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From driven oscillations to free ringdown: a particle plunging into Kerr
Colin Weller, Andrew Laeuger, Fulin Li +5
We show that a ringdown waveform can admit a constant-coefficient quasinormal-mode (QNM) representation while its individual QNM-pole contributions remain driven. To establish this…
Updated Upper Limits on the Isotropic Gravitational-Wave Background from LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA Data through April 2025
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1805
We report results from a search for an isotropic stochastic gravitational-wave background using data collected by the LIGO--Virgo--KAGRA Collaboration. The analysis uses data from…
Complex frequency evolution of direct waves from binary black hole mergers
Ling Sun, Sizheng Ma, Patrick P. Chen +3
While no signal originating at a black hole's event horizon can reach future null infinity, information about the horizon and its immediate vicinity can be encoded in asymptotic pr…
Chiral symmetry and black hole isospectrality
Colin Weller, Dongjun Li, Pratik Wagle +3
We prove that black-hole isospectrality between linearly independent solutions follows whenever radiative metric and matter perturbations are reconstructed from complex master vari…
Constraints on ultralight bosons from merging binary and remnant black holes observed during the second and third parts of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing run
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1808
We present constraints on ultralight bosons using binary black hole mergers observed in the second and third parts of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing run. Directed searches a…
GWTC-5.0: Tests of General Relativity
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1822
The signals from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA network of gravitational-wave (GW) detectors allow us to perform sensitive tests of general relativity (GR) in the dynamical and strong-field…
GWTC-5.0: Observations from the Second Part of the Fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observing Run and Updates to the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1827
Version 5.0 of the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC-5.0) adds new candidates detected by the LIGO Virgo KAGRA network of observatories through the second part of the four…
GWTC-5.0: Methods for Identifying and Characterizing Gravitational-wave Transients
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1822
The Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC) is a collection of candidate gravitational-wave transient signals identified and characterized by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration…
GWTC-5.0: An Introduction to Version 5.0 of the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1822
The Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC) is a collection of short-duration (transient) gravitational-wave signals identified by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration in gravita…
Open Data from LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA through the Second Part of the Fourth Observing Run
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1809
LIGO, Virgo, KAGRA, and GEO 600 form a network of gravitational-wave observatories. Data and analysis results from this network are made publicly available through the Gravitationa…
Searches for Continuous Gravitational Waves from Supernova Remnants in the first part of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Fourth Observing run
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1764
We present results from directed searches for continuous gravitational waves from a sample of 15 nearby supernova remnants, likely hosting young neutron star candidates, using data…
GWTC-4.0: Tests of General Relativity. III. Tests of the Remnants
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1779
This is the third paper of the set recording the results of the suite of tests of general relativity (GR) performed on the signals from the fourth Gravitational-Wave Transient Cata…
GWTC-4.0: Tests of General Relativity. I. Overview and General Tests
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1781
The worldwide LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA network of gravitational-wave (GW) detectors continues to increase in sensitivity, thus increasing the quantity and quality of the detected GW signal…
GWTC-4.0: Tests of General Relativity. II. Parameterized Tests
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1785
In this second of three papers on tests of general relativity (GR) applied to the compact binary coalescence signals in the 4th Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC-4.0), we…
Inspiral tests of general relativity and waveform geometry
Brian C. Seymour, Jacob Golomb, Yanbei Chen
The phase evolution of gravitational waves encodes critical information about the orbital dynamics of binary systems. In this work, we test the robustness of parameterized tests ag…
Constraints on gravitational waves from the 2024 Vela pulsar glitch
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1774
Among known neutron stars, the Vela pulsar is one of the best targets for gravitational-wave searches. It is also one of the most prolific in terms of glitches, sudden frequency ch…
All-sky search for continuous gravitational-wave signals from unknown neutron stars in binary systems in the first part of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing run
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1765
We present the results of a blind all-sky search for continuous gravitational-wave signals from neutron stars in binary systems using data from the first part of the fourth observi…
GWTC-4.0: Searches for Gravitational-Wave Lensing Signatures
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1766
Gravitational waves can be gravitationally lensed by massive objects along their path. Depending on the lens mass and the lens--source geometry, this can lead to the observation of…
Cosmological and High Energy Physics implications from gravitational-wave background searches in LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA's O1-O4a runs
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1771
We search for gravitational-wave background signals produced by various early Universe processes in the Advanced LIGO O4a dataset, combined with the data from the earlier O1, O2, a…
Search for planetary-mass ultra-compact binaries using data from the first part of the LIGO--Virgo--KAGRA fourth observing run
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1765
We present a search for gravitational waves from inspiraling, planetary-mass ultra-compact binaries using data from the first part of the fourth observing run of LIGO, Virgo and KA…
Directional Search for Persistent Gravitational Waves: Results from the First Part of LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA's Fourth Observing Run
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1765
The angular distribution of gravitational-wave power from persistent sources may exhibit anisotropies arising from the large-scale structure of the Universe. This motivates directi…
Evolving extreme mass-ratio inspirals in a perturbed Schwarzschild spacetime
Michael LaHaye, Colin Weller, Dongjun Li +3
In this work, we develop the modified Teukolsky formalism that describes the GW radiation from a point mass orbiting around a perturbed Schwarzschild BH. This perturbation of the b…
GW250114 reveals black hole horizon signatures
Neil Lu, Sizheng Ma, Ornella J. Piccinni +2
The horizon of a black hole, the "surface of no return", is characterized by its rotation frequency and surface gravity . A striking signature is that any infalling object…
Probing Direct Waves in Black Hole Ringdowns
Naritaka Oshita, Sizheng Ma, Yanbei Chen +1
Merger gravitational waves from binary black hole coalescence carry rich information about the underlying spacetime dynamics. We analyze merger waves from comparable-mass and extre…