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Observed Gravitational-Wave Populations

Ground-based gravitational-wave detectors like the Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo, and KAGRA experiments now regularly witness gravitational waves from compact binary mergers: the relativistic collisions of neutron stars and/or stellar-mass…

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Counting Black Holes: The Cosmic Stellar Remnant Population and Implications for LIGO

We present an empirical approach for interpreting gravitational wave signals of binary black hole mergers under the assumption that the underlying black hole population is sourced by remnants of stellar evolution. Using the observed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-08 Oliver D. Elbert , James S. Bullock , Manoj Kaplinghat

Optimized localization for gravitational-waves from merging binaries

The Advanced LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave observatories have opened a new window with which to study the inspiral and mergers of binary compact objects. These observations are most powerful when coordinated with multi-messenger…

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Astronomical Catalogs for Locating Gravitational-wave Events

Gravitational wave transients are caused by some of the most energetic events in the Universe, and a precise location would allow deep examination of the counterpart by electromagnetic waves (telescopes collecting light), the combination of…

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Finding the One: Identifying the Host Galaxies of Gravitational-Wave Sources

We explore the localization of compact binary coalescences with ground-based gravitational-wave detector networks. We simulate tens of thousands of binary events, and present the distributions of localization sky areas and localization…

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Implementation and testing of the first prompt search for gravitational wave transients with electromagnetic counterparts

Aims. A transient astrophysical event observed in both gravitational wave (GW) and electromagnetic (EM) channels would yield rich scientific rewards. A first program initiating EM follow-ups to possible transient GW events has been…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 The LIGO Scientific Collaboration , Virgo Collaboration , J. Abadie , B. P. Abbott , R. Abbott , T. D. Abbott , M. Abernathy , T. Accadia , F. Acernese , C. Adams , R. Adhikari , C. Affeldt , P. Ajith , B. Allen , G. S. Allen , E. Amador Ceron , D. Amariutei , R. S. Amin , S. B. Anderson , W. G. Anderson , K. Arai , M. A. Arain , M. C. Araya , S. M. Aston , P. Astone , D. Atkinson , P. Aufmuth , C. Aulbert , B. E. Aylott , S. Babak , P. Baker , G. Ballardin , S. Ballmer , D. Barker , F. Barone , B. Barr , P. Barriga , L. Barsotti , M. Barsuglia , M. A. Barton , I. Bartos , R. Bassiri , M. Bastarrika , A. Basti , J. Batch , J. Bauchrowitz , Th. S. Bauer , M. Bebronne , B. Behnke , M. G. Beker , A. S. Bell , A. Belletoile , I. Belopolski , M. Benacquista , J. M. Berliner , A. Bertolini , J. Betzwieser , N. Beveridge , P. T. Beyersdorf , I. A. Bilenko , G. Billingsley , J. Birch , R. Biswas , M. Bitossi , M. A. Bizouard , E. Black , J. K. Blackburn , L. Blackburn , D. Blair , B. Bland , M. Blom , O. Bock , T. P. Bodiya , C. Bogan , R. Bondarescu , F. Bondu , L. Bonelli , R. Bonnand , R. Bork , M. Born , V. Boschi , S. Bose , L. Bosi , B. Bouhou , S. Braccini , C. Bradaschia , P. R. Brady , V. B. Braginsky , M. Branchesi , J. E. Brau , J. Breyer , T. Briant , D. O. Bridges , A. Brillet , M. Brinkmann , V. Brisson , M. Britzger , A. F. Brooks , D. A. Brown , A. Brummit , T. Bulik , H. J. Bulten , A. Buonanno , J. Burguet--Castell , O. Burmeister , D. Buskulic , C. Buy , R. L. Byer , L. Cadonati , G. Cagnoli , J. Cain , E. Calloni , J. B. Camp , P. Campsie , J. Cannizzo , K. Cannon , B. Canuel , J. Cao , C. D. Capano , F. Carbognani , S. Caride , S. Caudill , M. Cavaglià , F. Cavalier , R. Cavalieri , G. Cella , C. Cepeda , E. Cesarini , O. Chaibi , T. Chalermsongsak , E. Chalkley , P. Charlton , E. Chassande-Mottin , S. Chelkowski , Y. Chen , A. Chincarini , A. Chiummo , H. Cho , N. 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Zhang , C. Zhao , N. Zotov , M. E. Zucker , J. Zweizig , C. Akerlof , M. Boer , R. Fender , N. Gehrels , A. Klotz , E. O. Ofek , M. Smith , M. Sokolowski , B. W. Stappers , I. Steele , J. Swinbank , R. A. M. J. Wijers , W. Zheng

The effects of host galaxy properties on merging compact binaries detectable by LIGO

Cosmological simulations of galaxy formation can produce present-day galaxies with a large range of assembly and star formation histories. A detailed study of the metallicity evolution and star formation history of such simulations can…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-12 Richard O'Shaughnessy , Jillian Bellovary , Alyson Brooks , Sijing Shen , Fabio Governato , Charlotte Christensen

Searches for inspiral gravitational waves associated with short gamma-ray bursts in LIGO's fifth and Virgo's first science run

Mergers of two compact objects, like two neutron stars or a neutron star and a black hole, are the probable progenitor of short gamma-ray bursts. These events are also promising sources of gravitational waves, that are currently motivating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-06-18 Alexander Dietz

Observational limits on the rate of radiation-driven binary black hole capture events

Dense astrophysical environments like globular clusters and galactic nuclei can host hyperbolic encounters of black holes which can lead to gravitational-wave driven capture. There are several astrophysical models which predict a fraction…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-16 Michael Ebersold , Shubhanshu Tiwari , Leigh Smith , Yeong-Bok Bae , Gungwong Kang , Daniel Williams , Achamveedu Gopakumar , Ik Siong Heng , Maria Haney

Rapid and reliable sky localization of gravitational wave sources

The first detection of gravitational waves by LIGO from the merger of two compact objects has sparked new interest in detecting electromagnetic counterparts to these violent events. For mergers involving neutron stars, it is thought that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-06 Neil J. Cornish

Finding the one: identifying the host of compact binary mergers

Finding the host galaxies of stellar-mass compact binary mergers will open a new window for studying their formation histories and measuring key cosmological parameters, such as the Hubble constant. To date, only one merger, GW170817, has…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-01 Alberto Salvarese , Hsin-Yu Chen , Daniel E. Holz

The art and science of black hole mergers

The merger of two black holes is one of the most extraordinary events in the natural world. Made of pure gravity, the holes combine to form a single hole, emitting a strong burst of gravitational radiation. Ground-based detectors are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Bernard F. Schutz

Inferences about the distribution, merger rate, and evolutionary processes of compact binaries from gravitational wave observations

We are living through the dawn of the era of gravitational wave astronomy. Our first glances through this new window upon the sky has revealed a new population of objects. Since it first began observing in late 2015, the advanced Laser…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-08 Daniel Wysocki

Classifying the generation and formation channels of individual LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observations from dynamically formed binaries

We address two important questions in gravitational-wave astronomy. What is the astrophysical formation scenario leading to black-hole binary mergers? Did some of the merging black holes form hierarchically through previous generations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-21 Andrea Antonelli , Konstantinos Kritos , Ken K. Y. Ng , Roberto Cotesta , Emanuele Berti

Not quite black holes at LIGO

We provide more evidence of not quite black holes at LIGO. We update and streamline our previous search strategy and apply it to the ten black hole merger events and the one neutron star merger event. The strategy is aimed at the evenly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-30 Bob Holdom

Effect of lensing magnification on the apparent distribution of black hole mergers

The recent detection of gravitational waves indicates that stellar-mass black hole binaries are likely to be a key population of sources for forthcoming observations. With future upgrades, ground-based detectors could detect merging black…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-15 Liang Dai , Tejaswi Venumadhav , Kris Sigurdson

Beyond the detector horizon: Forecasting gravitational-wave strong lensing

When gravitational waves pass near massive astrophysical objects, they can be gravitationally lensed. The lensing can split them into multiple wave-fronts, magnify them, or imprint beating patterns on the waves. Here we focus on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-17 A. Renske A. C. Wierda , Ewoud Wempe , Otto A. Hannuksela , Léon V. E. Koopmans , Chris Van Den Broeck

Numerical Simulations of Galaxy Formation

An overview over the current status of modeling galaxies by means of numerical simulations is given. After a short description of how galaxies form in hierarchically clustering scenarios, success and failures of current simulations are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthias Steinmetz

A Search for Binary Black Hole Mergers in LIGO O1-O3 Data with Convolutional Neural Networks

Since the first detection of gravitational waves in 2015 by LIGO from the binary black hole merger GW150914, gravitational-wave astronomy has developed significantly, with over 200 compact binary merger events cataloged. The use of neural…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-28 Ethan Silver , Plamen Krastev , Edo Berger

Multi-messenger astronomy of gravitational-wave sources with flexible wide-area radio transient surveys

We explore opportunities for multi-messenger astronomy using gravitational waves (GWs) and prompt, transient low-frequency radio emission to study highly energetic astrophysical events. We review the literature on possible sources of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-11-04 Cregg C. Yancey , Brandon E. Bear , Bernadine Akukwe , Kevin Chen , Jayce Dowell , Jonathan D. Gough , Jonah Kanner , Michael Kavic , Kenneth Obenberger , Peter Shawhan , John H. Simonetti , Gregory B. Taylor , Jr-Wei Tsai