Collaboration Papers
2025
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and the KAGRA Collaboration
Open Data from LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA through the First Part of the Fourth Observing Run
arXiv:2508.18079v3 [gr-qc] 4 Nov 2025
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and the KAGRA Collaboration
GW241011 and GW241110: Exploring Binary Formation and Fundamental Physics with Asymmetric, High-Spin Black Hole Coalescences
arXiv:2510.26931v1 [astro-ph.HE] 30 Oct 2025
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and the KAGRA Collaboration
Directional Search for Persistent Gravitational Waves: Results from the First Part of
LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA’s Fourth Observing Run
arXiv:2510.17487v1 [gr-qc] 20 Oct 2025
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and the KAGRA Collaboration
GWTC-4.0: Constraints on the Cosmic Expansion Rate and Modified Gravitational-wave Propagation
arXiv:2509.04348v2 [astro-ph.CO] 7 Oct 2025
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and the KAGRA Collaboration
GWTC-4.0: An Introduction to Version 4.0 of the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog
arXiv:2508.18080v2 [gr-qc] 23 Sep 2025
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and the KAGRA Collaboration
GWTC-4.0: Population Properties of Merging Compact Binaries
arXiv:2508.18083v2 [astro-ph.HE] 17 Sep 2025
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and the KAGRA Collaboration
Directed searches for gravitational waves from ultralight vector boson clouds around merger remnant and galactic black holes during the first part of the fourth LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA observing run
arXiv:2509.07352v2 [gr-qc] 15 Sep 2025
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and the KAGRA Collaboration
GW250114: Testing Hawking’s Area Law and the Kerr Nature of Black Holes
arXiv:2509.08054v1 [gr-qc] 9 Sep 2025
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and the KAGRA Collaboration
GWTC-4.0: Updating the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog with Observations from the First Part of the Fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observing Run
arXiv:2508.18082 08 Sep 2025
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and the KAGRA Collaboration
Upper Limits on the Isotropic Gravitational-Wave Background from the first part of LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA’s fourth Observing Run
arXiv:2508.20721v1 [gr-qc] 28 Aug 2025
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and the KAGRA Collaboration
GWTC-4.0: Methods for Identifying and Characterizing Gravitational-wave Transients
arXiv:2508.18081v1 [gr-qc] 25 Aug 2025
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration, and The KAGRA Collaboration
All-sky search for short gravitational-wave bursts in the first part of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing run
arXiv:2507.12374v2 [astro-ph.HE] 4 Aug 2025
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration, and The KAGRA Collaboration
All-sky search for long-duration gravitational-wave transients in the first part of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observing run
arXiv:2507.12282v2 [gr-qc] 23 Jul 2025
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration, and The KAGRA Collaboration
GW231123: a Binary Black Hole Merger with Total Mass 190-265 M⊙
arXiv:2507.08219v1 [astro-ph.HE] 10 Jul 2025
Einstein Telescope collaboration
The Science of the Einstein Telescope
arXiv:2503.12263v1 [gr-qc] 15 Mar 2025
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration, and The KAGRA Collaboration
Search for continuous gravitational waves from known pulsars in the first part of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing run
arXiv:2501.01495v1 [astro-ph.HE] 2 Jan 2025
2024
The LIGO Scientific and VIRGO and KAGRA Collaborations
Search for gravitational waves emitted from SN 2023ixf
arXiv:2410.16565v1 [astro-ph.HE] 21 Oct 2024
The LIGO Scientific and VIRGO and KAGRA Collaborations
A search using GEO600 for gravitational waves coincident with fast radio bursts from SGR 1935+2154
arXiv:2410.09151v1 [astro-ph.HE] 11 Oct 2024
The LIGO Scientific and VIRGO and KAGRA Collaborations
Swift-BAT GUANO follow-up of gravitational-wave triggers in the third LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA
observing run
arXiv:2407.12867v1 [astro-ph.HE] 13 Jul 2024
The LIGO Scientific and VIRGO and KAGRA Collaborations
Observation of Gravitational Waves from the Coalescence of a 2.5–4.5 M Compact Object and a Neutron Star
arXiv:2404.04248v1 [astro-ph.HE] 5 Apr 2024
The LIGO Scientific and VIRGO and KAGRA Collaborations
Ultralight vector dark matter search using data from the KAGRA O3GK run
arXiv:2403.03004v1 [astro-ph.CO] 5 Mar 2024
2023
The GRANDMA Collaboration
Multi-band analyses of the bright GRB 230812B and the associated SN2023pel
arXiv:2310.14310v1 [astro-ph.HE] 22 Oct 2023
The LIGO Scientific and VIRGO and Fermi-GBM Collaborations
A Joint Fermi-GBM and Swift-BAT Analysis of Gravitational-Wave Candidates from the Third Gravitational-wave Observing Run
arXiv:2308.13666v1 [astro-ph.HE] 25 Aug 2023
The LIGO Scientific and VIRGO and RA Collaborations
Search for Eccentric Black Hole Coalescences during the Third Observing Run of LIGO and Virgo
arXiv:2308.03822v1 [astro-ph.HE] 7 Aug 2023
The LIGO Scientific and VIRGO and RA Collaborations
Search for gravitational-lensing signatures in the full third observing run of the LIGO–Virgo network
arXiv:2304.08393v1 [gr-qc] 17 Apr 2023
Member of the OSB Science Board
Science with the Einstein Telescope: a comparison of different designs
arXiv:2303.15923v1 [gr-qc] 28 Mar 2023
The GRANDMA Collaboration
GRANDMA and HXMT Observations of GRB 221009A - the Standard-Luminosity Afterglow of a Hyper-Luminous Gamma-Ray Burst
arXiv:2302.06225v1 [astro-ph.HE] 13 Feb 2023
The LIGO Scientific and VIRGO and KAGRA and GEO Collaborations
Open data from the third observing run of LIGO, Virgo, KAGRA and GEO
arXiv:2302.03676v1 [gr-qc] 7 Feb 2023
2022
The LIGO Scientific and VIRGO Collaborations
Search for subsolar-mass black hole binaries in the second part of Advanced LIGO’s and Advanced Virgo’s third observing run
arXiv:2212.01477v1 [astro-ph.HE] 2 Dec 2022
Snowmass 2021 Cosmic Frontier White Paper: The Dense Matter Equation of State and QCD Phase Transitions
arXiv:2209.07412v1 [astro-ph.HE] 15 Sep 2022
The GRANDMA Collaboration
The GRANDMA network in preparation for the fourth gravitational-wave observing run
Proc.SPIE Int.Soc.Opt.Eng. (2022) 121861H
arXiv:2207.10178v2 [astro-ph.IM] 27 Jul 2022
The LIGO Scientific and VIRGO and KAGRA and CHIME/FRB Collaborations
Search for continuous gravitational wave emission from the Milky Way center in O3 LIGO–Virgo data
arXiv:2204.04523v1 [astro-ph.HE] 9 Apr 2022
The LIGO Scientific and VIRGO and KAGRA Collaborations
Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with Fast Radio Bursts Detected by CHIME/FRB During the LIGO–Virgo Observing Run O3a
arXiv:2203.12038v1 [astro-ph.HE] 22 Mar 2022
K. Engel, T. Lewis, M. S. Muzio, T. M. Venters et al
Advancing the Landscape of Multimessenger Science in the Next Decade
arXiv:2203.10074v1 [astro-ph.HE] 18 Mar 2022
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and KAGRA Collaboration
First joint observation by the underground gravitational-wave detector, KAGRA, with GEO 600
arXiv:2203.01270v1 [gr-qc] 2 Mar 2022
The GRANDMA Collaboration
GRANDMA Observations of ZTF/Fink Transients during Summer 2021
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 515, Issue 4, October 2022, Pages 6007–6022
arXiv:2202.09766v1 [astro-ph.HE] 20 Feb 2022
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and KAGRA Collaboration
Search for gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1 with a hidden Markov model in O3 LIGO data
arXiv:2201.10104v1 [gr-qc] 25 Jan 2022
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and KAGRA Collaboration
All-sky search for continuous gravitational waves from isolated neutron stars using Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo O3 data
arXiv:2201.00697v1 [gr-qc] 3 Jan 2022
2021
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and KAGRA Collaboration
Narrowband searches for continuous and long-duration transient gravitational waves from known
pulsars in the LIGO-Virgo third observing run
arXiv:2112.10990v1 [gr-qc] 21 Dec 2021
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and KAGRA Collaboration
Tests of General Relativity with GWTC-3
arXiv:2112.06861v1 [gr-qc] 13 Dec 2021
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, and the Virgo Collaboration
Search of the Early O3 LIGO Data for Continuous Gravitational Waves from the Cassiopeia A and Vela Jr. Supernova Remnants
arXiv:2111.15116v1 [gr-qc] 30 Nov 2021
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and KAGRA Collaboration
All-sky search for gravitational wave emission from scalar boson clouds around spinning black holes in LIGO O3 data
arXiv:2111.15507v1 [astro-ph.HE] 30 Nov 2021
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and KAGRA Collaboration
Searches for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars at Two Harmonics in the Second and Third LIGO-Virgo Observing Runs
arXiv:2111.13106v1 [astro-ph.HE] 25 Nov 2021
Gravitational Wave International Committee
The Next Generation Global Gravitational Wave Observatory, The Science Book
arXiv:2111.06990v1 [gr-qc] 12 Nov 2021
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and KAGRA Collaboration
Constraints on the cosmic expansion history from GWTC–3
arXiv:2111.03604v1 [astro-ph.CO] 5 Nov 2021
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and KAGRA Collaboration
Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts Detected by Fermi and Swift During the LIGO-Virgo Run O3b
arXiv:2111.03608v1 [astro-ph.HE] 5 Nov 2021
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and KAGRA Collaboration
The population of merging compact binaries inferred using gravitational waves through GWTC-3
arXiv:2111.03634v1 [astro-ph.HE] 5 Nov 2021
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and KAGRA Collaboration
GWTC-3: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo During the
Second Part of the Third Observing Run
arXiv:2111.03606v1 [gr-qc] 5 Nov 2021
EuCAPT White Paper
Opportunities and Challenges for Theoretical Astroparticle Physics in the Next Decade
arXiv:2110.10074v1 [astro-ph.HE] 19 Oct 2021
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration
All-sky, all-frequency directional search for persistent gravitational-waves from
Advanced LIGO’s and Advanced Virgo’s first three observing runs
arXiv:2110.09834v1 [gr-qc] 19 Oct 2021
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration
Search for subsolar-mass binaries in the first half of Advanced LIGO and Virgo’s third observing run
arXiv:2109.12197v1 [astro-ph.CO] 24 Sep 2021
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and KAGRA Collaboration
Search for continuous gravitational waves from 20 accreting millisecond X-ray pulsars in O3 LIGO data
arXiv:2109.09255v1 [astro-ph.HE] 20 Sep 2021
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration
GWTC-2.1: Deep Extended Catalog of Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by
LIGO and Virgo During the First Half of the Third Observing Run
arXiv:2108.01045v1 [gr-qc] 2 Aug 2021
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and KAGRA Collaboration
All-sky search for long-duration gravitational-wave bursts in the third Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo run
arXiv:2107.13796v1 [gr-qc] 29 Jul 2021
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration
Calibration of Advanced Virgo and reconstructionof detector strainh(t)during the Observing Run O3
arXiv:2107.03294v1 [gr-qc] 7 Jul 2021
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration
All-sky Search for Continuous Gravitational Waves from Isolated Neutron Stars in the Early O3 LIGO Data
arXiv:2107.00600v1 [gr-qc] 1 Jul 2021
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration
Observation of Gravitational Waves from Two Neutron Star–Black Hole Coalescences
The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 915, Number 1-Published 29 June 2021
arXiv:2106.15163v1 [astro-ph.HE] 29 Jun 2021
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration
Constraints on dark photon dark matter using data from LIGO’s and Virgo’s thirdobserving run
arXiv:2105.13085v1 [astro-ph.CO] 27 May 2021
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration
Searches for continuous gravitational waves from young supernova remnantsin the early third observing run of Advanced LIGO and Virgo
arXiv:2105.11641v1 [astro-ph.HE] 25 May 2021
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration
Search for lensing signatures in the gravitational-wave observations from the first half of LIGO-Virgo’s
third observing run
arXiv:2105.06384v1 [gr-qc] 13 May 2021
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration
Constraints from LIGO O3 data on gravitational-wave emission due to r-modes in the glitching pulsarPSR J0537−6910
arXiv:2104.14417v1 [astro-ph.HE] 29 Apr 2021
ZTF collaboration et al
Fast-transient Searches in Real Time with ZTFReST: Identification of Three Optically-discovered Gamma-ray BurstAfterglows and New Constraints on the Kilonova Rate
arXiv:2104.06352v1 [astro-ph.HE] 13 Apr 2021
The LIGO Scientific, the Virgo, and the KAGRA Collaborations
Search for anisotropic gravitational-wave backgrounds using data from AdvancedLIGO’s and Advanced Virgo’s first three observing runs
arXiv:2103.08520v1 [gr-qc] 15 Mar 2021
The LIGO Scientific, the Virgo, and the KAGRA Collaborations
Constraints on cosmic strings using data from the third Advanced LIGO-Virgo observing run
arXiv:2101.12248v1 [gr-qc] 28 Jan 2021
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration
Upper Limits on the Isotropic Gravitational-Wave Background from AdvancedLIGO’s and Advanced Virgo’s Third Observing Run
arXiv:2101.12130v1 [gr-qc] 28 Jan 2021
2020
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration
Diving below the spin-down limit: Constraints on gravitational waves from the energetic young pulsarPSR J0537−6910
arXiv:2012.12926v1 [astro-ph.HE]
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration
All-sky search in early O3 LIGO data for continuous gravitational-wave signals fromunknown neutron stars in binary systems
arXiv:2012.12128v1 [gr-qc]
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration
Tests of General Relativity with Binary Black Holes from the second LIGO–Virgo Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog
arXiv:2010.14529 [gr-qc]
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration
Population properties of compact objects from the second LIGO–Virgo Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog
arXiv:2010.14533v1 [astro-ph.HE]
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration
Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts Detected byFermi and Swift During the LIGO-Virgo Run O3a
arXiv:2010.14550 [astro-ph.HE]
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration
GWTC-2: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo During theFirst Half of the Third Observing Run
arXiv:2010.14527v1 [gr-qc]
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration
Prospects for observing and localizing gravitational-wave transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA
Living Reviews in Relativity volume 23, Article number: 3 (2020) - Published 28 September 2020
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration
Quantum Backaction on kg-Scale Mirrors: Observation of RadiationPressure Noise in the Advanced Virgo Detector
Phys. Rev. Lett.125, 131101 – Published 22 September 2020
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration
Properties and astrophysical implications of the 150 M binary black hole merger GW190521
The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 900, Number 1 - Published 2 September 2020
arxiv:2009.01190 [astro-ph.HE]
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration
GW190521: A Binary Black Hole Merger with a Total Mass of 150 M
Phys. Rev. Lett.125, 101102 – Published 2 September 2020
arxiv:2009.01075 [astro-ph.HE]
GRANDMA Collaboration
GRANDMA: A network to coordinate them all
arXiv:2008.03962v1 [astro-ph.HE]
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration
Gravitational-wave constraints on the equatorial ellipticity of millisecond pulsars
The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 902, Number 1 - Published 12 October 2020
arXiv:2007.14251v1 [astro-ph.HE]
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration
GW190814: Gravitational Waves from the Coalescence of a 23 Solar Mass Black Holewith a 2.6 Solar Mass Compact Object
The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 896, Number 2 - Published 23 June 2020
arXiv:2006.12611 [astro-ph.HE]
GRANDMA Collaboration,
GRANDMA Observations of Advanced LIGO's and Advanced Virgo's Third Observational Campaign,
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, staa1846,
arXiv:2004.04277 [astro-ph.HE].
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration
GW190412: Observation of a Binary-Black-Hole Coalescence with Asymmetric Masses
arXiv:2004.08342 [astro-ph.HE].