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 …

The gravitational-wave physics II: Progress

L Bian, RG Cai, S Cao, Z Cao, H Gao, ZK Guo… - Science China Physics …, 2021 - Springer
It has been a half-decade since the first direct detection of gravitational waves, which
signifies the coming of the era of the gravitational-wave astronomy and gravitational-wave …

GWTC-2.1: Deep extended catalog of compact binary coalescences observed by LIGO and Virgo during the first half of the third observing run

R Abbott, TD Abbott, F Acernese, K Ackley, C Adams… - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
The second Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog, GWTC-2, reported on 39 compact binary
coalescences observed by the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors between 1 …

GWTC-2: compact binary coalescences observed by LIGO and Virgo during the first half of the third observing run

R Abbott, TD Abbott, S Abraham, F Acernese, K Ackley… - Physical Review X, 2021 - APS
We report on gravitational-wave discoveries from compact binary coalescences detected by
Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo in the first half of the third observing run (O3a) between …

GW190521: A Binary Black Hole Merger with a Total Mass of

R Abbott, TD Abbott, S Abraham, F Acernese, K Ackley… - Physical review …, 2020 - APS
On May 21, 2019 at 03: 02: 29 UTC Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo observed a short
duration gravitational-wave signal, GW190521, with a three-detector network signal-to-noise …

[PDF][PDF] VU Research Portal

BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott… - PHYSICAL REVIEW D …, 2021 - research.vu.nl
The Advanced LIGO [1] and Advanced Virgo [2] detectors have made numerous detections
of gravitational waves (GWs), to date consisting of short-duration (transient) GWs emitted …

Search for lensing signatures in the gravitational-wave observations from the first half of LIGO–Virgo's third observing run

R Abbott, TD Abbott, S Abraham… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Gravitational lensing occurs when a massive object bends spacetime in a way that focuses
light rays toward an observer (see Bartelmann 2010, for a review). Lensing observations are …

Method for detection and reconstruction of gravitational wave transients with networks of advanced detectors

S Klimenko, G Vedovato, M Drago, F Salemi, V Tiwari… - Physical Review D, 2016 - APS
We present a method for detection and reconstruction of the gravitational wave (GW)
transients with the networks of advanced detectors. Originally designed to search for …

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 …

A gravitational wave observatory operating beyond the quantum shot-noise limit

Nature Physics, 2011 - nature.com
Around the globe several observatories are seeking the first direct detection of gravitational
waves (GWs). These waves are predicted by Einstein's general theory of relativity and are …