Prospects for observing and localizing gravitational-wave transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA

BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, S Abraham… - Living reviews in …, 2020 - Springer
We present our current best estimate of the plausible observing scenarios for the Advanced
LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA gravitational-wave detectors over the next several years …

Equations of state for supernovae and compact stars

M Oertel, M Hempel, T Klähn, S Typel - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2017 - APS
A review is given of various theoretical approaches for the equation of state (EoS) of dense
matter, relevant for the description of core-collapse supernovae, compact stars, and compact …

GW190521: A Binary Black Hole Merger with a Total Mass of

R Abbott, TD Abbott, S Abraham, F Acernese, K Ackley… - Physical review …, 2020 - APS
On May 21, 2019 at 03: 02: 29 UTC Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo observed a short
duration gravitational-wave signal, GW190521, with a three-detector network signal-to-noise …

GWTC-1: a gravitational-wave transient catalog of compact binary mergers observed by LIGO and Virgo during the first and second observing runs

BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, S Abraham… - Physical Review X, 2019 - APS
We present the results from three gravitational-wave searches for coalescing compact
binaries with component masses above 1 M⊙ during the first and second observing runs of …

GW170817: observation of gravitational waves from a binary neutron star inspiral

BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, F Acernese, K Ackley… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
On August 17, 2017 at 12∶ 41: 04 UTC the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo
gravitational-wave detectors made their first observation of a binary neutron star inspiral …

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 …

GW170104: observation of a 50-solar-mass binary black hole coalescence at redshift 0.2

BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, F Acernese, K Ackley… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
We describe the observation of GW170104, a gravitational-wave signal produced by the
coalescence of a pair of stellar-mass black holes. The signal was measured on January 4 …

GW170814: a three-detector observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole coalescence

BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, F Acernese, K Ackley… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
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 …

GW151226: observation of gravitational waves from a 22-solar-mass binary black hole coalescence

BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, MR Abernathy… - Physical review …, 2016 - APS
We report the observation of a gravitational-wave signal produced by the coalescence of two
stellar-mass black holes. The signal, GW151226, was observed by the twin detectors of the …

Binary black hole mergers in the first advanced LIGO observing run

BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, MR Abernathy… - Physical Review X, 2016 - APS
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 …