Astrophysics with the laser interferometer space antenna

P Amaro-Seoane, J Andrews, M Arca Sedda… - Living Reviews in …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will be a transformative experiment
for gravitational wave astronomy, and, as such, it will offer unique opportunities to address …

Cosmology with the laser interferometer space antenna

P Auclair, D Bacon, T Baker, T Barreiro… - Living Reviews in …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) has two scientific objectives of
cosmological focus: to probe the expansion rate of the universe, and to understand …

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 …

Gravitational-wave physics and astronomy in the 2020s and 2030s

M Bailes, BK Berger, PR Brady, M Branchesi… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The 100 years since the publication of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity saw
significant development of the understanding of the theory, the identification of potential …

Prospects for fundamental physics with LISA

E Barausse, E Berti, T Hertog, SA Hughes… - General Relativity and …, 2020 - Springer
In this paper, which is of programmatic rather than quantitative nature, we aim to further
delineate and sharpen the future potential of the LISA mission in the area of fundamental …

Two populations of LIGO-Virgo black holes

G Hütsi, M Raidal, V Vaskonen… - Journal of Cosmology …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We analyse the LIGO-Virgo data, including the recently released GWTC-2dataset, to test a
hypothesis that the data contains more than one population of black holes. We perform a …

Stochastic gravitational wave background from stellar origin binary black holes in LISA

S Babak, C Caprini, DG Figueroa… - … of Cosmology and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We use the latest constraints on the population of stellar origin binary black holes (SOBBH)
from LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA (LVK) observations, to estimate the stochastic gravitational wave …

Bayesian analysis of LIGO-Virgo mergers: Primordial versus astrophysical black hole populations

A Hall, AD Gow, CT Byrnes - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
We conduct a thorough Bayesian analysis of the possibility that the black hole merger
events seen in gravitational waves are primordial black hole (PBH) mergers. Using the latest …

Prospects for future binary black hole gravitational wave studies in light of PTA measurements

J Ellis, M Fairbairn, G Hütsi, M Raidal, J Urrutia… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
NANOGrav and other Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) have discovered a common-spectrum
process in the nHz range that may be due to gravitational waves (GWs): if so, they are likely …

Astrophysical uncertainties in the gravitational-wave background from stellar-mass compact binary mergers

L Lehoucq, I Dvorkin, R Srinivasan… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We investigate the stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) produced by merging
binary black holes (BBHs) and binary neutron stars (BNSs) in the frequency ranges of Laser …