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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…
The Cost of Circularity: Quantifying Eccentricity-Induced Biases in Binary Black Hole Inference
Tamal RoyChowdhury, V. Gayathri, Rossella Gamba +3
Dynamically assembled binary black holes are expected to retain measurable orbital eccentricity in the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA band, but most parameter estimation analyses still assume qu…
Reconstructing the origin of black hole mergers using sparse astrophysical models
V. Gayathri, Giuliano Iorio, Hiromichi Tagawa +8
The astrophysical origin of binary black hole mergers discovered by LIGO and Virgo remains uncertain. Efforts to reconstruct the processes that lead to mergers typically rely on ei…
Leveraging cross-detector parameter consistency measures to enhance sensitivities of gravitational wave searches
Sayantan Ghosh, Leigh Smith, Jiyoon Sun +3
All-sky searches for generic short-duration astrophysical GW transients are often challenging because of noise transients. Developing novel signal-noise discriminators is crucial f…
Inferring additional physics through unmodelled signal reconstructions
Rimo Das, V. Gayathri, Divyajyoti +4
Parameter estimation of gravitational wave data is often computationally expensive, requiring simplifying assumptions such as circularisation of binary orbits. Although, if include…
Gravitational Waves Detected by a Burst Search in LIGO/Virgo's Third Observing Run
Tanmaya Mishra, Shubhagata Bhaumik, V. Gayathri +3
Burst searches identify gravitational-wave (GW) signals in the detector data without use of a specific signal model, unlike the matched-filter searches that correlate data with sim…
Gravitational Wave Detector Sensitivity to Eccentric Black Hole Mergers
Shubhagata Bhaumik, V. Gayathri, Imre Bartos +8
Orbital eccentricity in compact binary mergers carries crucial information about the binary's formation and environment. There are emerging signs that some of the mergers detected…
Enhancing search pipelines for short gravitational wave transients with Gaussian mixture modelling
Leigh Smith, Sayantan Ghosh, Jiyoon Sun +3
We present an enhanced method for the application of Gaussian Mixture Modelling (GMM) to the coherent WaveBurst (cWB) algorithm in the search for short-duration gravitational wave…
Do gravitational wave observations in the lower mass gap favor a hierarchical triple origin?
V. Gayathri, I. Bartos, S. Rosswog +4
Observations of compact objects in Galactic binaries have provided tentative evidence of a dearth of masses in the so-called lower mass gap M. Nevertheless, two…
An Optically Targeted Search for Gravitational Waves emitted by Core-Collapse Supernovae during the Third Observing Run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo
Marek J. Szczepańczyk, Yanyan Zheng, Javier M. Antelis +35
We present the results from a search for gravitational-wave transients associated with core-collapse supernovae observed optically within 30 Mpc during the third observing run of A…
Hierarchical Triples as Early Sources of -process Elements
I. Bartos, S. Rosswog, V. Gayathri +3
Neutron star mergers have been proposed as the main source of heavy -process nucleosynthesis in the Universe. However, the mergers' significant expected delay after binary forma…
Gravitational wave source populations: Disentangling an AGN component
V. Gayathri, Daniel Wysocki, Y. Yang +4
The astrophysical origin of the over 90 compact binary mergers discovered by the LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave observatories is an open question. While the unusual mass and spi…
Search for gravitational-wave bursts in the third Advanced LIGO-Virgo run with coherent WaveBurst enhanced by Machine Learning
Marek J. Szczepańczyk, Francesco Salemi, Sophie Bini +13
This paper presents a search for generic short-duration gravitational-wave (GW) transients (or GW bursts) in the data from the third observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Vir…
Eccentricity estimation for five binary black hole mergers with higher-order gravitational wave modes
H. L. Iglesias, J. Lange, I. Bartos +9
The detection of orbital eccentricity for a binary black hole system via gravitational waves is a key signature to distinguish between the possible binary origins. The identificati…
Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with Fast Radio Bursts Detected by CHIME/FRB During the LIGO--Virgo Observing Run O3a
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1654
We search for gravitational-wave transients associated with fast radio bursts (FRBs) detected by the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment Fast Radio Burst Project (CHIME/…
Search for binary black hole mergers in the third observing run of Advanced LIGO-Virgo using coherent WaveBurst enhanced with machine learning
T. Mishra, B. O'Brien, M. Szczepanczyk +8
In this work, we use the coherent WaveBurst (cWB) pipeline enhanced with machine learning (ML) to search for binary black hole (BBH) mergers in the Advanced LIGO-Virgo strain data…
Narrowband searches for continuous and long-duration transient gravitational waves from known pulsars in the LIGO-Virgo third observing run
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1658
Isolated neutron stars that are asymmetric with respect to their spin axis are possible sources of detectable continuous gravitational waves. This paper presents a fully-coherent s…
Utilizing Gaussian mixture models in all-sky searches for short-duration gravitational wave bursts
Dixeena Lopez, V. Gayathri, Archana Pai +3
Coherent WaveBurst is a generic, multidetector gravitational wave burst search based on the excess power approach. The coherent WaveBurst algorithm currently employed in the all-sk…
Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts Detected by Fermi and Swift During the LIGO-Virgo Run O3b
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1632
We search for gravitational-wave signals associated with gamma-ray bursts detected by the Fermi and Swift satellites during the second half of the third observing run of Advanced L…
Search of the Early O3 LIGO Data for Continuous Gravitational Waves from the Cassiopeia A and Vela Jr. Supernova Remnants
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, R. Abbott +1411
We present directed searches for continuous gravitational waves from the neutron stars in the Cassiopeia A (Cas A) and Vela Jr. supernova remnants. We carry out the searches in the…
The population of merging compact binaries inferred using gravitational waves through GWTC-3
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1634
We report on the population properties of compact binary mergers inferred from gravitational-wave observations of these systems during the first three LIGO-Virgo observing runs. Th…
GWTC-3: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo During the Second Part of the Third Observing Run
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1659
The third Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC-3) describes signals detected with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo up to the end of their third observing run. Updating the pr…
The search of higher multipole radiation in gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences by a minimally-modelled pipeline
O. Halim, G. Vedovato, E. Milotti +13
The coherent WaveBurst (cWB) pipeline implements a minimally-modelled search to find a coherent response in the network of gravitational wave detectors of the LIGO-Virgo Collaborat…
All-sky, all-frequency directional search for persistent gravitational-waves from Advanced LIGO's and Advanced Virgo's first three observing runs
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1627
We present the first results from an all-sky all-frequency (ASAF) search for an anisotropic stochastic gravitational-wave background using the data from the first three observing r…