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Black Hole Binary Detection Landscape for the Laser Interferometer Lunar Antenna (LILA): Signal-to-Noise Calculations & Science Cases
Tintin Nguyen, Anjali Yelikar, Ryan Nowicki +2
The Laser Interferometer Lunar Antenna (LILA) is a proposed gravitational-wave project aiming to take full advantage of the Moon's environment to access the deci-Hz band and detect…
Binary Neutron Stars from the Moon: Early Warnings and Precision Science for the Artemis Era
Anjali B. Yelikar, Karan Jani
Binary neutron star mergers are unique probes of matter at extreme density and standard candles of cosmic expansion. The only such event observed in both gravitational waves and el…
Laser Interferometer Lunar Antenna (LILA): Advancing the U.S. Priorities in Gravitational-wave and Lunar Science
Karan Jani, Matthew Abernathy, Emanuele Berti +30
The Laser Interferometer Lunar Antenna (LILA) is a next-generation gravitational-wave (GW) facility on the Moon. By harnessing the Moon's unique environment, LILA fills a critical…
Narrowing RIFT: Focused simulation-based-inference for interpreting exceptional GW sources
Katelyn J. Wagner, R. O'Shaughnessy, A. Yelikar +6
The Rapid Iterative FiTting (RIFT) parameter inference algorithm provides a simulation-based inference approach to efficient, highly-parallelized parameter inference for GW sources…
Massive Double White Dwarf Binary Mergers from the Moon: Extending the Reach of Multi-messenger Astrophysics
Manuel Pichardo Marcano, Anjali B. Yelikar, Karan Jani
We explore the potential of lunar-based gravitational-wave detectors to broaden the multi-messenger astrophysics landscape by detecting mergers of massive () do…
Properties of 'Lite' Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Candidates in LIGO-Virgo's Third Observing Run
Krystal Ruiz-Rocha, Anjali B. Yelikar, Jacob Lange +5
Over a hundred gravitational-wave (GW) detections and candidates have been reported from the first three observing runs of the Advanced LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) detectors. Among thes…
Effects of waveform systematics on inferences of neutron star population properties and the nuclear equation of state
Anjali B. Yelikar, Richard O'Shaughnessy, Daniel Wysocki +1
Gravitational waves from inspiralling neutron stars carry information about matter at extreme gravity and density. The binary neutron star (BNS) event GW170817 provided, for the fi…
Inference on neutron star parameters and the nuclear equation of state with RIFT, using prior EOS information
Askold Vilkha, Anjali Yelikar, Richard O'Shaughnessy +1
In this paper, we present an inference method for determining neutron star parameters and constraining the nuclear equation of state (EOS) using the RIFT parameter inference engine…
Astrophysical assumptions and equation of state framework have larger impact on equation of state inference than individual neutron star observations
Atul Kedia, Richard O'Shaughnessy, Leslie Wade +1
The wide range of nuclear densities achieved in neutron stars makes them probes of dense nuclear behavior in the form of the nuclear equation of state (EoS). Studying neutron stars…
Low-latency parameter inference enabled by a Gaussian likelihood approximation for RIFT
A. B. Yelikar, V. Delfavero, R. O'Shaughnessy
Rapid identification, characterization, and localization of gravitational waves from binary compact object mergers can enable well-informed follow-on multimessenger observations. I…
Surrogate light curve models for kilonovae with comprehensive wind ejecta outflows and parameter estimation for AT2017gfo
Atul Kedia, Marko Ristic, Richard O'Shaughnessy +6
The electromagnetic emission resulting from neutron star mergers have been shown to encode properties of the ejected material in their light curves. The ejecta properties inferred…
Expanding RIFT: Improving performance for GW parameter inference
J. Wofford, A. Yelikar, H. Gallagher +10
The Rapid Iterative FiTting (RIFT) parameter inference algorithm provides a framework for efficient, highly-parallelized parameter inference for GW sources. In this paper, we summa…
Compressed Parametric and Non-Parametric Approximations to the Gravitational Wave Likelihood
Vera Delfavero, Richard O'Shaughnessy, Daniel Wysocki +1
Gravitational-wave observations of quasicircular compact binary mergers imply complicated posterior measurements of their parameters. Though Gaussian approximations to the pertinen…
General-relativistic precession in a black-hole binary
Mark Hannam, Charlie Hoy, Jonathan E. Thompson +24
The general-relativistic phenomenon of spin-induced orbital precession has not yet been observed in strong-field gravity. Gravitational-wave observations of binary black holes (BBH…
All-sky search in early O3 LIGO data for continuous gravitational-wave signals from unknown neutron stars in binary systems
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, R. Abbott +1369
Rapidly spinning neutron stars are promising sources of persistent, continuous gravitational waves. Detecting such a signal would allow probing of the physical properties of matter…