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most citedSearch for a gravitational wave background from primordial black hole binaries using data from the first three LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing runs

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gr-qc2026

Search for Compact Binary Coalescences with Sub-solar Mass Components in Data from the Second Part of LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA's Fourth Observing Run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1816

We report on a gravitational wave search for compact binary coalescences with secondary mass between 0.2 M and 1 M and primary mass between 0.2 M and 10 M, restricting the componen…

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…

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…

astro-ph.HE2026

GWTC-5.0: Population Properties of Merging Compact Binaries

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1813

We present the population properties of merging compact binaries inferred using 267 mergers from the cumulative Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog 5.0. As this data set contains…

gr-qc2026

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…

gr-qc2026

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…

gr-qc2026

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…

gr-qc2026

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…

gr-qc2026

Short Gravitational-Wave Transients as Probes of Cosmic Domain Walls

Tore Boybeyi, Doga Veske, David Maibach

GW190521 and GW231123 have been reported as short-duration gravitational-wave transients consistent with very massive binary black hole (BBH) coalescences whose inferred parameters…

gr-qc2026

Polarized Anisotropic Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background Search with Ground-Based Detector Networks

Töre Boybeyi, Vuk Mandic

Gravitational waves admit a Stokes decomposition into intensity (), circular polarization (), and linear polarization (, ), analogous to Cosmic Microwave Background (CM…

astro-ph.CO2026

GWTC-5.0: Constraints on the Cosmic Expansion Rate and Modified Gravitational-wave Propagation

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1810

We employ 236 gravitational-wave (GW) sources in the fifth LIGO--Virgo--KAGRA Collaboration (LVK) Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC-5.0) to estimate the Hubble constant $H…

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 +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…

gr-qc2025

Searching Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background Landscape Across Frequency Bands

Yunjia Bao, Tore Boybeyi, Vuk Mandic +1

Gravitational wave (GW) astrophysics is entering a multi-band era with upcoming GW detectors, enabling detailed mapping of the stochastic GW background across vast frequencies. We…

gr-qc2025

Perturbative Analytical Construction of Bowen-York Initial Data for Binary Black Holes up to Third Order in Spin and Linear Momentum

Leyla Ogurol, Tore Boybeyi, Bayram Tekin

We analytically construct initial data for binary black hole systems by solving the Einstein constraint equations within the Bowen-York framework. Allowing for arbitrarily oriented…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 12 cited

Search for a gravitational wave background from primordial black hole binaries using data from the first three LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing runs

Tore Boybeyi, Sebastien Clesse, Sachiko Kuroyanagi +1

Using the cross-correlation data from the first three observing runs of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration, we search for a gravitational-wave background (GWB) from primordial blac…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 6 cited

Memory of a Random Walk: Astrometric deflections from gravitational wave memory accumulation over cosmological scales

Tore Boybeyi, Vuk Mandic, Alexandros Papageorgiou

We study the impact of gravitational wave memory on the distribution of far away light sources in the sky. For the first time we compute the built up of small, but permanent tensor…