Primordial black holes—perspectives in gravitational wave astronomy

M Sasaki, T Suyama, T Tanaka… - Classical and Quantum …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
This article reviews current understanding of primordial black holes (PBHs), with particular
focus on those massive examples ($\gtrsim $$10^{15}~{\rm g} $) which remain at the …

Stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds

N Christensen - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
A stochastic background of gravitational waves could be created by the superposition of a
large number of independent sources. The physical processes occurring at the earliest …

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 …

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 …

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' …

[PDF][PDF] VU Research Portal

BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott… - PHYSICAL REVIEW D …, 2021 - research.vu.nl
The Advanced LIGO [1] and Advanced Virgo [2] detectors have made numerous detections
of gravitational waves (GWs), to date consisting of short-duration (transient) GWs emitted …

GW170814: a three-detector observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole coalescence

BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, F Acernese, K Ackley… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
On August 14, 2017 at 10∶ 30: 43 UTC, the Advanced Virgo detector and the two Advanced
LIGO detectors coherently observed a transient gravitational-wave signal produced by the …

A guide to LIGO–Virgo detector noise and extraction of transient gravitational-wave signals

BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott… - … and Quantum Gravity, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Gravitational-wave observations have become an important new means to learn about the
Universe. The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration (LVC) have …

Multipolar effective-one-body waveforms for precessing binary black holes: Construction and validation

S Ossokine, A Buonanno, S Marsat, R Cotesta… - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
As gravitational-wave detectors become more sensitive and broaden their frequency
bandwidth, we will access a greater variety of signals emitted by compact binary systems …