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Simulation of DAMPE silicon microstrip detectors in the framework
Yu-Xin Cui, Xiang Li, Shen Wang +7
Silicon strip detectors have been widely utilized in space experiments for gamma-ray and cosmic-ray detections thanks to their high spatial resolution and stable performance. For a…
GWSpace: a multi-mission science data simulator for space-based gravitational wave detection
En-Kun Li, Han Wang, Hong-Yu Chen +11
Space-based gravitational wave detectors such as TianQin, LISA, and TaiJi have the potential to outperform themselves through joint observation. To achieve this, it is desirable to…
Searching for gravitational-wave bursts with space-borne detectors
Zheng Wu, Hui-Min Fan, Yi-Ming Hu +1
The millihertz gravitational wave band is expected to be opened by space-borne detectors like TianQin. Various mechanisms can produce short outbursts of gravitational waves, whose…
Space-based Gravitational Wave Observatories Will Be Able to Use Eccentricity to Unveil Stellar-mass Binary Black Hole Formation
Han Wang, Ian Harry, Alexander Nitz +1
The measurement of eccentricity would provide strong constraints on the formation channel of stellar-mass binary black holes. However, current ground-based gravitational wave detec…
Dark-siren Cosmology with Decihertz Gravitational-wave Detectors
Muxin Liu, Chang Liu, Yi-Ming Hu +2
Gravitational waves (GWs) originated from mergers of stellar-mass binary black holes (SBBHs) are considered as dark sirens in cosmology since they usually do not have electromagnet…
Science with the TianQin observatory: Preliminary results on stellar-mass binary black holes
Shuai Liu, Yi-Ming Hu, Jian-dong Zhang +1
We study the prospect of using TianQin to detect stellar-mass binary black holes (SBBHs). We estimate the expected detection number as well as the precision of parameter estimation…
Science with the TianQin observatory: Preliminary result on extreme-mass-ratio inspirals
Hui-Min Fan, Yi-Ming Hu, Enrico Barausse +5
Systems consisting of a massive black hole and a stellar-origin compact object (CO), known as extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), are of great significance for space-based gravit…
Science with the TianQin Observatory: Preliminary results on Galactic double white dwarf binaries
Shun-Jia Huang, Yi-Ming Hu, Valeriya Korol +6
We explore the prospects of detecting of Galactic double white dwarf (DWD) binaries with the space-based gravitational wave (GW) observatory TianQin. In this work, we analyze both…
Constraining modified gravity with ringdown signals: an explicit example
Jiahui Bao, Changfu Shi, Haitian Wang +4
An explicit example is found showing how a modified theory of gravity can be constrained with the ringdown signals from merger of binary black holes. This has been made possible by…
Results from an Einstein@Home search for continuous gravitational waves from Cassiopeia A, Vela Jr. and G347.3
Jing Ming, Maria Alessandra Papa, Avneet Singh +9
We report results of the most sensitive search to date for periodic gravitational waves from Cassiopeia A, Vela Jr. and G347.3 with frequency between 20 and 1500 Hz. The search was…
Science with the TianQin observatory: Preliminary results on massive black hole binaries
Hai-Tian Wang, Zhen Jiang, Alberto Sesana +8
We investigate the prospects of detecting gravitational waves from coalescing massive black hole binaries in the Universe with the TianQin observatory, a space-based gravitational…
Preliminary study on parameter estimation accuracy of supermassive black hole binary inspirals for TianQin
Wen-Fan Feng, Hai-Tian Wang, Xin-Chun Hu +2
We use the Fisher information matrix method to calculate the parameter estimation accuracy of inspiraling supermassive black holes binaries for TianQin, a space-borne laser interfe…
Gravitational waves induced by the asymmetric jets of gamma-ray bursts
Shuang Du, Xiao-Dong Li, Yi-Ming Hu +2
We study the gravitational wave (GW) production induced by the asymmetric jets of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The asymmetric jets result in a recoil force acted on the central compact…
Fundamentals of the orbit and response for TianQin
Xin-Chun Hu, Xiao-Hong Li, Yan Wang +6
TianQin is a space-based laser interferometric gravitational wave detector aimed at detecting gravitational waves at low frequencies (0.1 mHz -- 1 Hz). It is formed by three identi…
Optimizing searches for electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational wave triggers
Michael W. Coughlin, Duo Tao, Man Leong Chan +9
With the detection of a binary neutron star system and its corresponding electromagnetic counterparts, a new window of transient astronomy has opened. Due to the size of the error…
A Search for Tensor, Vector, and Scalar Polarizations in the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1097
The detection of gravitational waves with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo has enabled novel tests of general relativity, including direct study of the polarization of gravitationa…
GW170814: A Three-Detector Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Coalescence
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1107
On August 14, 2017 at 10:30:43 UTC, the Advanced Virgo detector and the two Advanced LIGO detectors coherently observed a transient gravitational-wave signal produced by the coales…
GW170817: Implications for the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Compact Binary Coalescences
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1099
The LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations have announced the first detection of gravitational waves from the coalescence of two neutron stars. The merger rate of binary neutron…
Excitation of high frequency voices from intermediate-mass-ratio inspirals with large eccentricity
Wen-Biao Han, Zhoujian Cao, Yi-Ming Hu
The coalescence of a stellar-mass compact object together with an intermediate-mass black hole, also known as intermediate-mass-ratio inspiral, is usually not expected to be a viab…
Systematic errors in estimation of gravitational-wave candidate significance
Collin Capano, Thomas Dent, Chad Hanna +4
The statistical significance of a candidate gravitational-wave (GW) event is crucial to the prospects for a confirmed detection, or for its selection as a candidate for follow-up e…
Hearing the birth of the lightest intermediate mass black holes with the second generation gravitational wave detectors
Yun-Feng Liang, Yuan-Zhu Wang, Hao Wang +6
Intermediate mass black holes (IMBHs) with a mass between and times that of the sun, which bridges the {mass gap between the} stellar-mass black holes and the sup…
Neutron star-black hole coalescence rate inferred from macronova/kilonova observations
Xiang Li, Yi-Ming Hu, Zhi-Ping Jin +2
Neutron starblack hole (NSBH) coalescences are widely believed to be promising gravitational wave sources in the era of advanced detectors of LIGO/Virgo but such binaries hav…
Systematic errors in estimation of gravitational-wave candidate significance
Collin Capano, Thomas Dent, Chad Hanna +4
We investigate the issue in determining the significance of candidate transient gravitational-wave events in a ground-based interferometer network. Given the presence of non-Gaussi…
GRB/GW association: Long-short GRB candidates, time-lag, measuring gravitational wave velocity and testing Einstein's equivalence principle
Xiang Li, Yi-Ming Hu, Yi-Zhong Fan +1
Short-duration gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) are widely believed to be powered by the mergers of compact binaries, such as binary neutron stars or possibly neutron star-black hole binar…