Ilya Mandel

TL;DR: In this paper, an all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the frequency range 50-1000 Hz with the first derivative of frequency in the range −8.9 × 10−10 Hz s−1 to zero in two years of data collected during LIGO's fifth science run is reported.

TL;DR: In this paper, the astrophysical science case for a decihertz gravitational-wave mission is discussed, focusing on unique opportunities for scientific discovery in this frequency range, including probes of type IA supernova progenitors, mergers in the presence of third bodies, intermediate mass black holes, seeds of massive black holes and tracking the population of merging compact binaries.

TL;DR: In this paper, the astrophysical science case for a decihertz gravitational-wave mission is discussed, focusing on unique opportunities for scientific discovery in this frequency range, including probes of type IA supernova progenitors, mergers in the presence of third bodies, intermediate mass black holes, seeds of massive black holes and tracking the population of merging compact binaries.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine a scenario in which massive stars merge after they have both formed a hydrogen-exhausted core and suggest that this could produce stars that explode as pair-instability supernovae (PISNe) with significantly more hydrogen, at a given metallicity, than in single-star models with the same pre-explosion oxygen-rich core mass.

TL;DR: The Numerical InJection Analysis project (NINJA) as discussed by the authors is a collaborative effort between the numerical relativity community and the data analysis community that focuses on modeling and searching for gravitational wave signatures from the coalescence of binary system of compact objects.