We use LIGO data fr…

gr-qc2025

Upper Limits on the Isotropic Gravitational-Wave Background from the first part of LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA's fourth Observing Run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1773

We present results from the search for an isotropic gravitational-wave background using Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo data from O1 through O4a, the first part of the fourth obse…

gr-qc2025★ 64 cited

GWTC-4.0: Updating the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog with Observations from the First Part of the Fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observing Run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1786

Version 4.0 of the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC-4.0) adds new candidates detected by the LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA observatories through the first part of the fourth obs…

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…

gr-qc2025

Open Data from LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA through the First Part of the Fourth Observing Run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1768

LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA form a network of gravitational-wave observatories. Data and analysis results from this network are made publicly available through the Gravitational Wave Op…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 121 cited

GW231123: a Binary Black Hole Merger with Total Mass 190-265

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1771

On 2023 November 23 the two LIGO observatories both detected GW231123, a gravitational-wave signal consistent with the merger of two black holes with masses $137^{+23}_{-18}\, M_\o…

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.HE2020★ 683 cited

GW190412: Observation of a Binary-Black-Hole Coalescence with Asymmetric Masses

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, R. Abbott +1254

We report the observation of gravitational waves from a binary-black-hole coalescence during the first two weeks of LIGO's and Virgo's third observing run. The signal was recorded…

gr-qc2017★ 112 cited

First search for nontensorial gravitational waves from known pulsars

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1050

We present results from the first directed search for nontensorial gravitational waves. While general relativity allows for tensorial (plus and cross) modes only, a generic metric…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 52 cited

Search for High-energy Neutrinos from Gravitational Wave Event GW151226 and Candidate LVT151012 with ANTARES and IceCube

A. Albert, M. Andre, M. Anghinolfi +1410

The Advanced LIGO observatories detected gravitational waves from two binary black hole mergers during their first observation run (O1). We present a high-energy neutrino follow-up…