6 papers
The mass gap, the spin gap, and the origin of merging binary black holes
Vishal Baibhav, Davide Gerosa, Emanuele Berti +3
Two of the dominant channels to produce the black-hole binary mergers observed by LIGO and Virgo are believed to be the isolated evolution of stellar binaries in the field and dyna…
LISA parameter estimation and source localization with higher harmonics of the ringdown
Vishal Baibhav, Emanuele Berti, Vitor Cardoso
LISA can detect higher harmonics of the ringdown gravitational-wave signal from massive black-hole binary mergers with large signal-to-noise ratio. The most massive black-hole bina…
Prospects for Fundamental Physics with LISA
Enrico Barausse, Emanuele Berti, Thomas Hertog +318
In this paper, which is of programmatic rather than quantitative nature, we aim to further delineate and sharpen the future potential of the LISA mission in the area of fundamental…
Gravitational-wave detection rates for compact binaries formed in isolation: LIGO/Virgo O3 and beyond
Vishal Baibhav, Emanuele Berti, Davide Gerosa +4
Using simulations performed with the population synthesis code MOBSE, we compute the merger rate densities and detection rates of compact binary mergers formed in isolation for sec…
Constraining the fraction of binary black holes formed in isolation and young star clusters with gravitational-wave data
Yann Bouffanais, Michela Mapelli, Davide Gerosa +4
Ten binary black-hole mergers have already been detected during the first two observing runs of advanced LIGO and Virgo, and many more are expected to be observed in the near futur…
Binary radial velocity measurements with space-based gravitational-wave detectors
Kaze W. K. Wong, Vishal Baibhav, Emanuele Berti
Unlike traditional electromagnetic measurements, gravitational-wave observations are not affected by crowding and extinction. For this reason, compact object binaries orbiting arou…