7 papers
LIGO A: Detector Design and Science Prospects Beyond A+
L. Sun, K. Kuns, B. J. J. Slagmolen +1153
We present the LIGO A detector concept, an upgrade for the LIGO observatories based on room-temperature interferometers beyond the fifth observing run (O5). Building on th…
Inference with finite time series II: the window strikes back
Colm Talbot, Sylvia Biscoveanu, Aaron Zimmerman +9
Smooth window functions are often applied to strain data when inferring the parameters describing the astrophysical sources of gravitational-wave transients. Within the LIGO-Virgo-…
Inspiral tests of general relativity and waveform geometry
Brian C. Seymour, Jacob Golomb, Yanbei Chen
The phase evolution of gravitational waves encodes critical information about the orbital dynamics of binary systems. In this work, we test the robustness of parameterized tests ag…
Low-mass failed supernovae and the peak in the merging black hole mass distribution
Isaac Legred, Jacob Golomb, Katerina Chatziioannou
Gravitational-wave observations reveal that the rate of merging black holes drops by orders of magnitude from component masses to .…
The interplay of astrophysics and nuclear physics in determining the properties of neutron stars
Jacob Golomb, Isaac Legred, Katerina Chatziioannou +1
Neutron star properties depend on both nuclear physics and astrophysical processes, and thus observations of neutron stars offer constraints on both large-scale astrophysics and th…
Using Equation of State Constraints to Classify Low-Mass Compact Binary Mergers
Jacob Golomb, Isaac Legred, Katerina Chatziioannou +2
Compact objects observed via gravitational waves are classified as black holes or neutron stars primarily based on their inferred mass with respect to stellar evolution expectation…