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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
All-sky search for short gravitational-wave bursts in the second Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo run
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1186
We present the results of a search for short-duration gravitational-wave transients in the data from the second observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo. We search for gra…
Black-hole remnants from black-hole--neutron-star mergers
Francesco Zappa, Sebastiano Bernuzzi, Francesco Pannarale +2
Observations of gravitational waves and their electromagnetic counterparts may soon uncover the existence of coalescing compact binary systems formed by a stellar-mass black hole a…
On the properties of the massive binary black hole merger GW170729
Katerina Chatziioannou, Roberto Cotesta, Sudarshan Ghonge +53
We present a detailed investigation into the properties of GW170729, the gravitational wave with the most massive and distant source confirmed to date. We employ an extensive set o…
Relevance of tidal effects and post-merger dynamics for binary neutron star parameter estimation
Reetika Dudi, Francesco Pannarale, Tim Dietrich +4
Measurements of the properties of binary neutron star systems from gravitational-wave observations require accurate theoretical models for such signals. However, current models are…
Bayesian Inference Analysis of Unmodelled Gravitational-Wave Transients
Francesco Pannarale, Ronaldas Macas, Patrick J. Sutton
We report the results of an in-depth analysis of the parameter estimation capabilities of BayesWave, an algorithm for the reconstruction of gravitational-wave signals without refer…
Time-domain effective-one-body gravitational waveforms for coalescing compact binaries with nonprecessing spins, tides and self-spin effects
Alessandro Nagar, Sebastiano Bernuzzi, Walter Del Pozzo +21
We present TEOBResumS, a new effective-one-body (EOB) waveform model for nonprecessing (spin-aligned) and tidally interacting compact binaries.Spin-orbit and spin-spin effects are…
Matter imprints in waveform models for neutron star binaries: tidal and self-spin effects
Tim Dietrich, Sebastian Khan, Reetika Dudi +16
The combined observation of gravitational and electromagnetic waves from the coalescence of two neutron stars marks the beginning of multi-messenger astronomy with gravitational wa…
First higher-multipole model of gravitational waves from spinning and coalescing black-hole binaries
Lionel London, Sebastian Khan, Edward Fauchon-Jones +7
Gravitational-wave observations of binary black holes currently rely on theoretical models that predict the dominant multipoles (l,m) of the radiation during inspiral, merger and r…
Gravitational-wave cutoff frequencies of tidally disruptive neutron star-black hole binary mergers
Francesco Pannarale, Emanuele Berti, Koutarou Kyutoku +2
Tidal disruption has a dramatic impact on the outcome of neutron star-black hole mergers. The phenomenology of these systems can be divided in three classes: nondisruptive, mildly…