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most citedTesting General Relativity with Present and Future Astrophysical Observations

1.5k citations · 2.4k across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

gr-qc2026

Novel Ringdown Tests of General Relativity with Black Hole Graybody Factors

Romeo Felice Rosato, Francesco Crescimbeni, Sophia Yi +2

We present GreyRing, a new model for the post-merger signal in black-hole binary coalescences based on the graybody factor of the remnant. The model accurately reproduces the full…

gr-qc2026

Not too close! Evaluating the impact of the baseline on the localization of binary black holes by next-generation gravitational-wave detectors

Francesco Iacovelli, Luca Reali, Emanuele Berti +3

Next-generation (XG) gravitational-wave detectors, such as Cosmic Explorer (CE) and the Einstein Telescope (ET), will observe compact binary coalescences at unprecedented rates and…

gr-qc2025★ 3 cited

Gravitational Atoms from Topological Stars

Ibrahima Bah, Emanuele Berti, Bogdan Ganchev +2

We study the bound states of a massive scalar field around a topological star, and show that these are strictly normal modes. This yields a genuine gravitational atom, sharply dist…

gr-qc2025★ 18 cited

Extreme mass ratio inspirals in rotating dark matter spikes

Soumodeep Mitra, Nicholas Speeney, Sumanta Chakraborty +1

Gravitational wave (GW) signals from extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are a key observational target for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). The waveforms may be aff…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 97 cited

Explaining LIGO's observations via isolated binary evolution with natal kicks

D. Wysocki, D. Gerosa, R. O'Shaughnessy +5

We compare binary evolution models with different assumptions about black-hole natal kicks to the first gravitational-wave observations performed by the LIGO detectors. Our compari…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 364 cited

The evolutionary roads leading to low effective spins, high black hole masses, and O1/O2 rates of LIGO/Virgo binary black holes

K. Belczynski, J. Klencki, C. E. Fields +31

All ten LIGO/Virgo binary black hole (BH-BH) coalescences reported from the O1/O2 runs have near zero effective spins. There are only three potential explanations of this fact. If…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 382 cited

The Effect of Pair-Instability Mass Loss on Black Hole Mergers

K. Belczynski, A. Heger, W. Gladysz +9

Mergers of two stellar origin black holes are a prime source of gravitational waves and are under intensive investigations. One crucial ingredient in their modeling has so far been…

gr-qc2015★ 1.5k cited

Testing General Relativity with Present and Future Astrophysical Observations

Emanuele Berti, Enrico Barausse, Vitor Cardoso +50

One century after its formulation, Einstein's general relativity has made remarkable predictions and turned out to be compatible with all experimental tests. Most of these tests pr…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 5 cited

Comparison of LIGO/Virgo upper limits with predicted compact binary merger rates

Krzysztof Belczynski, Michal Dominik, Serena Repetto +2

We compare the current LIGO/Virgo upper limits on double compact object volumetric merger rates with our theoretical predictions. Our optimistic models are a factor of 3 below the…