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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…
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…
Reducing the Virgo site infrastructure noise in preparation of the O4 observing run
Irene Fiori, Federico Paoletti, Roberto Passaquieti +5
The heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems serving the experimental halls of the Virgo gravitational wave interferometer generate low-frequency noise - namely below 100…
py5vec: a modular Python package for the 5-vector method to search for continuous gravitational waves
Luca D'Onofrio, Federico Muciaccia, Lorenzo Mirasola +7
We present \texttt{py5vec}, a Python package for implementing and extending the 5-vector method, used to search for continuous gravitational wave (CW) signals. We also provide a co…
BinaryGFH-v2: Improved method to search for gravitational waves from sub-solar-mass, ultra-compact binaries using the Generalized Frequency-Hough Transform
Andrew L. Miller, Lorenzo Pierini
Observing gravitational waves from sub-solar-mass, inspiraling compact binaries would provide almost smoking-gun evidence for primordial black holes. Here, we develop a method to s…
GFH-v2 Pipeline for Searches of Long-Transient Gravitational Waves from Newborn Magnetars
Sandhya Sajith Menon, Lorenzo Pierini, Pia Astone +11
This paper presents an enhanced methodology for searching long transient gravitational waves associated with a newborn magnetar, with particular focus on the regime in which the ea…
Cryogenic characterization of FBK NUV-HD-Cryo 3T SiPM sensors for the DUNE photon detection system
F. Acerbi, M. Andreotti, A. Balboni +93
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a long-baseline neutrino experiment based in the USA and composed of a Near Detector (ND) complex at Fermi National Laboratory (F…
Harnessing the potential of PyStoch: detecting continuous gravitational waves from interesting supernova remnant targets
Claudio Salvadore, Iuri La Rosa, Paola Leaci +7
Detecting continuous gravitational waves (CWs) is challenging due to their weak amplitude and high computational demands, especially with poorly constrained source parameters. Stoc…
A directed continuous-wave search from neutron stars in binary systems with the five-vector resampling technique
Francesco Amicucci, Paola Leaci, Pia Astone +8
Continuous gravitational-wave signals (CWs), which are typically emitted by rapidly rotating neutron stars with non-axisymmetric deformations, represent particularly intriguing tar…
A directed continuous-wave search from Scorpius X-1 with the five-vector resampling technique
Francesco Amicucci, Paola Leaci, Pia Astone +8
Continuous gravitational-wave signals (CWs), which are typically emitted by rapidly rotating neutron stars with non-axisymmetric deformations, represent particularly intriguing tar…
Doppler correlation-driven vetoes for the Frequency Hough analysis in continuous gravitational-wave searches
Matteo Di Giovanni, Paola Leaci, Pia Astone +8
We present an improved method for vetoing candidates of continuous gravitational-wave sources during all-sky searches utilizing the Frequency Hough pipeline. This approach leverage…
Method to search for inspiraling planetary-mass ultra-compact binaries using the generalized frequency-Hough transform in LIGO O3a data
Andrew L. Miller, Nancy Aggarwal, Sebastien Clesse +6
Gravitational waves from sub-solar mass primordial black holes could be detected in LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA data. Here, we apply a method originally designed to look for rapidly spin…
Neural network method to search for long transient gravitational waves
Francesca Attadio, Leonardo Ricca, Marco Serra +11
We present a new method to search for long transient gravitational waves signals, like those expected from fast spinning newborn magnetars, in interferometric detector data. Standa…
Gravitational wave constraints on planetary-mass primordial black holes using LIGO O3a data
Andrew L. Miller, Nancy Aggarwal, Sébastien Clesse +6
Gravitational waves from sub-solar mass inspiraling compact objects would provide almost smoking-gun evidence for primordial black holes (PBHs). We perform the first search for ins…
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…
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…
Impact of signal clusters in wide-band searches for continuous gravitational waves
Lorenzo Pierini, Pia Astone, Cristiano Palomba +9
In this paper we present a study of some relevant steps of the hierarchical frequency-Hough (FH) pipeline, used within the LIGO and Virgo Collaborations for wide-parameter space se…
Improving agnostic searches of Gravitational Waves from Neutron Star instabilities using image filtering
Lorenzo Pierini
In this paper I present a method to enhance the search sensitivity for long transient Gravitational Waves produced by Neutron Star instabilities. This method consists in a selectiv…
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…
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…
Probing new light gauge bosons with gravitational-wave interferometers using an adapted semi-coherent method
Andrew L. Miller, Pia Astone, Giacomo Bruno +12
We adapt a method, originally developed for searches for quasi-monochromatic, quasi-infinite gravitational-wave signals, to directly detect new light gauge bosons with laser interf…