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GW231123: A Binary Black Hole Merger with Total Mass 190─265 M⊙

Abac, A. G. et al.The Astrophysical Journal2025

Evidence of the pair instability gap in the distribution of black hole masses

Tong, H. et al.Research Square2025

GWTC-4.0: Population Properties of Merging Compact Binaries

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration et al.arXiv e-prints2025

Implications of modern mass-loss rates for massive stars

Merritt, JD et al.arXiv e-prints2025

tBilby: Transdimensional inference for gravitational-wave astronomy with Bilby

Tong, Hui et al.Astrophysics Source Code Library2025

Transdimensional Inference for Gravitational-wave Astronomy with Bilby

Hui Tong et al.The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series2025

Hierarchical BBH formation channels

Paul, Sangeet et al.American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts2025

Gravitational wave detection and characterization

Farr, B. Encyclopedia of Astrophysics2025

Are all models wrong? Falsifying binary formation models in gravitational-wave astronomy using exceptional events

Passenger, Lachlan et al.Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society2024

Astrophysical environments of hierarchical black hole mergers

Paul, Sangeet et al.American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts2024

Are all models wrong? Falsifying binary formation models in gravitational-wave astronomy

Passenger, L. et al.Arxiv2024

Transdimensional inference for gravitational-wave astronomy with Bilby

Tong, H. et al.Arxiv2024

Comprehensive Data-Driven Characterization of the Binary Black Hole Population

Edelman, Bruce et al.American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts2023

Hierarchical Black Hole Mergers in GWTC3

Paul, Sangeet et al.American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts2023

Reading Between the Lines: Searching for Evidence of Black Hole Subpopulations in GWTC-3

Godfrey, Jaxen et al.American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts2023

Cosmic Cousins: Identification of a Subpopulation of Binary Black Holes Consistent with Isolated Binary Evolution

Godfrey, J. et al.Arxiv2023

Cover Your Basis: Comprehensive Data-driven Characterization of the Binary Black Hole Population

Edelman, B. et al.Astrophysical Journal2023

Population of Merging Compact Binaries Inferred Using Gravitational Waves through GWTC-3

Abbott, R. et al.Physical Review X2023

Things That Might Go Bump in the Night: Assessing Structure in the Binary Black Hole Mass Spectrum

Farah, A.M. et al.Astrophysical Journal2023

Things that might go bump in the night: Assessing structure in the binary black hole mass spectrum

Farah, A.M. et al.Arxiv2023

Cover Your Basis: Comprehensive Data-Driven Characterization of the Binary Black Hole Population

Edelman, B. et al.Arxiv2022

CAREER: Education and Discovery in Astrophysics with Gravitational Waves

Farr, Benjamin NSF Award2022

Ain't No Mountain High Enough: Semiparametric Modeling of LIGO-Virgo's Binary Black Hole Mass Distribution

Edelman, B. et al.Astrophysical Journal2022

SOAR/Goodman Spectroscopic Assessment of Candidate Counterparts of the LIGO/Virgo Event GW190814

Tucker, D.L. et al.Astrophysical Journal2022

Semi-Parametric Heirarchical Inference of LIGO-Virgos Binary Black Hole Mass Distribution

Edelman, Bruce et al.APS April Meeting Abstracts2022

Ain't No Mountain High Enough: Semi-Parametric Modeling of LIGO-Virgos Binary Black Hole Mass Distribution

Edelman, B. et al.Arxiv2021

Transient glitch mitigation in Advanced LIGO data with $\textit{glitschen}$

Merritt, Jonathan et al.arXiv e-prints2021

Know Your Noise: Discovery in Gravitational Wave Astronomy Through Parametric Noise Modeling

Farr, Benjamin NSF Award2021

When are LIGO/Virgo's Big Black-Hole Mergers?

Fishbach, Maya et al.arXiv e-prints2021

A Gravitational-wave Measurement of the Hubble Constant following the Second Observing Run of Advanced LIGO and Virgo

Abbott, B.P. et al.Astrophysical Journal2021

Black Hole Leftovers: The Remnant Population from Binary Black Hole Mergers

Doctor, Z. et al.Arxiv2021

GWTC-2: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First Half of the Third Observing Run

Abbott, R. et al.Physical Review X2021

Observation of Gravitational Waves from Two Neutron Star-Black Hole Coalescences

Abbott, R. et al.Astrophysical Journal Letters2021

Physical approach to the marginalization of LIGO calibration uncertainties

Vitale, S. et al.Physical Review D2021

Poking Holes: Looking for Gaps in LIGO/Virgo's Black Hole Population

Edelman, B. et al.Arxiv2021

Population properties of compact objects from the second LIGO-Virgo gravitational-wave transient catalog

Abbott, R. et al.Astrophysical Journal Letters2021

SOAR/Goodman Spectroscopic Assessment of Candidate Counterparts of the LIGO-Virgo Event GW190814

Tucker, D.L. et al.Arxiv2021

Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts Detected by Fermi and Swift during the LIGO-Virgo Run O3a

Abbott, R. et al.Astrophysical Journal2021

Tests of general relativity with binary black holes from the second LIGO-Virgo gravitational-wave transient catalog

Abbott, R. et al.Physical Review D2021

Transient glitch mitigation in Advanced LIGO data

Merritt, J.D. et al.Physical Review D2021

Transient glitch mitigation in Advanced LIGO data with glitschen

Merritt, J.D. et al.Arxiv2021

When Are LIGO/Virgo's Big Black Hole Mergers?

Fishbach, M. et al.Astrophysical Journal2021

When are LIGO/Virgo's big black-hole mergers?

Fishbach, M. et al.Arxiv2021

Constraining unmodeled physics with compact binary mergers from GWTC-1

Edelman, B. et al.Arxiv2020

physiCal: A physical approach to the marginalization of LIGO calibration uncertainties

Vitale, S. et al.Arxiv2020

Constraining Unmodeled Physics with Compact Binary Mergers from GWTC-1

Edelman, Bruce et al.arXiv e-prints2020

kombine: Kernel-density-based parallel ensemble sampler

Farr, Ben et al.Astrophysics Source Code Library2020

Constraints on the Physical Properties of GW190814 through Simulations based on DECam Follow-up Observations by the Dark Energy Survey

Morgan, R. et al.Arxiv2020

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

Belczynski, K. et al.Astronomy and Astrophysics2020

GW190412: Observation of a binary-black-hole coalescence with asymmetric masses

Abbott, R. et al.Physical Review D2020

GW190425: Observation of a Compact Binary Coalescence with Total Mass ∼ 3.4 M o

Abbott, B.P. et al.Astrophysical Journal Letters2020

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

Abbott, R. et al.Physical Review Letters2020

GW190814: Gravitational Waves from the Coalescence of a 23 Solar Mass Black Hole with a 2.6 Solar Mass Compact Object

Abbott, R. et al.Astrophysical Journal Letters2020

Optical follow-up of gravitational wave triggers with DECam during the first two LIGO/VIRGO observing runs

Herner, K. et al.Arxiv2020

Properties and Astrophysical Implications of the 150 M o˙Binary Black Hole Merger GW190521

Abbott, R. et al.Astrophysical Journal Letters2020

Black Hole Coagulation: Modeling Hierarchical Mergers in Black Hole Populations

Doctor, Zoheyr et al.arXiv e-prints2019

Results from Binary Black Hole Observations in 01/02 & Summary of Public Alerts from O3

Farr, Ben KITP Conference: Merging Visions: Exploring Compact-Object Binaries with Gravity and Light2019

Gravity and Light: Combining Gravitational Wave and Electromagnetic Observations in the 2020s

Foley, Ryan et al.Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society2019

Gravitational wave astronomy with LIGO and similar detectors in the next decade

The LIGO Scientific collaboration arXiv e-prints2019

A Search for Optical Emission from Binary Black Hole Merger GW170814 with the Dark Energy Camera

Doctor, Z. et al.Astrophysical Journal Letters2019

Black hole coagulation: Modeling hierarchical mergers in black hole populations

Doctor, Z. et al.Arxiv2019

Gravity and light: Combining gravitational wave and electromagnetic observations in the 2020s

Foley, R.J. et al.Arxiv2019

Properties of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817

Abbott, B.P. et al.Physical Review X2019

A Search for Optical Emission from Binary-Black-Hole Merger GW170814 with the Dark Energy Camera

Doctor, Z. et al.Arxiv2018

Gravitational Wave Astrophysics in the High Event Rate Regime

Farr, Benjamin NSF Award2018

VizieR Online Data Catalog: Counterpart of GW170817. I. DECam obs. (Soares-Santos+, 2017)

Soares-Santos, M. et al.VizieR Online Data Catalog2018

exocartographer: Constraining surface maps orbital parameters of exoplanets

Farr, Ben et al.Astrophysics Source Code Library2018

exocartographer: A Bayesian Framework for Mapping Exoplanets in Reflected Light

Farr, Ben et al.ArXiv e-prints2018

Exocartographer: A Bayesian Framework for Mapping Exoplanets in Reflected Light

Farr, B. et al.Astronomical Journal2018

Exocartographer: A Bayesian framework for mapping exoplanets in reflected light

Farr, B. et al.Arxiv2018

GW170817: Measurements of Neutron Star Radii and Equation of State

Abbott, B.P. et al.Physical Review Letters2018

Using Spin to Understand the Formation of LIGO and Virgo's Black Holes

Farr, B. et al.Astrophysical Journal Letters2018

A gravitational-wave standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant

Abbott, B.P. et al.Nature2017

The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/VIRGO GW170817. II. UV, Optical, and Near-IR Light Curves and Comparison to Kilonova Models

Cowperthwaite, P. S. et al.Preprint/Other2017

The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. I. Dark Energy Camera Discovery of the Optical Counterpart

Soares-Santos, M. et al.Preprint/Other2017

GW170814: A Three-Detector Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Coalescence

Abbott, B.P. et al.Physical Review Letters2017

LIGO/Virgo G297595: DECam observations of BBH merger region of interest

Allam, S. et al.GRB Coordinates Network2017

Using spin to understand the formation of LIGO's black holes

Farr, B. et al.Arxiv2017

LIGO/Virgo G298048: Observed fading of optical counterpart SSS17a

Nicholl, M. et al.GRB Coordinates Network2017

Statistical Gravitational Waveform Models: What to Simulate Next?

Doctor, Zoheyr et al.Preprint/Other2017

VizieR Online Data Catalog: Electromagnetic follow-up with LIGO/Virgo (Singer+, 2014)

Singer, L. P. et al.Preprint/Other2017

Are LIGO's Black Holes Made from Smaller Black Holes?

Fishbach, M. et al.Astrophysical Journal Letters2017

Gravitational Wave Emulation Using Gaussian Process Regression

Doctor, Zoheyr et al.Preprint/Other2017

LIGO/Virgo G268556: DESGW/DECam observations

Soares-Santos, M. et al.GRB Coordinates Network2017

A Search for Kilonovae in the Dark Energy Survey

Doctor, Z. et al.Astrophysical Journal2017

Are ligos black holes made from smaller black holes?

Fishbach, .M. et al.Arxiv2017

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

Farr, W.M. et al.Arxiv2017

GW170608: Observation of a 19 Solar-mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence

Abbott, B.P. et al.Astrophysical Journal Letters2017

GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral

Abbott, B.P. et al.Physical Review Letters2017

Gravitational Waves and Gamma-Rays from a Binary Neutron Star Merger: GW170817 and GRB 170817A

Abbott, B.P. et al.Astrophysical Journal Letters2017

Multi-messenger observations of a binary neutron star merger

Abbott, B.P. et al.Astrophysical Journal Letters2017

Optical follow-up of gravitational wave triggers with DECam

Herner, K. et al.Journal of Physics Conference Series2017

Statistical gravitational waveform models: What to simulate next?

Doctor, Z. et al.Arxiv2017

The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. I. Discovery of the Optical Counterpart Using the Dark Energy Camera

Soares-Santos, M. et al.Astrophysical Journal Letters2017

The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. II. UV, Optical, and Near-infrared Light Curves and Comparison to Kilonova Models

Cowperthwaite, P.S. et al.Astrophysical Journal Letters2017

The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. IV. Detection of Near-infrared Signatures of r-process Nucleosynthesis with Gemini-South

Chornock, R. et al.Astrophysical Journal Letters2017

The electromagnetic counterpart of the binary neutron star merger LIGO/VIRGO GW170817. I. Discovery of the optical counterpart using the dark energy camera

Soares-Santos, M. et al.Arxiv2017

The electromagnetic counterpart of the binary neutron star merger LIGO/VIRGO GW170817. II. UV, optical, and near-ir light curves and comparison to kilonova models

Cowperthwaite, P.S. et al.Arxiv2017

Observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger

Abbott, B.P. et al.Physical Review Letters2016

A DECam Search for an Optical Counterpart to the LIGO Gravitational Wave Event GW151226

Cowperthwaite, P. S. et al.Preprint/Other2016

Supplement: Going the Distance: Mapping Host Galaxies of LIGO and Virgo Sources in Three Dimensions Using Local Cosmography and Targeted Follow-up

Singer, L. P. et al.Preprint/Other2016

A Dark Energy Camera Search for Missing Supergiants in the LMC After the Advanced LIGO Gravitational Wave Event GW150914

Annis, J. et al.Preprint/Other2016

A Dark Energy Camera Search for an Optical Counterpart to the First Advanced LIGO Gravitational Wave Event GW150914

Soares-Santos, M. et al.Preprint/Other2016

Determining Reliability of Existing Gravitational Waveforms in Parameter Estimation for Binary Black Holes

Bustos, Cesar et al.Preprint/Other2016

Systematic errors in low latency gravitational wave parameter estimation impact electromagnetic follow-up observations

Littenberg, Tyson B. et al.Preprint/Other2016

A DARK ENERGY CAMERA SEARCH for AN OPTICAL COUNTERPART to the FIRST ADVANCED LIGO GRAVITATIONAL WAVE EVENT GW150914

Soares-Santos, M. et al.Astrophysical Journal Letters2016

A DARK ENERGY CAMERA SEARCH for MISSING SUPERGIANTS in the LMC after the ADVANCED LIGO GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE EVENT GW150914

Annis, J. et al.Astrophysical Journal Letters2016

A DECAM SEARCH for AN OPTICAL COUNTERPART to the LIGO GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE EVENT GW151226

Cowperthwaite, P.S. et al.Astrophysical Journal Letters2016

ASTROPHYSICAL IMPLICATIONS of the BINARY BLACK HOLE MERGER GW150914

Abbott, B.P. et al.Astrophysical Journal Letters2016

Binary Black Hole Mergers in the First Advanced LIGO Observing Run

Abbott, B.P. et al.Physical Review X2016

Early Advanced LIGO binary neutron-star sky localization and parameter estimation

Berry, C.P.L. et al.Journal of Physics Conference Series2016

GOING the DISTANCE: MAPPING HOST GALAXIES of LIGO and VIRGO SOURCES in THREE DIMENSIONS USING LOCAL COSMOGRAPHY and TARGETED FOLLOW-UP

Singer, L.P. et al.Astrophysical Journal Letters2016

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

Abbott, B.P. et al.Physical Review Letters2016

Observing gravitational-wave transient GW150914 with minimal assumptions

Abbott, B.P. et al.Physical Review D2016

Properties of the Binary Black Hole Merger GW150914

Abbott, B.P. et al.Physical Review Letters2016

SUPPLEMENT: "gOING the DISTANCE: MAPPING HOST GALAXIES of LIGO and VIRGO SOURCES in THREE DIMENSIONS USING LOCAL COSMOGRAPHY and TARGETED FOLLOW-UP" (2016, ApJL, 829, L15)

Singer, L.P. et al.Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series2016

SYSTEMATIC ERRORS in LOW-LATENCY GRAVITATIONAL WAVE PARAMETER ESTIMATION IMPACT ELECTROMAGNETIC FOLLOW-UP OBSERVATIONS

Littenberg, T.B. et al.Astrophysical Journal2016

Tests of General Relativity with GW150914

Abbott, B.P. et al.Physical Review Letters2016

Parameter estimation on gravitational waves from neutron-star binaries with spinning components

Farr, Ben et al.Preprint/Other2015

Distinguishing neutron stars from black holes and probing the mass gap with Advanced LIGO/Virgo observations

Littenberg, Tyson et al.Preprint/Other2015

Parameter estimation on gravitational waves from neutron star binaries with spinning components

Farr, Ben et al.Preprint/Other2015

LIGO/Virgo G184098: DESGW followup program.

Soares-Santos, M. et al.Preprint/OtherN/A

LIGO/Virgo G184098: MWA Followup.

Kaplan, D. et al.GRB Coordinates Network2015

LIGO/Virgo G211117: DESGW program observations with DECam.

Soares-Santos, M. et al.GRB Coordinates Network2015

NEUTRON STARS VERSUS BLACK HOLES: PROBING THE MASS GAP WITH LIGO/VIRGO

Littenberg, T.B. et al.Astrophysical Journal Letters2015

PARAMETER ESTIMATION FOR BINARY NEUTRON-STAR COALESCENCES WITH REALISTIC NOISE DURING THE ADVANCED LIGO ERA

Berry, C.P.L. et al.Astrophysical Journal2015

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

Veitch, J. et al.Physical Review D Particles Fields Gravitation and Cosmology2015

Rapid gravitational wave parameter estimation with a single spin: Systematic uncertainties in parameter estimation with the SpinTaylorF2 approximation

Miller, B. et al.Physical Review D Particles Fields Gravitation and Cosmology2015

The First Two Years of Electromagnetic Follow-Up with Advanced LIGO and Virgo

Farr, Benjamin et al.Preprint/Other2014

Sky localization of gravitational wave sources in the early years of Advanced LIGO and Virgo

Vitale, Salvatore et al.Preprint/Other2014

Estimating parameters of BH-NS binaries with gravitational waves

O'Shaughnessy, Richard et al.Preprint/Other2014

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

Farr, B. et al.Physical Review D Particles Fields Gravitation and Cosmology2014

A more efficient approach to parallel-tempered Markov-chain Monte Carlo for the highly structured posteriors of gravitational-wave signals A more efficient approach to parallel- ... Benjamin Farr, Vicky Kalogera, and Erik Luijten

Farr, B. et al.Physical Review D Particles Fields Gravitation and Cosmology2014

Basic parameter estimation of binary neutron star systems by the advanced ligo/virgo network

Rodriguez, C.L. et al.Astrophysical Journal2014

Comparison of gravitational wave detector network sky localization approximations

Grover, K. et al.Physical Review D Particles Fields Gravitation and Cosmology2014

Extracting Astrophysical Information from the Gravitational Waves of Compact Binary Mergers and Their Electromagnetic Counterparts

Farr, Benjamin Preprint/Other2014

Parameter estimation of gravitational waves from nonprecessing black hole-neutron star inspirals with higher harmonics: Comparing Markov-chain Monte Carlo posteriors to an effective Fisher matrix PARAMETER ESTIMATION of GRAVITATIONAL WAVES O'SHAUGHNESSY et al.

Oshaughnessy, R. et al.Physical Review D Particles Fields Gravitation and Cosmology2014

Parameter estimation of gravitational waves from precessing black hole-neutron star inspirals with higher harmonics

O'Shaughnessy, R. et al.Physical Review D Particles Fields Gravitation and Cosmology2014

Preparing Parameter Estimation for the Advanced Ground-Based Detector Era

Farr, Benjamin Preprint/Other2014

Reconstructing the sky location of gravitational-wave detected compact binary systems: Methodology for testing and comparison

Sidery, T. et al.Physical Review D Particles Fields Gravitation and Cosmology2014

Systematic and statistical errors in a Bayesian approach to the estimation of the neutron-star equation of state using advanced gravitational wave detectors

Wade, L. et al.Physical Review D Particles Fields Gravitation and Cosmology2014

The NINJA-2 project: Detecting and characterizing gravitational waveforms modelled using numerical binary black hole simulations

Aasi, J. et al.Classical and Quantum Gravity2014

The first two years of electromagnetic follow-up with advanced ligo and virgo

Singer, L.P. et al.Astrophysical Journal2014

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

Aasi, J. et al.Preprint/Other2013

A Hierarchical Approach to Rapid Gravitational Wave Parameter Estimation

Farr, Benjamin et al.Preprint/Other2013

Parameter Biases Introduced by Approximate Gravitational Waveforms

Farr, Benjamin et al.Preprint/Other2013

Fortifying the characterization of binary mergers in LIGO data

Littenberg, T.B. et al.Physical Review D Particles Fields Gravitation and Cosmology2013

Inadequacies of the Fisher information matrix in gravitational-wave parameter estimation

Rodriguez, C.L. et al.Physical Review D Particles Fields Gravitation and Cosmology2013

The Effects of Amplitude Corrections on Sky Localization

Farr, Benjamin Rattle and Shine: Gravitational Wave and Electromagnetic Studies of Compact Binary Mergers2012

Fast and Accurate Sky Localization of Gravitational Wave Sources using MCMC Methods

Farr, Benjamin F. et al.Preprint/Other2012

Gravitational Wave Astronomy in the High School Classroom

Farr, Benjamin F. et al.Preprint/Other2012

Evidence for Spin in Compact Binary Coalescence: when can we trust it?

Raymond, Vivien et al.Preprint/Other2012

Re-Purposed MCMC for Low-Latency Sky Localization of Gravitational Wave Sources

Farr, Benjamin F. et al.Preprint/Other2012

Estimating parameters of coalescing compact binaries with proposed advanced detector networks

Veitch, J. et al.Physical Review D Particles Fields Gravitation and Cosmology2012

Gravitational wave science in the high school classroom

Farr, B. et al.American Journal of Physics2012

Time evolution of a nonsingular primordial black hole

Mbonye, M.R. et al.International Journal of Modern Physics D2012

Testing gravitational-wave searches with numerical relativity waveforms: Results from the first Numerical INJection Analysis (NINJA) project

Aylott, B. et al.Classical and Quantum Gravity2009

Status of NINJA: the Numerical INJection Analysis project

Benjamin Aylott et al.arXiv2009

Searching for binary coalescences with inspiral templates: Detection and parameter estimation

Farr, B. et al.Classical and Quantum Gravity2009

Status of NINJA: The Numerical INJection Analysis project

Cadonati, L. et al.Classical and Quantum Gravity2009

Going the Distance: Mapping Host Galaxies of LIGO and Virgo Sources in Three Dimensions Using Local Cosmography and Targeted Follow-up

Singer, L. P. et al.Preprint/OtherN/A