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Search for Compact Binary Coalescences with Sub-solar Mass Components in Data from the Second Part of LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA's Fourth Observing Run
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1816
We report on a gravitational wave search for compact binary coalescences with secondary mass between 0.2 M and 1 M and primary mass between 0.2 M and 10 M, restricting the componen…
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…
Massively parallel transdimensional sampling with data assimilation: an application to LISA galactic binaries
Gabriele Demasi, Walter Del Pozzo
Transdimensional Bayesian inference is becoming a key ingredient in gravitational-wave astronomy. In many relevant applications, the number of components needed to describe the dat…
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.…
GW241011 and GW241110: Exploring Binary Formation and Fundamental Physics with Asymmetric, High-Spin Black Hole Coalescence
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1783
We report the observation of gravitational waves from two binary black hole coalescences during the fourth observing run of the LIGO--Virgo--KAGRA detector network, GW241011 and GW…
Black Hole Spectroscopy and Tests of General Relativity with GW250114
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration
The binary black hole signal GW250114, the loudest gravitational wave detected to date, offers a unique opportunity to test Einstein's general relativity (GR) in the high-velocity,…
GW230814: investigation of a loud gravitational-wave signal observed with a single detector
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration, The Kagra Collaboration +1783
GW230814, detected by the LIGO Livingston observatory with a signal-to-noise ratio of 42.4, represents the loudest gravitational-wave signal in the GWTC-4.0 catalog. Its source is…
Black hole spectroscopy: from theory to experiment
Emanuele Berti, Vitor Cardoso, Gregorio Carullo +65
The "ringdown" radiation emitted by oscillating black holes has great scientific potential. By carefully predicting the frequencies and amplitudes of black hole quasinormal modes a…
Enhancing gravitational-wave host localization with SKYFAST: rapid volume and inclination angle reconstruction
Gabriele Demasi, Giulia Capurri, Angelo Ricciardone +3
The scientific impact of GW170817 strongly supports the need for an efficient electromagnetic follow-up campaign to gravitational-wave event candidates. The success of such campaig…
Potential impact of noise correlation in next-generation gravitational wave detectors
Isaac C. F. Wong, Peter T. H. Pang, Milan Wils +3
Building upon the statistical formulation for parameter estimation (PE) in the presence of correlated noise proposed by Cireddu et al., we present the initial study to incorporate…
Hierarchical inference of evidence using posterior samples
Stefano Rinaldi, Gabriele Demasi, Walter Del Pozzo +1
The Bayesian evidence, crucial ingredient for model selection, is arguably the most important quantity in Bayesian data analysis: at the same time, however, it is also one of the m…
Observation of Gravitational Waves from the Coalescence of a Compact Object and a Neutron Star
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1793
We report the observation of a coalescing compact binary with component masses and (all measurements quoted at the 90% credible le…
Partial alignment between jets and megamasers: Coherent versus selective accretion
Massimo Dotti, Riccardo Buscicchio, Francesco Bollati +3
Spins play a crucial role in the appearance, evolution, and occupation fraction of massive black holes (MBHs). To date, observational estimates of MBH spins are scarce, and the ass…
Likelihood for a Network of Gravitational-Wave Detectors with Correlated Noise
Francesco Cireddu, Milan Wils, Isaac C. F. Wong +3
The Einstein Telescope faces a critical data analysis challenge with correlated noise, often overlooked in current parameter estimation analyses. We address this issue by presentin…
Searching for ringdown higher modes with a numerical relativity-informed post-merger model
Vasco Gennari, Gregorio Carullo, Walter Del Pozzo
Robust measurements of multiple black hole vibrational modes provide a unique opportunity to characterise gravity in extreme curvature and dynamical regimes, to better investigate…
GW190521: a binary black hole merger inside an active galactic nucleus?
Sophia Morton, Stefano Rinaldi, Alejandro Torres-Orjuela +3
GW190521, the most massive binary black hole merger confidently detected by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration, is the first gravitational-wave observation of an intermediate-mass…
A fast test for the identification and confirmation of massive black hole binaries
Massimo Dotti, Fabio Rigamonti, Stefano Rinaldi +3
We present a new observational test to identify massive black hole binaries in large multi-epoch spectroscopical catalogues and to probe the real nature of already proposed binary…
First constraints on compact binary environments from LIGO-Virgo data
Giada Caneva Santoro, Soumen Roy, Rodrigo Vicente +4
The LIGO-Virgo analyses of signals from compact binary mergers observed so far have assumed isolated binary systems in a vacuum, neglecting the potential presence of astrophysical…
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…
Bayesian analysis of systematic errors in the determination of the constant of gravitation
Stefano Rinaldi, Hannah Middleton, Walter Del Pozzo +1
Measurements of the gravitational constant are notoriously difficult. Individual state-of-the-art experiments have managed to determine the value of with high precision: al…
Model-based cross-correlation search for gravitational waves from the low-mass X-ray binary Scorpius X-1 in LIGO O3 data
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1692
We present the results of a model-based search for continuous gravitational waves from the low-mass X-ray binary Scorpius X-1 using LIGO detector data from the third observing run…
Rapid localization of gravitational wave hosts with FIGARO
Stefano Rinaldi, Walter Del Pozzo
The copious scientific literature produced after the detection of GW170817 electromagnetic counterpart demonstrated the importance of a prompt and accurate localization of the grav…
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…