Aframe neural network achieves matched-filter sensitivity for binary neutron star GW searches at lower computational cost using heterodyning and a single GPU.
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GWTC-5.0: An Introduction to Version 5.0 of the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog
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The Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC) is a collection of short-duration (transient) gravitational-wave signals identified by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration in gravitational-wave data produced by the eponymous detectors. The catalog provides information about the identified candidates, such as the arrival time and amplitude of the signal and properties of the signal's source as inferred from the observational data. GWTC is the release of this dataset and version 5.0 extends the catalog to include observations made during the second part of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing run up until 2025 January 28. This paper marks an introduction to a collection of articles related to this version of the catalog, GWTC-5.0. This update significantly increases the number of detected merging binary systems of black holes and neutron stars to over 300, enabling many follow-up studies toward understanding the gravitational-wave universe. The collection of articles accompanying the catalog provides documentation of the methods used to analyze the data, summaries of the catalog of events, observational measurements drawn from the population, and detailed discussions of selected candidates.
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Calculates energy fluxes with quadratic-in-spin and quadrupole effects for small-mass-ratio spinning binaries in self-force theory, providing numerical data and sixth-order PN expansions.
Hierarchical Bayesian analysis of GWTC-5.0 data identifies a mass transition at 15.2 solar masses separating distinct effective-spin distributions, pointing to different formation channels for low-mass binary black holes.
Strong lensing of MBHBs produces identifiable beat patterns in about 7% of detectable two-image LISA events, with Bayesian inference recovering time delay and magnification parameters.
Derives boost transformations for GW polarizations, proposes symmetry classification without preferred frames, and analyzes preferred-frame effects in Bumblebee gravity including novel polarization conversion.
Simulations of wave-optics lensing of GW150914-like signals by globular clusters recover injected velocity dispersion values for favorable alignments when lens and source parameters are jointly estimated.
Hierarchical analysis of GWTC-3 yields C_eff = 0.5^{+0.3}_{-0.1} consistent with black holes and limits low-compactness exotic binary merger rate to <0.7 Gpc^{-3} yr^{-1}.
PhenomDECO analysis of GWTC-3 events finds all considered signals consistent with binary black holes once low-frequency noise effects are addressed via higher starting frequencies.
GWTC-5.0 analysis finds evidence for structure beyond a non-skewed Gaussian bulk in χ_eff, with suggestive mass-dependent excess of positive over negative spins outside the bulk at 13:1 odds in one mass bin.
A review summarizing formation-channel predictions, waveform effects, and population-level constraints on stellar-mass black hole spins from the first decade of gravitational-wave observations.
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AI-enabled gravitational-waves searches for binary neutron stars at optimal sensitivity
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Distinct spin properties and astrophysical origin of low mass binary black holes in gravitational wave data
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Identification of Lensed Gravitational-Wave Beat Patterns by LISA
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Reference Frames and Gravitational-Wave Polarizations: Symmetry Classification and Preferred-Frame Phenomenology
Derives boost transformations for GW polarizations, proposes symmetry classification without preferred frames, and analyzes preferred-frame effects in Bumblebee gravity including novel polarization conversion.
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Probing globular clusters parameters through gravitational wave lensing with stellar-mass black hole binaries
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Establishing Compactness as a Population Observable in Gravitational-Wave Astronomy
Hierarchical analysis of GWTC-3 yields C_eff = 0.5^{+0.3}_{-0.1} consistent with black holes and limits low-compactness exotic binary merger rate to <0.7 Gpc^{-3} yr^{-1}.
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Compactness Inference in Gravitational-Wave Mergers with PhenomDECO: Catalog Benchmarks and Robustness Diagnostics
PhenomDECO analysis of GWTC-3 events finds all considered signals consistent with binary black holes once low-frequency noise effects are addressed via higher starting frequencies.
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Evidence for additional structure in the effective spin distribution hints at multiple formation pathways in GWTC-5.0
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The first decade of gravitational-wave measurements of black hole spins
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