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The Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) has recently discovered gravitational waves (GWs) emitted by merging black hole binaries. We examine whether future GW detections may identify triple companions of merging…

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We report the detection of new binary black hole merger events in the publicly available data from the second observing run of advanced LIGO and advanced Virgo (O2). The mergers were discovered using the new search pipeline described in…

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In Advanced LIGO, detection and astrophysical source parameter estimation of the binary black hole merger GW150914 requires a calibrated estimate of the gravitational-wave strain sensed by the detectors. Producing an estimate from each…

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1-OGC: The first open gravitational-wave catalog of binary mergers from analysis of public Advanced LIGO data

We present the first Open Gravitational-wave Catalog (1-OGC), obtained by using the public data from Advanced LIGO's first observing run to search for compact-object binary mergers. Our analysis is based on new methods that improve the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-28 Alexander H. Nitz , Collin Capano , Alex B. Nielsen , Steven Reyes , Rebecca White , Duncan A. Brown , Badri Krishnan

Shaken, not stirred: Test particles in binary black hole mergers

Since 2015 the advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (aLIGO) has detected a large number of gravitational wave events, originating from both binary neutron stars and binary black hole (BBH) mergers. In light of these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-30 Pieter van der Merwe , Markus Böttcher

Searching for gravitational wave echoes from black hole binary events in the third observing run of LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA collaborations

Gravitational wave echo signals have been proposed as evidence for the modification of the spacetime structure near the classical event horizon. These signals are expected to occur after the mergers of compact binaries as a sequence of weak…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-06 Nami Uchikata , Tatsuya Narikawa , Hiroyuki Nakano , Norichika Sago , Hideyuki Tagoshi , Takahiro Tanaka

Hybrid algorithm combining matched filtering and convolutional neural networks for searching gravitational waves from binary black hole mergers

Efficient searches for gravitational waves from compact binary coalescence are crucial for gravitational wave observations. We present a proof-of-concept for a method that utilizes a neural network taking an SNR map, a stack of SNR time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-16 Takahiro S. Yamamoto , Kipp Cannon , Hayato Motohashi , Hiroaki W. H. Tahara

The Observed Rate of Binary Black Hole Mergers can be Entirely Explained by Globular Clusters

Since the first signal in 2015, the gravitational-wave detections of merging binary black holes (BBHs) by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations (LVC) have completely transformed our understanding of the lives and deaths of compact object…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-28 Carl L. Rodriguez , Kyle Kremer , Sourav Chatterjee , Giacomo Fragione , Abraham Loeb , Frederic A. Rasio , Newlin C. Weatherford , Claire S. Ye

Parameter estimation with gravitational waves

The new era of gravitational wave astronomy truly began on September 14, 2015 with the detection of GW150914, the sensational first direct observation of gravitational waves from the inspiral and merger of two black holes by the two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-12 Nelson Christensen , Renate Meyer

Astrophysical Implications of the Binary Black-Hole Merger GW150914

The discovery of the gravitational-wave source GW150914 with the Advanced LIGO detectors provides the first observational evidence for the existence of binary black-hole systems that inspiral and merge within the age of the Universe. Such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-17 The LIGO Scientific Collaboration , the Virgo Collaboration

Detection of Gravitational Wave Signals from Precessing Binary Black Hole Systems using Convolutional Neural Network

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

A physically modelled selection function for compact binary mergers in the LIGO-Virgo O3 run and beyond

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

PyCBC Live: Rapid Detection of Gravitational Waves from Compact Binary Mergers

We introduce an efficient and straightforward technique for rapidly detecting gravitational waves from compact binary mergers. We show that this method achieves the low latencies required to alert electromagnetic partners of candidate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-08 Alexander H. Nitz , Tito Dal Canton , Derek Davis , Steven Reyes

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

Testing general relativity using gravitational wave signals from the inspiral, merger and ringdown of binary black holes

Advanced LIGO's recent observations of gravitational waves (GWs) from merging binary black holes have opened up a unique laboratory to test general relativity (GR) in the highly relativistic regime. One of the tests used to establish the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-16 Abhirup Ghosh , Nathan K. Johnson-McDaniel , Archisman Ghosh , Chandra Kant Mishra , Parameswaran Ajith , Walter Del Pozzo , Christopher P. L. Berry , Alex B. Nielsen , Lionel London

2-OGC: Open Gravitational-wave Catalog of binary mergers from analysis of public Advanced LIGO and Virgo data

We present the second Open Gravitational-wave Catalog (2-OGC) of compact-binary coalescences, obtained from the complete set of public data from Advanced LIGO's first and second observing runs. For the first time we also search public data…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-24 Alexander H. Nitz , Thomas Dent , Gareth S. Davies , Sumit Kumar , Collin D. Capano , Ian Harry , Simone Mozzon , Laura Nuttall , Andrew Lundgren , Márton Tápai

Multiband Observation of LIGO/Virgo Binary Black Hole Mergers in the Gravitational-wave Transient Catalog GWTC-1

The Advanced LIGO and Virgo detectors opened a new era to study black holes (BHs) in our Universe. A population of stellar-mass binary BHs (BBHs) are discovered to be heavier than previously expected. These heavy BBHs provide us an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-16 Chang Liu , Lijing Shao , Junjie Zhao , Yong Gao

Interpreting a Machine Learning Model for Detecting Gravitational Waves

We describe a case study of translational research, applying interpretability techniques developed for computer vision to machine learning models used to search for and find gravitational waves. The models we study are trained to detect…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-16 Mohammadtaher Safarzadeh , Asad Khan , E. A. Huerta , Martin Wattenberg

Merging stellar-mass binary black holes

The LIGO and Virgo detectors have directly observed gravitational waves from mergers of pairs of stellar-mass black holes, along with a smaller number of mergers involving neutron stars. These observations raise the hope that compact object…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-11 Ilya Mandel , Alison Farmer

Progenitors of binary black hole mergers detected by LIGO

Possible formation mechanisms of massive close binary black holes that can merge in the Hubble time to produce powerful gravitational wave bursts detected during advanced LIGO O1 science run are briefly discussed. The pathways include the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-15 Konstantin Postnov , Alexandre Kuranov