[HTML][HTML] Astrophysics with the laser interferometer space antenna

P Amaro-Seoane, J Andrews, M Arca Sedda… - Living Reviews in …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will be a transformative experiment
for gravitational wave astronomy, and, as such, it will offer unique opportunities to address …

The origins of massive black holes

M Volonteri, M Habouzit, M Colpi - Nature Reviews Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Massive black holes (MBHs) inhabit galactic centres, and power luminous quasars and
active galactic nuclei, shaping their cosmic environment with the energy they produce. The …

A highly magnified star at redshift 6.2

B Welch, D Coe, JM Diego, A Zitrin, E Zackrisson… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Galaxy clusters magnify background objects through strong gravitational lensing. Typical
magnifications for lensed galaxies are factors of a few but can also be as high as tens or …

GWTC-1: a gravitational-wave transient catalog of compact binary mergers observed by LIGO and Virgo during the first and second observing runs

BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, S Abraham… - Physical Review X, 2019 - APS
We present the results from three gravitational-wave searches for coalescing compact
binaries with component masses above 1 M⊙ during the first and second observing runs of …

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 …

Binary black hole population properties inferred from the first and second observing runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo

BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The second LIGO/Virgo observing run (O2) spanned 9 months between 2016 November
and 2017 August, building on the first, 4-month run (O1) in 2015. The LIGO/Virgo …

Primordial black holes—perspectives in gravitational wave astronomy

M Sasaki, T Suyama, T Tanaka… - Classical and Quantum …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
This article reviews current understanding of primordial black holes (PBHs), with particular
focus on those massive examples ($\gtrsim $$10^{15}~{\rm g} $) which remain at the …

GW170104: observation of a 50-solar-mass binary black hole coalescence at redshift 0.2

BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, F Acernese, K Ackley… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
We describe the observation of GW170104, a gravitational-wave signal produced by the
coalescence of a pair of stellar-mass black holes. The signal was measured on January 4 …

Binary population and spectral synthesis version 2.1: construction, observational verification, and new results

JJ Eldridge, ER Stanway, L Xiao… - Publications of the …, 2017 - cambridge.org
The Binary Population and Spectral Synthesis suite of binary stellar evolution models and
synthetic stellar populations provides a framework for the physically motivated analysis of …

Binary black hole mergers in the first advanced LIGO observing run

BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, MR Abernathy… - Physical Review X, 2016 - APS
The first observational run of the Advanced LIGO detectors, from September 12, 2015 to
January 19, 2016, saw the first detections of gravitational waves from binary black hole …