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

Prospects for observing and localizing gravitational-wave transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA

BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, S Abraham… - Living reviews in …, 2020 - Springer
We present our current best estimate of the plausible observing scenarios for the Advanced
LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA gravitational-wave detectors over the next several years …

Computationally efficient models for the dominant and subdominant harmonic modes of precessing binary black holes

G Pratten, C García-Quirós, M Colleoni… - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
We present imrphenomxphm, a phenomenological frequency-domain model for the
gravitational-wave signal emitted by quasicircular precessing binary black holes, which …

An introduction to Bayesian inference in gravitational-wave astronomy: parameter estimation, model selection, and hierarchical models

E Thrane, C Talbot - Publications of the Astronomical Society of …, 2019 - cambridge.org
This is an introduction to Bayesian inference with a focus on hierarchical models and hyper-
parameters. We write primarily for an audience of Bayesian novices, but we hope to provide …

Fast extreme-mass-ratio-inspiral waveforms: New tools for millihertz gravitational-wave data analysis

ML Katz, AJK Chua, L Speri, N Warburton, SA Hughes - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
We present the fastemriwaveforms (FEW) package, a collection of tools to build and analyze
extreme mass ratio inspiral (EMRI) waveforms. Here, we expand on [AJK Chua, Phys. Rev …

Parameter estimation for compact binaries with ground-based gravitational-wave observations using the LALInference software library

J Veitch, V Raymond, B Farr, W Farr, P Graff, S Vitale… - Physical Review D, 2015 - APS
The Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo gravitational-wave (GW) detectors will begin
operation in the coming years, with compact binary coalescence events a likely source for …

Rapid generation of fully relativistic extreme-mass-ratio-inspiral waveform templates for LISA data analysis

AJK Chua, ML Katz, N Warburton, SA Hughes - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
The future space mission LISA will observe a wealth of gravitational-wave sources at
millihertz frequencies. Of these, the extreme-mass-ratio inspirals of compact objects into …

Learning Bayesian posteriors with neural networks for gravitational-wave inference

AJK Chua, M Vallisneri - Physical review letters, 2020 - APS
We seek to achieve the holy grail of Bayesian inference for gravitational-wave astronomy:
using deep-learning techniques to instantly produce the posterior p (θ| D) for the source …

Frequency domain reduced order model of aligned-spin effective-one-body waveforms with generic mass ratios and spins

M Pürrer - Physical Review D, 2016 - APS
I provide a frequency domain reduced order model (ROM) for the aligned-spin effective-one-
body model “SEOBNRv2” for data analysis with second-and third-generation ground-based …

Bilby-MCMC: an MCMC sampler for gravitational-wave inference

G Ashton, C Talbot - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We introduce Bilby-mcmc, a Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling algorithm tuned for the
analysis of gravitational waves from merging compact objects. Bilby-mcmc provides a …