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20152026
most citedTests of General Relativity with Binary Black Holes from the second LIGO-Virgo Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog

807 citations · 1.8k across the 30 of their papers we have counts for

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31 papers

gr-qc2026

Search for Compact Binary Coalescences with Sub-solar Mass Components in Data from the Second Part of LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA's Fourth Observing Run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1816

We report on a gravitational wave search for compact binary coalescences with secondary mass between 0.2 M and 1 M and primary mass between 0.2 M and 10 M, restricting the componen…

gr-qc2025

Remnant properties of binary neutron star mergers undergoing prompt collapse

Arnab Dhani, Alessandro Camilletti, David Radice +4

We study the properties of remnants formed in prompt-collapse binary neutron star mergers. We consider non-spinning binaries over a range of total masses and mass ratios across a s…

gr-qc2025

Direct Measurement of the Accretion Disk Formed in Prompt Collapse Mergers with Future Gravitational-Wave Observatories

Arnab Dhani, Alessandro Camilletti, Alessio Ludovico De Santis +6

The production site of heavy r-process elements, such as Gold and Uranium, is uncertain. Neutron star mergers are the only astrophysical phenomenon in which we have witnessed their…

gr-qc2025

The fault in our sirens: Hierarchical diagnosis of waveform systematics in Hubble-Lemaître constant measurements

Arnab Dhani, Jonathan Gair, Alessandra Buonanno

Cosmological inference using a population of binary black-hole mergers, combined with a galaxy catalog, presents an exciting opportunity for precision cosmology with the possibilit…

gr-qc2025★ 10 cited

Quantifying Systematic Biases in Black Hole Spectroscopy

Sebastian H. Völkel, Arnab Dhani

How long after the merger of two black holes can one rely on linear perturbation theory, and how many quasinormal modes are in the ringdown? Such questions suggest that black hole…

gr-qc2025

Optimizing Bayesian model selection for equation of state of cold neutron stars

Rahul Kashyap, Ish Gupta, Arnab Dhani +2

We introduce a computational framework, Bayesian Evidence calculation fOr Model Selection (BEOMS) to evaluate multiple Bayesian model selection methods in the context of determinin…

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…

gr-qc2024★ 1 cited

Finding cosmic anisotropy with networks of next-generation gravitational-wave detectors

Bryce Cousins, Arnab Dhani, Bangalore S. Sathyaprakash +1

The standard cosmological model involves the assumption of isotropy and homogeneity, a principle that is generally well-motivated but is now in conflict with various anisotropies f…

gr-qc2024★ 56 cited

Possible Causes of False General Relativity Violations in Gravitational Wave Observations

Anuradha Gupta, K. G. Arun, Enrico Barausse +40

General relativity (GR) has proven to be a highly successful theory of gravity since its inception. The theory has thrivingly passed numerous experimental tests, predominantly in w…

gr-qc2024★ 32 cited

Systematic Biases in Estimating the Properties of Black Holes Due to Inaccurate Gravitational-Wave Models

Arnab Dhani, Sebastian H. Völkel, Alessandra Buonanno +5

Gravitational-wave (GW) observations of binary black-hole (BBH) coalescences are expected to address outstanding questions in astrophysics, cosmology, and fundamental physics. Real…

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…

gr-qc2023★ 2 cited

Do black holes remember what they are made of?

Harshraj Bandyopadhyay, David Radice, Aviral Prakash +4

We study the ringdown signal of black holes formed in prompt-collapse binary neutron star mergers. We analyze data from numerical relativity simulations. We show that the $(\e…

gr-qc2023★ 5 cited

Characterizing Gravitational Wave Detector Networks: From A to Cosmic Explorer

Ish Gupta, Chaitanya Afle, K. G. Arun +44

Gravitational-wave observations by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and Virgo have provided us a new tool to explore the Universe on all scales from n…

gr-qc2023★ 2 cited

The Accuracy of Neutron Star Radius Measurement with the Next Generation of Terrestrial Gravitational-Wave Observatories

Rachael Huxford, Rahul Kashyap, Ssohrab Borhanian +3

In this paper, we explore the prospect for improving the measurement accuracy of masses and radii of neutron stars. We consider imminent and long-term upgrades of the Laser Interfe…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 39 cited

Cosmic Explorer: A Submission to the NSF MPSAC ngGW Subcommittee

Matthew Evans, Alessandra Corsi, Chaitanya Afle +73

Gravitational-wave astronomy has revolutionized humanity's view of the universe, a revolution driven by observations that no other field can make. This white paper describes an obs…

gr-qc2023★ 12 cited

Prospects for Direct Detection of Black Hole Formation in Neutron Star Mergers with Next-Generation Gravitational-Wave Detectors

Arnab Dhani, David Radice, Jan Schütte-Engel +5

A direct detection of black hole formation in neutron star mergers would provide invaluable information about matter in neutron star cores and finite temperature effects on the nuc…

gr-qc2023★ 402 cited

Science with the Einstein Telescope: a comparison of different designs

Marica Branchesi, Michele Maggiore, David Alonso +73

The Einstein Telescope (ET), the European project for a third-generation gravitational-wave detector, has a reference configuration based on a triangular shape consisting of three…

gr-qc2023★ 28 cited

Neutron star-black hole mergers in next generation gravitational-wave observatories

Ish Gupta, Ssohrab Borhanian, Arnab Dhani +4

Observations by the current generation of gravitational-wave detectors have been pivotal in expanding our understanding of the universe. Although tens of exciting compact binary me…

gr-qc2022★ 9 cited

Cosmography with bright and Love sirens

Arnab Dhani, Ssohrab Borhanian, Anuradha Gupta +1

Precision cosmology is crucial to understand the different energy components in the Universe and their evolution through cosmic time. Gravitational wave sources are standard sirens…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 1 cited

Snowmass 2021 Cosmic Frontier White Paper: The Dense Matter Equation of State and QCD Phase Transitions

Slavko Bogdanov, Emmanuel Fonseca, Rahul Kashyap +26

Our limited understanding of the physical properties of matter at ultra-high density, high proton/neutron number asymmetry, and low temperature is presently one of the major outsta…

gr-qc2022★ 13 cited

Systematic errors due to quasi-universal relations in binary neutron stars and their correction for unbiased model selection

Rahul Kashyap, Arnab Dhani, Bangalore Sathyaprakash

Inference of the equation-of-state (EoS) of dense nuclear matter in neutron-star cores is a principal science goal of X-ray and gravitational-wave observations of neutron stars. In…

gr-qc2022★ 15 cited

Multipole moments on the common horizon in a binary-black-hole simulation

Yitian Chen, Prayush Kumar, Neev Khera +8

We construct the covariantly defined multipole moments on the common horizon of an equal-mass, non-spinning, quasicircular binary-black-hole system. We see a strong correlation bet…