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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…
py5vec: a modular Python package for the 5-vector method to search for continuous gravitational waves
Luca D'Onofrio, Federico Muciaccia, Lorenzo Mirasola +7
We present \texttt{py5vec}, a Python package for implementing and extending the 5-vector method, used to search for continuous gravitational wave (CW) signals. We also provide a co…
A directed continuous-wave search from neutron stars in binary systems with the five-vector resampling technique
Francesco Amicucci, Paola Leaci, Pia Astone +8
Continuous gravitational-wave signals (CWs), which are typically emitted by rapidly rotating neutron stars with non-axisymmetric deformations, represent particularly intriguing tar…
A directed continuous-wave search from Scorpius X-1 with the five-vector resampling technique
Francesco Amicucci, Paola Leaci, Pia Astone +8
Continuous gravitational-wave signals (CWs), which are typically emitted by rapidly rotating neutron stars with non-axisymmetric deformations, represent particularly intriguing tar…
Doppler correlation-driven vetoes for the Frequency Hough analysis in continuous gravitational-wave searches
Matteo Di Giovanni, Paola Leaci, Pia Astone +8
We present an improved method for vetoing candidates of continuous gravitational-wave sources during all-sky searches utilizing the Frequency Hough pipeline. This approach leverage…
Neural network method to search for long transient gravitational waves
Francesca Attadio, Leonardo Ricca, Marco Serra +11
We present a new method to search for long transient gravitational waves signals, like those expected from fast spinning newborn magnetars, in interferometric detector data. Standa…
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…
Impact of signal clusters in wide-band searches for continuous gravitational waves
Lorenzo Pierini, Pia Astone, Cristiano Palomba +9
In this paper we present a study of some relevant steps of the hierarchical frequency-Hough (FH) pipeline, used within the LIGO and Virgo Collaborations for wide-parameter space se…
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…
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…
Direct constraints on ultra-light boson mass from searches for continuous gravitational waves
Cristiano Palomba, Sabrina D'Antonio, Pia Astone +10
\textit{Superradiance} can trigger the formation of an ultra-light boson cloud around a spinning black hole. Once formed, the boson cloud is expected to emit a nearly periodic, lon…
How effective is machine learning to detect long transient gravitational waves from neutron stars in a real search?
Andrew L. Miller, Pia Astone, Sabrina D'Antonio +12
We present a comprehensive study of the effectiveness of Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs) to detect long duration transient gravitational-wave signals lasting fro…
A New Method to Observe Gravitational Waves emitted by Core Collapse Supernovae
P. Astone, P. Cerda-Duran, I. Di Palma +4
While gravitational waves have been detected from mergers of binary black holes and binary neutron stars, signals from core collapse supernovae, the most energetic explosions in th…
A method to search for long duration gravitational wave transients from isolated neutron stars using the generalized FrequencyHough
Andrew Miller, Pia Astone, Sabrina D'Antonio +10
We describe a method to detect gravitational waves lasting emitted by young, isolated neutron stars, such as those that could form after a supernova or a binary neu…
A semi-coherent analysis method to search for continuous gravitational waves emitted by ultra-light boson clouds around spinning black holes
S. D'Antonio, C. Palomba, S. Frasca +8
As a consequence of superradiant instability induced in Kerr black holes, ultra-light boson clouds can be a source of persistent gravitational waves, potentially detectable by curr…
Phase decomposition of the template metric for continuous gravitational-wave searches
S. Mastrogiovanni, P. Astone, S. D Antonio +9
A type of gravitational-wave signals in the LIGO-Virgo sensitivity band are expected to be emitted by spinning asymmetric neutron stars, with rotational frequencies that could plau…