We present an up-to-date, comprehensive summary of the rates for all types of compact
binary coalescence sources detectable by the initial and advanced versions of the ground …

Significant progress has been made in recent years on the development of gravitational-
wave detectors. Sources such as coalescing compact binary systems, neutron stars in low …

We present the second Open Gravitational-wave Catalog (2-OGC) of compact-binary
coalescences, obtained from the complete set of public data from Advanced LIGO's first and …

We describe the PyCBC search for gravitational waves from compact-object binary
coalescences in advanced gravitational-wave detector data. The search was used in the first …

On September 14, 2015, at 09∶ 50: 45 UTC the two detectors of the Laser Interferometer
Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) simultaneously observed the binary black hole …

Using recent simulation results, we provide the mass and speed spectrum of cosmic string
loops. This is the quantity of primary interest for many phenomenological signatures of …

Matched-filter searches for gravitational waves from coalescing compact binaries by the
LIGO Scientific Collaboration use the findchirp algorithm: an implementation of the optimal …

We present a new phenomenological gravitational waveform model for the inspiral and
coalescence of nonprecessing spinning black hole binaries. Our approach is based on a …

This paper develops a general framework for studying the effectiveness of networks of
interferometric gravitational wave detectors and then uses it to show that enlarging the …

Gravitational wave data from ground-based detectors is dominated by instrument noise.
Signals will be comparatively weak, and our understanding of the noise will influence …