Group publications

Short authorlist papers or LIGO-VIRGO (LVC) with direct involvement. 

• The 2023 Windows on the Universe Workshop White Paper Working Group
  "Windows on the Universe: Establishing the Infrastructure for a Collaborative Multi-messenger Ecosystem", [astro-ph/2401.02063]  (2024)

• Jack Heinzel, Sylvia Biscoveanu, Salvatore Vitale
  "Probing Correlations in the Binary Black Hole Population with Flexible Models", [astro-ph/2312.00993]  (2023)

• Ryan Magee et al.
  "The impact of selection biases on tests of general relativity with gravitational-wave inspirals", [astro-ph/2311.03656] (2023)

• Ish Gupta et al.
  "Characterizing Gravitational Wave Detector Networks: From A♯ to Cosmic Explorer", [gr-qc/2307.10421] (2023)

• April Qiu Cheng, Michael Zevin, Salvatore Vitale
  "What You Don't Know Can Hurt You: Use and Abuse of Astrophysical Models in Gravitational-wave Population Analyses", [astro-ph/2307.03129]  ApJ 955 127 (2023) 

• Sylvia Biscoveanu, Eric Burns, Philippe Landry, Salvatore Vitale
  "An observational upper limit on the rate of gamma-ray bursts with neutron star-black hole merger progenitors", [astro-ph/2306.14974]  (2023)

• M. Evans et al.,
  "Cosmic Explorer: A Submission to the NSF MPSAC ngGW Subcommittee", [astro-ph/2306.13745]  (2023)

• Noah E. Wolfe, Salvatore Vitale, Colm Talbot
  "Too small to fail: assessing the measurability of sub-solar mass compact object mergers", [astro-ph/2305.19907]  (2023) JCAP 11 039 (2023)

• Jack Heinzel, Colm Talbot, Gregory Ashton, Salvatore Vitale
  "Inferring the Astrophysical Population of Gravitational Wave Sources in the Presence of Noise Transients", [astro-ph/2304.02665], MNRAS 523, 5972–5984 (2023) 

• Salvatore Vitale, Sylvia Biscoveanu, Colm Talbot
  "Spin it as you like: the (lack of a) measurement of the spin tilt distribution with LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA binary black holes", [astro-ph/2209.06978],  A&A 668, L2 (2022)   data release

  • MIT News

• Alessandro Lovato et al
  "Long Range Plan: Dense matter theory for heavy-ion collisions and neutron stars", [nucl-th/2211.02224] 

• Ken K. Y. Ng et al
  "Measuring properties of primordial black hole mergers at cosmological distances: effect of higher order modes in gravitational waves", [astro-ph/2210.03132] PRD 107, 024041 (2023) 

• Sylvia Biscoveanu, Philippe Landry, Salvatore Vitale
  "Population properties and multimessenger prospects of neutron star-black hole mergers following GWTC-3", [astro-phi/2207.01568], MNRAS 518 4 5298 (2023) 

• Ken K. Y. Ng, Gabriele Franciolini, Emanuele Berti, Paolo Pani, Antonio Riotto, Salvatore Vitale

"Constraining high-redshift stellar-mass primordial black holes with next-generation ground-based gravitational-wave detectors" , [astro-ph/2204.11864] ApJL 933 L41 (2022) 

• Ken K. Y. Ng, Shiqi Chen, Boris Goncharov, Ulyana Dupletsa, Ssohrab Borhanian, Marica Branchesi, Jan Harms, Michele Maggiore, B.S. Sathyaprakash, Salvatore Vitale

"On the single-event-based identification of primordial black hole mergers at cosmological distances" - [astro-ph/2108.07276] - ApJL 931 L12 (2022) 

• Sylvia Biscoveanu, Thomas A. Callister, Carl-Johan Haster, Ken K. Y. Ng, Salvatore Vitale, Will Farr
  "The binary black hole spin distribution likely broadens with redshift", [astro-ph/2204.01578]  -  ApJL 932 L19 (2022)

  • AAS Nova article on the paper 

• Vijay Varma et al.
  "Evidence of large recoil velocity from a black hole merger signal", [astro-ph/2201.01302] - PRL 128 191102 (2022) 

• Yiwen Huang, Hsin-Yu Chen, Carl-Johan Haster, Ling Sun, Salvatore Vitale, Jeff Kissel
  "Impact of calibration uncertainties on Hubble constant measurements from gravitational-wave sources", [gr-qc/2204.03614]

• Salvatore Vitale, Sylvia Biscoveanu, Colm Talbot

"The orientations of the binary black holes in GWTC-3",  [gr-qc/2204.00968] 

• S. Vitale, D. Gerosa, W. Farr, S. Taylor

"Inferring the properties of a population of compact binaries in presence of selection effects" [astro-ph/2007.05579]  Handbook of Gravitational Wave Astronomy. Springer, Singapore.  

• Vijay Varma, Sylvia Biscoveanu, Maximiliano Isi, Will M. Farr, Salvatore Vitale

"Hints of spin-orbit resonances in the binary black hole population" - [astro-ph/2107.09693]  - PRL 128 031101 (2022) 

• Sylvia Biscoveanu, Colm Talbot, Salvatore Vitale
  "Sources of systematic error in gravitational-wave measurements of the binary neutron star mass distribution" - [astro-ph/2111.13619]  - MNRAS 511 4350 (2022) 

• Vijay Varma, Maximiliano Isi, Sylvia Biscoveanu, Will M. Farr, Salvatore Vitale

"Measuring binary black hole orbital-plane spin orientations" - [astro-ph/2107.09692]  - PRD 105 024045 (2022) 

• Sylvia Biscoveanu, Maximiliano Isi, Vijay Varma, Salvatore Vitale
  "Measuring the spins of heavy binary black holes" - [gr-qc/2106.06492] PRD 104 103018 (2021) 

• D. Frostig et al
  "An Infrared Search for Kilonovae with the WINTER Telescope. I. Binary Neutron Star Mergers" - [astro-ph/2110.01622] - ApJ 926 152 (2022) 

• M. Evans et al  
  "A Horizon Study for Cosmic Explorer: Science, Observatories, and Community" -  [astro-ph/2109.09882]

• Hsin-Yu Chen, Salvatore Vitale, Francois Foucart
  "Measuring the contribution of neutron star-black hole mergers to the production of heavy metals" - [astro-ph/2107.02714]  ApjL 920 L3 (2021) 

• LVC
  "Search for subsolar-mass binaries in the first half of Advanced LIGO and Virgo's third observing run"  [astro-ph/2109.12197] - PRL 129 061104 (2022) 

• Thomas A. Callister, Carl-Johan Haster, Ken K. Y. Ng, Salvatore Vitale, Will M. Farr
  "Who Ordered That? Unequal-Mass Binary Black Hole Mergers Have Larger Effective Spins"  - [astro-ph/2106.00521] - ApJL 922 L5 (2021)

• S. Vitale

"The first five years of gravitational-wave astrophysics" - [gr-qc/2011.03563]  Science 372, eabc7397 (2021) 

• G. Franciolini et at.
  "Searching for a subpopulation of primordial black holes in LIGO-Virgo gravitational-wave data" - [gr-qc/2105.03349] - PRD 105 083526 (2022)

• S. Biscoveanu, M. Isi, S. Vitale, V. Varma
  "New spin on LIGO-Virgo binary black holes" - [astro-ph/2007.09156]  PRL 126 171103 (2021) 

• K. Ng, S. Vitale, W. Farr, C. Rodriguez
  "Probing multiple populations of compact binaries with third-generation gravitational-wave detectors" - [astro-ph/2012.09876] ApJL 913 L5 (2021) 

• K. Ng, S. Vitale, O. Hannuksela, T.G.F. Li
  "Constraints on ultralight scalar bosons within black hole spin measurements from LIGO-Virgo's GWTC-2" - [gr-qc/2011.06010] PRL 126 151102 (2021) 

• Y.  Huang, C.-J. Haster, S. Vitale, V. Varma, F. Foucart, S. Biscoveanu

"Statistical and systematic uncertainties in extracting the source properties of neutron star - black hole binaries with gravitational waves" [gr-qc/2005.11850] PRD 103 083001 (2021) 

• R. Smith et al.
  "Bayesian inference for gravitational waves from binary neutron star mergers in third-generation observatories" - [gr-qc/2103.12274] PRL 127, 081102 (2021)

• S. Vitale, C.-J. Haster, L. Sun, B. Farr, E. Goetz et al.
  "physiCal: A physical approach to the marginalization of LIGO calibration uncertainties" - [gr-qc/2009.10192]  PRD 103 063016 (2021) 

• K. Ng, O. Hannuksela, S. Vitale, T.G.F. Li

"Searching for ultralight bosons within spin measurements of a population of binary black hole mergers"  - [gr-qc/1908.02312] PRD 103 063010 (2021) 

• H.-Y. Chen, D. Holz, J. Miller, M. Evans, S. Vitale, J. Creighton, [astro-ph/1709.08079]  Class. Quantum Grav. 38 055010 (2021) 

• Y. Huang, C-J Haster, J. Roulet  et al.,  

"Source properties of the lowest signal-to-noise-ratio binary black hole detections" - [gr-qc/2003.04513] PRD 102 103024 (2020)

• H-Y. Chen,  C.-J. Haster, S. Vitale, W. Farr and Max Isi
  "A Standard Siren Cosmological Measurement from the Potential GW190521 Electromagnetic Counterpart ZTF19abanrhr" - [astro-ph/2009.14057] 

• D. Gerosa, S. Vitale, E. Berti

"Astrophysical implications of GW190412 as a remnant of a previous black-hole merger"  - [astro-ph/2005.04243]  Phys.Rev. Lett.125 101103 (2020)

• LVC
  "Properties and astrophysical implications of the 150 Msun binary black hole merger GW190521" [astro-ph/2009.01190]  ApJL 900, 13 

• S. Biscoveanu, C. Talbot, E. Thrane, R. Smith
  "Measuring the primordial gravitational-wave background in the presence of astrophysical foregrounds" - [astro-ph/2009.04418]  PRL 125 241101 (2019) 

• K. K. Y. Ng, M. Isi, C.-J. Haster, S. Vitale
  "Multiband gravitational-wave searches for ultralight bosons" [gr-qc/2007.12793]  PRD 102 083020 (2020)

• K. W. K. Wong, K. K. Y. Ng, E. Berti
  "Gravitational-wave signal-to-noise interpolation via neural networks" [astro-ph/2007.10350] 

• M. Zevin, C. P. L. Berry, S. Coughlin, K. Chatziioannou, S. Vitale

"You Can't Always Get What You Want: The Impact of Prior Assumptions on Interpreting GW190412" [astro-ph/2006.11293] ApJL 899 1 (2020) 

• LVC 

"GW190814: Gravitational Waves from the Coalescence of a 23 Solar Mass Black Hole with a 2.6 Solar Mass Compact Object" [astro-ph/2006.12611] ApJL 896, 2 

• I. M. Romero-Shaw,  C. Talbot,  S. Biscoveanu,  V. D'Emilio,  G. Ashton, et al

"Bayesian inference for compact binary coalescences with BILBY: Validation and application to the first LIGO-Virgo gravitational-wave transient catalogue" [astro-ph/2006.00714]

• C.-J. Haster

"Pi from the sky -- A null test of general relativity from a population of gravitational wave observations" -  [gr-qc/2005.05472]

• M. Safarzadeh, S. Biscoveanu, A. Loeb, "Constraining the delay time distribution of compact binary objects from the stochastic gravitational wave background searches", [astro-ph/2004.12999] 

• C.-J. Haster, K. Chatziioannou, A. Bauswein, J. Clark

"Inference of the neutron star equation of state from cosmological distances - [gr-qc/2004.11334]

• S. Biscoveanu, C.-J. Haster, S. Vitale, J, Davies 

"Quantifying the Effect of Power Spectral Density Uncertainty on Gravitational-Wave Parameter Estimation for Compact Binary Sources" - [astro-ph/2004.05149] , PRD 102 023008 (2020)

• V. Varma, M. Isi, S. Biscoveanu, 

"Extracting the Gravitational Recoil from Black Hole Merger Signals" - [gr-qc/2002.00296], PRL 124 101104 (2020)

• M. Pürrer, C-J Haster

"Ready for what lies ahead? – Gravitational waveform accuracy requirements for future ground based detectors" -  [gr-qc/1912.10055] - PRR 2 023151 (2020)

• K. Chatziioannou, C-J Haster, T. B. Littenberg et al

"Noise spectral estimation methods and their impact on gravitational wave measurement of compact binary mergers" - [gr-qc/1907.06540], PRD 100 104004 (2019)

• A. Zimmerman, C-J Haster, K. Chatziioannou

"On combining information from multiple gravitational wave sources" - [astro-ph/1903.11008], PRD 99 124044 (2019)

• Z. Carson, K. Chatziioannou, C.-J. Haster et al

"Equation-of-state insensitive relations after GW170817" -  [gr-qc/1903.03909], PRD 99 083016 (2019)

• O.A. Hannuksela, K. Haris, Ken Ng et al, [gr-qc/1901.02674], ApJL  874:L2 (2019)

• G. Vajente, Y.  Huang,  M. Isi et al, [gr-qc/1911.09083] -- PRD 101 042003 (2019)

• S. Biscoveanu, E. Thrane, S. Vitale, [astro-ph/1911.01379] -- ApJ 893 38 (2020)

• S. Vitale, W. Farr, K. Ng, C. Rodriguez [astro-ph/1808.00901] - ApJL 886 1 (2019)

  • Astrobites post on the paper

• S. Biscoveanu, S. Vitale, C-J Haster, [astro-ph/1908.03592] -  ApJL 884 2 (2019)

• K. Chatziioannou, R. Cotesta, S. Ghonge, J. Lange, Ken Ng, et al, [gr-qc/1903.06742] - PRD 100, 104015

• H-Y. Chen, S. Vitale, R. Narayan, [astro-ph/1807.05226] PRX 9 031028 (2019)

• M. Safarzadeh, E. Berger, K. Ng, H.-Y. Chen, S. Vitale, C. Whittle, E. Scannapieco. [astro-ph/1904.10976], ApJL 878, 1 (2019)

• D. Reitze et al, [1907.04833]

• B. Sathyaprakash et al., [astro-ph/1903.09221]

• D. Reitze et al, [astro-ph/1903.04615]

• C. Cutler et al, [astro-ph/1903.04069]

• Y. Huang, H. Middleton, K. Ng, S. Vitale, J. Veitch, [gr-qc/1810.10035] Phys. Rev. D. 98 123021 (2018)

• C. Pankow et al, [gr-qc/1808.03619], Phys. Rev. D 98 084016 (2018)

• R. Lynch, M. Coughlin, S. Vitale, C. Stubb,  E. Katsavounidis [astro-ph/1803.02880] ApJ Letters, 861 2

• J. Driggers, S. Vitale, A. P. Lundgren, M. Evans et al, [astro-ph.IM/1806.00532] PRD 99 042001 (2019)

• LVC, [gr-qc/1805.11579], Phys. Rev. X 9 011001 (2019)

• K. Ng, S. Vitale, A. Zimmerman, K.  Chatziioannou, D. Gerosa, C.-J. Haster
  "Gravitational-wave astrophysics with effective-spin measurements: asymmetries and selection biases" [gr-qc/1805.03046] Phys. Rev. D 98 083007

  • Syntetic posterior and likelihood generator 

• N. K. Johnson-Mc Daniel, A. Mukherjee, R. Kashyap, P. Ajith, W. Del Pozzo, S. Vitale, [gr-qc/1804.08026] PRD 102 123010 (2020)  

• S. Vitale, C. Whittle, [gr-qc/1804.07866], Phys. Rev. D 98 024029 (2018)

• S. Vitale, H-Y. Chen, [astro-ph/1804.07337], Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 021303 (2018)

  • APS synopsis on the letter

  • Astrobites post on the paper

• M. Isi, R. Smith, S. Vitale, T. J. Massinger, J. Kanner, A. Vajpeyi, [gr-qc/1803.09783], PRD 98 042007 (2018)

• P. Christian, S. Vitale, A. Loeb, [astro-ph/1802.02586] Phys. Rev. D 98 103022 (2018)

• J. Meidam et al., [gr-qc/1712.08772], Phys. Rev D 97 044033 (2018) 

• D. Gerosa, S. Vitale, C-J. Haster, K. Chatziioannou, A. Zimmerman, [astro-ph/1712.06635]

• H. Yu, D. Martynov, S. Vitale, M. Evan et al, [astro-ph/1712.05417], Phys. Rev. Lett.  120, 141102 (2018)

• LVC, [gr-qc/1710.05832], Phys. Rev. Lett. 119 161101 (2017)

• R. Essick, S. Vitale, M. Evans, [gr-qc/1708.06843], Phys. Rev. D 96, 084004 (2017)

• S. Vitale, D. Gerosa, C.-J. Haster, K. Chatziioannou, A. Zimmerman, [gr-qc/1707.04637], Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 251103 (2017)

  • Data release on Git Hub, link

• Contributed to APS Newletters [gr-qc/1706.06183]

• LVC, [gr-qc/1706.01812], Phys. Rev. Lett. 188 221101 (2017)

• C. Biwer et al., [astro-ph/1612.07864] Phys. Rev. D 95, 062002 (2017)

• B. Bécsy et al., [astro-ph/1612.02003] Apj 839 1 (2017)

• S. Vitale, R. Lynch, P. Graff, R. Sturani, [gr-qc/1503.04307] Class. Quantum Grav. 34 03LT01 (2017) 

• T. Regimbau, M. Evans,  N. Christensen, E. Katsavounidis, B. Sathyaprakash, S. Vitale, [astro-ph/1611.08943] Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 151105 (2017) 

• S. Vitale, R. Essick, E. Katsavounidis, S. Klimenko, G. Vedovato, [gr-qc/1611.02438], MNRAS Lett 466 (1) L78-L82 (2016)

• S. Vitale, R. Lynch, V. Raymond, R. Sturani, J. Veitch, P. Graff, [gr-qc/1611.01122] Phys. Rev. D 95, 064053 (2017)

• S. Vitale, [gr-qc/1610.06914], Phys. Rev. D 94, 121501(R) (2016)

• S. Vitale and M. Evans, [gr-qc/1610.06917] Phys. Rev. D 95, 064052 (2017)

• LVC, [astro-ph/1607.08697], Class. Quantum Grav. 34 4 2017 (Exploring the Sensitivity of Next Generation Gravitational Wave Detectors)

• R. Essick, S. Vitale, N. Weinberg, Phys. Rev. D 94 103012 (2016) [astro-ph/1609.06362] 

• H.-Y. Chen, R. Essick, S. Vitale, D. Holz, E. Katsavounidis, [astro-ph/1608.00164] Apj 835 1 (2016)

• S. Vitale,  Phys. Rev. Lett 117 051102 (2016), [gr-qc/1605.01037] 

• LVC, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116 241103 (2016) (GW151226: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a 22-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence)

• LVC, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116 061102 (2016) (Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger)

• LVC, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116 241102 (2016) (Properties of the Binary Black Hole Merger GW150914)

• LVC, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116 221101 (2016) (Tests of General Relativity with GW150914)

• R. Lynch, S. Vitale, R. Essick, E. Katsavounidis, F. Robinet, [gr-qc/1511.05955] Phys. Rev. D 95, 104046 (2017)

• B. Farr et al, [astro-ph/1508.05336]

• M. Agathos et al., Phys. Rev. D  92, 023012 (2015), [gr-qc/1503.05405]

• J. Miller, L. Barsotti, S. Vitale,  P. Fritschel, D. Sigg, M .Evans, Phys. Rev. D 91, 062005 (2015), [gr-qc/1410.5882] 

• C. Berry et al, Apj 804, 114 (2015) [astro-ph/1411.6934] 

• R. Lynch, S. Vitale, L. Barsotti, M. Evans and S. Dwyer, Phys.Rev. D 91, 044032 (2015) [gr-qc/1410.8503] 

• J. Veitch, V. Raymond, B. Farr, W. Farr, P. Graff, S. Vitale et al, Phys.Rev D 91 042003 (2015) [gr-qc/1409.7215]

• R. Essick, S. Vitale, E. Katsavounidis, G. Vedovato and S. Klimenko, ApJ 800 81 (2015) [astro-ph/1409.2435] 

• S. Vitale on behalf of the LIGO and Virgo Collaborations,  Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 9149, 914907 (2014) [link to SPIE]

• S. Mohapatra et al., Phys.Rev D 90, 022001 (2014) [gr-qc/1405.6589]

• S. Vitale, R. Lynch, J. Veitch, V. Raymond, R. Sturani, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112 251101  (2014) [gr-qc/1403.0129]

• L. Singer et al, Apj, 795, 105 (2014) [astro-ph/1404.5623]

• S. Vitale and W. Del Pozzo,  Phys.Rev. D 89 022002 (2014) [gr-qc/1311.2057]

• S. Vitale, W. Del Pozzo, T.G.F. Li, C. Van Den Broeck,B. Aylott, J. Veitch, Journ. Phys Conf Ser 484, 012026 (2014) Link

• M. Agathos, W. Del Pozzo, T. G. F. Li, C. .V. D. Broeck, J. Veitch and S. Vitale, Phys.Rev.D 89, 082001 (2014), [gr-qc/1311.0420] 

• T. Sidery et al., Phys.Rev. D 89, 084060 (2014) [astro-ph/1312.6013]

• Aasi et al.,  Phys.Rev. D 88, 062001 (2013)

• W. Del Pozzo, T. G. F. Li, M. Agathos, C. Van Den Broeck, S. Vitale, Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 071110 (2013) [gr-qc/1307.8338]

• S. Vitale, W. Del Pozzo, T.G.F. Li, C. Van Den Broeck, I. Mandel, J. Veitch, B. Aylott, Phys. Rev D 85, 064034 (2012), [gr-qc/1111.3044]

• T. G. F. Li, W. Del Pozzo, S. Vitale, C. Van Den Broeck, M. Agathos, J. Veitch, K. Grover, T. Sidery, R. Sturani, A. Vecchio, Journ. Phys Conf Ser 363, 012028 (2012)  [gr-qc/1111.5274] 

• T. G. F. Li, W. Del Pozzo, S. Vitale, C. Van Den Broeck, M. Agathos, J. Veitch, K. Grover, T. Sidery, R. Sturani, A. Vecchio, Phys. Rev. D 85, 082003 (2012) [gr-qc/1110.0530]

• S. Vitale and M. Zanolin,  Phys. Rev. D 84, 104020 (2011) [gr-qc/1108.2410]

•  S. Vitale and M. Zanolin,  Phys. Rev. D 82, 124065 (2011) [gr-qc/1004.4537]

• M. Zanolin, S. Vitale, N. Makris, Phys. Rev. D 81, 124048 (2010) [gr-qc/0912.0065]

• R. Kerner and S. Vitale Classical Quantum Grav. 26 235007 (2009) [gr-qc/0801.4868]

Articles with the LIGO-Virgo collaborations

      I am co-author of the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration papers since ~ 2012 (that is, from item 61 of the list here)