📣 New gravitational-wave catalog doubles number of detections 📈

The latest catalog of LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA gravitational-wave detections, GWTC-4, has been published. It presents 128 new candidates from the fourth observing run, more than doubling the previous total.

This catalog update results from a nine-month observing period (May 2023 to January 2024) of the gravitational-wave observatories.

Researchers at the @mpi_grav and at @unihannover have made significant contributions to this milestone, presented in several publications in a special issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters.

ℹ️ https://www.aei.mpg.de/1415736/new-catalog-of-ligo-virgo-kagra-observations-published

📄 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae0c06 (OpenAccess)

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