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most citedScience with the Einstein Telescope: a comparison of different designs

402 citations · 761 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

gr-qc2026

Fast gravitational waveform models for quasi-circular coalescences of neutron star--black hole binaries

Felip A. Ramis Vidal, Adrian Abac, Marta Colleoni +5

We present IMRPhenomXHM_NSBH and SEOBNRv5HM_ROM_NRTidalv3_NSBH, the first two frequency-domain models for gravitational-wave signals from quasi-circular, aligned-spin neutron star-…

gr-qc2026

A story about a tipsy kangaroo: Reversible jump MCMC for model selection in the analysis of gravitational-wave signals from the coalescence of compact objects

Anna Puecher, Tim Dietrich, Hauke Koehn +4

Bayesian inference is commonly employed in the analysis of gravitational-wave signals not only to estimate the source parameters, but also for model selection. The latter provides…

astro-ph.HE2026

Unified study of nuclear physics and dark matter constraints through gravitational-wave observations of binary neutron star mergers

Nina Kunert, Guilherme Grams, William Newton +5

Understanding the properties of strongly interacting matter at extreme densities is a central problem in fundamental physics, with neutron star mergers offering a natural laborator…

gr-qc2026

Investigating the impact of quasi-universal relations on neutron star constraints in third-generation detectors

Natalie Williams, Anna Puecher, Guilherme Grams +2

Gravitational-wave observations of binary neutron star systems can shed light on the currently unknown dense matter equation of state. The equation of state determines a large numb…

astro-ph.IM2026

ESO Expanding Horizon White Paper: Revealing the properties of matter at supranuclear densities with gravitational waves

Tim Dietrich, Tanja Hinderer, Micaela Oertel +40

Understanding dense matter under extreme conditions is one of the most fundamental puzzles in modern physics. Complex interactions give rise to emergent, collective phenomena. Whil…

astro-ph.HE2025

Analyzing GW231109_235456 and understanding its potential implications for population studies, nuclear physics, and multi-messenger astronomy

Thibeau Wouters, Anna Puecher, Peter T. H. Pang +1

We study the gravitational-wave trigger GW231109_235456, a sub-threshold binary neutron star merger candidate observed in the first part of the fourth observing run of the LIGO-Vir…

gr-qc2025★ 1 cited

Challenging a binary neutron star merger interpretation of GW230529

Ivan Markin, Anna Puecher, Mattia Bulla +1

GW230529_181500 represented the first gravitational-wave detection with one of the component objects' mass inferred to lie in the previously hypothesized mass gap between the heavi…

gr-qc2025

Leveraging NRTidalv3 to develop gravitational waveform models with higher-order modes for binary neutron star systems

Adrian Abac, Felip A. Ramis Vidal, Marta Colleoni +3

Accurate and reliable gravitational waveform models are crucial in determining the properties of compact binary mergers. In particular, next-generation gravitational-wave detectors…

gr-qc2025★ 97 cited

The Science of the Einstein Telescope

Adrian Abac, Raul Abramo, Simone Albanesi +485

Einstein Telescope (ET) is the European project for a gravitational-wave (GW) observatory of third-generation. In this paper we present a comprehensive discussion of its science ob…

gr-qc2025★ 1 cited

Data-driven approach for extracting tidal information from neutron star binary mergers observed with the Einstein Telescope

Adrian Abac, Anna Puecher, Jonathan Gair +1

The recent breakthroughs regarding the detection of compact binary mergers via gravitational waves opened up a new window to the Universe. Gravitational-wave models have been essen…

astro-ph.HE2024

A machine-learning classifier for the postmerger remnant of binary neutron stars

Anna Puecher, Tim Dietrich

Knowing the kind of remnant produced after the merger of a binary neutron star system, e.g., if a black hole forms or not, would not only shed light on the equation of state descri…

gr-qc2023

Comparing gravitational waveform models for binary black hole mergers through a hypermodels approach

Anna Puecher, Anuradha Samajdar, Gregory Ashton +2

The inference of source parameters from gravitational-wave signals relies on theoretical models that describe the emitted waveform. Different model assumptions on which the computa…

gr-qc2023★ 43 cited

Nuclear physics constraints from binary neutron star mergers in the Einstein Telescope era

Francesco Iacovelli, Michele Mancarella, Chiranjib Mondal +5

The next generation of ground-based gravitational-wave detectors, Einstein Telescope (ET) and Cosmic Explorer (CE), present a unique opportunity to put constraints on dense matter,…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 55 cited

Updated observing scenarios and multi-messenger implications for the International Gravitational-wave Network's O4 and O5

R. Weizmann Kiendrebeogo, Amanda M. Farah, Emily M. Foley +14

An advanced LIGO and Virgo's third observing run brought another binary neutron star merger (BNS) and the first neutron-star black hole mergers. While no confirmed kilonovae were i…

gr-qc2023

Minimally modeled characterization method of postmerger gravitational wave emission from binary neutron star coalescences

Maria Concetta Tringali, Anna Puecher, Claudia Lazzaro +5

Gravitational waves emitted during the coalescence of binary neutron star systems carry information about the equation of state describing the extremely dense matter inside neutron…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 25 cited

Measuring tidal effects with the Einstein Telescope: A design study

Anna Puecher, Anuradha Samajdar, Tim Dietrich

Over the last few years, there has been a large momentum to ensure that the third-generation era of gravitational wave detectors will find its realisation in the next decades, and…

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-qc2022★ 18 cited

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…

gr-qc2022★ 60 cited

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…

gr-qc2022★ 24 cited

Unraveling information about supranuclear-dense matter from the complete binary neutron star coalescence process using future gravitational-wave detector networks

Anna Puecher, Tim Dietrich, Ka Wa Tsang +4

Gravitational waves provide us with an extraordinary tool to study the matter inside neutron stars. In particular, the postmerger signal probes an extreme temperature and density r…

gr-qc2022

Testing general relativity using higher-order modes of gravitational waves from binary black holes

Anna Puecher, Chinmay Kalaghatgi, Soumen Roy +4

Recently, strong evidence was found for the presence of higher-order modes in the gravitational wave signals GW190412 and GW190814, which originated from compact binary coalescence…

gr-qc2022★ 6 cited

Determining the equation of state of neutron stars with Einstein Telescope using tidal effects and r-mode excitations from a population of binary inspirals

Pawan Kumar Gupta, Anna Puecher, Peter T. H. Pang +3

Third-generation gravitational wave (GW) observatories such as Einstein Telescope (ET) and Cosmic Explorer (CE) will be ideal instruments to probe the structure of neutron stars th…

gr-qc2022★ 7 cited

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…

gr-qc2022★ 22 cited

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…