Black holes, gravitational waves and fundamental physics: a roadmap

L Barack, V Cardoso, S Nissanke… - … and quantum gravity, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
70 AIM, UMR 7158, CEA/DRF, CNRS, Université Paris Diderot, Irfu/Service d'Astrophysique,
Centre de Saclay, FR-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Binary neutron star mergers: a review of Einstein's richest laboratory

L Baiotti, L Rezzolla - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
In a single process, the merger of binary neutron star systems combines extreme gravity, the
copious emission of gravitational waves, complex microphysics and electromagnetic …

Binary neutron star mergers: mass ejection, electromagnetic counterparts, and nucleosynthesis

D Radice, A Perego, K Hotokezaka… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a systematic numerical relativity study of the mass ejection and the associated
electromagnetic transients and nucleosynthesis from binary neutron star (NS) mergers. We …

The SXS Collaboration catalog of binary black hole simulations

M Boyle, D Hemberger, DAB Iozzo… - … and Quantum Gravity, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

Signatures of quark-hadron phase transitions in general-relativistic neutron-star mergers

ER Most, LJ Papenfort, V Dexheimer, M Hanauske… - Physical Review Letters, 2019 - APS
Merging binaries of neutron-stars are not only strong sources of gravitational waves, but also
have the potential of revealing states of matter at densities and temperatures not accessible …

Improved effective-one-body model of spinning, nonprecessing binary black holes for the era of gravitational-wave astrophysics with advanced detectors

A Bohé, L Shao, A Taracchini, A Buonanno, S Babak… - Physical Review D, 2017 - APS
We improve the accuracy of the effective-one-body (EOB) waveforms that were employed
during the first observing run of Advanced LIGO for binaries of spinning, nonprecessing …

Eccentricity estimate for black hole mergers with numerical relativity simulations

V Gayathri, J Healy, J Lange, B O'Brien… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The origin of black hole mergers discovered by the LIGO and Virgo gravitational-wave
observatories is currently unknown. GW190521, is the heaviest black hole merger detected …

Collapsars as a major source of r-process elements

DM Siegel, J Barnes, BD Metzger - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The production of elements by rapid neutron capture (r-process) in neutron-star mergers is
expected theoretically and is supported by multimessenger observations,–of gravitational …

A new moment-based general-relativistic neutrino-radiation transport code: Methods and first applications to neutron star mergers

D Radice, S Bernuzzi, A Perego… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We present a new moment-based energy-integrated neutrino transport code for neutron star
merger simulations in general relativity. In the merger context, ours is the first code to include …

Multimode frequency-domain model for the gravitational wave signal from nonprecessing black-hole binaries

C García-Quirós, M Colleoni, S Husa, H Estellés… - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
We present the imrphenomxhm frequency domain phenomenological waveform model for
the inspiral, merger, and ringdown of quasicircular nonprecessing black hole binaries. The …