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most citedGWTC-2: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo During the First Half of the Third Observing Run

2.4k citations · 20.6k across the 139 of their papers we have counts for

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144 papers

gr-qc2026

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…

astro-ph.HE2026

Search for dark matter annihilation in the Sun using the full ANTARES dataset

A. Albert, S. Alves, M. André +133

Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are among the most popular candidates for particle dark matter. In certain scenarios, WIMPs could be gravitationally captured into mass…

hep-ex2026

Testing Heavy Dark Matter Decay as the Origin of KM3-230213A

KM3NeT Collaboration, O. Adriani, J. A. Aguilar +287

This work explores the hypothesis that the ultra-high-energy neutrino event KM3-230213A originates from the decay of a heavy dark matter particle with a mass above PeV scale. The a…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 34 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2025

Ultraviolet radiation and neutrinos: two messengers from CCSNe in the CSM scenario

Silvia Gagliardini, Simone Dall'Osso, Dafne Guetta +4

Massive stars (>8 ) often undergo intense mass loss through winds or eruptive events in the final stages of their evolution, leading to the formation of a dense circumst…

gr-qc2025★ 1 cited

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,…

gr-qc2025★ 5 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2025

Characterizing Candidate Blazar Counterparts of the Ultra-High-Energy Event KM3-230213A

KM3NeT Collaboration, MessMapp Group, LAT Collaboration +13

High-energy astrophysical neutrinos serve as crucial messengers for understanding hadronic acceleration processes and identifying the origins of cosmic rays, with blazars among the…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 3 cited

Building spectral templates and reconstructing parameters for core collapse supernovae with CASTOR

Andrea Simongini, Fabio Ragosta, Silvia Piranomonte +1

The future of time-domain optical astronomy relies on the development of techniques and software capable of handling a rising amount of data and gradually complementing, or replaci…

hep-ex2024

Measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters with the first six detection units of KM3NeT/ORCA

KM3NeT Collaboration, S. Aiello, A. Albert +260

KM3NeT/ORCA is a water Cherenkov neutrino detector under construction and anchored at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. The detector is designed to study oscillations of atmosph…

astro-ph.HE2024

Constraining the physical properties of large-scale jets from black hole X-ray binaries and their impact on the local environment with blast-wave dynamical models

Francesco Carotenuto, Rob Fender, Alexandra J. Tetarenko +5

Relativistic discrete ejecta launched by black hole X-ray binaries (BH XRBs) can be observed to propagate up to parsec-scales from the central object. Observing the final decelerat…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 2 cited

Acoustic Positioning for Deep Sea Neutrino Telescopes with a System of Piezo Sensors Integrated into Glass Spheres

A. Albert, S. Alves, M. André +137

Position calibration in the deep sea is typically done by means of acoustic multilateration using three or more acoustic emitters installed at known positions. Rather than using hy…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 1 cited

Search for Neutrino Emission from GRB 221009A using the KM3NeT ARCA and ORCA detectors

S. Aiello, A. Albert, M. Alshamsi +273

Gamma-ray bursts are promising candidate sources of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos. The recent GRB 221009A event, identified as the brightest gamma-ray burst ever detected, pr…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 201 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2024

Differential Sensitivity of the KM3NeT/ARCA detector to a diffuse neutrino flux and to point-like source emission: exploring the case of the Starburst Galaxies

KM3NeT Collaboration

KM3NeT/ARCA is a Cherenkov neutrino telescope under construction in the Mediterranean sea, optimised for the detection of astrophysical neutrinos with energies above 1~TeV. I…

astro-ph.HE2024

Towards multi-messenger observations of core-collapse supernovae harbouring choked jets

A. Zegarelli, D Guetta, S. Celli +3

Choked jets (CJ) have attracted particular attention as potential sources of high-energy cosmic neutrinos. Testing this hypothesis is challenging because of the missing gamma-ray c…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 11 cited

Atmospheric muons measured with the KM3NeT detectors in comparison with updated numeric predictions

KM3NeT Collaboration

The measurement of the flux of muons produced in cosmic ray air showers is essential for the study of primary cosmic rays. Such measurements are important in extensive air shower d…

astro-ph.HE2024

Results of the follow-up of ANTARES neutrino alerts

A. Albert, S. Alves, M. André +188

High-energy neutrinos could be produced in the interaction of charged cosmic rays with matter or radiation surrounding astrophysical sources. To look for transient sources associat…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 32 cited

Astronomy potential of KM3NeT/ARCA

S. Aiello, A. Albert, M. Alshamsi +275

The KM3NeT/ARCA neutrino detector is currently under construction at 3500 m depth offshore Capo Passero, Sicily, in the Mediterranean Sea. The main science objectives are the detec…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 4 cited

Searches for neutrino counterparts of gravitational waves from the LIGO/Virgo third observing run with KM3NeT

KM3NeT Collaboration, S. Aiello, A. Albert +273

The KM3NeT neutrino telescope is currently being deployed at two different sites in the Mediterranean Sea. First searches for astrophysical neutrinos have been performed using data…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 3 cited

An Optically Targeted Search for Gravitational Waves emitted by Core-Collapse Supernovae during the Third Observing Run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo

Marek J. Szczepańczyk, Yanyan Zheng, Javier M. Antelis +35

We present the results from a search for gravitational-wave transients associated with core-collapse supernovae observed optically within 30 Mpc during the third observing run of A…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 12 cited

Multi-messenger observations of core-collapse supernovae: Exploiting the standing accretion shock instability

Marco Drago, Haakon Andresen, Irene Di Palma +2

The gravitational wave (GW) and neutrino signals from core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) are expected to carry pronounced imprints of the standing accretion shock instability (SASI).…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 14 cited

Search for neutrino counterparts to the gravitational wave sources from LIGO/Virgo O3 run with the ANTARES detector

ANTARES Collaboration, A. Albert, S. Alves +150

Since 2015 the LIGO and Virgo interferometers have detected gravitational waves from almost one hundred coalescences of compact objects (black holes and neutron stars). This articl…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 58 cited

Hint for a TeV neutrino emission from the Galactic Ridge with ANTARES

A. Albert, S. Alves, M. André +151

Interactions of cosmic ray protons, atomic nuclei, and electrons in the interstellar medium in the inner part of the Milky Way produce a -ray flux from the Galactic Ridge. If th…