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 …

Dark photon superradiance: Electrodynamics and multimessenger signals

N Siemonsen, C Mondino, D Egana-Ugrinovic… - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We study the electrodynamics of a kinetically mixed dark photon cloud that forms through
superradiance around a spinning black hole, and design strategies to search for the …

YSE-PZ: A Transient Survey Management Platform that Empowers the Human-in-the-loop

DA Coulter, DO Jones, P McGill, RJ Foley… - Publications of the …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The modern study of astrophysical transients has been transformed by an exponentially
growing volume of data. Within the last decade, the transient discovery rate has increased …

Prospects of discovering subsolar primordial black holes using the stochastic gravitational wave background from third-generation detectors

S Mukherjee, MSP Meinema… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Primordial black holes (PBHs) are dark matter candidates that span broad mass ranges from
10− 17 M⊙ to∼ 100 M⊙. We show that the stochastic gravitational wave background can …

Target-of-opportunity observations of gravitational-wave events with Vera C. Rubin observatory

I Andreoni, R Margutti, OS Salafia… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The discovery of the electromagnetic counterpart to the binary neutron star (NS) merger
GW170817 has opened the era of gravitational-wave multimessenger astronomy. Rapid …

A dark siren measurement of the Hubble constant using gravitational wave events from the first three LIGO/Virgo observing runs and DELVE

V Alfradique, CR Bom, A Palmese… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The current and next observation seasons will detect hundreds of gravitational waves (GWs)
from compact binary systems coalescence at cosmological distances. When combined with …

Population properties of gravitational-wave neutron star–black hole mergers

JP Zhu, S Wu, Y Qin, B Zhang, H Gao… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Over the course of the third observing run of the LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA Collaboration, several
gravitational-wave (GW) neutron star–black hole (NSBH) candidates have been announced …

What if GW190425 did not produce a black hole promptly?

D Radice, G Ricigliano, M Bhattacharya… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
It is widely believed that the binary neutron star merger GW190425 produced a black hole
promptly upon merger. Motivated by the potential association with the fast radio burst FRB …

Searching for gravitational wave optical counterparts with the Zwicky Transient Facility: summary of O4a

T Ahumada, S Anand, MW Coughlin… - Publications of the …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
During the first half of the fourth observing run (O4a) of the International Gravitational Wave
Network, the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) conducted a systematic search for kilonova (KN) …

Designing an Optimal Kilonova Search Using DECam for Gravitational-wave Events

CR Bom, J Annis, A Garcia, A Palmese… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We address the problem of optimally identifying all kilonovae detected via gravitational-
wave emission in the upcoming LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA observing run, O4, which is expected to …