Primordial black holes as dark matter: recent developments

B Carr, F Kühnel - Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Although the dark matter is usually assumed to be made up of some form of elementary
particle, primordial black holes (PBHs) could also provide some of it. However, various …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …