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most citedGravitational Waves and Gamma-rays from a Binary Neutron Star Merger: GW170817 and GRB 170817A

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gr-qc2021★ 74 cited

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…

gr-qc2021★ 133 cited

Tests of General Relativity with GWTC-3

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1682

The ever-increasing number of detections of gravitational waves (GWs) from compact binaries by the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors allows us to perform ever-more sensiti…

astro-ph.IM2021

Multi-messenger parameter inference of gravitational-wave and electromagnetic observations of white dwarf binaries

Peyton T. Johnson, Michael W. Coughlin, Ashlie Hamilton +7

The upcoming Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will detect a large gravitational-wave foreground of Galactic white dwarf binaries. These sources are exceptional for their p…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 247 cited

Constraints on the cosmic expansion history from GWTC-3

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1676

We use 47 gravitational-wave sources from the Third LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC-3) to estimate the Hubble parameter , including its current va…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 41 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 96 cited

All-sky search for gravitational wave emission from scalar boson clouds around spinning black holes in LIGO O3 data

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1669

This paper describes the first all-sky search for long-duration, quasi-monochromatic gravitational-wave signals emitted by ultralight scalar boson clouds around spinning black hole…

gr-qc2021★ 40 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 74 cited

Searches for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars at Two Harmonics in the Second and Third LIGO-Virgo Observing Runs

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1694

We present a targeted search for continuous gravitational waves (GWs) from 236 pulsars using data from the third observing run of LIGO and Virgo (O3) combined with data from the se…

gr-qc2021★ 19 cited

Understanding binary neutron star collisions with hypermodels

Gregory Ashton, Tim Dietrich

Gravitational waves from the collision of binary neutron stars provide a unique opportunity to study the behaviour of supranuclear matter, the fundamental properties of gravity, an…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 26 cited

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…

gr-qc2021★ 1.8k cited

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…

gr-qc2021★ 29 cited

Parameterised population models of transient non-Gaussian noise in the LIGO gravitational-wave detectors

Gregory Ashton, Sarah Thiele, Yannick Lecoeuche +2

The two interferometric LIGO gravitational-wave observatories provide the most sensitive data to date to study the gravitational-wave Universe. As part of a global network, they ha…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 20 cited

Does non-stationary noise in LIGO and Virgo affect the estimation of ?

Simone Mozzon, Gregory Ashton, Laura K. Nuttall +1

Gravitational-wave observations of binary neutron star mergers and their electromagnetic counterparts provide an independent measurement of the Hubble constant, , through the…

gr-qc2021★ 35 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 70 cited

Search for subsolar-mass binaries in the first half of Advanced LIGO and Virgo's third observing run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1634

We report on a search for compact binary coalescences where at least one binary component has a mass between 0.2 and 1.0 in Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo dat…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 61 cited

Search for continuous gravitational waves from 20 accreting millisecond X-ray pulsars in O3 LIGO data

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1634

Results are presented of searches for continuous gravitational waves from 20 accreting millisecond X-ray pulsars with accurately measured spin frequencies and orbital parameters, u…

gr-qc2021★ 196 cited

GWTC-2.1: Deep Extended Catalog of Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo During the First Half of the Third Observing Run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, R. Abbott +1429

The second Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog reported on 39 compact binary coalescences observed by the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors between 1 April 2019 15:00 UTC…

gr-qc2021★ 82 cited

Bilby-MCMC: An MCMC sampler for gravitational-wave inference

Gregory Ashton, Colm Talbot

We introduce Bilby-MCMC, a Markov-Chain Monte-Carlo sampling algorithm tuned for the analysis of gravitational waves from merging compact objects. Bilby-MCMC provides a parallel-te…

gr-qc2021★ 3 cited

All-sky search for long-duration gravitational-wave bursts in the third Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1627

After the detection of gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences, the search for transient gravitational-wave signals with less well-defined waveforms for which matched…

gr-qc2021★ 82 cited

All-sky search for short gravitational-wave bursts in the third Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1630

This paper presents the results of a search for generic short-duration gravitational-wave transients in data from the third observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo. Trans…

gr-qc2021★ 4 cited

A follow-up on intermediate-mass black hole candidates in the second LIGO-Virgo observing run with the Bayes Coherence Ratio

Avi Vajpeyi, Rory Smith, Eric Thrane +7

The detection of an intermediate-mass black hole population ( ) will provide clues to their formation environments (e.g., disks of active galactic nuclei, glo…

gr-qc2021★ 69 cited

All-sky Search for Continuous Gravitational Waves from Isolated Neutron Stars in the Early O3 LIGO Data

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1587

We report on an all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves in the frequency band 20-2000\,Hz and with a frequency time derivative in the range of …

astro-ph.HE2021

Low-efficiency long gamma-ray bursts: A case study with AT2020blt

Nikhil Sarin, Rachel Hamburg, Eric Burns +3

The Zwicky Transient Facility recently announced the detection of an optical transient AT2020blt at redshift , consistent with the afterglow of an on-axis gamma-ray burst. H…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 6 cited

CDF-S XT1: The off-axis afterglow of a neutron star merger at

Nikhil Sarin, Gregory Ashton, Paul D. Lasky +3

CDF-S XT1 is a fast-rising non-thermal X-ray transient detected by \textit{Chandra} in the Deep-Field South Survey. Although various hypotheses have been suggested, the origin of t…