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 …

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 …

Impact of massive binary star and cosmic evolution on gravitational wave observations I: black hole–neutron star mergers

FS Broekgaarden, E Berger, CJ Neijssel… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Mergers of black hole–neutron star (BHNS) binaries have now been observed by
gravitational wave (GW) detectors with the recent announcement of GW200105 and …

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 …

Tight multimessenger constraints on the neutron star equation of state from GW170817 and a forward model for kilonova light-curve synthesis

M Nicholl, B Margalit, P Schmidt… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We present a rapid analytic framework for predicting kilonova light curves following neutron
star (NS) mergers, where the main input parameters are binary-based properties …

Searching for electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational-wave merger events with the prototype Gravitational-Wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO-4)

BP Gompertz, R Cutter, D Steeghs… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We report the results of optical follow-up observations of 29 gravitational-wave (GW) triggers
during the first half of the LIGO–Virgo Collaboration (LVC) O3 run with the Gravitational …

GROWTH on S190814bv: Deep Synoptic Limits on the Optical/Near-infrared Counterpart to a Neutron Star–Black Hole Merger

I Andreoni, DA Goldstein, MM Kasliwal… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract On 2019 August 14, the Advanced LIGO and Virgo interferometers detected the
high-significance gravitational wave (GW) signal S190814bv. The GW data indicated that …

Mergers of binary neutron star systems: a multimessenger revolution

E Pian - Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2021 - frontiersin.org
On August 17, 2017, less than two years after the direct detection of gravitational radiation
from the merger of two∼ 30 M⊙ black holes, a binary neutron star merger was identified as …

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 …

Implications of the search for optical counterparts during the second part of the Advanced LIGO's and Advanced Virgo's third observing run: lessons learned for future …

MW Coughlin, T Dietrich, S Antier… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Joint multimessenger observations with gravitational waves and electromagnetic (EM) data
offer new insights into the astrophysical studies of compact objects. The third Advanced …