[HTML][HTML] Ultraluminous X-ray sources

A King, JP Lasota, M Middleton - New Astronomy Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
The study of ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) has changed dramatically over the last
decade. In this review we first describe the most important observations of ULXs in various …

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 …

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-2.1: 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 …

A horizon study for cosmic explorer: science, observatories, and community

M Evans, RX Adhikari, C Afle, SW Ballmer… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
This Horizon Study describes a next-generation ground-based gravitational-wave
observatory: Cosmic Explorer. With ten times the sensitivity of Advanced LIGO, Cosmic …

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 …

One channel to rule them all? Constraining the origins of binary black holes using multiple formation pathways

M Zevin, SS Bavera, CPL Berry… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The second LIGO–Virgo catalog of gravitational-wave (GW) transients has more than
quadrupled the observational sample of binary black holes. We analyze this catalog using a …

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 …

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 …