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Scaling RIFT 1: Extending RIFT to third-generation gravitational-wave analyses
R. O'Shaughnessy, A. Jan, J. Lange +1
Interpretation of compact binary signals observed by third-generation gravitational-wave detectors is complicated by their high signal-to-noise ratios, often reaching hundreds to t…
Gravitational Wave Hyperbolic Catalog: Reanalyzing High-Mass Gravitational Wave Signals Using Hyperbolic Waveforms
Jacob Lange, Danilo Chiaramello, Peter Lott +4
Close hyperbolic encounters between black holes produce distinctive bursts of gravitational radiation with a time-frequency morphology that is qualitatively different from that of…
Parameter estimation of gravitational waves from hyperbolic black hole encounters
Chad Henshaw, Jacob Lange, Peter Lott +2
Systems of two black holes with unbound orbits can produce a diverse array of gravitational wave signals with rich morphology. This parameter space encompasses both hyperbolic orbi…
Gravitational Wave Detector Sensitivity to Eccentric Black Hole Mergers
Shubhagata Bhaumik, V. Gayathri, Imre Bartos +8
Orbital eccentricity in compact binary mergers carries crucial information about the binary's formation and environment. There are emerging signs that some of the mergers detected…
Adapting a novel framework for rapid inference of massive black hole binaries for LISA
Aasim Jan, Richard O'Shaughnessy, Deirdre Shoemaker +1
The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is designed to detect a variety of gravitational-wave events, including mergers of massive black hole binaries, stellar-mass black hol…
Accuracy limitations of existing numerical relativity waveforms on the data analysis of current and future ground-based detectors
Aasim Jan, Deborah Ferguson, Jacob Lange +2
As gravitational wave detectors improve in sensitivity, signal-to-noise ratios of compact binary coalescences will dramatically increase, reaching values in the hundreds and potent…
Analysis of GWTC-3 with fully precessing numerical relativity surrogate models
Tousif Islam, Avi Vajpeyi, Feroz H. Shaik +6
The third Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC-3) contains 90 binary coalescence candidates detected by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration (LVK). We provide a re-analysis of…
Second MAYA Catalog of Binary Black Hole Numerical Relativity Waveforms
Deborah Ferguson, Evelyn Allsup, Surendra Anne +14
Numerical relativity waveforms are a critical resource in the quest to deepen our understanding of the dynamics of, and gravitational waves emitted from, merging binary systems. We…
RUNMON-RIFT: Adaptive Configuration and Healing for Large-Scale Parameter Inference
Rhiannon Udall, Joshua Brandt, Grihith Manchanda +5
Gravitational wave parameter inference pipelines operate on data containing unknown sources on distributed hardware with unreliable performance. For one specific analysis pipeline…
Application of the third RIT binary black hole simulations catalog to parameter estimation of gravitational waves signals from the LIGO-Virgo O1/O2 observational runs
James Healy, Carlos O. Lousto, Jacob Lange +1
Using exclusively the 777 full numerical waveforms of the third Binary Black Holes RIT catalog, we reanalyze the ten black hole merger signals reported in LIGO/Virgo's O1/O2 observ…
Inferring the neutron star equation of state simultaneously with the population of merging neutron stars
Daniel Wysocki, Richard O'Shaughnessy, Leslie Wade +1
Observations of the properties of multiple coalescing neutron stars will simultaneously provide insight into neutron star mass and spin distribution, the neutron star merger rate,…
Hybrid waveforms for generic precessing binaries for gravitational-wave data analysis
Jam Sadiq, Yosef Zlochower, Richard O'Shaughnessy +1
We construct hybrid binary black holes merger waveforms using analytical model waveforms for the early inspiral phase and numerical relativity waveforms for late inspiral to merger…
Inferring Parameters of GW170502: The Loudest Intermediate-mass Black Hole Trigger in LIGO's O1/O2 data
Richard Udall, Karan Jani, Jacob Lange +5
Gravitational wave (GW) measurements provide the most robust constraints of the mass of astrophysical black holes. Using state-of-the-art GW signal models and a unique parameter es…
Impact of subdominant modes on the interpretation of gravitational-wave signals from heavy binary black hole systems
Feroz H. Shaik, Jacob Lange, Scott E. Field +5
Over the past year, a handful of new gravitational wave models have been developed to include multiple harmonic modes thereby enabling for the first time fully Bayesian inference s…
Inspiral-Merger-Ringdown Consistency Tests with Higher Modes on Gravitational Signals from the Second Observing Run of LIGO and Virgo
Matteo Breschi, Richard O'Shaughnessy, Jacob Lange +1
Current tests of General Relativity are performed using approximations which neglect a key feature of complete solution of Einstein's theory: higher-order modes. Our analysis will…
On the properties of the massive binary black hole merger GW170729
Katerina Chatziioannou, Roberto Cotesta, Sudarshan Ghonge +53
We present a detailed investigation into the properties of GW170729, the gravitational wave with the most massive and distant source confirmed to date. We employ an extensive set o…
The second RIT binary black hole simulations catalog and its application to gravitational waves parameter estimation
James Healy, Carlos O. Lousto, Jacob Lange +3
The RIT numerical relativity group is releasing the second public catalog of black-hole-binary waveforms \url{http://ccrg.rit.edu/~RITCatalog}. This release consists of 320 accurat…
Rapid and accurate parameter inference for coalescing, precessing compact binaries
Jacob Lange, Richard O'Shaughnessy, Monica Rizzo
Extending prior work by Pankow et al, we introduce RIFT, an algorithm to perform Rapid parameter Inference on gravitational wave sources via Iterative Fitting. We demonstrate this…
Reconstructing phenomenological distributions of compact binaries via gravitational wave observations
Daniel Wysocki, Jacob Lange, Richard O'Shaughnessy
Gravitational wave measurements will provide insight into the population of coalescing compact binaries throughout the universe. We describe and demonstrate a flexible parametric m…
Targeted numerical simulations of binary black holes for GW170104
James Healy, Jacob Lange, Richard O'Shaughnessy +22
In response to LIGO's observation of GW170104, we performed a series of full numerical simulations of binary black holes, each designed to replicate likely realizations of its dyna…
Systematic challenges for future gravitational wave measurements of precessing binary black holes
A. R. Williamson, J. Lange, R. O'Shaughnessy +4
The properties of precessing, coalescing binary black holes are presently inferred through comparison with two approximate models of compact binary coalescence. In this work we sho…
A Parameter Estimation Method that Directly Compares Gravitational Wave Observations to Numerical Relativity
Jacob Lange, Richard O'Shaughnessy, Michael Boyle +23
We present and assess a Bayesian method to interpret gravitational wave signals from binary black holes. Our method directly compares gravitational wave data to numerical relativit…
Binary Black Hole Mergers in the first Advanced LIGO Observing Run
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +972
The first observational run of the Advanced LIGO detectors, from September 12, 2015 to January 19, 2016, saw the first detections of gravitational waves from binary black hole merg…