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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…
Impact of coalescence signals on the search for continuous gravitational waves with Einstein Telescope
Elena Codazzo, Lorenzo Mirasola, Matteo Di Giovanni +7
The current network of gravitational wave detectors has already revealed hundreds of compact binary coalescences (CBCs), including binary neutron stars, binary black holes, and bla…
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…
Optimizing searches for gravitational wave bursts using coherent WaveBurst 2G
Alessandro Martini, Andrea Miani, Marco Drago +11
The most general searches for gravitational wave transients (GWTs) rely on data analysis methods that do not assume prior knowledge of the signal waveform, direction, or arrival ti…
Minimally modeled characterization method of postmerger gravitational wave emission from binary neutron star coalescences
Maria Concetta Tringali, Anna Puecher, Claudia Lazzaro +5
Gravitational waves emitted during the coalescence of binary neutron star systems carry information about the equation of state describing the extremely dense matter inside neutron…
Constraints on the amplitude of gravitational wave echoes from black hole ring-down using minimal assumptions
Andrea Miani, Claudia Lazzaro, Giovanni Andrea Prodi +4
Gravitational wave echoes may appear following a compact binary coalescence if the remnant is an "exotic compact object" (ECO). ECOs are proposed alternatives to the black holes of…
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…
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…
Addressing the challenges of detecting time-overlapping compact binary coalescences
Philip Relton, Andrea Virtuoso, Sophie Bini +6
Standard detection and analysis techniques for transient gravitational waves make the assumption that detector data contains, at most, one signal at any time. As detectors improve…
Prospects for detecting and localizing short-duration transient gravitational waves from glitching neutron stars without electromagnetic counterparts
Dixeena Lopez, Shubhanshu Tiwari, Marco Drago +3
Neutron stars are known to show accelerated spin-up of their rotational frequency called a glitch. Highly magnetized rotating neutron stars (pulsars) are frequently observed by rad…
Virgo Detector Characterization and Data Quality during 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 signals in the past few years, alongside the two LIGO ins…
The Virgo O3 run and the impact of the environment
F. Acernese, M. Agathos, A. Ain +486
Sources of geophysical noise (such as wind, sea waves and earthquakes) or of anthropogenic noise impact ground-based gravitational-wave interferometric detectors, causing transient…
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…
Minimally-modeled search of higher multipole gravitational-wave radiation in compact binary coalescence
G. Vedovato, E. Milotti, G. A. Prodi +13
As the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo interferometers, soon to be joined by the KAGRA interferometer, increase their sensitivity, they detect an ever-larger number of gravitation…
Gravitational-wave searches in the era of Advanced LIGO and Virgo
Sarah Caudill, Shivaraj Kandhasamy, Claudia Lazzaro +3
The field of gravitational-wave astronomy has been opened up by gravitational-wave observations made with interferometric detectors. This review surveys the current state-of-the-ar…
Observing an intermediate mass black hole GW190521 with minimal assumptions
Marek Szczepanczyk, Sergey Klimenko, Brendan O'Brien +10
On May 21, 2019 Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors observed a gravitational-wave transient GW190521, the heaviest binary black-hole merger detected to date with the remnant…
Coherent WaveBurst, a pipeline for unmodeled gravitational-wave data analysis
M. Drago, V. Gayathri, S. Klimenko +12
coherent WaveBurst (cWB) is a highly configurable pipeline designed to detect a broad range of gravitational-wave (GW) transients in the data of the worldwide network of GW detecto…
A wider look at the gravitational-wave transients from GWTC-1 using an unmodeled reconstruction method
F. Salemi, E. Milotti, G. A. Prodi +6
In this paper, we investigate the morphology of the events from the GWTC-1 catalog of compact binary coalescences as reconstructed by a method based on coherent excess power: we us…
A standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant from GW170817 without the electromagnetic counterpart
M. Fishbach, R. Gray, I. Magaña Hernandez +316
We perform a statistical standard siren analysis of GW170817. Our analysis does not utilize knowledge of NGC 4993 as the unique host galaxy of the optical counterpart to GW170817.…
Calibration of Advanced Virgo and Reconstruction of the Gravitational Wave Signal h(t) during the Observing Run O2
Virgo Collaboration, F. Acernese, T. Adams +281
In August 2017, Advanced Virgo joined Advanced LIGO for the end of the O2 run, leading to the first gravitational waves detections with the three-detector network. This paper descr…
Enhancing the significance of gravitational wave bursts through signal classification
S. Vinciguerra, M. Drago, G. A. Prodi +7
The quest to observe gravitational waves challenges our ability to discriminate signals from detector noise. This issue is especially relevant for transient gravitational waves sea…
Validating gravitational-wave detections: The Advanced LIGO hardware injection system
C. Biwer, D. Barker, J. C. Batch +44
Hardware injections are simulated gravitational-wave signals added to the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO). The detectors' test masses are physically disp…
All-sky search for short gravitational-wave bursts in the first Advanced LIGO run
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +986
We present the results from an all-sky search for short-duration gravitational waves in the data of the first run of the Advanced LIGO detectors between September 2015 and January…