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Mapping Cluster Mass Distributions via Gravitational Lensing of Background Galaxies

We present a new method for measuring the projected mass distributions of galaxy clusters. The gravitational amplification is measured by comparing the joint distribution in redshift and magnitude of galaxies behind the cluster with that of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 T. J. Broadhurst , A. N. Taylor , J. A. Peacock

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. Christensen , S. S. Y. Chua , C. T. Y. Chung , S. Chung , G. Ciani , F. Clara , D. E. Clark , J. Clark , J. H. Clayton , F. Cleva , E. Coccia , P. -F. Cohadon , C. N. Colacino , J. Colas , A. Colla , M. Colombini , A. Conte , R. Conte , D. Cook , T. R. Corbitt , M. Cordier , N. Cornish , A. Corsi , C. A. Costa , M. Coughlin , J. -P. Coulon , P. Couvares , D. M. Coward , D. C. Coyne , J. D. E. Creighton , T. D. Creighton , A. M. Cruise , A. Cumming , L. Cunningham , E. Cuoco , R. M. Cutler , K. Dahl , S. L. Danilishin , R. Dannenberg , S. D'Antonio , K. Danzmann , V. Dattilo , B. Daudert , H. Daveloza , M. Davier , G. Davies , E. J. Daw , R. Day , T. Dayanga , R. De Rosa , D. DeBra , G. Debreczeni , J. Degallaix , W. Del Pozzo , M. del Prete , T. Dent , V. Dergachev , R. DeRosa , R. DeSalvo , V. Dhillon , S. Dhurandhar , L. Di Fiore , A. Di Lieto , I. Di Palma , M. Di Paolo Emilio , A. Di Virgilio , M. Díaz , A. Dietz , F. Donovan , K. L. Dooley , S. Dorsher , M. Drago , R. W. P. Drever , J. C. Driggers , Z. Du , J. -C. Dumas , S. Dwyer , T. Eberle , M. Edgar , M. Edwards , A. Effler , P. Ehrens , G. Endrőczi , R. Engel , T. Etzel , K. Evans , M. Evans , T. Evans , M. Factourovich , V. Fafone , S. Fairhurst , Y. Fan , B. F. Farr , W. Farr , D. Fazi , H. Fehrmann , D. Feldbaum , I. Ferrante , F. Fidecaro , L. S. Finn , I. Fiori , R. P. Fisher , R. Flaminio , M. Flanigan , S. Foley , E. Forsi , L. A. Forte , N. Fotopoulos , J. -D. Fournier , J. Franc , S. Frasca , F. Frasconi , M. Frede , M. Frei , Z. Frei , A. Freise , R. Frey , T. T. Fricke , J. K. Fridriksson , D. Friedrich , P. Fritschel , V. V. Frolov , P. J. Fulda , M. Fyffe , M. Galimberti , L. Gammaitoni , M. R. Ganija , J. Garcia , J. A. Garofoli , F. Garufi , M. E. Gáspár , G. Gemme , R. Geng , E. Genin , A. Gennai , L. Á. Gergely , S. Ghosh , J. A. Giaime , S. Giampanis , K. D. Giardina , A. Giazotto , C. Gill , E. Goetz , L. M. Goggin , G. González , M. L. Gorodetsky , S. Goßler , R. Gouaty , C. Graef , M. Granata , A. Grant , S. Gras , C. Gray , N. Gray , R. J. S. Greenhalgh , A. M. Gretarsson , C. Greverie , R. Grosso , H. Grote , S. Grunewald , G. M. Guidi , C. Guido , R. Gupta , E. K. Gustafson , R. Gustafson , T. Ha , B. Hage , J. M. Hallam , D. Hammer , G. Hammond , J. Hanks , C. Hanna , J. Hanson , J. Harms , G. M. Harry , I. W. Harry , E. D. Harstad , M. T. Hartman , K. Haughian , K. Hayama , J. -F. Hayau , T. Hayler , J. Heefner , A. Heidmann , M. C. Heintze , H. Heitmann , P. Hello , M. A. Hendry , I. S. Heng , A. W. Heptonstall , V. Herrera , M. Hewitson , S. Hild , D. Hoak , K. A. Hodge , K. Holt , J. Homan , T. Hong , S. Hooper , D. J. Hosken , J. Hough , E. J. Howell , B. Hughey , S. Husa , S. H. Huttner , T. Huynh-Dinh , D. R. Ingram , R. Inta , T. Isogai , A. Ivanov , K. Izumi , M. Jacobson , H. Jang , P. Jaranowski , W. W. Johnson , D. I. Jones , G. Jones , R. Jones , L. Ju , P. Kalmus , V. Kalogera , I. Kamaretsos , S. Kandhasamy , G. Kang , J. B. Kanner , E. Katsavounidis , W. Katzman , H. Kaufer , K. Kawabe , S. Kawamura , F. Kawazoe , W. Kells , D. G. Keppel , Z. Keresztes , A. Khalaidovski , F. Y. Khalili , E. A. Khazanov , B. Kim , C. Kim , D. Kim , H. Kim , K. Kim , N. Kim , Y. -M. Kim , P. J. King , M. Kinsey , D. L. Kinzel , J. S. Kissel , S. Klimenko , K. Kokeyama , V. Kondrashov , R. Kopparapu , S. Koranda , W. Z. Korth , I. Kowalska , D. Kozak , V. Kringel , S. Krishnamurthy , B. Krishnan , A. Królak , G. Kuehn , R. Kumar , P. Kwee , M. Laas-Bourez , P. K. Lam , M. Landry , M. Lang , B. Lantz , N. Lastzka , C. Lawrie , A. Lazzarini , P. Leaci , C. H. Lee , H. M. Lee , N. Leindecker , J. R. Leong , I. Leonor , N. Leroy , N. Letendre , J. Li , T. G. F. Li , N. Liguori , P. E. Lindquist , N. A. Lockerbie , D. Lodhia , M. Lorenzini , V. Loriette , M. Lormand , G. Losurdo , J. Luan , M. Lubinski , H. Lück , A. P. Lundgren , E. Macdonald , B. Machenschalk , M. MacInnis , D. M. Macleod , M. Mageswaran , K. Mailand , E. Majorana , I. Maksimovic , N. Man , I. Mandel , V. Mandic , M. Mantovani , A. Marandi , F. Marchesoni , F. Marion , S. Márka , Z. Márka , A. Markosyan , E. Maros , J. Marque , F. Martelli , I. W. Martin , R. M. Martin , J. N. Marx , K. Mason , A. Masserot , F. Matichard , L. Matone , R. A. Matzner , N. Mavalvala , G. Mazzolo , R. McCarthy , D. E. McClelland , P. McDaniel , S. C. McGuire , G. McIntyre , D. J. A. McKechan , G. D. Meadors , M. Mehmet , T. Meier , A. Melatos , A. C. Melissinos , G. Mendell , D. Menendez , R. A. Mercer , L. Merill , S. Meshkov , C. Messenger , M. S. Meyer , H. Miao , C. Michel , L. Milano , J. Miller , Y. Minenkov , V. P. Mitrofanov , G. Mitselmakher , R. Mittleman , O. Miyakawa , B. Moe , P. Moesta , M. Mohan , S. D. Mohanty , S. R. P. Mohapatra , D. Moraru , G. Moreno , N. Morgado , A. Morgia , T. Mori , S. Mosca , K. Mossavi , B. Mours , C. M. Mow--Lowry , C. L. Mueller , G. Mueller , S. Mukherjee , A. Mullavey , H. Müller-Ebhardt , J. Munch , P. G. Murray , A. Mytidis , T. Nash , L. Naticchioni , R. Nawrodt , V. Necula , J. Nelson , G. Newton , E. Nishida , A. Nishizawa , F. Nocera , D. Nolting , L. Nuttall , E. Ochsner , J. O'Dell , E. Oelker , G. H. Ogin , J. J. Oh , S. H. Oh , R. G. Oldenburg , B. O'Reilly , R. O'Shaughnessy , C. Osthelder , C. D. Ott , D. J. Ottaway , R. S. Ottens , H. Overmier , B. J. Owen , A. Page , G. Pagliaroli , L. Palladino , C. Palomba , Y. Pan , C. Pankow , F. Paoletti , M. A. Papa , M. Parisi , A. Pasqualetti , R. Passaquieti , D. Passuello , P. Patel , D. Pathak , M. Pedraza , P. Peiris , L. Pekowsky , S. Penn , C. Peralta , A. Perreca , G. Persichetti , M. Phelps , M. Pickenpack , F. Piergiovanni , M. Pietka , L. Pinard , I. M. Pinto , M. Pitkin , H. J. Pletsch , M. V. Plissi , R. Poggiani , J. Pöld , F. Postiglione , M. Prato , V. Predoi , L. R. Price , M. Prijatelj , M. Principe , S. Privitera , R. Prix , G. A. Prodi , L. Prokhorov , O. Puncken , M. Punturo , P. Puppo , V. Quetschke , F. J. Raab , D. S. Rabeling , I. Rácz , H. Radkins , P. Raffai , M. Rakhmanov , C. R. Ramet , B. Rankins , P. Rapagnani , S. Rapoport , V. Raymond , V. Re , K. Redwine , C. M. Reed , T. Reed , T. Regimbau , S. Reid , D. H. Reitze , F. Ricci , R. Riesen , K. Riles , N. A. Robertson , F. Robinet , C. Robinson , E. L. Robinson , A. Rocchi , S. Roddy , C. Rodriguez , M. Rodruck , L. Rolland , J. Rollins , J. D. Romano , R. Romano , J. H. Romie , D. Rosińska , C. Röver , S. Rowan , A. Rüdiger , P. Ruggi , K. Ryan , H. Ryll , P. Sainathan , M. Sakosky , F. Salemi , L. Sammut , L. Sancho de la Jordana , V. Sandberg , S. Sankar , V. Sannibale , L. Santamaría , I. Santiago-Prieto , G. Santostasi , B. Sassolas , B. S. Sathyaprakash , S. Sato , M. Satterthwaite , P. R. Saulson , R. L. Savage , R. Schilling , S. Schlamminger , R. Schnabel , R. M. S. Schofield , B. Schulz , B. F. Schutz , P. Schwinberg , J. Scott , S. M. Scott , A. C. Searle , F. Seifert , D. Sellers , A. S. Sengupta , D. Sentenac , A. 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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

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…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-29 Zhi-Qiang You , Gregory Ashton , Xing-Jiang Zhu , Eric Thrane , Zong-Hong Zhu

Modeling gravitational wave sources in the MillenniumTNG simulations

(Edited) We introduce a flexible framework for building gravitational wave (GW) event catalogs in hydrodynamic simulations of galaxy formation. Our framework couples the state-of-the-art binary population synthesis code SEVN with Arepo-GW…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-04 Federico Marinacci , Marco Baldi , Giuliano Iorio , M. Celeste Artale , Michela Mapelli , Volker Springel , Sownak Bose , Lars Hernquist

Finding Dwarf Galaxies From Their Tidal Imprints

We describe ongoing work on a new method that allows one to determine the mass and relative position (in galactocentric radius and azimuth) of galactic companions purely from analysis of observed disturbances in gas disks. Here, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Sukanya Chakrabarti , Frank Bigiel , Philip Chang , Leo Blitz

Maximising the detection probability of kilonovae associated with gravitational wave observations

Estimates of the source sky location for gravitational wave signals are likely span areas ranging up to hundreds of square degrees or more, making it very challenging for most telescopes to search for counterpart signals in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-20 Man Leong Chan , Yi-Ming Hu , Chris Messenger , Martin Hendry , Ik Siong Heng

Cosmic Cartography II: completing galaxy catalogs for gravitational-wave cosmology

The dark siren method exploits the complementarity between gravitational-wave binary coalescence signals and galaxy catalogs originating from the same regions of space. However, all galaxy catalogs are incomplete, i.e. they only include a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-06 Konstantin Leyde , Tessa Baker , Wolfgang Enzi

Astrophysically Triggered Searches for Gravitational Waves: Status and Prospects

In gravitational-wave detection, special emphasis is put onto searches that focus on cosmic events detected by other types of astrophysical observatories. The astrophysical triggers, e.g. from gamma-ray and X-ray satellites, optical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-27 The LIGO Scientific Collaboration , Virgo Collaboration

Gravitational Waves from the Remnants of the First Stars

Gravitational waves (GWs) provide a revolutionary tool to investigate yet unobserved astrophysical objects. Especially the first stars, which are believed to be more massive than present-day stars, might be indirectly observable via the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-05-20 Tilman Hartwig , Marta Volonteri , Volker Bromm , Ralf S. Klessen , Enrico Barausse , Mattis Magg , Athena Stacy

An Improved and Physically-Motivated Scheme for Matching Galaxies with Dark Matter Halos

The simplest scheme for predicting real galaxy properties after performing a dark matter simulation is to rank order the real systems by stellar mass and the simulated systems by halo mass and then simply assume monotonicity - that the more…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-22 Stephanie Tonnesen , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

Statistics of the detection rates for tensor and scalar gravitational waves from the local galaxy universe

We use data on the local 3-dimensional galaxy distribution for studying the statistics of the detection rates of gravitational waves (GW) coming from supernova explosions. We consider both tensor and scalar gravitational waves which are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Yu. V. Baryshev , G. Paturel

A follow-up strategy enabling discovery of electromagnetic counterparts to highly-magnified gravitationally-lensed gravitational waves

Making an unambiguous detection of lensed gravitational waves is challenging with current generation detectors due to large uncertainties in sky localisations and other inferred parameter distributions. However, in the case of binary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-31 Dan Ryczanowski , Jeff Cooke , James Freeburn , Benjamin Gompertz , Christopher P. Haines , Matt Nicholl , Graham P. Smith , Natasha Van Bemmel , Jielai Zhang

Rapid localization of gravitational wave hosts with FIGARO

The copious scientific literature produced after the detection of GW170817 electromagnetic counterpart demonstrated the importance of a prompt and accurate localization of the gravitational wave within the co-moving volume. In this letter,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 Stefano Rinaldi , Walter Del Pozzo

Exploring the hidden Universe: A novel phenomenological approach for recovering arbitrary gravitational-wave millilensing configurations

Since the first detection of gravitational waves in 2015, gravitational-wave astronomy has emerged as a rapidly advancing field that holds great potential for studying the cosmos, from probing the properties of black holes to testing the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-17 Anna Liu , Isaac C. F. Wong , Samson H. W. Leong , Anupreeta More , Otto A. Hannuksela , Tjonnie G. F. Li

A new code for parameter estimation in searches for gravitational waves from known pulsars

We describe the consistency testing of a new code for gravitational wave signal parameter estimation in known pulsar searches. The code uses an implementation of nested sampling to explore the likelihood volume. Using fake signals and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 M. Pitkin , C. Gill , J. Veitch , E. Macdonald , G. Woan

Ground-Based Gravitational-Wave Astronomy in Australia: 2019 White Paper

The past four years have seen a scientific revolution through the birth of a new field: gravitational-wave astronomy. The first detection of gravitational waves---recognised by the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics---provided unprecedented tests…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-18 Matthew Bailes , David McClelland , Eric Thrane , David Blair , Jeffrey Cooke , David Coward , Robin Evans , Yeshe Fenner , Duncan Galloway , Jarrod Hurley , Li Ju , Paul Lasky , Ilya Mandel , Kirk McKenzie , Andrew Melatos , David Ottaway , Susan Scott , Bram Slagmolen , Peter Veitch , Linqing Wen , Chunnong Zhao

GWOPS: A VO-technology Driven Tool to Search for the Electromagnetic Counterpart of Gravitational Wave Event

The search and follow-up observation of electromagnetic (EM) counterparts of gravitational waves (GW) is a current hot topic of GW cosmology. Due to the limitation of the accuracy of the GW observation facility at this stage, we can only…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-10 Yunfei Xu , Dong Xu , Chenzhou Cui , Dongwei Fan , Zipei Zhu , Bangyao Yu , Changhua Li , Jun Han , Linying Mi , Shanshan Li , Boliang He , Yihan Tao , Hanxi Yang , Sisi Yang

Gravitational waves from stellar encounters

The emission of gravitational waves from a system of massive objects interacting on elliptical, hyperbolic and parabolic orbits is studied in the quadrupole approximation. Analytical expressions are then derived for the gravitational wave…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-21 Salvatore Capozziello , Mariafelicia De Laurentis

Searching for Cross-Correlation Between Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background and Galaxy Number Counts

Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo have recently published the upper limit measurement of persistent directional stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) based on data from their first and second observing runs (O1 and O2). In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-08 Kate Ziyan Yang , Vuk Mandic , Claudia Scarlata , Sharan Banagiri

An accurate method to determine the systematics due to the peculiar velocities of galaxies in measuring the Hubble constant from gravitational wave standard sirens

We propose a novel approach to accurately pin down the systematics due to the peculiar velocities of galaxies in measuring the Hubble constant from nearby galaxies in current and future gravitational-wave (GW) standard-siren experiments.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-24 Jian-hua He