Quantum gravity phenomenology at the dawn of the multi-messenger era—A review

A Addazi, J Alvarez-Muniz, RA Batista… - Progress in Particle and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The exploration of the universe has recently entered a new era thanks to the multi-
messenger paradigm, characterized by a continuous increase in the quantity and quality of …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

BILBY: A user-friendly Bayesian inference library for gravitational-wave astronomy

G Ashton, M Hübner, PD Lasky, C Talbot… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Bayesian parameter estimation is fast becoming the language of gravitational-wave
astronomy. It is the method by which gravitational-wave data is used to infer the sources' …

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 …

Sensitivity and performance of the Advanced LIGO detectors in the third observing run

A Buikema, C Cahillane, GL Mansell, CD Blair… - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
On April 1st, 2019, the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory
(aLIGO), joined by the Advanced Virgo detector, began the third observing run, a year-long …

Binary black hole population properties inferred from the first and second observing runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo

BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The second LIGO/Virgo observing run (O2) spanned 9 months between 2016 November
and 2017 August, building on the first, 4-month run (O1) in 2015. The LIGO/Virgo …