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most citedGravitational Waves and Gamma-rays from a Binary Neutron Star Merger: GW170817 and GRB 170817A

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gr-qc2026

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…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Intrinsic Defects in Amorphous Optical Coatings of TiO-doped GeO for Gravitational-wave Detectors

K. Prasai, K. Lee, R. Bassiri +6

The increased laser power of future gravitational-wave detectors will require mirror coatings with optical absorption below 0.1 ppm per mirror. TiO-doped GeO, currently the…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Network Topology of Hafnia-Based Amorphous Optical Coatings by Grazing-Incidence X-ray Total Scattering and Atomic Modeling

K. Prasai, B. LaBell, K. H. Lee +4

Amorphous hafnia-based films are promising optical-coating materials for cryogenic GW detectors, but their performance depends on how doping and annealing modify the atomic network…

astro-ph.IM2026

LIGO A: Detector Design and Science Prospects Beyond A+

L. Sun, K. Kuns, B. J. J. Slagmolen +1153

We present the LIGO A detector concept, an upgrade for the LIGO observatories based on room-temperature interferometers beyond the fifth observing run (O5). Building on th…

gr-qc2026

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…

gr-qc2026

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…