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most citedPossible Causes of False General Relativity Violations in Gravitational Wave Observations

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gr-qc2026

Not too close! Evaluating the impact of the baseline on the localization of binary black holes by next-generation gravitational-wave detectors

Francesco Iacovelli, Luca Reali, Emanuele Berti +3

Next-generation (XG) gravitational-wave detectors, such as Cosmic Explorer (CE) and the Einstein Telescope (ET), will observe compact binary coalescences at unprecedented rates and…

gr-qc2025★ 8 cited

Two-Step Procedure to Detect Cosmological Gravitational Wave Backgrounds with Next-Generation Terrestrial Gravitational-Wave Detectors

Haowen Zhong, Luca Reali, Bei Zhou +2

Cosmological gravitational-wave backgrounds are an exciting science target for next-generation ground-based detectors, as they encode invaluable information about the primordial Un…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 2 cited

Gravitational wave inference of star cluster properties from intermediate-mass black hole mergers

Konstantinos Kritos, Luca Reali, Ken K. Y. Ng +2

Next-generation ground-based gravitational wave observatories will observe mergers of intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) out to high redshift. Such IMBHs can form through runawa…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 2 cited

Minimum gas mass accreted by spinning intermediate-mass black holes in stellar clusters

Konstantinos Kritos, Luca Reali, Davide Gerosa +1

The spin of intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) growing through repeated black hole mergers in stellar clusters statistically asymptotes to zero. Putative observations of IMBHs w…

gr-qc2024★ 14 cited

Searching for cosmological stochastic backgrounds by notching out resolvable compact binary foregrounds with next-generation gravitational-wave detectors

Haowen Zhong, Bei Zhou, Luca Reali +2

Stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds can be of either cosmological or astrophysical origin. The detection of an astrophysical stochastic gravitational-wave background with gro…

gr-qc2024★ 12 cited

Intermediate-mass black hole binary parameter estimation with next-generation ground-based detector networks

Luca Reali, Roberto Cotesta, Andrea Antonelli +3

Astrophysical scenarios for the formation and evolution of intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) in the mass range remain uncertain,…

gr-qc2024★ 28 cited

Systematic bias from waveform modeling for binary black hole populations in next-generation gravitational wave detectors

Veome Kapil, Luca Reali, Roberto Cotesta +1

Next-generation gravitational wave detectors such as the Einstein Telescope and Cosmic Explorer will have increased sensitivity and observing volumes, enabling unprecedented precis…

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…

astro-ph.HE2024

Beyond the far side: Observing black hole mergers beyond the pair-instability mass gap with next-generation gravitational wave detectors

Gabriele Franciolini, Konstantinos Kritos, Luca Reali +2

Stellar evolution predicts the existence of a mass gap for black hole remnants produced by pair-instability supernova dynamics, whose lower and upper edges are very uncertain. We s…

gr-qc2023★ 1 cited

Black hole spectroscopy beyond Kerr: agnostic and theory-based tests with next-generation interferometers

Andrea Maselli, Sophia Yi, Lorenzo Pierini +4

Black hole spectroscopy is a clean and powerful tool to test gravity in the strong-field regime and to probe the nature of compact objects. Next-generation ground-based detectors,…

gr-qc2023★ 1 cited

The impact of compact binary confusion noise on tests of fundamental physics with next-generation gravitational-wave detectors

Luca Reali, Andrea Maselli, Emanuele Berti

Next-generation ground-based gravitational-wave observatories such as the Einstein Telescope and Cosmic Explorer will detect signals from compact binary coalesce…

gr-qc2022★ 3 cited

The impact of confusion noise on golden binary neutron-star events in next-generation terrestrial observatories

Luca Reali, Andrea Antonelli, Roberto Cotesta +4

Next-generation terrestrial gravitational-wave observatories will detect signals from compact binary coalescences every year. These signals can last for sever…

gr-qc2022★ 8 cited

Compact Binary Foreground Subtraction in Next-Generation Ground-Based Observatories

Bei Zhou, Luca Reali, Emanuele Berti +4

The stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds (SGWBs) for current detectors are dominated by binary black-hole (BBH) and binary neutron-star (BNS) coalescences. The sensitivity of…

gr-qc2022★ 41 cited

Subtracting Compact Binary Foregrounds to Search for Subdominant Gravitational-Wave Backgrounds in Next-Generation Ground-Based Observatories

Bei Zhou, Luca Reali, Emanuele Berti +4

Stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds (SGWBs) derive from the superposition of numerous individually unresolved gravitational-wave (GW) signals. Detecting SGWBs provides us wit…

gr-qc2020★ 11 cited

Mapping the asymptotic inspiral of precessing binary black holes to their merger remnants

Luca Reali, Matthew Mould, Davide Gerosa +1

Multiple approaches are required to study the evolution of black-hole binaries. While the post-Newtonian approximation is sufficient to describe the early inspiral (even from infin…