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 …

New binary black hole mergers in the LIGO-Virgo O3a data

S Olsen, T Venumadhav, J Mushkin, J Roulet, B Zackay… - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
We report the detection of ten new binary black hole (BBH) mergers in the publicly released
data from the first half of the third observing run (O3a) of advanced LIGO and advanced …

Inferring Binary Properties from Gravitational-Wave Signals

J Roulet, T Venumadhav - Annual Review of Nuclear and …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
This review provides a conceptual and technical survey of methods for parameter estimation
of gravitational-wave signals in ground-based interferometers such as Laser Interferometer …

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 …

Ringdown of GW190521: Hints of multiple quasinormal modes with a precessional interpretation

H Siegel, M Isi, WM Farr - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
GW190521 is a short-duration, low-frequency gravitational-wave signal in the LIGO-Virgo
catalogue. The signal is consistent with the ringdown and possibly some of the inspiral …

Subtracting glitches from gravitational-wave detector data during the third LIGO-Virgo observing run

D Davis, TB Littenberg, IM Romero-Shaw… - … and Quantum Gravity, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Data from ground-based gravitational-wave detectors contains numerous short-duration
instrumental artifacts, called'glitches'. The high rate of these artifacts in turn results in a …

SPIIR online coherent pipeline to search for gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences

Q Chu, M Kovalam, L Wen, T Slaven-Blair, J Bosveld… - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
This paper presents the Summed Parallel Infinite Impulse Response (SPIIR) pipeline used
for public alerts during the third advanced LIGO and Virgo observation run (O3 run). The …

Real-time Search for Compact Binary Mergers in Advanced LIGO and Virgo's Third Observing Run Using PyCBC Live

T Dal Canton, AH Nitz, B Gadre… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The third observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo took place between 2019
April and 2020 March and resulted in dozens of gravitational-wave candidates, many of …

Binary black hole mergers from LIGO/Virgo O1 and O2: Population inference combining confident and marginal events

J Roulet, T Venumadhav, B Zackay, L Dai… - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
We perform a statistical inference of the astrophysical population of binary black hole (BBH)
mergers observed during the first two observing runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced …

Testing general relativity with black hole quasi-normal modes

N Franchini, SH Völkel - Recent Progress on Gravity Tests: Challenges …, 2024 - Springer
The purpose of this chapter is to provide an overview of the exciting field of black hole quasi-
normal modes and its capabilities to test general relativity in the 21st century. After …