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most citedBlack holes, gravitational waves and fundamental physics: a roadmap

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astro-ph.CO2026

Biases from Astrophysical Environmental Effects in Standard-Siren Cosmology

Ioannis Liodis, Rodrigo Vicente, Soumen Roy +1

Next-generation ground based gravitational wave detectors will enable precision standard-siren cosmology, making systematics increasingly important. We investigate how line-of-sigh…

gr-qc2026

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…

astro-ph.IM2026

Rapid and robust simulation-based inference for kilonovae

Stephanie M. Brown, Mattia Bulla, Hiranya V. Peiris +6

With the next generation of both electromagnetic and gravitational wave observatories beginning to come online, rapid analysis methods for kilonova data are becoming increasingly i…

astro-ph.GA2026

One Merge to Rule Them All: From Galaxy Interactions to Black Hole Mergers Using Horizon-AGN

Ecaterina Leonova, Marta Volonteri, Clotilde Laigle +3

Galaxy mergers are fundamental drivers of galaxy evolution and black hole (BH) growth across cosmic time. We use the Horizon-AGN simulation to investigate the fraction of galaxy pa…

astro-ph.HE2026

Insights from GRBs for optical follow-up of gravitational wave counterparts

Kruthi Krishna, Andrew Levan, Samaya Nissanke +9

Identifying the electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational wave sources is vital to enabling the myriad of investigations possible with multimessenger astronomy. However, locati…

astro-ph.IM2026

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…