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Beyond LISA, proposed space-based gravitational wave (GW) missions aim to explore the sub-millihertz to microhertz frequency band, with one key objective being the detection of massive binary black hole (MBBH) mergers across cosmic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-25 Renjie Wang , Yumeng Xu , Gang Wang , Bin Hu , Rong-Gen Cai

GW230529_181500 represented the first gravitational-wave detection with one of the component objects' mass inferred to lie in the previously hypothesized mass gap between the heaviest neutron stars and the lightest observed black holes.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-19 Ivan Markin , Anna Puecher , Mattia Bulla , Tim Dietrich

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration has detected over one hundred compact binary mergers in gravitational waves, but the formation history of these binaries remains an open question. Finding the host galaxies of these mergers will provide…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-16 Geoffrey Mo , Hsin-Yu Chen

Observations of compact objects in Galactic binaries have provided tentative evidence of a dearth of masses in the so-called lower mass gap $\sim2.2-5$ M$_\odot$. Nevertheless, two such objects have been discovered in gravitational-wave…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-19 V. Gayathri , I. Bartos , S. Rosswog , M. C. Miller , D. Veske , W. Lu , S. Marka

We present a search for merging compact binary gravitational-wave sources that produce a signal appearing solely or primarily in a single detector. Past analyses have heavily relied on coincidence between multiple detectors to reduce…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-28 Alexander H. Nitz , Thomas Dent , Gareth S. Davies , Ian Harry

Gamma-ray bursts (GRB) are the most powerful transient phenomena in the Universe. Nowadays dozens of speculations on the origin of GRB were undertaken, but so far a single model for the origin of, in particular, short GRBs does not exist.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-07-25 B. E. Zhilyaev , D. L. Dubinovska

Largely motivated by the development of highly sensitive gravitational-wave detectors, our understanding of merging compact binaries and the gravitational waves they generate has improved dramatically in recent years. Breakthroughs in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-15 Scott A. Hughes

Of the three main types of binaries detectable through ground-based gravitational wave observations, black hole-neutron star (BHNS) mergers remain the most elusive. While candidates BHNS exist in the triggers released during the third…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-19 Francois Foucart

Current searches for gravitational waves (GWs) from black hole binaries using the LIGO and Virgo observatories are limited to analytical models for systems with black hole spins aligned (or anti-aligned) with the orbital angular momentum of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-26 Chetan Verma , Amit Reza , Gurudatt Gaur , Dilip Krishnaswamy , Sarah Caudill

The detection of electromagnetic radiation (EM) accompanying the gravitational wave (GW) signal from the binary neutron star (BNS) merger GW170817 has revealed that these systems constitute at least a fraction of the progenitors of short…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-30 Rosalba Perna , M. Celeste Artale , Yi-Han Wang , Michela Mapelli , Davide Lazzati , Cecilia Sgalletta , Filippo Santoliquido

Galactic nuclei are densely populated by stellar mass compact objects such as black holes and neutron stars. Bound, highly eccentric binaries form as a result of gravitational wave (GW) losses during close flybys between these objects. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-10 Bence Kocsis , Janna Levin

Black hole (BH) - neutron star (NS) binary mergers are not only strong sources of gravitational waves (GWs), but they are also candidates for joint detections in the GW and electromagnetic (EM) spectra. However, the possible emergence of an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-12 Konrad Topolski , Samuel Tootle , Luciano Rezzolla

Multi-messenger astronomy was galvanized by the detection of gravitational waves (GWs) from the binary neutron star (BNS) merger GW170817 and electromagnetic (EM) emission from the subsequent kilonova and short gamma ray burst. Maximizing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-02 Nathan Steinle , Samar Safi-Harb , Matt Nicholl , Isabelle Worssam , Benjamin P. Gompertz

Next-generation gravitational wave (GW) observatories, such as the Einstein Telescope (ET) and Cosmic Explorer, will observe binary neutron star (BNS) mergers across cosmic history, providing precise parameter estimates for the closest…

Gravitational wave detectors are observing compact object mergers from increasingly far distances, revealing the redshift evolution of the binary black hole (BBH) -- and soon the black hole-neutron star (BHNS) and binary neutron star (BNS)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-06 Adam Boesky , Floor S. Broekgaarden , Edo Berger

Most of compact binary systems are expected to circularize before the frequency of emitted gravitational waves (GWs) enters the sensitivity band of the ground based interferometric detectors. However, several mechanisms have been proposed…

Based on different neutron star-white dwarf (NS-WD) population models, we investigate the prospects of gravitational-wave (GW) detections for NS-WD mergers, with the help of early warnings from two space-borne decihertz GW observatories,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-15 Yacheng Kang , Chang Liu , Jin-Ping Zhu , Yong Gao , Lijing Shao , Bing Zhang , Hui Sun , Yi-Han Iris Yin , Bin-Bin Zhang

Using our new numerical-relativity code SACRA, long-term simulations for inspiral and merger of black hole (BH)-neutron star (NS) binaries are performed, focusing particularly on gravitational waveforms. As the initial conditions, BH-NS…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-07-24 Masaru Shibata , Koutarou Kyutoku , Tetsuro Yamamoto , Keisuke Taniguchi

Despite the observation of nearly 100 compact binary coalescence (CBC) events up to the end of the Advanced gravitational-wave (GW) detectors' third observing run (O3), there remain fundamental open questions regarding their astrophysical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-22 Ana Lorenzo-Medina , Thomas Dent

Emergence of gravitational wave (GW) astronomy revived the interest in exploring the low frequency GW spectrum inaccessible from the ground. Satellite GW observatory DECIGO in its original configuration and the currently proposed smaller…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-09 Aleksandra Piórkowska-Kurpas , Shaoqi Hou , Marek Biesiada , Xuheng Ding , Shuo Cao , Xilong Fan , Seiji Kawamura , Zong-Hong Zhu