Gravitational wave detectors are already operating at interesting sensitivity levels, and they
have an upgrade path that should result in secure detections by 2014. We review the …

Accurate models of gravitational waves from merging black holes are necessary for
detectors to observe as many events as possible while extracting the maximum science …

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 …

We revisit the problem of predicting the spin magnitude and direction of the black hole (BH)
resulting from the merger of two BHs with arbitrary masses and spins inspiraling in quasi …

Using recent results from numerical relativity simulations of black hole mergers, we revisit
previous studies of cosmological black hole spin evolution. We show that mergers are very …

Binary neutron-star systems represent primary sources for the gravitational-wave detectors
that are presently operating or are close to being operating at the target sensitivities. We …

Ultralight bosons with masses in the range 10-13 eV≤ mb≤ 10-12 eV can induce a
superradiant instability around spinning black holes (BHs) with masses of order 10− 100 …

Building on a recent paper in which we computed the canonical Hamiltonian of a spinning
test particle in curved spacetime, at linear order in the particle's spin, we work out an …

Perturbed Kerr black holes emit gravitational radiation, which (for the practical purposes of
gravitational-wave astronomy) consists of a superposition of damped sinusoids termed …

We provide a compact analytic formula to compute the spin of the black hole produced by
the coalescence of two black holes following a quasicircular inspiral. Without additional fits …