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This paper reports on an unmodeled, all-sky search for gravitational waves from merging intermediate mass black hole binaries (IMBHB). The search was performed on data from the second joint science run of the LIGO and Virgo detectors (July…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-17 The LIGO Scientific Collaboration , the Virgo Collaboration , J. Aasi , B. P. Abbott , R. Abbott , T. Abbott , M. R. Abernathy , T. Accadia , F. Acernese , K. Ackley , C. Adams , T. Adams , P. Addesso , R. X. Adhikari , C. Affeldt , M. Agathos , N. Aggarwal , O. D. Aguiar , A. Ain , P. Ajith , A. Alemic , B. Allen , A. Allocca , D. Amariutei , M. Andersen , R. Anderson , S. B. Anderson , W. G. Anderson , K. Arai , M. C. Araya , C. Arceneaux , J. Areeda , S. M. Aston , P. Astone , P. Aufmuth , C. Aulbert , L. Austin , B. E. Aylott , S. Babak , P. T. Baker , G. Ballardin , S. W. Ballmer , J. C. Barayoga , M. Barbet , B. C. Barish , D. Barker , F. Barone , B. Barr , L. Barsotti , M. Barsuglia , M. A. Barton , I. Bartos , R. Bassiri , A. Basti , J. C. Batch , J. Bauchrowitz , Th. S. Bauer , V. Bavigadda , B. Behnke , M. Bejger , M. G. Beker , C. Belczynski , A. S. Bell , C. Bell , G. Bergmann , D. Bersanetti , A. Bertolini , J. Betzwieser , P. T. Beyersdorf , I. A. Bilenko , G. Billingsley , J. Birch , S. Biscans , M. Bitossi , M. A. Bizouard , E. Black , J. K. Blackburn , L. Blackburn , D. Blair , S. Bloemen , M. Blom , O. Bock , T. P. Bodiya , M. Boer , G. Bogaert , C. Bogan , C. Bond , F. Bondu , L. Bonelli , R. Bonnand , R. Bork , M. Born , V. Boschi , Sukanta Bose , L. Bosi , C. Bradaschia , P. R. Brady , V. B. Braginsky , M. Branchesi , J. E. Brau , T. Briant , D. O. Bridges , A. Brillet , M. Brinkmann , V. Brisson , A. F. Brooks , D. A. Brown , D. D. Brown , F. Brückner , S. Buchman , T. Bulik , H. J. Bulten , A. Buonanno , R. Burman , D. Buskulic , C. Buy , L. Cadonati , G. Cagnoli , J. Calderón Bustillo , E. Calloni , J. B. Camp , P. Campsie , K. C. Cannon , B. Canuel , J. Cao , C. D. Capano , F. Carbognani , L. Carbone , S. Caride , A. Castiglia , S. Caudill , M. Cavaglià , F. Cavalier , R. Cavalieri , C. Celerier , G. Cella , C. Cepeda , E. Cesarini , R. Chakraborty , T. Chalermsongsak , S. J. 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Detecting the gravitational wave background from primordial black hole dark matter

The black hole merging rates inferred after the gravitational-wave detection by Advanced LIGO/VIRGO and the relatively high mass of the progenitors are consistent with models of dark matter made of massive primordial black holes (PBH). PBH…

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Gravitational Waves from Primordial Black Hole Mergers

We study the production of primordial black hole (PBH) binaries and the resulting merger rate, accounting for an extended PBH mass function and the possibility of a clustered spatial distribution. Under the hypothesis that the gravitational…

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Neutron stars versus black holes: probing the mass gap with LIGO/Virgo

Inspirals and mergers of black hole (BHs) and/or neutron star (NSs) binaries are expected to be abundant sources for ground-based gravitational-wave (GW) detectors. We assess the capabilities of Advanced LIGO and Virgo to measure component…

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Gravitational waves from scattering of stellar-mass black holes in galactic nuclei

Stellar mass black holes (BHs) are expected to segregate and form a steep density cusp around supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in galactic nuclei. We follow the evolution of a multi-mass system of BHs and stars by numerically integrating…

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Compact Binary Merger Rates: Comparison with LIGO/Virgo Upper Limits

We compare evolutionary predictions of double compact object merger rate densities with initial and forthcoming LIGO/Virgo upper limits. We find that: (i) Due to the cosmological reach of advanced detectors, current conversion methods of…

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Searching for binary black hole mergers with deep learning in Advanced LIGO's third observing run

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Has LIGO Detected Primordial Black Hole Dark Matter? -- Tidal Disruption in Binary Black Hole Formation

The frequent detection of binary mergers of $\sim 30 M_{\odot}$ black holes (BHs) by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) rekindled researchers' interest in primordial BHs (PBHs) being dark matter (DM). In this…

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Imprints of massive black-hole binaries on neighbouring decihertz gravitational-wave sources

The most massive black holes in our Universe form binaries at the centre of merging galaxies. The recent evidence for a gravitational-wave (GW) background from pulsar timing may constitute the first observation that these supermassive black…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-09 Jakob Stegmann , Lorenz Zwick , Sander M. Vermeulen , Fabio Antonini , Lucio Mayer

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…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-28 T. A. Callister

Twin LIGO/Virgo Detections of a Viable Gravitationally-Lensed Black Hole Merger

We identify a binary black hole (BBH) merger that appears to be multiply lensed by an intervening galaxy. The LIGO/Virgo events GW170809 and GW170814 have indistinguishable waveforms separated by 5 days, and overlap on the sky within the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-11 Tom Broadhurst , Jose M. Diego , George F. Smoot

On the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background from Binary Black Hole Mergers Dynamically Assembled in Dense Star Clusters

With about a hundred binary black hole (BBH) mergers detected by LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA, and with several hundreds expected in the current O4 run, GWs are revolutionizing our understanding of the universe. Some BBH sources are too faint to be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-10 Xiao-Xiao Kou , Giacomo Fragione , Vuk Mandic

Dynamical formation signatures of black hole binaries in the first detected mergers by LIGO

The dynamical formation of stellar-mass black hole-black hole binaries has long been a promising source of gravitational waves for the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). Mass segregation, gravitational focusing, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-30 Ryan M. O'Leary , Yohai Meiron , Bence Kocsis

Intrinsic selection biases of ground-based gravitational wave searches for high-mass BH-BH mergers

The next generation of ground-based gravitational wave detectors may detect a few mergers of comparable-mass M\simeq 100-1000 Msun ("intermediate-mass'', or IMBH) spinning black holes. Black hole spin is known to have a significant impact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-11 Richard O'Shaughnessy , Birjoo Vaishnav , James Healy , Deirdre Shoemaker

The Missing Link in Gravitational-Wave Astronomy: Discoveries waiting in the decihertz range

The gravitational-wave astronomical revolution began in 2015 with LIGO's observation of the coalescence of two stellar-mass black holes. Over the coming decades, ground-based detectors like LIGO will extend their reach, discovering…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-02 Manuel Arca Sedda , Christopher P. L. Berry , Karan Jani , Pau Amaro-Seoane , Pierre Auclair , Jonathon Baird , Tessa Baker , Emanuele Berti , Katelyn Breivik , Adam Burrows , Chiara Caprini , Xian Chen , Daniela Doneva , Jose M. Ezquiaga , K. E. Saavik Ford , Michael L. Katz , Shimon Kolkowitz , Barry McKernan , Guido Mueller , Germano Nardini , Igor Pikovski , Surjeet Rajendran , Alberto Sesana , Lijing Shao , Nicola Tamanini , David Vartanyan , Niels Warburton , Helvi Witek , Kaze Wong , Michael Zevin

Detectability of a spatial correlation between stellar-mass black hole mergers and Active Galactic Nuclei in the Local Universe

The origin of the Binary Black Hole (BBH) mergers detected through Gravitational Waves (GWs) by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration remains debated. One fundamental reason is our ignorance of their host environment, as the typical size…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-24 Niccolò Veronesi , Elena Maria Rossi , Sjoert van Velzen , Riccardo Buscicchio

Using gravitational waves to distinguish between neutron stars and black holes in compact binary mergers

In August 2017, the first detection of a binary neutron star merger, GW170817, made it possible to study neutron stars in compact binary systems using gravitational waves. Despite being the loudest gravitational wave event detected to date…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-24 Stephanie M. Brown , Collin D. Capano , Badri Krishnan

Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Binary Black Holes and Binary Neutron Stars and Implications for LISA

The advent of gravitational wave (GW) and multi-messenger astronomy has stimulated the research on the formation mechanisms of binary black holes (BBHs) observed by LIGO/Virgo. In literature, the progenitors of these BBHs could be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-28 Zu-Cheng Chen , Fan Huang , Qing-Guo Huang

A Proposed Search for the Detection of Gravitational Waves from Eccentric Binary Black Holes

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…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-23 Vaibhav Tiwari , Sergey Klimenko , Nelson Christensen , Eliu Huerta , Satya Mohapatra , Achamveedu Gopakumar , Maria Haney , Ajith Parameswaran , Sean McWilliams , Gabriele Vedovato , Marco Drago , Francesco Salemi , Giovanni Prodi , Claudia Lazzaro , Shubhanshu Tiwari , Guenakh Mitselmakher , Filipe Da Silva

Time-dependent stellar-mass binary black hole mergers in AGN disks: Mass distribution of hierarchical mergers

There is much debate about the channels for astrophysical origins of the stellar-mass binary black hole (BBH) mergers detected by LIGO and Virgo. Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are promising sites for the efficient formation and rapid…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-30 Guo-Peng Li