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 …

Detector characterization and mitigation of noise in ground-based gravitational-wave interferometers

D Davis, M Walker - Galaxies, 2022 - mdpi.com
Since the early stages of operation of ground-based gravitational-wave interferometers,
careful monitoring of these detectors has been an important component of their successful …

Curious case of GW200129: Interplay between spin-precession inference and data-quality issues

E Payne, S Hourihane, J Golomb, R Udall, D Davis… - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
Measurement of spin-precession in black hole binary mergers observed with gravitational
waves is an exciting milestone as it relates to both general relativistic dynamics and …

Pre-merger alert to detect prompt emission in very-high-energy gamma-rays from binary neutron star mergers: Einstein Telescope and Cherenkov Telescope Array …

B Banerjee, G Oganesyan, M Branchesi… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
The current generation of very-high-energy gamma-ray (VHE; E> 30 GeV) detectors (MAGIC
and HESS) have recently demonstrated the ability to detect the afterglow emission of …

Follow-up analyses to the O3 LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA lensing searches

J Janquart, M Wright, S Goyal, JCL Chan… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Along their path from source to observer, gravitational waves may be gravitationally lensed
by massive objects leading to distortion in the signals. Searches for these distortions …

Fast non-Markovian sampler for estimating gravitational-wave posteriors

V Tiwari, C Hoy, S Fairhurst, D MacLeod - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
This article introduces varaha, an open-source, fast, non-Markovian sampler for estimating
gravitational-wave posteriors. varaha differs from existing nested sampling algorithms by …

Improved ranking statistics of the GstLAL inspiral search for compact binary coalescences

L Tsukada, P Joshi, S Adhicary, R George… - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Starting from May 2023, the LIGO Scientific, Virgo and KAGRA Collaboration has been
conducting the fourth observing run with improved detector sensitivities and an expanded …

Searching for gravitational-wave signals from precessing black hole binaries with the GstLAL pipeline

S Schmidt, S Caudill, JDE Creighton, R Magee… - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
Precession in binary black holes (BBH) is caused by the failure of the black hole spins to be
aligned and its study can open up new perspectives in gravitational wave astronomy …

Rapid premerger localization of binary neutron stars in third-generation gravitational-wave detectors

Q Hu, J Veitch - The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Premerger localization of binary neutron stars (BNSs) is one of the most important scientific
goals for the third-generation (3G) gravitational-wave detectors. It will enable the …

Novel signal-consistency test for gravitational-wave searches of generic black hole binaries

S Schmidt, S Caudill - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
We propose a novel signal-consistency test applicable to a broad search for gravitational
waves emitted by generic binary black hole (BBH) systems. The test generalizes the time …