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gr-qc2026

Puncture Evolution with Physics-Informed Neural Networks

Estuti Shukla, Ashwin Suriyanarayanan, David Radice +2

We investigate the application of physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) to solve the vacuum Einstein equations in spherical symmetry. Our neural network architecture is designed…

gr-qc2026

Semilinear wave equations in homothetic hyperboloidal coordinates and tail decay

Anıl Zenginoğlu, Sebastiano Bernuzzi, Andrea Nützi

Late-time wave tails decay at different rates along future null infinity and along timelike worldlines at finite radius. A compactified numerical evolution must represent both the…

gr-qc2026

Exact Mass Conservation in Binary Neutron Star Merger Simulations

Boris Daszuta, Sebastiano Bernuzzi, Joan Fontbuté +4

A long-standing problem in the simulation of neutron star spacetimes is the treatment of vacuum regions outside the stars. The use of an artificial low-density atmosphere is a comm…

gr-qc2026★ 2 cited

GW240925 and GW250207: Astrophysical Calibration of Gravitational-wave Detectors

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1839

GW240925 and GW250207 are two loud gravitational-wave signals from binary black hole coalescences observed with network signal-to-noise ratios and , respectively…

gr-qc2026★ 1 cited

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…

gr-qc2026★ 1 cited

High-order effective-one-body tidal interactions and gravitational scattering

Malte Schulze, Sebastiano Bernuzzi, Piero Rettegno +3

Using state-of-the-art scattering results in post-Minkowskian (PM) gravity, we improve the tidal sector of four different flavors of the effective-one-body (EOB) formalism. We nota…

gr-qc2026

Ringdown modeling for effective-one-body waveforms in the test-mass limit for eccentric equatorial orbits around a Kerr black hole

Simone Albanesi, Sebastiano Bernuzzi, Alessandro Nagar

We study the plunge and merger of a non-spinning particle falling into a Kerr black hole following an eccentric planar inspiral. The dynamics is driven by an effective-one-body rad…

gr-qc2026★ 1 cited

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…

gr-qc2026★ 1 cited

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…

gr-qc2026

Narrowband searches for continuous gravitational waves from known pulsars in the first two parts of the fourth LIGO--Virgo--KAGRA observing run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1853

Rotating non-axisymmetric neutron stars (NSs) are promising sources for continuous gravitational waves (CWs). Such CWs can, if detected, inform us about the internal structure and…

gr-qc2026★ 1 cited

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…

gr-qc2026

GR-Athena++: Binary Neutron Star Merger Simulations with Neutrino Transport

Boris Daszuta, Sebastiano Bernuzzi, Maximilian Jacobi +4

We present general-relativistic radiation magnetohydrodynamics simulations of binary neutron star mergers performed with GR-Athena++. Neutrino transport is treated using a moment-b…

gr-qc2026★ 1 cited

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…

gr-qc2025

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…

gr-qc2025★ 1 cited

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…

gr-qc2025

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 +1769

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…

gr-qc2025

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…

gr-qc2025

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…

gr-qc2025

Perturbative Hyperboloidal Extraction of Gravitational Waves in 3+1 Numerical Relativity

Sebastiano Bernuzzi, Joan Fontbuté, Simone Albanesi +1

We present a framework to propagate to null infinity gravitational waves computed at timelike worldtubes in the interior of a 3+1 (Cauchy) numerical relativity simulations. In our…

gr-qc2025

Binary black hole merger in the extreme mass ratio limit: a multipolar analysis of the inclined orbit case

Luca Nagni, Alessandro Nagar, Rossella Gamba +2

We compute the gravitational waveform emitted during the transition from quasi-spherical inspiral to plunge, merger and ringdown for a system of two black holes in the extreme mass…

gr-qc2025★ 1 cited

Black Hole Spectroscopy and Tests of General Relativity with GW250114

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

The binary black hole signal GW250114, the loudest gravitational wave detected to date, offers a unique opportunity to test Einstein's general relativity (GR) in the high-velocity,…

gr-qc2025★ 100 cited

GW250114: testing Hawking's area law and the Kerr nature of black holes

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1785

The gravitational-wave signal GW250114 was observed by the two LIGO detectors with a network matched-filter signal-to-noise ratio of 80. The signal was emitted by the coalescence o…

gr-qc2025

Directed searches for gravitational waves from ultralight vector boson clouds around merger remnant and galactic black holes during the first part of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1769

We present the first directed searches for long-transient and continuous gravitational waves from ultralight vector boson clouds around known black holes (BHs). We use LIGO data fr…

gr-qc2025★ 5 cited

GW230814: investigation of a loud gravitational-wave signal observed with a single detector

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration, The Kagra Collaboration +1783

GW230814, detected by the LIGO Livingston observatory with a signal-to-noise ratio of 42.4, represents the loudest gravitational-wave signal in the GWTC-4.0 catalog. Its source is…