We present an up-to-date, comprehensive summary of the rates for all types of compact
binary coalescence sources detectable by the initial and advanced versions of the ground …

We review the current status of studies of the coalescence of binary neutron star systems.
We begin with a discussion of the formation channels of merging binaries and we discuss …

We describe the PyCBC search for gravitational waves from compact-object binary
coalescences in advanced gravitational-wave detector data. The search was used in the first …

On September 14, 2015, at 09∶ 50: 45 UTC the two detectors of the Laser Interferometer
Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) simultaneously observed the binary black hole …

The goal of the Laser Interferometric Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is to detect and
study gravitational waves (GWs) of astrophysical origin. Direct detection of GWs holds the …

The advanced interferometer network will herald a new era in observational astronomy.
There is a very strong science case to go beyond the advanced detector network and build …

Abstract The LIGO Open Science Center (LOSC) fulfills LIGO's commitment to release,
archive, and serve LIGO data in a broadly accessible way to the scientific community and to …

To understand the nature of supernovae and neutron star (NS) formation, as well as binary
stellar evolution and their interactions, it is important to probe the distribution of NS masses …

We present a new phenomenological gravitational waveform model for the inspiral and
coalescence of nonprecessing spinning black hole binaries. Our approach is based on a …

Matched-filter searches for gravitational waves from coalescing compact binaries by the
LIGO Scientific Collaboration use the findchirp algorithm: an implementation of the optimal …