Challenges and opportunities of gravitational-wave searches at MHz to GHz frequencies

N Aggarwal, OD Aguiar, A Bauswein, G Cella… - Living reviews in …, 2021 - Springer
The first direct measurement of gravitational waves by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations
has opened up new avenues to explore our Universe. This white paper outlines the …

Mesoscopic physics of nanomechanical systems

A Bachtold, J Moser, MI Dykman - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2022 - APS
Nanomechanics has brought mesoscopic physics into the world of vibrations. Because
nanomechanical systems are small, fluctuations are significant, the vibrations already …

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 …

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 …

GW190425: Observation of a compact binary coalescence with total mass∼ 3.4 M⊙

BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The first observation of gravitational waves from the inspiral of a binary neutron star (BNS)
200 system on 2017 August 17 (Abbott et al. 2017b) was a major landmark in multi …

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-2.1: Deep extended catalog of compact binary coalescences observed by LIGO and Virgo during the first half of the third observing run

R Abbott, TD Abbott, F Acernese, K Ackley, C Adams… - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
The second Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog, GWTC-2, reported on 39 compact binary
coalescences observed by the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors between 1 …

GW190412: Observation of a binary-black-hole coalescence with asymmetric masses

R Abbott, TD Abbott, S Abraham, F Acernese, K Ackley… - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
We report the observation of gravitational waves from a binary-black-hole coalescence
during the first two weeks of LIGO's and Virgo's third observing run. The signal was recorded …

Broadband quantum enhancement of the LIGO detectors with frequency-dependent squeezing

D Ganapathy, W Jia, M Nakano, V Xu, N Aritomi… - Physical Review X, 2023 - APS
Quantum noise imposes a fundamental limitation on the sensitivity of interferometric
gravitational-wave detectors like LIGO, manifesting as shot noise and quantum radiation …