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most citedGWTC-3: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo During the Second Part of the Third Observing Run

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31 papers

astro-ph.CO2026★ 1 cited

Scalable Dark Siren Cosmology with gwcosmo: GPU Acceleration, Validation and Systematics

Alexander Papadopoulos, Christian E. A. Chapman-Bird, Rachel Gray +2

As the number of confident gravitational-wave detections grows, population-level hierarchical analyses face increasing computational costs. Dark-siren cosmological inference integr…

astro-ph.CO2026

GWTC-5.0: Constraints on the Cosmic Expansion Rate and Modified Gravitational-wave Propagation

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1810

We employ 236 gravitational-wave (GW) sources in the fifth LIGO--Virgo--KAGRA Collaboration (LVK) Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC-5.0) to estimate the Hubble constant $H…

astro-ph.IM2026

Quantifying the Scientific Potential of Intermediate and Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna

Lorenzo Speri, Francisco Duque, Susanna Barsanti +4

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will enable precision studies of Extreme and Intermediate Mass Ratio Inspirals (EMRIs/IMRIs), providing unique probes of astrophysical…

astro-ph.CO2026★ 1 cited

Measurement of the Hubble constant using the Dark Energy Survey Year 6 Gold galaxy catalogue and the fourth Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalogue

Isaac McMahon, Danny Laghi, Marcelle Soares-Santos +9

Gravitational wave (GW) standard sirens enable independent measurements of the Hubble constant . In the absence of electromagnetic counterparts, the 'dark siren' method statis…

astro-ph.HE2026★ 1 cited

Revealing massive black hole astrophysics: The potential of hierarchical inference with extreme mass-ratio inspiral observations

Shashwat Singh, Christian E. A. Chapman-Bird, Christopher P. L. Berry +1

Gravitational waves from extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) will enable sub-percent measurements of massive black hole parameters and provide access to the demographics of compac…

gr-qc2025★ 3 cited

Ab uno disce omnes: Single-harmonic search for extreme mass-ratio inspirals

Lorenzo Speri, Rodrigo Tenorio, Christian Chapman-Bird +1

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are one of the key sources of gravitational waves for space-based detectors such as LISA. However, their detection remains a major data analysi…

gr-qc2025

Global time-frequency search for stellar-mass binary black holes in LISA

Diganta Bandopadhyay, Christian E. A. Chapman-Bird, Alberto Vecchio

We present a complete pipeline for detecting and characterizing gravitational waves (GWs) produced by the inspiral of stellar-mass binary black holes in data from the Laser Interfe…

physics.soc-ph2025

The Early Career Workshop of GR-Amaldi 2025

S Al-Shammari, C P L Berry, C E A Chapman-Bird +18

Gravitational physics and astronomy have developed rapidly over the last decade, driven by new observations and theoretical breakthroughs. As new as the science and technology of t…

gr-qc2025★ 1 cited

Constraints on the extreme mass-ratio inspiral population from LISA data

Shashwat Singh, Christian E. A. Chapman-Bird, Christopher P L Berry +1

Gravitational waves from extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), the inspirals of stellar-mass compact objects into massive black holes, are predicted to be observed by the Laser Int…

gr-qc2025

The Fast and the Frame-Dragging: Efficient waveforms for asymmetric-mass eccentric equatorial inspirals into rapidly-spinning black holes

Christian E. A. Chapman-Bird, Lorenzo Speri, Zachary Nasipak +13

Observations of gravitational-wave signals emitted by compact binary inspirals provide unique insights into their properties, but their analysis requires accurate and efficient wav…

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…

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…

astro-ph.HE2023

A Joint Fermi-GBM and Swift-BAT Analysis of Gravitational-Wave Candidates from the Third Gravitational-wave Observing Run

C. Fletcher, J. Wood, R. Hamburg +1696

We present Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (Fermi-GBM) and Swift Burst Alert Telescope (Swift-BAT) searches for gamma-ray/X-ray counterparts to gravitational wave (GW) candidate even…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 6 cited

Search for Eccentric Black Hole Coalescences during the Third Observing Run of LIGO and Virgo

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1772

Despite the growing number of confident binary black hole coalescences observed through gravitational waves so far, the astrophysical origin of these binaries remains uncertain. Or…

gr-qc2023★ 47 cited

Fast and Fourier: Extreme Mass Ratio Inspiral Waveforms in the Frequency Domain

Lorenzo Speri, Michael L. Katz, Alvin J. K. Chua +5

Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals (EMRIs) are one of the key sources for future space-based gravitational wave interferometers. Measurements of EMRI gravitational waves are expected to…

astro-ph.IM2023

End-to-end simulation and analysis pipeline for LISA

Jean-Baptiste Bayle, Olaf Hartwig, Marc Lilley +4

The data produced by the future space-based millihertz gravitational-wave detector LISA will require nontrivial pre-processing, which might affect the science results. It is crucia…

gr-qc2023★ 19 cited

Search for gravitational-lensing signatures in the full third observing run of the LIGO-Virgo network

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1692

Gravitational lensing by massive objects along the line of sight to the source causes distortions of gravitational wave-signals; such distortions may reveal information about funda…

gr-qc2023★ 331 cited

Open data from the third observing run of LIGO, Virgo, KAGRA and GEO

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1741

The global network of gravitational-wave observatories now includes five detectors, namely LIGO Hanford, LIGO Livingston, Virgo, KAGRA, and GEO 600. These detectors collected data…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 21 cited

Rapid determination of LISA sensitivity to extreme mass ratio inspirals with machine learning

Christian E. A. Chapman-Bird, Christopher P. L. Berry, Graham Woan

Gravitational wave observations of the inspiral of stellar-mass compact objects into massive black holes (MBHs), extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs), enable precision measurements…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 31 cited

Search for subsolar-mass black hole binaries in the second part of Advanced LIGO's and Advanced Virgo's third observing run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1702

We describe a search for gravitational waves from compact binaries with at least one component with mass 0.2 -- and mass ratio in Advanced LIGO…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 5 cited

Search for gravitational-wave transients associated with magnetar bursts in Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo data from the third observing run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1667

Gravitational waves are expected to be produced from neutron star oscillations associated with magnetar giant flares and short bursts. We present the results of a search for short-…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 28 cited

Model-based cross-correlation search for gravitational waves from the low-mass X-ray binary Scorpius X-1 in LIGO O3 data

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1692

We present the results of a model-based search for continuous gravitational waves from the low-mass X-ray binary Scorpius X-1 using LIGO detector data from the third observing run…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 70 cited

Search for continuous gravitational wave emission from the Milky Way center in O3 LIGO--Virgo data

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1667

We present a directed search for continuous gravitational wave (CW) signals emitted by spinning neutron stars located in the inner parsecs of the Galactic Center (GC). Compelling e…

gr-qc2022★ 3 cited

First joint observation by the underground gravitational-wave detector, KAGRA, with GEO600

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1669

We report the results of the first joint observation of the KAGRA detector with GEO600. KAGRA is a cryogenic and underground gravitational-wave detector consisting of a laser inter…