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20182026
most citedGWTC-1: A Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog of Compact Binary Mergers Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First and Second Observing Runs

3.5k citations · 14.1k across the 64 of their papers we have counts for

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64 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

LIGO A: Detector Design and Science Prospects Beyond A+

L. Sun, K. Kuns, B. J. J. Slagmolen +1153

We present the LIGO A detector concept, an upgrade for the LIGO observatories based on room-temperature interferometers beyond the fifth observing run (O5). Building on th…

gr-qc2023★ 39 cited

Unveiling the merger structure of black hole binaries in generic planar orbits

Gregorio Carullo, Simone Albanesi, Alessandro Nagar +4

The precise modeling of binary black hole coalescences in generic planar orbits is a crucial step to disentangle dynamical and isolated binary formation channels through gravitatio…

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…

gr-qc2023★ 60 cited

Spin dependence of black hole ringdown nonlinearities

Jaime Redondo-Yuste, Gregorio Carullo, Justin L. Ripley +2

The nonlinear character of general relativity leaves its imprint in the coalescence of two black holes, from the inspiral to the final ringdown stage. To quantify the impact of non…

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…

gr-qc2023★ 153 cited

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…

gr-qc2022★ 30 cited

Numerical-Relativity-Informed Effective-One-Body model for Black-Hole-Neutron-Star Mergers with Higher Modes and Spin Precession

Alejandra Gonzalez, Rossella Gamba, Matteo Breschi +4

We present the first effective-one-body (EOB) model for generic-spins quasi-circular black-hole--neutron-star (BHNS) inspiral-merger-ringdown gravitational waveforms (GWs). Our mod…

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…

gr-qc2022★ 29 cited

Combining effective-one-body accuracy and reduced-order-quadrature speed for binary neutron star merger parameter estimation with machine learning

Jacopo Tissino, Gregorio Carullo, Matteo Breschi +3

We present mlgw-bns, a gravitational waveform surrogate that allows for a significant improvement in the generation speed of frequency-domain waveforms for binary neutron star merg…

gr-qc2022★ 18 cited

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…

gr-qc2022★ 60 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 28 cited

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…

gr-qc2022★ 171 cited

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…

gr-qc2022★ 9 cited

Kilohertz Gravitational Waves from Binary Neutron Star Mergers: Inference of Postmerger Signals with the Einstein Telescope

Matteo Breschi, Rossella Gamba, Ssohrab Borhanian +2

Next-generation detectors are expected to be sensitive to postmerger signals from binary neutron star coalescences and thus to directly probe the remnant dynamics. We investigate t…

gr-qc2022★ 7 cited

Virgo Detector Characterization and Data Quality during 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 signals in the past few years, alongside the two LIGO ins…

astro-ph.HE2022

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/…

gr-qc2022★ 22 cited

The Virgo O3 run and the impact of the environment

F. Acernese, M. Agathos, A. Ain +486

Sources of geophysical noise (such as wind, sea waves and earthquakes) or of anthropogenic noise impact ground-based gravitational-wave interferometric detectors, causing transient…

gr-qc2022★ 37 cited

Search for gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1 with a hidden Markov model in O3 LIGO data

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1669

Results are presented for a semi-coherent search for continuous gravitational waves from the low-mass X-ray binary Scorpius X-1, using a hidden Markov model (HMM) to allow for spin…

gr-qc2022★ 103 cited

All-sky search for continuous gravitational waves from isolated neutron stars using Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo O3 data

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1667

We present results of an all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves which can be produced by spinning neutron stars with an asymmetry around their rotation axis, using data…

gr-qc2022★ 155 cited

Analysis of Ringdown Overtones in GW150914

Roberto Cotesta, Gregorio Carullo, Emanuele Berti +1

We analyze GW150914 post-merger data to understand if ringdown overtone detection claims are robust. We find no evidence in favor of an overtone in the data after the waveform peak…

gr-qc2021★ 74 cited

Narrowband searches for continuous and long-duration transient gravitational waves from known pulsars in the LIGO-Virgo third observing run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1658

Isolated neutron stars that are asymmetric with respect to their spin axis are possible sources of detectable continuous gravitational waves. This paper presents a fully-coherent s…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 247 cited

Constraints on the cosmic expansion history from GWTC-3

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1676

We use 47 gravitational-wave sources from the Third LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC-3) to estimate the Hubble parameter , including its current va…