4 papers
A stepping stone toward detecting gravitational wave memory: a cumulative analysis with the full spherical harmonic using events from GWTC-4.0 and GWTC-5.0
Maria Rosselló-Sastre, Sascha Husa, Yumeng Xu +3
We perform Bayesian model selection to test for the presence of the spherical harmonic mode in gravitational wave events that have previously been identified as bina…
Remnant recoil and host environments of GWTC-4.0 binary black-hole mergers
Joan Llobera-Querol, Eleanor Hamilton, Neha Singh +8
Determining the astrophysical origin of binary black holes and whether merger remnants are retained in their birth environments is essential for understanding hierarchical mergers…
Parameter estimation for the GWTC-4.0 catalog with phenomenological waveform models that include orbital eccentricity and an updated description of spin precession
Yumeng Xu, Jorge Valencia, Héctor Estellés Estrella +11
The GWTC-4.0 catalog of transient gravitational wave signals describes observations made in the first part of the fourth observing run of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) gravitational w…
Detectability of massive binary black holes with sub-mHz gravitational wave missions
Renjie Wang, Yumeng Xu, Gang Wang +2
Beyond LISA, proposed space-based gravitational wave (GW) missions aim to explore the sub-millihertz to microhertz frequency band, with one key objective being the detection of mas…