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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…
GUEST: Gravitational Universe Exploration with Satellite Tracking. A passive satellite laser-ranging mission for the dark gravitational Universe
Diego Blas, Aurélien Hees, F. Javier Atapuerca +78
GUEST is a space mission concept whose central objective is the detection of gravitational waves (GWs) in the microhertz band -- a physics-rich frequency window that no other prese…
Emergent structure in the binary black hole mass distribution and implications for population-based cosmology
Vasco Gennari, Tom Bertheas, Nicola Tamanini
Gravitational waves provide a powerful probe of both the astrophysical processes driving black hole mergers and the dynamics of the Universe, but these measurements rely on accurat…
Reducing cosmological degeneracies by combining multiple classes of LISA gravitational-wave standard sirens
Danny Laghi, Nicola Tamanini, Alberto Sesana +6
We present the first joint gravitational-wave cosmological inference with LISA extreme mass-ratio inspirals at (galaxy redshifts) and massive black hole binaries at $z…
Spectral sirens cosmology from binary black holes populations with sharper mass features
Tom Bertheas, Vasco Gennari, Danièle Steer +1
Spectral-sirens inference enables the extraction of cosmological parameters from gravitational-wave data alone, without electromagnetic counterparts or galaxy catalogs. We introduc…
Probing Cosmic Expansion and Early Universe with Einstein Telescope
Angelo Ricciardone, Mairi Sakellariadou, Archisman Ghosh +52
Over the next two decades, gravitational-wave (GW) observations are expected to evolve from a discovery-driven endeavour into a precision tool for astrophysics, cosmology, and fund…
Uncovering the population of compact binary mergers and their formation pathways with gravitational waves through the Einstein Telescope
M. Arca-Sedda, I. Dvorkin, G. Franciolini +19
Ground-based gravitational-wave (GW) observatories have transformed our view of compact-object mergers, yet their reach still limits a comprehensive reconstruction of the processes…
A Parametrized Test of General Relativity for LISA Massive Black Hole Binary Inspirals
Manuel Piarulli, Sylvain Marsat, Elise M. Sänger +3
Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) observations of massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) will provide long duration inspiral signals with high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) data…
Towards a few percent measurement of the Hubble constant with the current network of gravitational wave detectors without using electromagnetic information
Tom Bertheas, Vasco Gennari, Nicola Tamanini
Gravitational waves provide a novel and independent measurement of cosmological parameters, offering a promising avenue to address the Hubble tension alongside traditional electrom…
Science of the LISA mission: A Summary for the European Strategy for Particle Physics
Chiara Caprini, Anna Heffernan, Richard Brito +4
The LISA mission is an international collaboration between ESA, its member states, and NASA, for the detection of gravitational waves from space. It was adopted in January 2024 and…
Listening Across the Cosmic Time: Standard Sirens from Ground- and Space-Based Missions in the Next Decade
Alberto Salvarese, Hsin-Yu Chen, Alberto Mangiagli +1
Precise measurement of the Hubble parameter will enable stringent tests of the standard model for cosmology. Standard sirens, using the luminosity distances measured by gravitation…
The Science of the Einstein Telescope
Adrian Abac, Raul Abramo, Simone Albanesi +485
Einstein Telescope (ET) is the European project for a gravitational-wave (GW) observatory of third-generation. In this paper we present a comprehensive discussion of its science ob…
Searching for additional structure and redshift evolution in the observed binary black hole population with a parametric time-dependent mass distribution
Vasco Gennari, Simone Mastrogiovanni, Nicola Tamanini +2
The population of the observed gravitational wave events encodes unique information on the formation and evolution of stellar-mass black holes, from the underlying astrophysical pr…
Blinded Mock Data Challenge for Gravitational-Wave Cosmology-I: Assessing the Robustness of Methods Using Binary Black Holes Mass Spectrum
Aman Agarwal, Ulyana Dupletsa, Konstantin Leyde +18
Gravitational Wave (GW) sources are standard sirens that provide an independent way to map the cosmic expansion history by combining with an independent redshift measurement either…
Hierarchical Bayesian inference on an analytical model of the LISA massive black hole binary population
Vivienne Langen, Nicola Tamanini, Sylvain Marsat +1
Massive black hole binary (MBHB) mergers will be detectable in large numbers by the Lisa Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), which will thus provide new insights on how they form…
LISA Definition Study Report
Monica Colpi, Karsten Danzmann, Martin Hewitson +108
The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is the first scientific endeavour to detect and study gravitational waves from space. LISA will survey the sky for Gravitational Waves…
Massive black hole binaries in LISA: constraining cosmological parameters at high redshifts
Alberto Mangiagli, Chiara Caprini, Sylvain Marsat +3
One of the scientific objectives of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is to probe the expansion of the Universe using gravitational wave observations. Indeed, as gravit…
Waveform Modelling for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
LISA Consortium Waveform Working Group, Niayesh Afshordi, Sarp Akçay +144
LISA, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, will usher in a new era in gravitational-wave astronomy. As the first anticipated space-based gravitational-wave detector, it will exp…
Probing modified gravitational-wave propagation with extreme mass-ratio inspirals
Chang Liu, Danny Laghi, Nicola Tamanini
Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), namely binary systems composed of a massive black hole and a compact stellar-mass object, are anticipated to be among the gravitational wave (…
Strongly-Lensed Extreme Mass-ratio Inspirals
Martina Toscani, Ollie Burke, Chang Liu +3
In this work, we investigate detection rates and parameter estimation of strongly-lensed extreme mass-ratio inspirals (LEMRIs) in the context of the Laser Interferometer Space Ante…
Dark siren cosmology with binary black holes in the era of third-generation gravitational wave detectors
Niccolò Muttoni, Danny Laghi, Nicola Tamanini +2
Third-generation (3G) gravitational wave detectors, in particular Einstein Telescope (ET) and Cosmic Explorer (CE), will explore unprecedented cosmic volumes in search for compact…
Lensing of gravitational waves from tidal disruption events
Martina Toscani, Elena M. Rossi, Nicola Tamanini +1
In this work, we investigate the effect of gravitational lensing on the gravitational wave (GW) signals of a population of tidal disruption events (TDEs). We estimate the number of…
The Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy catalog approach for gravitational wave cosmology
Jonathan R. Gair, Archisman Ghosh, Rachel Gray +28
We outline the ``dark siren'' galaxy catalog method for cosmological inference using gravitational wave (GW) standard sirens, clarifying some common misconceptions in the implement…
Massive black hole binaries in LISA: multimessenger prospects and electromagnetic counterparts
A. Mangiagli, C. Caprini, M. Volonteri +4
In the next decade, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will detect the coalescence of massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) in the range , u…