Astrophysics with the laser interferometer space antenna

P Amaro-Seoane, J Andrews, M Arca Sedda… - Living Reviews in …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will be a transformative experiment
for gravitational wave astronomy, and, as such, it will offer unique opportunities to address …

Rates of compact object coalescences

I Mandel, FS Broekgaarden - Living Reviews in Relativity, 2022 - Springer
Gravitational-wave detections are enabling measurements of the rate of coalescences of
binaries composed of two compact objects—neutron stars and/or black holes. 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 …

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 …

Formation and evolution of compact-object binaries in AGN disks

H Tagawa, Z Haiman, B Kocsis - The Astrophysical Journal, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The astrophysical origin of gravitational wave (GW) events discovered by LIGO/VIRGO
remains an outstanding puzzle. In active galactic nuclei (AGNs), compact-object binaries …

Black holes: The next generation—repeated mergers in dense star clusters and their gravitational-wave properties

CL Rodriguez, M Zevin, P Amaro-Seoane, S Chatterjee… - Physical Review D, 2019 - APS
When two black holes merge in a dense star cluster, they form a new black hole with a well-
defined mass and spin. If that “second-generation” black hole remains in the cluster, it will …

Mass-gap mergers in active galactic nuclei

H Tagawa, B Kocsis, Z Haiman, I Bartos… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The recently discovered gravitational wave sources GW190521 and GW190814 have
shown evidence of BH mergers with masses and spins outside of the range expected from …

Gravitational waves from neutron star mergers and their relation to the nuclear equation of state

L Baiotti - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2019 - Elsevier
In this article, I introduce ideas and techniques to extract information about the equation of
state of matter at very high densities from gravitational waves emitted before, during and …

Constraining the primordial black hole scenario with Bayesian inference and machine learning: the GWTC-2 gravitational wave catalog

KWK Wong, G Franciolini, V De Luca, V Baibhav… - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
Primordial black holes (PBHs) might be formed in the early Universe and could comprise at
least a fraction of the dark matter. Using the recently released GWTC-2 dataset from the third …