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most citedImproved post-Newtonian waveform model for inspiralling precessing-eccentric compact binaries

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gr-qc2026

Advanced Virgo during the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA fourth observing run

Virgo Collaboration, F Acernese, A Agapito +546

From April 10, 2024 to November 18, 2025 Advanced Virgo participated in the fourth observing run of the network of gravitational-wave detectors, together with Advanced LIGO and KAG…

gr-qc2026

Post-Newtonian inspiral waveform model for eccentric precessing binaries with higher-order modes and matter effects

Gonzalo Morras, Geraint Pratten, Patricia Schmidt +1

We introduce pyEFPEHM, a post-Newtonian (PN) inspiral waveform model for eccentric and spin-precessing compact binaries that includes higher-order modes and matter effects. Accurat…

astro-ph.IM2026

Advanced Virgo Plus for O5 -- Design Report Overview

F. Acernese, A. Agapito, D. Agarwal +578

This document presents an overview of the design, implementation, and expected performance of the Advanced Virgo Plus (AdV+) upgrades in view of the O5 observing run. Following the…

astro-ph.HE2026

Impact of eccentricity on the population properties of neutron star - black hole mergers

Gonzalo Morras, Geraint Pratten, Patricia Schmidt

We revisit the population properties of neutron star-black hole (NSBH) mergers using low-mass compact binary coalescences reported through GWTC-4. Employing pyEFPE, an inspiral-onl…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 5 cited

Astrophysical Implications of Eccentricity in Gravitational Waves from Neutron Star-Black Hole Binaries

Isobel Romero-Shaw, Jakob Stegmann, Gonzalo Morras +2

The gravitational-wave signal from the neutron star-black hole (NSBH) merger GW200105 is consistent with this binary having significant orbital eccentricity close to merger. This r…

gr-qc2025★ 5 cited

Detection of GW200105 with a targeted eccentric search

Khun Sang Phukon, Patricia Schmidt, Gonzalo Morras +1

The neutron star -- black hole (NSBH) binary GW200105 was recently found to have significant residual orbital eccentricity at a gravitational-wave frequency of 20 Hz~\cite{Morras:2…

gr-qc2025★ 5 cited

Modeling Gravitational Wave Modes from the Inspiral of Binaries with Arbitrary Eccentricity

Gonzalo Morras

Eccentric binaries are key targets for current and future gravitational wave (GW) detectors, offering unique insights into the formation and environments of compact binaries. Howev…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 22 cited

Orbital eccentricity in a neutron star - black hole merger

Gonzalo Morras, Geraint Pratten, Patricia Schmidt

The observation of gravitational waves from merging black holes and neutron stars provides a unique opportunity to discern information about their astrophysical environment. Two si…

gr-qc2025★ 39 cited

Improved post-Newtonian waveform model for inspiralling precessing-eccentric compact binaries

Gonzalo Morras, Geraint Pratten, Patricia Schmidt

The measurement of spin-precession and orbital eccentricity in gravitational-wave (GW) signals is a key priority in GW astronomy, as these effects not only provide insights into th…

astro-ph.CO2024

Effects of local cosmic inhomogeneities on the gravitational wave event rate

Gonzalo Morras, Juan Garcia-Bellido

The local universe is highly inhomogeneous and anisotropic. We live in a relatively sparse region of the Laniakea supercluster at the edge of a large 80 Mpc-wide void. We study the…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 14 cited

Applying the Viterbi Algorithm to Planetary-Mass Black Hole Searches

George Alestas, Gonzalo Morras, Takahiro S. Yamamoto +3

The search for subsolar mass primordial black holes (PBHs) poses a challenging problem due to the low signal-to-noise ratio, extended signal duration, and computational cost demand…

gr-qc2023★ 17 cited

Efficient Reduced Order Quadrature Construction Algorithms for Fast Gravitational Wave Inference

Gonzalo Morras, Jose Francisco Nuno Siles, Juan Garcia-Bellido

Reduced Order Quadrature (ROQ) methods can greatly reduce the computational cost of Gravitational Wave (GW) likelihood evaluations, and therefore greatly speed up parameter estimat…

gr-qc2023★ 27 cited

Analysis of a subsolar-mass compact binary candidate from the second observing run of Advanced LIGO

Gonzalo Morrás, José Francisco Nuño Siles, Juan García-Bellido +8

We perform an exhaustive follow-up analysis of a subsolar-mass (SSM) gravitational wave (GW) candidate reported by Phukon et al. from the second observing run of Advanced LIGO. Thi…

cond-mat.supr-con2022★ 22 cited

Tunneling processes between Yu-Shiba-Rusinov bound states

A. Villas, R. L. Klees, G. Morrás +5

Very recent experiments have reported the tunneling between Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (YSR) bound states at the atomic scale. These experiments have been realized with the help of a scannin…

gr-qc2022★ 12 cited

The False Alarms induced by Gaussian Noise in Gravitational Wave Detectors

Gonzalo Morras, Jose Francisco Nuño Siles, Juan Garcia-Bellido +1

Gaussian noise is an irreducible component of the background in gravitational wave (GW) detectors. Although stationary Gaussian noise is uncorrelated in frequencies, we show that t…

astro-ph.IM2022

Gravitational wave matched filtering by quantum Monte Carlo integration and quantum amplitude amplification

Koichi Miyamoto, Gonzalo Morrás, Takahiro S. Yamamoto +2

The speedup of heavy numerical tasks by quantum computing is now actively investigated in various fields including data analysis in physics and astronomy. In this paper, we propose…

cond-mat.supr-con2021★ 35 cited

Superconducting Quantum Interference at the Atomic Scale

S. Karan, H. Huang, C. Padurariu +9

A single spin in a Josephson junction can reverse the flow of the supercurrent. At mesoscopic length scales, such -junctions are employed in various instances from finding the p…