Properties of the Binary Black Hole Merger GW150914

Prospects for Observing and Localizing Gravitational-Wave Transients with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo

(2016) B. P. Abbott et al.   Living Reviews in Relativity

Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

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

Improved methods for simulating nearly extremal binary black holes

(2015) Mark A Scheel et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

Bayeswave: Bayesian inference for gravitational wave bursts and instrument glitches

(2015) Neil J Cornish et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

Advanced LIGO

(2015) et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

Multi-timescale analysis of phase transitions in precessing black-hole binaries

(2015) Davide Gerosa et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

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

Approaching the Post-Newtonian Regime with Numerical Relativity: A Compact-Object Binary Simulation Spanning 350 Gravitational-Wave Cycles

(2015) Béla Szilágyi et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Precessional Instability in Binary Black Holes with Aligned Spins

(2015) Davide Gerosa et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

ON DISCOVERING ELECTROMAGNETIC EMISSION FROM NEUTRON STAR MERGERS: THE EARLY YEARS OF TWO GRAVITATIONAL WAVE DETECTORS

(2014) Mansi M. Kasliwal et al.   Astrophysical Journal Letters

Frequency-domain reduced order models for gravitational waves from aligned-spin compact binaries

(2014) Michael Pürrer   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

Testing general relativity with compact coalescing binaries: comparing exact and predictive methods to compute the Bayes factor

(2014) Walter Del Pozzo et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

The overlap of numerical relativity, perturbation theory and post-Newtonian theory in the binary black hole problem

(2014) Alexandre Le Tiec   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS D

Gravitational Radiation from Post-Newtonian Sources and Inspiralling Compact Binaries

(2014) Luc Blanchet   Living Reviews in Relativity

A more effective coordinate system for parameter estimation of precessing compact binaries from gravitational waves

(2014) Benjamin Farr et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Comparison of gravitational wave detector network sky localization approximations

(2014) K. Grover et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

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

Remnant mass, spin, and recoil from spin aligned black-hole binaries

(2014) James Healy et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Measuring the Spin of Black Holes in Binary Systems Using Gravitational Waves

(2014) Salvatore Vitale et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

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

(2014) Mark Hannam et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

THE ULTRALUMINOUS GRB 110918A

(2013) D. D. Frederiks et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Addendum to ‘The NINJA-2 catalog of hybrid post-Newtonian/numerical-relativity waveforms for non-precessing black-hole binaries’

(2013) P Ajith et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

Error-analysis and comparison to analytical models of numerical waveforms produced by the NRAR Collaboration

(2013) Ian Hinder et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

Dynamical Boson Stars

(2013) Steven L. Liebling et al.   Living Reviews in Relativity

Precession during merger: Strong polarization changes are observationally accessible features of strong-field gravity during binary black hole merger

(2013) R. O’Shaughnessy et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Degeneracy between mass and spin in black-hole-binary waveforms

(2013) Emily Baird et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Parameter estimation for compact binary coalescence signals with the first generation gravitational-wave detector network

(2013) J. Aasi et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Testing the validity of the single-spin approximation in inspiral-merger-ringdown waveforms

(2013) Michael Pürrer et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Resonant-plane locking and spin alignment in stellar-mass black-hole binaries: A diagnostic of compact-binary formation

(2013) Davide Gerosa et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Catalog of 174 Binary Black Hole Simulations for Gravitational Wave Astronomy

(2013) Abdul H. Mroué et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

A Massive Pulsar in a Compact Relativistic Binary

(2013) J. Antoniadis et al.   SCIENCE

Mass Measurements of Stellar and Intermediate-Mass Black Holes

(2013) J. Casares et al.   SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS

The NINJA-2 catalog of hybrid post-Newtonian/numerical-relativity waveforms for non-precessing black-hole binaries

(2012) P Ajith et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

Analytical meets numerical relativity: status of complete gravitational waveform models for binary black holes

(2012) Frank Ohme   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

Estimating parameters of coalescing compact binaries with proposed advanced detector networks

(2012) J. Veitch et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

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

Effect of calibration errors on Bayesian parameter estimation for gravitational wave signals from inspiral binary systems in the advanced detectors era

(2012) Salvatore Vitale et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Measuring the spins of accreting black holes

(2011) Jeffrey E McClintock et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

Addressing the spin question in gravitational-wave searches: Waveform templates for inspiralling compact binaries with nonprecessing spins

(2011) P. Ajith   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Hangup Kicks: Still Larger Recoils by Partial Spin-Orbit Alignment of Black-Hole Binaries

(2011) Carlos O. Lousto et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Inspiral-Merger-Ringdown Waveforms for Black-Hole Binaries with Nonprecessing Spins

(2011) P. Ajith et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

EXPLORING SHORT GAMMA-RAY BURSTS AS GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE STANDARD SIRENS

(2010) Samaya Nissanke et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Matching post-Newtonian and numerical relativity waveforms: Systematic errors and a new phenomenological model for nonprecessing black hole binaries

(2010) L. Santamaría et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Improved effective-one-body Hamiltonian for spinning black-hole binaries

(2010) Enrico Barausse et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Bayesian coherent analysis of in-spiral gravitational wave signals with a detector network

(2010) J. Veitch et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Triangulation of gravitational wave sources with a network of detectors

(2009) Stephen Fairhurst   NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS

Gravitational-wave detectability of equal-mass black-hole binaries with aligned spins

(2009) Christian Reisswig et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Improved analytical description of inspiralling and coalescing black-hole binaries

(2009) Thibault Damour et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Gravitational-Wave Astronomy with Inspiral Signals of Spinning Compact-Object Binaries

(2008) M. V. van der Sluys et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

On IC 10 X-1, the Most Massive Known Stellar-Mass Black Hole

(2008) Jeffrey M. Silverman et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Parameter estimation of spinning binary inspirals using Markov chain Monte Carlo

(2008) Marc van der Sluys et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

Template bank for gravitational waveforms from coalescing binary black holes: Nonspinning binaries

(2008) P. Ajith et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Data-analysis driven comparison of analytic and numerical coalescing binary waveforms: Nonspinning case

(2008) Yi Pan et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Mergers of nonspinning black-hole binaries: Gravitational radiation characteristics

(2008) John G. Baker et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Effective one body approach to the dynamics of two spinning black holes with next-to-leading order spin-orbit coupling

(2008) Thibault Damour et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Calibration of moving puncture simulations

(2008) Bernd Brügmann et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Analysis of spin precession in binary black hole systems including quadrupole-monopole interaction

(2008) Étienne Racine   PHYSICAL REVIEW D