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  1. Backward Population Synthesis: Mapping the Evolutionary History of Gravitational-wave Progenitors

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    One promising way to extract information about stellar astrophysics from a gravitational-wave catalog is to compare the catalog to the outputs of stellar population synthesis modeling with …
  2. (An)isotropy measurement with gravitational wave observations

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    We constrain the distribution of merging compact binaries across the celestial sphere using the GWTC-3 catalog from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaborations' (LVK) third observing run. With …
  3. All-sky search for continuous gravitational waves from isolated neutron stars using Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo O3 data

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    We present results of an all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves which can be produced by spinning neutron stars with an asymmetry around their rotation axis, using …
  4. All-sky, all-frequency directional search for persistent gravitational-waves from Advanced LIGO's and Advanced Virgo's first three observing runs

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    We present the first results from an all-sky all-frequency (ASAF) search for an anisotropic stochastic gravitational-wave background using the data from the first three observing …
  5. All-sky search for gravitational wave emission from scalar boson clouds around spinning black holes in LIGO O3 data

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    This paper describes the first all-sky search for long-duration, quasi-monochromatic gravitational-wave signals emitted by ultralight scalar boson clouds around spinning black holes using data …
  6. A Standard Siren Cosmological Measurement from the Potential GW190521 Electromagnetic Counterpart ZTF19abanrhr

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    The identification of the electromagnetic counterpart candidate ZTF19abanrhr to the binary black hole merger GW190521 opens the possibility to infer cosmological parameters from this standard siren with a …
  7. All-sky search for short gravitational-wave bursts in the third Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo run

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    This paper presents the results of a search for generic short-duration gravitational-wave transients in data from the third observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo …
  8. All-sky search for long-duration gravitational-wave bursts in the third Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo run

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    After the detection of gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences, the search for transient gravitational-wave signals with less well-defined waveforms for which matched filtering is not …
  9. All-sky Search for Continuous Gravitational Waves from Isolated Neutron Stars in the Early O3 LIGO Data

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    We report on an all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves in the frequency band 20-2000,Hz and with a frequency time derivative in the range of …
  10. Analyzing black-hole ringdowns

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    A perturbed black hole rings down by emitting gravitational waves in tones with specific frequencies and durations. Such tones encode prized information about the geometry of the source …
  11. A Gravitational-wave Measurement of the Hubble Constant Following the Second Observing Run of Advanced LIGO and Virgo

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    This paper presents the gravitational-wave measurement of the Hubble constant (H0) using the detections from the first and second observing runs of the Advanced LIGO and Virgo …
  12. Black holes in the low-mass gap: Implications for gravitational-wave observations

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    Binary neutron-star mergers will predominantly produce black-hole remnants of mass ∼3−4M⊙, thus populating the putative emph{low mass gap} between neutron stars and stellar-mass …
  13. The American Astronomical Society, find out more The Institute of Physics, find out more A Trend in the Effective Spin Distribution of LIGO Binary Black Holes with Mass

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    Binary black holes (BBHs) detected by gravitational wave (GW) observations could be broadly divided into two formation channels: those formed through field binary evolution and those assembled dynamically …
  14. A Population-Informed Mass Estimate for Pulsar J0740+6620

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    Galactic double neutron star systems have a tight mass distribution around ∼1.35M⊙, but the mass distribution of all known pulsars is broader. Here we reconstruct the Alsing …
  15. A Joint Fermi-GBM and LIGO/Virgo Analysis of Compact Binary Mergers From the First and Second Gravitational-wave Observing Runs

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    We present results from offline searches of Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) data for gamma-ray transients coincident with the compact binary coalescences observed by the gravitational …
  16. A guide to LIGO–Virgo detector noise and extraction of transient gravitational-wave signals

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    The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration have cataloged eleven confidently detected gravitational-wave events during the first two observing runs of the advanced detector era. All …
  17. A self-consistent method to estimate the rate of compact binary coalescences with a Poisson mixture model

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    The recently published GWTC-1 - a journal article summarizing the search for gravitational waves (GWs) from coalescing compact binaries in data produced by the LIGO-Virgo network of …
  18. emcee v3: A Python ensemble sampling toolkit for affine-invariant MCMC

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  19. A Future Percent-level Measurement of the Hubble Expansion at Redshift 0.8 with Advanced LIGO

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    Simultaneous measurements of distance and redshift can be used to constrain the expansion history of the universe and associated cosmological parameters. Merging binary black hole (BBH) systems are …
  20. Hierarchical test of general relativity with gravitational waves

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    We propose a hierarchical approach to testing general relativity with multiple gravitational wave detections. Unlike existing strategies, our method does not assume that parameters quantifying deviations from general …
  21. Binary Black Hole Population Properties Inferred from the First and Second Observing Runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo

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    We present results on the mass, spin, and redshift distributions with phenomenological population models using the ten binary black hole mergers detected in the first and second observing …
  22. Search for the isotropic stochastic background using data from Advanced LIGO's second observing run

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    The stochastic gravitational-wave background is a superposition of sources that are either too weak or too numerous to detect individually. In this study we present the results …
  23. The K2 Bright Star Survey I: Methodology and Data Release

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  24. All-sky search for short gravitational-wave bursts in the second Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo run

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    We present the results of a search for short-duration gravitational-wave transients in the data from the second observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo. We …
  25. Bayesian hierarchical inference of asteroseismic inclination angles

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    The stellar inclination angle – the angle between the rotation axis of a star and our line of sight – provides valuable information in many different areas, from the characterization …
  26. All-sky search for long-duration gravitational-wave transients in the second Advanced LIGO observing run

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    We present the results of a search for long-duration gravitational-wave transients in the data from the Advanced LIGO second observation run; we search for gravitational-wave …
  27. Accuracy Requirements for Empirically Measured Selection Functions

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    I give formulas for the accuracy to which a selection function must be measured via Monte-Carlo injections in order to have un-biased population inference. The number …
  28. A Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor Search for Electromagnetic Signals Coincident with Gravitational-wave Candidates in Advanced LIGO's First Observing Run

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    We present a search for prompt gamma-ray counterparts to compact binary coalescence gravitational wave (GW) candidates from Advanced LIGO's first observing run (O1). As demonstrated by …
  29. A standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant from GW170817 without the electromagnetic counterpart

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    We perform a statistical standard siren analysis of GW170817. Our analysis does not utilize knowledge of NGC 4993 as the unique host galaxy of the optical counterpart to …

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