[HTML][HTML] Observational evidence for primordial black holes: A positivist perspective

BJ Carr, S Clesse, J Garcia-Bellido, MRS Hawkins… - Physics Reports, 2024 - Elsevier
We review numerous arguments for primordial black holes (PBHs) based on observational
evidence from a variety of lensing, dynamical, accretion and gravitational-wave effects. This …

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 …

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-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 …

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 …

Conservative scattering of spinning black holes at fourth post-Minkowskian order

GU Jakobsen, G Mogull, J Plefka, B Sauer, Y Xu - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Using the N= 1 supersymmetric, spinning worldline quantum field theory formalism, we
compute the conservative spin-orbit part of the momentum impulse Δ pi μ, spin kick Δ S i μ …

From inflation to black hole mergers and back again: Gravitational-wave data-driven constraints on inflationary scenarios with a first-principle model of primordial black …

G Franciolini, I Musco, P Pani, A Urbano - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
Recent population studies have searched for a subpopulation of primordial black holes
(PBHs) in the gravitational-wave (GW) events so far detected by LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA (LVK) …

Laying the foundation of the effective-one-body waveform models SEOBNRv5: Improved accuracy and efficiency for spinning nonprecessing binary black holes

L Pompili, A Buonanno, H Estellés, M Khalil… - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We present SEOBNRv5HM, a more accurate and faster inspiral-merger-ringdown
gravitational waveform model for quasicircular, spinning, nonprecessing binary black holes …

Conservative and radiative dynamics of spinning bodies at third post-Minkowskian order using worldline quantum field theory

GU Jakobsen, G Mogull - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Using the spinning worldline quantum field theory formalism we calculate the quadratic-in-
spin momentum impulse Δ pi μ and spin kick Δ ai μ from a scattering of two arbitrarily …

Dynamical tidal response of Kerr black holes from scattering amplitudes

MVS Saketh, Z Zhou, MM Ivanov - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
We match scattering amplitudes in point particle effective field theory (EFT) and general
relativity to extract low frequency dynamical tidal responses of rotating (Kerr) black holes to …