Population Properties of Compact Objects from the Second LIGO–Virgo Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog

Heavy Double Neutron Stars: Birth, Midlife, and Death

(2021) Shanika Galaudage et al.   Astrophysical Journal Letters

Merger Rate Density of Population III Binary Black Holes Below, Above, and in the Pair-instability Mass Gap

(2021) Ataru Tanikawa et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

The origin of spin in binary black holes: Predicting the distributions of the main observables of Advanced LIGO

(2020) S. S. Bavera et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Effective spin distribution of black hole mergers in triples

(2020) Giacomo Fragione et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

dynesty: A Dynamic Nested Sampling Package for Estimating Bayesian Posteriors and Evidences

(2020) Joshua S Speagle   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Evolutionary roads leading to low effective spins, high black hole masses, and O1/O2 rates for LIGO/Virgo binary black holes

(2020) K. Belczynski et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Binary black hole mergers in AGN accretion discs: gravitational wave rate density estimates

(2020) M. Gröbner et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Monte Carlo simulations of black hole mergers in AGN discs: Low χeff mergers and predictions for LIGO

(2020) B McKernan et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The impact of stellar rotation on the black hole mass-gap from pair-instability supernovae

(2020) Pablo Marchant et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Binary black holes in the pair instability mass gap

(2020) Ugo N Di Carlo et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The astrophysical odds of GW151216

(2020) Gregory Ashton et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

A compact object in the mass gap

(2020) Mohammadtaher Safarzadeh   Nature Astronomy

Characterization of systematic error in Advanced LIGO calibration

(2020) Ling Sun et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

Bayesian inference for compact binary coalescences with Bilby: Validation and application to the first LIGO–Virgo gravitational-wave transient catalogue

(2020) I M Romero-Shaw et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

GW190521: A Binary Black Hole Merger with a Total Mass of 150  M⊙

(2020) R. Abbott et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

A new channel to form IMBHs throughout cosmic time

(2020) Priyamvada Natarajan   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Neutron Star Equation of State in Light of GW190814

(2020) Hung Tan et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Extracting distribution parameters from multiple uncertain observations with selection biases

(2019) Ilya Mandel et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Slowing the Spins of Stellar Cores

(2019) Jim Fuller et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Constraints on binary black hole populations from LIGO–Virgo detections

(2019) Javier Roulet et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Black hole mergers from quadruples

(2019) Giacomo Fragione et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Merging black holes in young star clusters

(2019) Ugo N Di Carlo et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Black hole and neutron star mergers in galactic nuclei

(2019) Giacomo Fragione et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Unraveling the origin of black holes from effective spin measurements with LIGO-Virgo

(2019) Nicolas Fernandez et al.   JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS

GWTC-1: A Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog of Compact Binary Mergers Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First and Second Observing Runs

(2019) B. P. Abbott et al.   Physical Review X

The effect of the metallicity-specific star formation history on double compact object mergers

(2019) Coenraad J Neijssel et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Searching for eccentricity: signatures of dynamical formation in the first gravitational-wave transient catalogue of LIGO and Virgo

(2019) Isobel M Romero-Shaw et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Hierarchical Black Hole Mergers in Active Galactic Nuclei

(2019) Y. Yang et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

A noninteracting low-mass black hole–giant star binary system

(2019) Todd A. Thompson et al.   SCIENCE

Generation of massive stellar black holes by rapid gas accretion in primordial dense clusters

(2019) Zacharias Roupas et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

The spin of the second-born black hole in coalescing binary black holes

(2018) Y. Qin et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Estimation of the sensitive volume for gravitational-wave source populations using weighted Monte Carlo integration

(2018) Vaibhav Tiwari   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

Gravitational lensing of gravitational waves: a statistical perspective

(2018) Shun-Sheng Li et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

What if LIGO’s gravitational wave detections are strongly lensed by massive galaxy clusters?

(2018) Graham P Smith et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Post-Newtonian Dynamics in Dense Star Clusters: Highly Eccentric, Highly Spinning, and Repeated Binary Black Hole Mergers

(2018) Carl L. Rodriguez et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

The spin of the second-born black hole in coalescing binary black holes

(2018) Y. Qin et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

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

(2018) B. P. Abbott et al.   Living Reviews in Relativity

Effect of gravitational lensing on the distribution of gravitational waves from distant binary black hole mergers

(2018) Masamune Oguri   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

A consistent estimate for gravitational wave and electromagnetic transient rates

(2018) J J Eldridge et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Black Hole Mergers from an Evolving Population of Globular Clusters

(2018) Giacomo Fragione et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Stan: A Probabilistic Programming Language

(2017) Bob Carpenter et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

The expected spins of gravitational wave sources with isolated field binary progenitors

(2017) Matias Zaldarriaga et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Formation pathway of Population III coalescing binary black holes through stable mass transfer

(2017) Kohei Inayoshi et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Hierarchical analysis of gravitational-wave measurements of binary black hole spin–orbit misalignments

(2017) Simon Stevenson et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Merging black hole binaries: the effects of progenitor's metallicity, mass-loss rate and Eddington factor

(2017) Nicola Giacobbo et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The cosmic merger rate of stellar black hole binaries from the Illustris simulation

(2017) Michela Mapelli et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Very massive stars, pair-instability supernovae and intermediate-mass black holes with the sevn code

(2017) Mario Spera et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Black hole binaries dynamically formed in globular clusters

(2017) Dawoo Park et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Distinguishing spin-aligned and isotropic black hole populations with gravitational waves

(2017) Will M. Farr et al.   NATURE

Inferences about Supernova Physics from Gravitational-Wave Measurements: GW151226 Spin Misalignment as an Indicator of Strong Black-Hole Natal Kicks

(2017) Richard O’Shaughnessy et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Impact of Bayesian Priors on the Characterization of Binary Black Hole Coalescences

(2017) Salvatore Vitale et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Binary Population and Spectral Synthesis Version 2.1: Construction, Observational Verification, and New Results

(2017) J. J. Eldridge et al.   PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA

A new route towards merging massive black holes

(2016) Pablo Marchant et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

The effect of pair-instability mass loss on black-hole mergers

(2016) K. Belczynski et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

The PyCBC search for gravitational waves from compact binary coalescence

(2016) Samantha A Usman et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

Low-latency analysis pipeline for compact binary coalescences in the advanced gravitational wave detector era

(2016) T Adams et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

Assisted inspirals of stellar mass black holes embedded in AGN discs: solving the ‘final au problem’

(2016) Nicholas C. Stone et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

GW150914: spin-based constraints on the merger time of the progenitor system

(2016) Doron Kushnir et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Massive black hole binaries from runaway collisions: the impact of metallicity

(2016) Michela Mapelli   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The chemically homogeneous evolutionary channel for binary black hole mergers: rates and properties of gravitational-wave events detectable by advanced LIGO

(2016) S. E. de Mink et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Hierarchical black hole triples in young star clusters: impact of Kozai–Lidov resonance on mergers

(2016) Thomas O. Kimpson et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Merging binary black holes formed through chemically homogeneous evolution in short-period stellar binaries

(2016) Ilya Mandel et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Properties of the Binary Black Hole Merger GW150914

(2016) B. P. Abbott et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

GW151226: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a 22-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence

(2016) B. P. Abbott et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

A new route towards merging massive black holes

(2016) Pablo Marchant et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

The effect of pair-instability mass loss on black-hole mergers

(2016) K. Belczynski et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Characterization of the LIGO detectors during their sixth science run

(2015) J Aasi et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

Towards models of gravitational waveforms from generic binaries: II. Modelling precession effects with a single effective precession parameter

(2015) Patricia Schmidt et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

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

(2015) J. Veitch et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Binary Black Hole Mergers from Globular Clusters: Implications for Advanced LIGO

(2015) Carl L. Rodriguez et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Cosmic Star-Formation History

(2014) Piero Madau et al.   Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics

THE FORMATION OF ECCENTRIC COMPACT BINARY INSPIRALS AND THE ROLE OF GRAVITATIONAL WAVE EMISSION IN BINARY-SINGLE STELLAR ENCOUNTERS

(2014) Johan Samsing et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

BLACK HOLE TRIPLE DYNAMICS: A BREAKDOWN OF THE ORBIT AVERAGE APPROXIMATION AND IMPLICATIONS FOR GRAVITATIONAL WAVE DETECTIONS

(2014) Fabio Antonini et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Advanced Virgo: a second-generation interferometric gravitational wave detector

(2014) F Acernese et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

Dynamics of stellar black holes in young star clusters with different metallicities - II. Black hole-black hole binaries

(2014) B. M. Ziosi et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Effective-one-body model for black-hole binaries with generic mass ratios and spins

(2014) Andrea Taracchini et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Inspiral-merger-ringdown waveforms of spinning, precessing black-hole binaries in the effective-one-body formalism

(2014) Yi Pan et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Implementing a search for aligned-spin neutron star-black hole systems with advanced ground based gravitational wave detectors

(2014) Tito Dal Canton et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Simple Model of Complete Precessing Black-Hole-Binary Gravitational Waveforms

(2014) Mark Hannam et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

DOUBLE COMPACT OBJECTS. II. COSMOLOGICAL MERGER RATES

(2013) Michal Dominik et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

emcee: The MCMC Hammer

(2013) Daniel Foreman-Mackey et al.   PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC

MASS MEASUREMENTS OF BLACK HOLES IN X-RAY TRANSIENTS: IS THERE A MASS GAP?

(2012) Laura Kreidberg et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Intermediate mass black holes in AGN discs - I. Production and growth

(2012) B. McKernan et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Towards models of gravitational waveforms from generic binaries: A simple approximate mapping between precessing and nonprecessing inspiral signals

(2012) Patricia Schmidt et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

FINDCHIRP: An algorithm for detection of gravitational waves from inspiraling compact binaries

(2012) Bruce Allen et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

THE MASS DISTRIBUTION OF STELLAR-MASS BLACK HOLES

(2011) Will M. Farr et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Compact binaries in star clusters - II. Escapers and detection rates

(2011) J. M. B. Downing et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

THE BLACK HOLE MASS DISTRIBUTION IN THE GALAXY

(2010) Feryal Özel et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Compact binary coalescences in the band of ground-based gravitational-wave detectors

(2010) Ilya Mandel et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

MERGERS OF STELLAR-MASS BLACK HOLES IN NUCLEAR STAR CLUSTERS

(2009) M. Coleman Miller et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Gravitational waves from scattering of stellar-mass black holes in galactic nuclei

(2009) Ryan M. O'Leary et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Stellar-mass black holes in star clusters: implications for gravitational wave radiation

(2009) Sambaran Banerjee et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Host Galaxies Catalog Used in LIGO Searches for Compact Binary Coalescence Events

(2008) Ravi Kumar Kopparapu et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Cosmological Black Hole Spin Evolution by Mergers and Accretion

(2008) Emanuele Berti et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

MODELING THE RETENTION PROBABILITY OF BLACK HOLES IN GLOBULAR CLUSTERS: KICKS AND RATES

(2008) Kenneth Moody et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL