Systematic biases in parameter estimation of binary black-hole mergers

Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspiral, merger, and ringdown in LIGO-Virgo data from 2009–2010

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

Virgo: a laser interferometer to detect gravitational waves

(2012) T Accadia et al.   Journal of Instrumentation

Estimating parameters of coalescing compact binaries with proposed advanced detector networks

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

Prototype effective-one-body model for nonprecessing spinning inspiral-merger-ringdown waveforms

(2012) Andrea Taracchini 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

Testing general relativity with gravitational waves: A reality check

(2012) Michele Vallisneri   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Modeling multipolar gravitational-wave emission from small mass-ratio mergers

(2012) Enrico Barausse et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Search for gravitational waves from intermediate mass binary black holes

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

Simulations of unequal-mass black hole binaries with spectral methods

(2012) Luisa T. Buchman et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Towards a generic test of the strong field dynamics of general relativity using compact binary coalescence

(2012) T. G. F. Li et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspiral, merger, and ringdown

(2011) J. Abadie et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Inspiral-merger-ringdown multipolar waveforms of nonspinning black-hole binaries using the effective-one-body formalism

(2011) Yi Pan et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Gravitational wave tests of general relativity with the parameterized post-Einsteinian framework

(2011) Neil Cornish et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Sky localization of complete inspiral-merger-ringdown signals for nonspinning massive black hole binaries

(2011) Sean T. McWilliams et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Reconstructing the massive black hole cosmic history through gravitational waves

(2011) Alberto Sesana et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Beyond the Fisher-Matrix Formalism: Exact Sampling Distributions of the Maximum-Likelihood Estimator in Gravitational-Wave Parameter Estimation

(2011) Michele Vallisneri   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

ON THE MAXIMUM MASS OF STELLAR BLACK HOLES

(2010) Krzysztof Belczynski et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

The effects of LIGO detector noise on a 15-dimensional Markov-chain Monte Carlo analysis of gravitational-wave signals

(2010) V Raymond et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

The International Pulsar Timing Array project: using pulsars as a gravitational wave detector

(2010) G Hobbs et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

Advanced LIGO: the next generation of gravitational wave detectors

(2010) Gregory M Harry et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

The R136 star cluster hosts several stars whose individual masses greatly exceed the accepted 150 M⊙ stellar mass limit

(2010) Paul A. Crowther et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Impact of mergers on LISA parameter estimation for nonspinning black hole binaries

(2010) Sean T. McWilliams et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

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

Effective-one-body waveforms calibrated to numerical relativity simulations: Coalescence of nonprecessing, spinning, equal-mass black holes

(2010) Yi Pan et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Observing mergers of nonspinning black-hole binaries

(2010) Sean T. McWilliams et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Search for gravitational waves from compact binary coalescence in LIGO and Virgo data from S5 and VSR1

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

Improved time-domain accuracy standards for model gravitational waveforms

(2010) Lee Lindblom et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Massive black-hole binary inspirals: results from the LISA parameter estimation taskforce

(2009) K G Arun et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

LISA parameter estimation using numerical merger waveforms

(2009) J I Thorpe et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

LISAtechnology and instrumentation

(2009) O Jennrich   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

Constraining the black hole mass spectrum with gravitational wave observations - I. The error kernel

(2009) Joseph E. Plowman et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Use and abuse of the model waveform accuracy standards

(2009) Lee Lindblom   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Improved analytical description of inspiralling and coalescing black-hole binaries

(2009) Thibault Damour et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Estimating the parameters of nonspinning binary black holes using ground-based gravitational-wave detectors: Statistical errors

(2009) P. Ajith et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

LIGO: the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory

(2009) B P Abbott et al.   REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS

Localizing Coalescing Massive Black Hole Binaries with Gravitational Waves

(2008) Ryan N. Lang et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

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

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

(2008) Yi Pan et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Comparing effective-one-body gravitational waveforms to accurate numerical data

(2008) Thibault Damour et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D