Recent preprints

Karl Gebhardt and HETDEX collaboration (incl. S. Saito)The Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX)  - Survey Design, Reductions, and Detections, submitted to the Astrophysical Journal.

LIGO Scientific and Virgo and KAGRA Collaborations (incl. D. Bhattacharjee, M. Cavaglia, S. Karki, K. Mogushi, R. Quitzow-James)GWTC-2.1: Deep Extended Catalog of Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo During the First Half of the Third Observing Run, LIGO-P2100063 (Jul 21, 2021).

LIGO Scientific and Virgo and KAGRA Collaborations (incl. D. Bhattacharjee, M. Cavaglia, S. Karki, K. Mogushi, R. Quitzow-James)All-sky search for long-duration gravitational-wave transients in the third Advanced LIGO observing runLIGO-P2100078 (July 19, 2021).

LIGO Scientific and Virgo and KAGRA Collaborations (incl. D. Bhattacharjee, M. Cavaglia, S. Karki, K. Mogushi, R. Quitzow-James), All-sky search for short gravitational-wave bursts in the third Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo run, e-Print: 2107.03701 [gr-qc] (July 8, 2021).

LIGO Scientific and Virgo and KAGRA Collaborations (incl. D. Bhattacharjee, M. Cavaglia, S. Karki, K. Mogushi, R. Quitzow-James), All-sky Search for Continuous Gravitational Waves in the Early O3 LIGO Data, e-Print: 2107.00600 [gr-qc] (July 1, 2021).

Hee-Jong Seo, Atsuhisa Ota, Marcel Schmittfull, Shun Saito, Florian BeutlerIterative reconstruction excursions for Baryon Acoustic Oscillations and beyond, arXiv: 2106.00530 [astro-ph:CO] (June 1, 2021).

Atsuhisa Ota, Hee-Jong Seo, Shun Saito, Florian BeutlerModeling iterative reconstruction and displacement field in the large scale structure, arXiv: 2106.00146 [astro-ph:CO] (May 31, 2021).

LIGO Scientific and Virgo and KAGRA Collaborations (incl. D. Bhattacharjee, M. Cavaglia, S. Karki, K. Mogushi, R. Quitzow-James), Search for intermediate mass black hole binaries in the third observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo, e-Print: 2105.15120 [astro-ph.HE] (May 31, 2021).

LIGO Scientific and Virgo and KAGRA Collaborations (incl. D. Bhattacharjee, M. Cavaglia, S. Karki, K. Mogushi, R. Quitzow-James), Constraints on dark photon dark matter using data from LIGO's and Virgo's third observing run, e-Print: 2105.13085 [astro-ph.CO] (May 27, 2021).

LIGO Scientific and Virgo and KAGRA Collaborations (incl. D. Bhattacharjee, M. Cavaglia, S. Karki, K. Mogushi, R. Quitzow-James), Searches for continuous gravitational waves from young supernova remnants in the early third observing run of Advanced LIGO and Virgo, e-Print: 2105.11641 [astro-ph.HE] (May 25, 2021).

LIGO Scientific and Virgo and KAGRA Collaborations (incl. D. Bhattacharjee, M. Cavaglia, S. Karki, K. Mogushi, R. Quitzow-James)Search for lensing signatures in the gravitational-wave observations from the first half of LIGO-Virgo's third observing run, e-Print: 2105.06384 [gr-qc] (May 13, 2021).

LIGO Scientific and Virgo and KAGRA Collaborations (incl. D. Bhattacharjee, M. Cavaglia, S. Karki, K. Mogushi, R. Quitzow-James)Constraints from LIGO O3 data on gravitational-wave emission due to r-modes in the glitching pulsar PSR J0537-6910, e-Print: 2104.14417 [astro-ph.HE] (Apr 29, 2021).

M.J. Szczepańczyk et al  (incl. M. Cavaglia, Y. Zheng)Detecting and reconstructing gravitational waves from the next Galactic core-collapse supernova in the Advanced Detector Era, e-Print: 2104.06462 [astro-ph.HE] (Apr 13, 2021).

JPAS collaboration (incl. Siddhartha Gurung-Lopez), The miniJPAS survey: a preview of the Universe in 56 colours, e-Print arXiv:2007.01910 [astro-ph.CO].

Tomomi Sunayama et al. (incl. Shun Saito),  Mitigating the impact of fiber assignment on clustering measurements from deep galaxy redshift surveys, Dec 13, 2019,  e-Print: arXiv:1912.06583 [astro-ph.CO].

Sugiyama, Naonori S.; Saito, Shun; Beutler, Florian; Seo, Hee-Jong,  Perturbation theory approach to predict the covariance matrices of the galaxy power spectrum and bispectrum in redshift space, Aug 17, 2019,  e-Print: arXiv:1908.06234 [astro-ph.CO].

2021 Publications

LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations (incl. D. Bhattacharjee, M. Cavaglia, S. Karki, K. Mogushi, R. Quitzow-James)Observation of gravitational waves from two neutron star-black hole coalescencesApJL 915 L5 (2021), e-Print: 2106.15163 [astro-ph.HE] (June 29, 2021).

LIGO Scientific and Virgo and KAGRA Collaborations (incl. D. Bhattacharjee, M. Cavaglia, S. Karki, K. Mogushi, R. Quitzow-James)Observation of Gravitational Waves from Two Neutron Star–Black Hole CoalescencesThe Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 915, Number 1, arXiv: 2106.15163 [astro-ph.HE] (Apr 9, 2021.

D.J. Farrow et al. (incl. S. Saito)Correcting correlation functions for redshift-dependent interloper contaminationsMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2021, stab1986, arXiv: 2104.04613 [astro-ph.CO] [gr-qc] (Apr 9, 2021).

LIGO Scientific and Virgo and KAGRA Collaborations (incl. D. Bhattacharjee, M. Cavaglia, S. Karki, K. Mogushi, R. Quitzow-James)Search for anisotropic gravitational-wave backgrounds using data from Advanced LIGO's and Advanced Virgo's first three observing runsPhys. Rev. D 104, 022005 (2021), e-Print: 2103.08520 [gr-qc] (Mar 15, 2021).

LIGO Scientific, Virgo and KAGRA Collaborations (incl. D. Bhattacharjee, M. Cavaglia,S. Karki,  K. Mogushi, R. Quitzow-James), Upper Limits on the Isotropic Gravitational-Wave Background from Advanced LIGO's and Advanced Virgo's Third Observing RunPhys. Rev. D 104, 022004 (2021), e-Print: 2101.12130 [gr-qc] (Jan 28, 2021).

 

LIGO Scientific, Virgo and KAGRA Collaborations (incl. D. Bhattacharjee, M. Cavaglia,S. Karki, K. Mogushi, R. Quitzow-James)Constraints on cosmic strings using data from the third Advanced LIGO-Virgo observing runPhys. Rev. Lett. 126, 241102 (2021) ,e-Print: 2101.12248 [gr-qc] (Jan 28, 2021).

LIGO Scientific, Virgo and KAGRA Collaborations (incl. D. Bhattacharjee, M. Cavaglia,S. Karki, K. Mogushi, R. Quitzow-James)Diving below the spin-down limit: Constraints on gravitational waves from the energetic young pulsar PSR J0537-6910 ApJL 913 L27 (2021), e-Print: 2012.12926 [astro-ph.HE] (Dec 23, 2020).

LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations (incl. D. Bhattacharjee, M. Cavaglia,S. Karki, K. Mogushi, R. Quitzow-James)GWTC-2: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo During the First Half of the Third Observing RunPhys. Rev. X 11, 021053 (2021), e-Print: 2010.14527 [gr-qc] (Oct 27, 2020).

LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations (incl. D. Bhattacharjee, M. Cavaglia,S. Karki, K. Mogushi, R. Quitzow-James)Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts Detected by Fermi and Swift During the LIGO-Virgo Run O3aApJ 915 86 (2021), e-Print: 2010.14550 [astro-ph.HE] (Oct 27, 2020).

LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations (incl. D. Bhattacharjee, M. Cavaglia,S. Karki, K. Mogushi, R. Quitzow-James)Tests of General Relativity with Binary Black Holes from the second LIGO-Virgo Gravitational-Wave Transient CatalogPhys. Rev. D 103, 122002 (2021), e-Print: 2010.14529 [gr-qc] (Oct 27, 2020).

LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations (incl. D. Bhattacharjee, M. Cavaglia, S. Karki, K. Mogushi, R. Quitzow-James)Population Properties of Compact Objects from the Second LIGO-Virgo Gravitational-Wave Transient CatalogApJL 913 L7 (2021), e-Print: 2010.14533 [astro-ph.HE] (Oct 27, 2020).

LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations (incl. M. Cavaglia, S. Karki, K. Mogushi), A gravitational-wave measurement of the Hubble constant following the second observing run of Advanced LIGO and Virgo,  Astrophys.J. 909 (2021) 2, 218,  arXiv:1908.06060 [astro-ph.CO].

 

LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations (incl. M. Cavaglia, S. Karki, K. Mogushi), Open data from the first and second observing runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo, SoftwareX 13 (2021) 100658, e-Print: arXiv:1912.11716 [gr-qc].

 

LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations (incl. D. Bhattacharjee, M. Cavaglia, S. Karki, K. Mogushi, R. Quitzow-James)All-sky search in early O3 LIGO data for continuous gravitational-wave signals from unknown neutron stars in binary systemsPhys.Rev.D 103 (2021) 6, 064017, e-Print: 2012.12128 [gr-qc] (Dec 22, 2020).

K. Mogushi, R. Quitzow-James, M. Cavaglia, S. Kulkarni, F. Hayes)NNETFIX: An artificial neural network-based denoising engine for gravitational-wave signals, 2021 Mach. Learn.: Sci. Technol. 2 035018, https://doi.org/10.1088/2632-2153/abea69.

Y. Zheng M. Cavaglia, R. Quitzow‐James K. Mogushi,  A needle in (many) haystacks: Using the false alarm rate to sift gravitational waves from noise, Significance, Volume18, Issue1, February 2021, Pages 26-31.

 

Naonori S. Sugiyama, Shun Saito, Florian Beutler, Hee-Jong Seo, Towards a self-consistent analysis of the anisotropic galaxy two- and three-point correlation functions on large scales: application to mock galaxy cataloguesMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 501, Issue 2, pp.2862-2896 (2021).

 
 

Siddhartha Gurung-Lopez, Shun Saito, Carlton M. Baugh, Silvia Bonoli, Cedric G. Lacey, Alvaro A. Orsi,  Determining the systemic redshift of Lyman-alpha emitters with neural networks and improving the measured large-scale clusteringMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 500, Issue 1, pp.603-626 (2021).

D. Bhattacharjee, Y. Lecoeuche, S. Karki, J. Betzwieser, V. Bossilkov, S. Kandhasamy, E. Payne, R.L. Savage, Fiducial displacements with improved accuracy for the global network of gravitational wave detectors, Class.Quant.Grav. 38 (2021) 1, 015009.

 

E. Cuoco, J. Powell, M. Cavaglia et al, Enhancing Gravitational-Wave Science with Machine Learning, Mach. Learn.: Sci. Technol. 2 011002 (2021).

2020 Publications

LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations (incl. M. Cavaglia, S. Karki, K. Mogushi), Gravitational-wave constraints on the equatorial ellipticity of millisecond pulsarsAstrophys.J.Lett. 902 (2020) 1, L21.

 

Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor Team, LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations (incl. Marco Cavaglia, S. Karki, K. Mogushi),  A Joint Fermi-GBM and LIGO/Virgo Analysis of Compact Binary Mergers From the First and Second Gravitational-wave Observing RunsThe Astrophysical Journal 893 100 (2020).

 

LIGO Scientific, Virgo and KAGRA Collaborations (incl. M. Cavaglia, S. Karki, K. Mogushi), Prospects for observing and localizing gravitational-wave transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRALiving Rev.Rel. 23 (2020) 1, 3.

Kohji Yoshikawa, Satoshi Tanaka, Naoki Yoshida, Shun SaitoCosmological Vlasov-Poisson Simulations of Structure Formation with Relic Neutrinos: Nonlinear Clustering and the Neutrino MassThe Astrophysical Journal, Volume 904, Issue 2, id.159, 21 pp. (2020), eprint arXiv:2010.00248 [astro-ph.CO].

J-PLUS collaboration (including Siddhartha Gurung-Lopez)J-PLUS: Unveiling the brightest end of the Lyα luminosity function at 2.0 < z < 3.3 over 1000 deg2, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 643, id.A149, 27 pp. (2020), e-Print arXiv:2006.15084 [astro-ph.GA].

LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations (incl. M. Cavaglia, S. Karki, K. Mogushi), Properties and astrophysical implications of the 150 Msun binary black hole merger GW190521, Astrophys. J. Lett. 900, L13 (2020).

 

LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations (incl. M. Cavaglia, S. Karki, K. Mogushi), GW190521: A Binary Black Hole Merger with a Total Mass of 150 Msun, Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 101102 (2020).

 

LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations (incl. M. Cavaglia, S. Karki, K. Mogushi), GW190412: Observation of a Binary-Black-Hole Coalescence with Asymmetric Masses, Phys. Rev. D 102, 043015 (2020), e-Print: arXiv:2004.08342 [astro-ph.HE].

 

Barrett M. Frank, Brandon Piotrzkowski, Brett Bolen, Marco Cavaglia, Shane L. Larson., Spurious Acceleration Noise on the LISA Spacecraft due to Solar Activity,  Class. Quantum Grav. 37 175007 (2020), e-Print: arXiv:1912.07715 [astro-ph.IM].

 

H. Yu et al. (incl. D. Bhattacharjee, S. Karki), Quantum correlations between light and the kilogram-mass mirrors of LIGO,  Nature 583, 43–47 (2020).

M. Cavaglia and A. Modi, Two-dimensional correlation function of binary black hole coalescences,  Universe 2020, 6(7), 93 (2020).

LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations (incl. M. Cavaglia, S. Karki, K. Mogushi), GW190814: Gravitational Waves from the Coalescence of a 23 Solar Mass Black Hole with a 2.6 Solar Mass Compact Object,  The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 896, Number 2, L44 (2020)

LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations (incl. M. Cavaglia, S. Karki, K. Mogushi), GW190425: Observation of a Compact Binary Coalescence with Total Mass ~ 3.4 Msun,  Astrophys. J. Lett. 892 (2020) L3, LIGO-P190425, e-Print: arXiv:2001.01761 [astro-ph.HE].

 

LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations (incl. M. Cavaglia, S. Karki, K. Mogushi), An Optically Targeted Search for Gravitational Waves emitted by Core-Collapse Supernovae during the First and Second Observing Runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo,  Phys. Rev. D 101 (2020) 8, 084002,  e-Print: arXiv:1908.03584 [astro-ph.HE].

 

M. Cavaglià et al, Improving the background of gravitational-wave searches for core collapse supernovae: a machine learning approach,  2020 Mach. Learn.: Sci. Technol. 1 015005

Shiro Mukae et al. (Incl. Shun Saito), Cosmological 3D HI Gas Map with HETDEX Lyα Emitters and eBOSS QSOs at z=2: IGM-Galaxy/QSO Connection and a ∼ 40-Mpc Scale Giant HII Bubble CandidateThe Astrophysical Journal, Volume 903, Issue 1, id.24, 19 pp. (2020), e-Print arXiv:2009.07285 [astro-ph.GA].

Tomas Hough, Cedric G. Lacey, Carlton M. Baugh. Siddhartha Gurung-Lopez, Alvaro Orsi, Sofia A.CoraAre Ly alpha emitters segregated in protoclusters regions?Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 499, Issue 2, pp.2104-2115 (2020), e-Print arXiv:2009.13542 [astro-ph.GA].

Naonori S. Sugiyama, Shun Saito, Florian Beutler, Hee-Jong SeoPerturbation theory approach to predict the covariance matrices of the galaxy power spectrum and bispectrum in redshift spaceMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 494, Issue 1, pp.199-217 (2020), e-Print arXiv:1908.06234 [astro-ph.CO].

Tomomi Sunayama, Masahiro Takada, Martin Reinecke, Ryu Makiya, Takahiro Nishimichi, Eiichiro Komatsu, Shun Saito, Naoyuki Tamura, Kiyoto YabeMitigating the impact of fiber assignment on clustering measurements from deep galaxy redshift surveys, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Issue 06, article id. 057 (2020), eprint: arXiv:1912.06583 [astro-ph.CO].

Shun Saito, Sylvain de la Torre, Olivier Ilbert, Cédric Dubois, Kiyoto Yabe, Jean CouponThe Synthetic Emission Line COSMOS catalog: Halpha and [OII] galaxy luminosity functions and counts at 0.3<z<2.5Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 494, Issue 1, pp.199-217 (2020), e-Print arXiv:2003.06394 [astro-ph:CO].

2019 Publications

LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations (incl. M. Cavaglia, S. Karki, K. Mogushi), A guide to LIGO-Virgo detector noise and extraction of transient gravitational-wave signals,  Classical and Quantum Gravity, Volume 37, 055002 (2019).

 

LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations (incl. M. Cavaglia, S. Karki, K. Mogushi), Model comparison from LIGO–Virgo data on GW170817's binary components and consequences for the merger remnant,  Classical and Quantum Gravity, Volume 37, Number 4, 045006 (2019).

LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations (incl. M. Cavaglia, S. Karki, K. Mogushi), Search for Eccentric Binary Black Hole Mergers with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo during Their First and Second Observing Runs,  The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 883, 149 (2019).

LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations (incl. M. Cavaglia, S. Karki, K. Mogushi), Search for Gravitational-wave Signals Associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts during the Second Observing Run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo,  The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 886, 75 (2019).

LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations (incl. M. Cavaglia, S. Karki, K. Mogushi), Search for gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1 in the second Advanced LIGO observing run with an improved hidden Markov model,  Phys. Rev. D 100, 122002 (2019).

Byrohl, Chris; Saito, Shun; Behrens, Christoph, Radiative transfer distortions of Lyman alpha emitters: a new Fingers-of-God damping in the clustering in redshift space,  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 489, Issue 3, p.3472-3491.

LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations (incl. M. Cavaglia, S. Karki, K. Mogushi), Search for intermediate mass black hole binaries in the first and second observing runs of the Advanced LIGO and Virgo network,  Phys. Rev. D 100, 064064 (2019).

LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations (incl. M. Cavaglia, S. Karki, K. Mogushi), All-sky search for short gravitational-wave bursts in the second Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo run,  Phys. Rev. D 100, 024017 (2019).

LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations (incl. M. Cavaglia, S. Karki, K. Mogushi), Search for subsolar mass ultracompact binaries in Advanced LIGO's second observing run,  Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 161102 (2019).