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The optimal search for an astrophysical gravitational-wave background
Rory Smith, Eric Thrane
Roughly every 2-10 minutes, a pair of stellar mass black holes merge somewhere in the Universe. A small fraction of these mergers are detected as individually resolvable gravitatio…
Inferring the population properties of binary neutron stars with gravitational-wave measurements of spin
Xing-Jiang Zhu, Eric Thrane, Stefan Osłowski +2
The recent LIGO-Virgo detection of gravitational waves from a binary neutron star inspiral event GW170817 and the discovery of its accompanying electromagnetic signals mark a new e…
Challenges testing the no-hair theorem with gravitational waves
Eric Thrane, Paul Lasky, Yuri Levin
General relativity's no-hair theorem states that isolated astrophysical black holes are described by only two numbers: mass and spin. As a consequence, there are strict relationshi…
Polarization-based Tests of Gravity with the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background
Thomas Callister, A. Sylvia Biscoveanu, Nelson Christensen +7
The direct observation of gravitational waves with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo offers novel opportunities to test general relativity in strong-field, highly dynamical regimes.…
Determining the population properties of spinning black holes
Colm Talbot, Eric Thrane
There are at least two formation scenarios consistent with the first gravitational-wave observations of binary black hole mergers. In field models, black hole binaries are formed f…
Exploring a search for long-duration transient gravitational waves associated with magnetar bursts
Ryan Quitzow-James, James Brau, James Clark +6
Soft gamma repeaters and anomalous X-ray pulsars are thought to be magnetars, neutron stars with strong magnetic fields of order --$10^{15} \, \mathrm{gauss…