LIGO: the laser interferometer gravitational-wave observatory

BP Abbott, R Abbott, R Adhikari, P Ajith… - Reports on Progress …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

Colloquium: Measuring the neutron star equation of state using x-ray timing

AL Watts, N Andersson, D Chakrabarty, M Feroci… - Reviews of Modern …, 2016 - APS
One of the primary science goals of the next generation of hard x-ray timing instruments is to
determine the equation of state of matter at supranuclear densities inside neutron stars by …

The PyCBC search for gravitational waves from compact binary coalescence

SA Usman, AH Nitz, IW Harry, CM Biwer… - … and Quantum Gravity, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

The MBTA pipeline for detecting compact binary coalescences in the third LIGO–Virgo observing run

F Aubin, F Brighenti, R Chierici, D Estevez… - … and Quantum Gravity, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We describe the multi-band template analysis (MBTA) search for gravitational waves signals
from coalescences of compact objects in the LIGO–Virgo data, at the time of the third …

GW150914: First results from the search for binary black hole coalescence with Advanced LIGO

BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, MR Abernathy… - Physical Review D, 2016 - APS
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 …

Bayeswave: Bayesian inference for gravitational wave bursts and instrument glitches

NJ Cornish, TB Littenberg - Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
A central challenge in gravitational wave astronomy is identifying weak signals in the
presence of non-stationary and non-Gaussian noise. The separation of gravitational wave …

Tidal Love numbers of neutron stars

T Hinderer - The Astrophysical Journal, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
For a variety of fully relativistic polytropic neutron star models we calculate the star's tidal
Love number k_ {2}. Most realistic equations of state for neutron stars can be approximated …

Search for subsolar mass ultracompact binaries in Advanced LIGO's second observing run

BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, S Abraham… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
We present a search for subsolar mass ultracompact objects in data obtained during
Advanced LIGO's second observing run. In contrast to a previous search of Advanced LIGO …

Matching post-Newtonian and numerical relativity waveforms: Systematic errors and a new phenomenological model for nonprecessing black hole binaries

L Santamaria, F Ohme, P Ajith, B Brügmann… - Physical Review D …, 2010 - APS
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 …

FINDCHIRP: An algorithm for detection of gravitational waves<? format?> from inspiraling compact binaries

B Allen, WG Anderson, PR Brady, DA Brown… - Physical Review D …, 2012 - APS
Matched-filter searches for gravitational waves from coalescing compact binaries by the
LIGO Scientific Collaboration use the findchirp algorithm: an implementation of the optimal …