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 …

[HTML][HTML] Compact binary coalescences: Astrophysical processes and lessons learned

M Spera, AA Trani, M Mencagli - Galaxies, 2022 - mdpi.com
On 11 February 2016, the LIGO and Virgo scientific collaborations announced the first direct
detection of gravitational waves, a signal caught by the LIGO interferometers on 14 …

A brief overview of black hole-neutron star mergers

F Foucart - Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Of the three main types of binaries detectable through ground-based gravitational wave
observations, black hole-neutron star (BHNS) mergers remain the most elusive. While …

Accurate precision cosmology with redshift unknown gravitational wave sources

S Mukherjee, BD Wandelt, SM Nissanke, A Silvestri - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
Gravitational waves can provide an accurate measurement of the luminosity distance to the
source but cannot provide the source redshift unless the degeneracy between mass and …

Updated observing scenarios and multimessenger implications for the international gravitational-wave networks O4 and O5

RW Kiendrebeogo, AM Farah, EM Foley… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
An advanced LIGO and Virgo's third observing run brought another binary neutron star
merger (BNS) and the first neutron-star black hole mergers. While no confirmed kilonovae …

A data science platform to enable time-domain astronomy

MW Coughlin, JS Bloom, G Nir, S Antier… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
SkyPortal is an open-source software package designed to discover interesting transients
efficiently, manage follow-up, perform characterization, and visualize the results. By …

A statistical standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant from the LIGO/Virgo gravitational wave compact object merger GW190814 and Dark Energy Survey …

A Palmese, J Devicente, MES Pereira… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a measurement of the Hubble constant H 0 using the gravitational wave (GW)
event GW190814, which resulted from the coalescence of a 23 M⊙ black hole with a 2.6 …

Overview of KAGRA: KAGRA science

T Akutsu, M Ando, K Arai, Y Arai, S Araki… - … of Theoretical and …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
KAGRA is a newly build gravitational wave observatory, a laser interferometer with 3 km arm
length, located in Kamioka, Gifu, Japan. In this paper, one of a series of articles featuring …

Estimates for disk and ejecta masses produced in compact binary mergers

CJ Krüger, F Foucart - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
There is irresistible observational evidence that binary systems of compact objects with at
least one neutron star are progenitors of short gamma-ray bursts, as well as a production …