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Architecture Acceleration of Machine Learning Gravitational Waveform Surrogate Models
Adriano Frattale Mascioli, Lorenzo Piccari, Saulo Albuquerque +9
Accurate and computationally efficient waveform models of compact binary coalescences are a fundamental requirement for gravitational wave data analysis. This work presents differe…
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…
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…
Pushing spectral siren cosmology into the third-generation era: a blinded mock data challenge
Matteo Tagliazucchi, Michele Moresco, Alessandro Agapito +6
Gravitational wave (GW) spectral sirens offer a promising method for measuring cosmological parameters using GW data only - without relying on external redshift information such as…
The Sequential Monte Carlo goes NUTS: Boosting Gravitational-Wave Inference
Gabriele Demasi, Giulia Capurri, Massimo Lenti +9
Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) methods have recently been applied to gravitational-wave inference as a powerful alternative to standard sampling techniques, such as Nested Sampling.…
3+1 GRHD simulations of NSBH mergers with light black holes using public codes
S. Gomez Lopez, B. Giacomazzo, F. Pannarale
Recent observations of compact binary systems have provided evidence for black holes with masses below standard expectations. When paired with neutron stars (NSs), such low-mass bl…
Accounting for Tidal Deformability in Binary Neutron Star Template Banks
Lorenzo Piccari, Francesco Pannarale
Modelled searches for gravitational waves emitted by compact binary coalescences currently filter the data with template signals that ignore all effects related to the physics of d…
Taming systematics in distance and inclination measurements with gravitational waves: role of the detector network and higher-order modes
Adriano Frattale Mascioli, Francesco Crescimbeni, Costantino Pacilio +2
Gravitational-wave (GW) observations of compact binaries have the potential to unlock several remarkable applications in astrophysics, cosmology, and nuclear physics through accura…
Measuring the speed of gravity and the cosmic expansion with time delays between gravity and light from binary neutron stars
Leonardo Iampieri, Simone Mastrogiovanni, Francesco Pannarale
The first observation of a gravitational wave (GW) and a short gamma-ray burst (sGRB) emitted by the same binary neutron star (BNS) merger officially opened the field of GW multime…
Efficient Stochastic Template Bank using Inner Product Inequalities
Keisi Kacanja, Alexander H. Nitz, Shichao Wu +5
Gravitational wave searches are crucial for studying compact sources like neutron stars and black holes. Many sensitive modeled searches use matched filtering to compare gravitatio…
Optimizing the low-latency localization of gravitational waves
Pierre-Alexandre Duverne, Stéphanie Hoang, Tito Dal Canton +4
Gravitational-wave data from interferometric detectors like LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA is routinely analyzed by rapid matched-filtering algorithms to detect compact binary merger events…
Potential biases and prospects for the Hubble constant estimation via electromagnetic and gravitational-wave joint analyses
Giulia Gianfagna, Luigi Piro, Francesco Pannarale +3
GW170817 is a binary neutron star merger that exhibited a gravitational wave (GW) and a gamma-ray burst, followed by an afterglow. In this work, we estimate the Hubble constant ($H…
Joint analysis of gravitational-wave and electromagnetic data of mergers: breaking an afterglow model degeneracy in GW170817 and in future events
Giulia Gianfagna, Luigi Piro, Francesco Pannarale +4
On August 17, 2017, Advanced LIGO and Virgo observed GW170817, the first gravitational-wave (GW) signal from a binary neutron star merger. It was followed by a short-duration gamma…
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…
Numerical Simulations of Dark Matter Admixed Neutron Star Binaries
Mattia Emma, Federico Schianchi, Francesco Pannarale +2
Multi-messenger observations of compact binary mergers provide a new way to constrain the nature of dark matter that may accumulate in and around neutron stars. In this article, we…
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 final twist: A model of gravitational waves from precessing black-hole binaries through merger and ringdown
Eleanor Hamilton, Lionel London, Jonathan E. Thompson +6
We present PhenomPNR, a frequency-domain phenomenological model of the gravitational-wave (GW) signal from binary-black-hole mergers that is tuned to numerical relativity (NR) simu…
LIGO Detector Characterization in the Second and Third Observing Runs
D. Davis, J. S. Areeda, B. K. Berger +284
The characterization of the Advanced LIGO detectors in the second and third observing runs has increased the sensitivity of the instruments, allowing for a higher number of detecta…
Constraining Mirror Dark Matter Inside Neutron Stars
Raul Ciancarella, Francesco Pannarale, Andrea Addazi +1
We inspect the possibility that neutron star interiors are a mixture of ordinary matter and mirror dark matter. This is a scenario that can be naturally envisaged according to well…
Identifying when Precession can be Measured in Gravitational Waveforms
Rhys Green, Charlie Hoy, Stephen Fairhurst +3
In binary-black-hole systems where the black-hole spins are misaligned with the orbital angular momentum, precession effects leave characteristic modulations in the emitted gravita…
Modeling the gravitational wave signature of neutron star black hole coalescences: PhenomNSBH
Jonathan E. Thompson, Edward Fauchon-Jones, Sebastian Khan +4
Accurate gravitational-wave (GW) signal models exist for black hole binary (BBH) and neutron-star binary (BNS) systems, which are consistent with all of the published GW observatio…
A Machine Learning Based Source Property Inference for Compact Binary Mergers
Deep Chatterjee, Shaon Ghosh, Patrick R. Brady +4
The detection of the binary neutron star (BNS) merger, GW170817, was the first success story of multi-messenger observations of compact binary mergers. The inferred merger rate alo…