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 …

Primordial black holes—perspectives in gravitational wave astronomy

M Sasaki, T Suyama, T Tanaka… - Classical and Quantum …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
This article reviews current understanding of primordial black holes (PBHs), with particular
focus on those massive examples ($\gtrsim $$10^{15}~{\rm g} $) which remain at the …

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 …

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 …

GW150914: The Advanced LIGO detectors in the era of first discoveries

BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, MR Abernathy… - Physical review …, 2016 - APS
Following a major upgrade, the two advanced detectors of the Laser Interferometer
Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) held their first observation run between September …

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 …

Exploring the sensitivity of next generation gravitational wave detectors

BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott… - … and Quantum Gravity, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The second-generation of gravitational-wave detectors are just starting operation, and have
already yielding their first detections. Research is now concentrated on how to maximize the …

Observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger

BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, MR Abernathy… - Physical review …, 2016 - APS
On September 14, 2015 at 09: 50: 45 UTC the two detectors of the Laser Interferometer
Gravitational-Wave Observatory simultaneously observed a transient gravitational-wave …

Binary black hole population properties inferred from the first and second observing runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo

BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The second LIGO/Virgo observing run (O2) spanned 9 months between 2016 November
and 2017 August, building on the first, 4-month run (O1) in 2015. The LIGO/Virgo …