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20232026
most citedNew binary black hole mergers in the LIGO-Virgo O3b data

41 citations · 97 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

astro-ph.CO2026

The diffraction-lensing interpretation of GW231123 with astrophysical priors

Mark Ho-Yeuk Cheung, Digvijay Wadekar, Matias Zaldarriaga +3

GW231123, if unlensed, is a rare binary black hole merger with high masses and high spins for both progenitors. We show that the signal is better fitted by a lower-mass, lower-spin…

gr-qc2026

Discovery of Interpretable Surrogates via Agentic AI: Application to Gravitational Waves

Tousif Islam, Digvijay Wadekar, Tejaswi Venumadhav +4

Fast surrogate models for expensive simulations are now essential across the sciences, yet they typically operate as black boxes. We present \texttt{GWAgent}, a large language mode…

astro-ph.HE2026

GW190711_030756 and GW200114_020818: astrophysical interpretation of two asymmetric binary black hole mergers in the IAS catalog

Tousif Islam, Tejaswi Venumadhav, Digvijay Wadekar +6

We provide a comprehensive analysis of GW190711_030756 and GW200114_020818, two of the most significant binary black hole merger candidates in the IAS catalog, with probabilities o…

gr-qc2025

Generating optimal Gravitational-Wave template banks with metric-preserving autoencoders

Giovanni Cabass, Digvijay Wadekar, Matias Zaldarriaga +1

Matched filtering for signal detection in noisy data requires template banks that capture variation in signal waveforms while minimizing computational cost. Dimensionality reductio…

gr-qc2025

Data-driven extraction and phenomenology of eccentric harmonics in eccentric spinning binary black hole mergers

Tousif Islam, Tejaswi Venumadhav, Ajit Kumar Mehta +6

Newtonian and post-Newtonian (PN) calculations indicate that the phenomenology of eccentric binary black hole (BBH) merger waveforms is significantly more complex than that of thei…

gr-qc2025★ 2 cited

Binary black hole population inference combining confident and marginal events from the search pipeline

Ajit Kumar Mehta, Digvijay Wadekar, Isha Anantpurkar +6

We present the population properties of binary black hole mergers identified by the pipeline (which incorporates higher-order modes in the search templates) du…