Black holes, gravitational waves and fundamental physics: a roadmap

L Barack, V Cardoso, S Nissanke… - … and quantum gravity, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
70 AIM, UMR 7158, CEA/DRF, CNRS, Université Paris Diderot, Irfu/Service d'Astrophysique,
Centre de Saclay, FR-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Tests of general relativity with the binary black hole signals from the LIGO-Virgo catalog GWTC-1

BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, S Abraham… - Physical Review D, 2019 - APS
The detection of gravitational waves by Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo provides an
opportunity to test general relativity in a regime that is inaccessible to traditional …

Numerical relativity of compact binaries in the 21st century

MD Duez, Y Zlochower - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We review the dramatic progress in the simulations of compact objects and compact-object
binaries that has taken place in the first two decades of the twenty-first century. This includes …

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 …

The SXS Collaboration catalog of binary black hole simulations

M Boyle, D Hemberger, DAB Iozzo… - … and Quantum Gravity, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Accurate models of gravitational waves from merging black holes are necessary for
detectors to observe as many events as possible while extracting the maximum science …

Surrogate models for precessing binary black hole simulations with unequal masses

V Varma, SE Field, MA Scheel, J Blackman… - Physical Review …, 2019 - APS
Only numerical relativity simulations can capture the full complexities of binary black hole
mergers. These simulations, however, are prohibitively expensive for direct data analysis …

An introduction to Bayesian inference in gravitational-wave astronomy: parameter estimation, model selection, and hierarchical models

E Thrane, C Talbot - Publications of the Astronomical Society of …, 2019 - cambridge.org
This is an introduction to Bayesian inference with a focus on hierarchical models and hyper-
parameters. We write primarily for an audience of Bayesian novices, but we hope to provide …

Multimode frequency-domain model for the gravitational wave signal from nonprecessing black-hole binaries

C García-Quirós, M Colleoni, S Husa, H Estellés… - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
We present the imrphenomxhm frequency domain phenomenological waveform model for
the inspiral, merger, and ringdown of quasicircular nonprecessing black hole binaries. The …

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 …

Enhancing gravitational-wave science with machine learning

E Cuoco, J Powell, M Cavaglià, K Ackley… - Machine Learning …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Machine learning has emerged as a popular and powerful approach for solving
problems in astrophysics. We review applications of machine learning techniques for the …