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-2.1: 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 …

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 …

Tests of general relativity with binary black holes from the second LIGO-Virgo gravitational-wave transient catalog

R Abbott, TD Abbott, S Abraham, F Acernese, K Ackley… - Physical review D, 2021 - APS
Gravitational waves enable tests of general relativity in the highly dynamical and strong-field
regime. Using events detected by LIGO-Virgo up to 1 October 2019, we evaluate the …

Tests of general relativity with the binary black hole signals from the LIGO-Virgo catalog GWTC-1

BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, S Abraham… - Physical Review D, 2019 - APS
The detection of gravitational waves by Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo provides an
opportunity to test general relativity in a regime that is inaccessible to traditional …

Multipolar effective-one-body waveforms for precessing binary black holes: Construction and validation

S Ossokine, A Buonanno, S Marsat, R Cotesta… - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
As gravitational-wave detectors become more sensitive and broaden their frequency
bandwidth, we will access a greater variety of signals emitted by compact binary systems …

Waveforms from amplitudes

A Cristofoli, R Gonzo, DA Kosower, D O'Connell - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
We show how to compute classical wave observables using quantum scattering amplitudes.
We discuss observables both with incoming and with outgoing waves. The required …

Surrogate models for precessing binary black hole simulations with unequal masses

V Varma, SE Field, MA Scheel, J Blackman… - Physical Review …, 2019 - APS
Only numerical relativity simulations can capture the full complexities of binary black hole
mergers. These simulations, however, are prohibitively expensive for direct data analysis …

A gravitational-wave measurement of the Hubble constant following the second observing run of advanced LIGO and Virgo

BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Gravitational waves (GWs) from compact binary coalescences allow for the direct
measurement of the luminosity distance to their source. This makes them standard-distance …

Scrutinizing the primordial black hole interpretation of PTA gravitational waves and JWST early galaxies

Y Gouttenoire, S Trifinopoulos, G Valogiannis… - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
Recent observations have granted to us two unique insights into the early Universe: the
presence of a low-frequency stochastic gravitational wave background detected by the …