Astrophysics with the laser interferometer space antenna

P Amaro-Seoane, J Andrews, M Arca Sedda… - Living Reviews in …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will be a transformative experiment
for gravitational wave astronomy, and, as such, it will offer unique opportunities to address …

Candidate electromagnetic counterpart to the binary black hole merger gravitational-wave event s190521g

MJ Graham, KES Ford, B McKernan, NP Ross, D Stern… - Physical review …, 2020 - APS
We report the first plausible optical electromagnetic counterpart to a (candidate) binary black
hole merger. Detected by the Zwicky Transient Facility, the electromagnetic flare is …

Properties and Astrophysical Implications of the 150 M o˙ Binary Black Hole Merger GW190521

LIGO Scientific Collaboration… - Astrophysical …, 2020 - researchoutput.csu.edu.au
The gravitational-wave signal GW190521 is consistent with a binary black hole (BBH)
merger source at redshift 0.8 with unusually high component masses, 85-14+ 21 M o and 66 …

Black hole genealogy: Identifying hierarchical mergers with gravitational waves

C Kimball, C Talbot, CPL Berry, M Carney… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
In dense stellar environments, the merger products of binary black hole mergers may
undergo additional mergers. These hierarchical mergers are naturally expected to have …

Evidence of large recoil velocity from a black hole merger signal

V Varma, S Biscoveanu, T Islam, FH Shaik, CJ Haster… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
The final black hole left behind after a binary black hole merger can attain a recoil velocity,
or a “kick,” reaching values up to 5000 km/s. This phenomenon has important implications …

Eccentric binary black hole surrogate models for the gravitational waveform and remnant properties: Comparable mass, nonspinning case

T Islam, V Varma, J Lodman, SE Field, G Khanna… - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
We develop new strategies to build numerical relativity surrogate models for eccentric binary
black hole systems, which are expected to play an increasingly important role in current and …

Model of gravitational waves from precessing black-hole binaries through merger and ringdown

E Hamilton, L London, JE Thompson… - Physical review D, 2021 - APS
We present phenompnr, a frequency-domain phenomenological model of the gravitational-
wave signal from binary-black-hole mergers that is tuned to numerical relativity (NR) …

[HTML][HTML] PESummary: the code agnostic Parameter Estimation Summary page builder

C Hoy, V Raymond - SoftwareX, 2021 - Elsevier
PESummary is a Python software package for processing and visualizing data from any
parameter estimation code. The easy to use Python executable scripts and extensive online …

Numerical relativity surrogate model with memory effects and post-Newtonian hybridization

J Yoo, K Mitman, V Varma, M Boyle, SE Field, N Deppe… - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Numerical relativity simulations provide the most precise templates for the gravitational
waves produced by binary black hole mergers. However, many of these simulations use an …