GWTC-3: Compact binary coalescences observed by LIGO and Virgo during the second part of the third observing run

R Abbott, TD Abbott, F Acernese, K Ackley, C Adams… - Physical Review X, 2023 - APS
The third Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC-3) describes signals detected with
Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo up to the end of their third observing run. Updating the …

Population of merging compact binaries inferred using gravitational waves through GWTC-3

R Abbott, TD Abbott, F Acernese, K Ackley, C Adams… - Physical Review X, 2023 - APS
We report on the population properties of compact binary mergers inferred from gravitational-
wave observations of these systems during the first three LIGO-Virgo observing runs. The …

Open data from the third observing run of LIGO, Virgo, KAGRA and GEO

R Abbott, H Abe, F Acernese, K Ackley… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
The global network of gravitational-wave observatories now includes five detectors, namely
LIGO Hanford, LIGO Livingston, Virgo, KAGRA, and GEO 600. These detectors collected …

GWTC-2: compact binary coalescences observed by LIGO and Virgo during the first half of the third observing run

R Abbott, TD Abbott, S Abraham, F Acernese, K Ackley… - Physical Review X, 2021 - APS
We report on gravitational-wave discoveries from compact binary coalescences detected by
Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo in the first half of the third observing run (O3a) between …

Population properties of compact objects from the second LIGO–Virgo gravitational-wave transient catalog

R Abbott, TD Abbott, S Abraham… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We analyze the population properties of black holes (BHs) and neutron stars (NSs) in
compact binary systems using data from the LIGO–Virgo Gravitational-Wave Transient …

Tests of general relativity with binary black holes from the second LIGO-Virgo gravitational-wave transient catalog

R Abbott, TD Abbott, S Abraham, F Acernese, K Ackley… - Physical review D, 2021 - APS
Gravitational waves enable tests of general relativity in the highly dynamical and strong-field
regime. Using events detected by LIGO-Virgo up to 1 October 2019, we evaluate the …

Upper limits on the isotropic gravitational-wave background from Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo's third observing run

R Abbott, TD Abbott, S Abraham, F Acernese, K Ackley… - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
We report results of a search for an isotropic gravitational-wave background (GWB) using
data from Advanced LIGO's and Advanced Virgo's third observing run (O3) combined with …

Tests of general relativity with GWTC-3

R Abbott, H Abe, F Acernese, K Ackley… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
The ever-increasing number of detections of gravitational waves (GWs) from compact
binaries by the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors allows us to perform ever …

One channel to rule them all? Constraining the origins of binary black holes using multiple formation pathways

M Zevin, SS Bavera, CPL Berry… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The second LIGO–Virgo catalog of gravitational-wave (GW) transients has more than
quadrupled the observational sample of binary black holes. We analyze this catalog using a …

Computationally efficient models for the dominant and subdominant harmonic modes of precessing binary black holes

G Pratten, C García-Quirós, M Colleoni… - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
We present imrphenomxphm, a phenomenological frequency-domain model for the
gravitational-wave signal emitted by quasicircular precessing binary black holes, which …