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Black hole mergers from an evolving population of globular clusters

The high rate of black hole (BH) mergers detected by LIGO/Virgo opened questions on their astrophysical origin. One possibility is the dynamical channel, in which binary formation and hardening is catalyzed by dynamical encounters in…

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The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration has announced the detection of almost 100 binary black holes so far, which have been used in several studies to infer the features of the underlying binary black hole population. From these, it is possible…

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With the hundreds of merging binary black hole (BH) signals expected to be detected by LIGO/Virgo, LISA and other instruments in the next few years, the modeling of astrophysical channels that lead to the formation of compact-object…

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A Search for Optical Emission from Binary-Black-Hole Merger GW170814 with the Dark Energy Camera

Binary black hole (BBH) mergers found by the LIGO and Virgo detectors are of immense scientific interest to the astrophysics community, but are considered unlikely to be sources of electromagnetic emission. To test whether they have rapidly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-18 Z. Doctor , R. Kessler , K. Herner , A. Palmese , M. Soares-Santos , J. Annis , D. Brout , D. E. Holz , M. Sako , A. Rest , P. Cowperthwaite , E. Berger , R. J. Foley , C. J. Conselice , M. S. S. Gill , S. Allam , E. Balbinot , R. E. Butler , H. -Y. Chen , R. Chornock , E. Cook , H. T. Diehl , B. Farr , W. Fong , J. Frieman , C. Fryer , J. García-Bellido , R. Margutti , J. L. Marshall , T. Matheson , B. D. Metzger , M. Nicholl , F. Paz-Chinchón , S. Salim , M. Sauseda , L. F. Secco , N. Smith , R. C. Smith , A. K. Vivas , D. L. Tucker , T. M. C. Abbott , S. Avila , K. Bechtol , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , C. B. D'Andrea , L. N. da Costa , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , P. Doel , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , D. A. Goldstein , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , W. G. Hartley , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , B. Hoyle , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , S. Kent , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , M. Lima , M. A. G. Maia , M. March , F. Menanteau , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , E. Neilsen , B. Nord , R. L. C. Ogando , A. A. Plazas , A. Roodman , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , R. Schindler , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , M. Smith , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , A. R. Walker , W. Wester

Broad search for gravitational waves from subsolar-mass binaries through LIGO and Virgo's third observing run

We present a search for gravitational waves from the coalescence of binaries which contain at least one subsolar mass component using data from the LIGO and Virgo observatories through the completion of their third observing run. The…

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Stellar-mass black holes in young massive and open stellar clusters V: comparisons with LIGO-Virgo merger rate densities

I study the contribution of young massive star clusters (YMCs) and open star clusters (OCs) to the present-day intrinsic merger rate density of dynamically-assembled binary black holes (BBHs). The BBH merger event rate is estimated based on…

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LIGO-Virgo searches for gravitational waves from coalescing binaries: a status update

Coalescing compact binaries of neutron stars and/or black holes are considered as one of the most promising sources for Earth based gravitational wave detectors. The LIGO-Virgo joint collaboration's Compact Binary Coalescence (CBC) group is…

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Cosmic Cousins: Identification of a Subpopulation of Binary Black Holes Consistent with Isolated Binary Evolution

Observations of gravitational waves (GWs) from merging compact binaries have become a regular occurrence. The continued advancement of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration detectors have now produced a catalog of over 90 such mergers,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-01 Jaxen Godfrey , Bruce Edelman , Ben Farr

Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspiral, merger and ringdown

We present the first modeled search for gravitational waves using the complete binary black hole gravitational waveform from inspiral through the merger and ringdown for binaries with negligible component spin. We searched approximately 2…

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Picky Partners: The Pairing of Component Masses in Binary Black Hole Mergers

We examine the relationship between individual black hole (BH) masses in merging binary black hole (BBH) systems. Analyzing the ten BBH detections from LIGO/Virgo's first two observing runs, we find that the masses of the component BHs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-18 Maya Fishbach , Daniel E. Holz

First gravitational-wave search for intermediate-mass black hole mergers with higher order harmonics

Current matched-filter searches for gravitational waves from binary black-hole mergers compare the calibrated detector data to waveform templates that omit the higher-order mode content of the signals predicted by General Relativity.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-14 Koustav Chandra , Juan Calderón Bustillo , Archana Pai , Ian Harry

Relative calibration of the LIGO and Virgo detectors using astrophysical events from their third observing run

We explore a method to assess the relative scale of the strain measured in the different detectors of the gravitational-wave network, using binary black hole (BBH) events detected during the third observing run (O3). The number of such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-29 C. Alléné , N. Andres , M. Assiduo , F. Aubin , D. Buskulic , R. Chierici , D. Estevez , F. Faedi , G. M. Guidi , V. Juste , F. Marion , B. Mours , E. Nitoglia , V. Sordini , A. Syx

Black hole genealogy: Identifying hierarchical mergers with gravitational waves

In dense stellar environments, the merger products of binary black hole mergers may undergo additional mergers. These hierarchical mergers are predicted to have higher masses than the first generation of black holes made from stars. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-16 Chase Kimball , Colm Talbot , Christopher P. L. Berry , Matthew Carney , Michael Zevin , Eric Thrane , Vicky Kalogera

Search for nonlinear memory from subsolar mass compact binary mergers

We present the first results of the search for nonlinear memory from subsolar mass binary black hole (BBH) mergers during the second observing run (O2) of the LIGO and Virgo detectors. The oscillatory chirp signal from the inspiral and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-25 Michael Ebersold , Shubhanshu Tiwari

Coalescing black hole binaries from globular clusters: mass distributions and comparison to gravitational wave data from GWTC-3

We use our cluster population model, cBHBd, to explore the mass distribution of merging black hole binaries formed dynamically in globular clusters. We include in our models the effect of mass growth through hierarchical mergers and compare…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-12 Fabio Antonini , Mark Gieles , Fani Dosopoulou , Debatri Chattopadhyay

Application of the Probability Event Horizon filter to constrain the local rate density of binary black hole inspirals with Advanced LIGO

The temporal evolution of the gravitational wave background signal resulting from stellar-mass binary black hole (BBH) inspirals has a unique statistical signature. We describe the application of a new filter, based on the `probability…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 E. Howell , D. Coward , R. Burman , D. Blair

Inferring the population properties of binary black holes from unresolved gravitational waves

The vast majority of compact binary mergers in the Universe produce gravitational waves that are too weak to yield unambiguous detections; they are unresolved. We present a method to infer the population properties of compact binaries --…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-17 Rory Smith , Colm Talbot , Francisco Hernandez Vivanco , Eric Thrane

The optimal search for an astrophysical gravitational-wave background

Roughly every 2-10 minutes, a pair of stellar mass black holes merge somewhere in the Universe. A small fraction of these mergers are detected as individually resolvable gravitational-wave events by advanced detectors such as LIGO and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-25 Rory Smith , Eric Thrane

Inferring the Merger History of Primordial Black Holes from Gravitational-Wave data and the Stochastic Signatures

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are well-motivated candidates for cold dark matter and may also account for a fraction of the binary black hole mergers observed by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration. In this study, we investigate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-30 Sourav Roy Chowdhury , Aritra Basak , Maxim Khlopov , Maxim Krasnov

Application of the third RIT binary black hole simulations catalog to parameter estimation of gravitational waves signals from the LIGO-Virgo O1/O2 observational runs

Using exclusively the 777 full numerical waveforms of the third Binary Black Holes RIT catalog, we reanalyze the ten black hole merger signals reported in LIGO/Virgo's O1/O2 observation runs. We obtain binary parameters, extrinsic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-04 James Healy , Carlos O. Lousto , Jacob Lange , Richard O'Shaughnessy