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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…
Time-Domain Synthesis of Gravitational-Wave Detector Glitches using Class-Conditional Derivative Generative Adversarial Networks
Tom Dooney, Mees de Boer, Harsh Narola +4
Gravitational-wave detectors such as LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA are highly sensitive instruments susceptible to many noise sources. Short-duration transient noise events, known as glit…
Impact of the Einstein Telescope's duty cycle on the estimation of binary black holes parameters
Luca Negri, Thomas C. K. Ng, Thibeau Wouters +13
The geometry of the Einstein Telescope, the proposed next-generation European gravitational-wave observatory, is yet to be finalized. Two competing designs are under consideration:…
Detecting Tidal Resonances in Binary Neutron Stars
Fabian Gittins, Harsh Narola, Thibeau Wouters +3
As a binary neutron star inspirals due to the emission of gravitational waves, the rising tidal frequency resonantly excites vibrational modes. These oscillations are seismological…
Mitigating Systematic Errors in Parameter Estimation of Binary Black Hole Mergers in O1-O3 LIGO-Virgo Data
Sumit Kumar, Max Melching, Frank Ohme +3
Systematic errors in the parameter estimation (PE) of gravitational wave (GW) mergers can arise from various sources, including waveform systematics, noise mischaracterization, dat…
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…
GW231123: Overlapping Gravitational Wave Signals?
Qian Hu, Harsh Narola, Jef Heynen +4
The recently discovered gravitational wave event GW231123 was interpreted as the merger of two black holes with a total mass of 190-265 , making it the heaviest such merge…
Bayesian Calibration of Gravitational-Wave Detectors Using Null Streams Without Waveform Assumptions
Isaac C. F. Wong, Francesco Cireddu, Milan Wils +4
We introduce a Bayesian null-stream method to constrain calibration errors in closed-geometry gravitational-wave (GW) detector networks. Unlike prior methods requiring electromagne…
Strong gravitational-wave lensing posterior odds
Otto A. Hannuksela, K. Haris, Justin Janquart +4
Like light, gravitational waves are gravitationally lensed by intervening massive astrophysical objects, such as galaxies, clusters, black holes, and stars, resulting in a variety…
Overlapping signals in next-generation gravitational wave observatories: A recipe for selecting the best parameter estimation technique
Tomasz Baka, Harsh Narola, Justin Janquart +3
Third-generation gravitational wave detectors such as Einstein Telescope and Cosmic Explorer will have significantly better sensitivities than current detectors, as well as a wider…
Multi-messenger Gravitational Lensing
Graham P. Smith, Tessa Baker, Simon Birrer +38
We introduce the rapidly emerging field of multi-messenger gravitational lensing - the discovery and science of gravitationally lensed phenomena in the distant universe through the…
The Science of the Einstein Telescope
Adrian Abac, Raul Abramo, Simone Albanesi +485
Einstein Telescope (ET) is the European project for a gravitational-wave (GW) observatory of third-generation. In this paper we present a comprehensive discussion of its science ob…
DeepExtractor: Time-domain reconstruction of signals and glitches in gravitational wave data with deep learning
Tom Dooney, Harsh Narola, Stefano Bromuri +4
Gravitational wave (GW) detectors, such as LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA, detect faint signals from distant astrophysical events. However, their high sensitivity also makes them susceptib…
Null Stream Based Third-generation-ready Glitch Mitigation for Gravitational Wave Measurements
Harsh Narola, Thibeau Wouters, Luca Negri +10
Gravitational Wave (GW) detectors routinely encounter transient noise bursts, known as glitches, which are caused by either instrumental or environmental factors. Due to their high…
ler: LVK (LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration) event (compact-binary mergers) rate calculator and simulator
Hemantakumar Phurailatpam, Anupreeta More, Harsh Narola +6
ler is a Python package for simulating compact-binary gravitational-wave populations and estimating detectable event rates for current and future LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA detector networks…
Galaxy lens reconstruction based on strongly lensed gravitational waves: similarity transformation degeneracy and mass-sheet degeneracy
Jason S. C. Poon, Stefano Rinaldi, Justin Janquart +2
Gravitational wave (GW) galaxy lens reconstruction is a crucial step for many GW lensing science applications. However, dark siren GW lensing (i.e. lensed GW without observed elect…
Uncovering faint lensed gravitational-wave signals and reprioritizing their follow-up analysis using galaxy lensing forecasts with detected counterparts
Leo C. Y. Ng, Justin Janquart, Hemantakumar Phurailatpam +4
Like light, gravitational waves can be gravitationally lensed by massive astrophysical objects. Strong gravitational lensing by galaxies and galaxy clusters is anticipated to becom…
Relative binning for complete gravitational-wave parameter estimation with higher-order modes and precession, and applications to lensing and third-generation detectors
Harsh Narola, Justin Janquart, Quirijn Meijer +2
Once a gravitational wave signal is detected, the measurement of its source parameters is important to achieve various scientific goals. This is done through Bayesian inference, wh…
How well can modified gravitational wave propagation be constrained with strong lensing?
Harsh Narola, Justin Janquart, Leïla Haegel +3
Strong gravitational lensing produces multiple images of a gravitational wave (GW) signal, which can be observed by detectors as time-separated copies of the same event. It has bee…
Science with the Einstein Telescope: a comparison of different designs
Marica Branchesi, Michele Maggiore, David Alonso +73
The Einstein Telescope (ET), the European project for a third-generation gravitational-wave detector, has a reference configuration based on a triangular shape consisting of three…
Virgo Detector Characterization and Data Quality: tools
F. Acernese, M. Agathos, A. Ain +491
Detector characterization and data quality studies -- collectively referred to as {\em DetChar} activities in this article -- are paramount to the scientific exploitation of the jo…
Virgo Detector Characterization and Data Quality: results from the O3 run
F. Acernese, M. Agathos, A. Ain +491
The Advanced Virgo detector has contributed with its data to the rapid growth of the number of detected gravitational-wave (GW) signals in the past few years, alongside the two Adv…
Beyond general relativity: designing a template-based search for exotic gravitational wave signals
Harsh Narola, Soumen Roy, Anand S. Sengupta
Accurate waveform models describing the complete evolution of compact binaries are crucial for the maximum likelihood detection framework, testing the predictions of General Relati…
Convolutional neural network for gravitational-wave early alert: Going down in frequency
Grégory Baltus, Justin Janquart, Melissa Lopez +2
We present here the latest development of a machine-learning pipeline for pre-merger alerts from gravitational waves coming from binary neutron stars. This work starts from the con…