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 …

Open data from the third observing run of LIGO, Virgo, KAGRA and GEO

R Abbott, H Abe, F Acernese, K Ackley… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
The global network of gravitational-wave observatories now includes five detectors, namely
LIGO Hanford, LIGO Livingston, Virgo, KAGRA, and GEO 600. These detectors collected …

GWTC-2.1: Deep extended catalog of compact binary coalescences observed by LIGO and Virgo during the first half of the third observing run

R Abbott, TD Abbott, F Acernese, K Ackley, C Adams… - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
The second Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog, GWTC-2, reported on 39 compact binary
coalescences observed by the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors between 1 …

Neutrinos from dense environments: Flavor mechanisms, theoretical approaches, observations, and new directions

MC Volpe - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2024 - APS
Neutrino masses and mixings produce vacuum oscillations, an established quantum
mechanical phenomenon. In matter, the Mikheev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein effect, due to …

From inflation to black hole mergers and back again: Gravitational-wave data-driven constraints on inflationary scenarios with a first-principle model of primordial black …

G Franciolini, I Musco, P Pani, A Urbano - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
Recent population studies have searched for a subpopulation of primordial black holes
(PBHs) in the gravitational-wave (GW) events so far detected by LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA (LVK) …

Next generation of accurate and efficient multipolar precessing-spin effective-one-body waveforms for binary black holes

A Ramos-Buades, A Buonanno, H Estellés, M Khalil… - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Spin precession is one of the key physical effects that coul unveil the origin of the compact
binaries detected by ground-and space-based gravitational-wave (GW) detectors, and shed …

Laying the foundation of the effective-one-body waveform models SEOBNRv5: Improved accuracy and efficiency for spinning nonprecessing binary black holes

L Pompili, A Buonanno, H Estellés, M Khalil… - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We present SEOBNRv5HM, a more accurate and faster inspiral-merger-ringdown
gravitational waveform model for quasicircular, spinning, nonprecessing binary black holes …

Supernova simulations confront SN 1987A neutrinos

DFG Fiorillo, M Heinlein, HT Janka, G Raffelt… - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We return to interpreting the historical SN 1987A neutrino data from a modern perspective.
To this end, we construct a suite of spherically symmetric supernova models with the …

Strong-field scattering of two spinning black holes: Numerical relativity versus post-Minkowskian gravity

P Rettegno, G Pratten, LM Thomas, P Schmidt… - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Highly accurate models of the gravitational wave signal from coalescing compact binaries
are built by completing analytical computations of the binary dynamics with nonperturbative …