Simons Collaboration on Black Holes and Strong Gravity

PUBLICATIONS

Inspirals into bosonic dark matter stars and chirp mimickers

Caio F. B. Macedo, Haroldo C. D. Lima, Raissa F. P. Mendes, Rodrigo Vicente, Vitor Cardoso

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Chaos and fractals of the black hole photon ring

Roman Berens, Peter Galison, Trevor Gravely, Alexandru Lupsasca, Leo C. Stein

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Black Hole Vision: An Interactive iOS Application for Visualizing Black Holes

Roman Berens, Dominic O. Chang, Trevor Gravely, Alexandru Lupsasca

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Searching for precessing binary systems with mode-by-mode filtering and marginalization

Zihan Zhou, Digvijay Wadekar, Javier Roulet, Oryna Ivashtenko, Tejaswi Venumadhav, Tousif Islam, Ajit Kumar Mehta, Jonathan Mushkin, Mark Ho-Yeuk Cheung, Barak Zackay, Matias Zaldarriaga

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Nonlinear Dynamics in General Relativity

Vitor Cardoso, Jaime Redondo-Yuste, Ulrich Sperhake, Furkan Tuncer

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Single-minus graviton tree amplitudes are nonzero

Alfredo Guevara, Alexandru Lupsasca, David Skinner, Andrew Strominger, Kevin Weil

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Modified Teukolsky formalism: Null testing and numerical benchmarking

Fawzi Aly, Mahmoud A. Mansour, Luis Lehner, Dejan Stojkovic, Dongjun Li, Pratik Wagle

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Single-minus gluon tree amplitudes are nonzero

Alfredo Guevara, Alexandru Lupsasca, David Skinner, Andrew Strominger, Kevin Weil

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Modern tidal interaction models for rapid binary population synthesis: I. Methods

Veome Kapil, Ilya Mandel, Evgeni Grishin, Jim Fuller, Jeff Riley, Emanuele Berti

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Systematic biases in parameter estimation on LISA binaries. II. The effect of excluding higher harmonics for spin-aligned, high-mass binaries

Sophia Yi, Francesco Iacovelli, Emanuele Berti, Rohit s. Chandramouli, Sylvain Marsat, Digvijay Wadekar, Nicolás Yunes

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deci-Hz Gravitational Wave Observations on the Moon and Beyond

Emanuele Berti, Marica Branchesi, Alessandra Buonanno, Alessandra Corsi, Daniel J. D’Orazio, Jan Harms, Jason M. Hogan, Francesco Iacovelli, Karan Jani, Marc Kamionkowski, Kentaro Komori, Konstantinos Kritos, Andrea Maselli, M. Coleman Miller, Chiara M. F. Mingarelli, Voker Quetschke, B. s. Sathyaprakash, Danvid H. Shoemaker, Joseph Silk, Jacob P. Slutsky, James Ira Thorpe, James Trippe, Daniele Vetrugno, Stefano Vitale

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From cosmological simulations to binary black hole mergers: The impact of using analytical star formation history models on gravitational-wave source populations

Sasha Levina, floor Broekgaarden, Lieke van Son, Emanuele Berti, Amedeo Romagnolo, Ruediger Pakmor, Ana Lam

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The relativistic restricted three-body problem: geometry and motion around tidally perturbed black holes

Takuya Katagiri and Vitor Cardoso

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Sample-efficient non-Gaussian noise reduction in Gravitational wave data via learnable wavelets

Arush Pimpalkar, Digvijay Wadekar, Mark Ho-Yeuk Cheung, Emanuele Berti

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Spinning Black Holes in Modified Gravity via Spectral Methods

Kelvin Ka-Ho Lam, Adrian Ka-Wai Chung, Nicolás Yunes

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Gravitational lensing rarely produces high-mass outliers to the compact binary population

Amanda M. Farah, Jose María Ezquiaga, Maya Fishbach, Daniel E. Holz

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False positive control in time series coincidence detection

Ruiting Liang, Samuel Dyson, Rina Foygel Barber, Daniel E. Holz

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Analytic and accurate approximate metrics for black holes with arbitrary rotation in beyond-Einstein gravity using spectral methods

Kelvin Ka-Ho Lam, Adrian Ka-Wai Chung, Nicolás Yunes

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A relativistic treatment of accretion disk torques on extreme mass ratio inspirals around spinning black holes

Abhishek Hegade K., Charles F. Gammie, Nicolás Yunes

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Resonances in b-EMRIs: playing the black hole piano

Joao S. Santos, Vitor Cardoso, Alexandru Lupsasca, Jose Natario, Maarten van de Meent

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Previous Publications

2025

A cosmologist’s take on Little Red Dots

Valerio De Luca, Loris Del Grosso, Gabriele Franciolini, Konstantinos Kritos, Emanuele Berti, Daniel D’Orazio, Joseph Silk

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Generalized Couch–Torrence inversions

Panagiotis Charalambous, Laura Donnay, Alexandru Lupsasca

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Quasinormal modes of rotating black holes beyond general relativity in the WKB approximation

Ruijing Tang, Nicola Franchini, Sebastian H. Völkel, Emanuele Berti

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Stellar Superradiance and Low-Energy Absorption in Dense Nuclear Media

Zhaoyu Bai, Vitor Cardoso, Yifan Chen, Yuyan Li, Jamie I. McDonald, Hyeonseok Seong

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Restrictions on Initial Conditions in Cosmological Scenarios and Implications for Simulations of Primordial Black Holes and Inflation

Thomas W. Baumgarte, Katy Clough, John T. Giblin, Jr.

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Binary black hole population inference combining confident and marginal events
from the IAS-HM search pipeline

Ajit Kumar Mehta, Digvijay Wadekar, Isha Anantpurkar, Javier Roulet, Tejaswi Venumadhav, Tousif Islam, Jonathan Mushkin, Barak Zackay, Matias Zaldarriaga

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Cosmology of Gravi-Axions

Stephon Alexander, Gregory Gabadadze, Leah Jenks, Nicolás Yunes

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Universal Relations with Dynamical Tides

Jayana Antunes Saes de Lima, Abhishek Hegade K. R., Nicolás Yunes

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Black hole binaries in shift-symmetric Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity experience
a slower merger phase

Maxence Corman, Llibert Aresté Saló, Katy Clough

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The Physics of Black Holes and Their Environments: Consequences for Gravitational Wave Science

Vitor Cardoso, Shauvik Biswas, Subhodeep Sarkar

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Generating optimal Gravitational-Wave template banks with metric-preserving autoencoders

Giovanni Cabass, Digvijay Wadekar, Matias Zaldarriaga, Zihan Zhou

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Effects of Lighter-than-QCD Axions on Neutron Star Tidal Deformability

Yonatan Kahn, Michael Wentzel, Nicolás Yunes

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Clustering effects on the Dark Siren determination of H0: A simulation study

Marios Kalomenopoulos, Riccardo Barbieri, Sadegh Khochfar, Jonathan Gair, Robert J. McGibbon

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Non-stationary noise in gravitational wave analyses: The wavelet domain noise covariance matrix

Neil J. Cornish

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Gravitational Atoms from Topological Stars

Ibrahima Bah, Emanuele Berti, Bogdan Ganchev, David Pereñiguez, Nicholas Speeney

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How Low Can You Go: Constraining the Effects of Catalog Incompleteness on Dark Siren Cosmology

Madison VanWyngarden, Maya Fishbach, Aditya Vijaykumar, Alexandra G. Guerrero, Daniel E. Holz

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Numerical simulations of Scalar Dark Matter Around Binary Neutron Star mergers

Rohan Srikanth, Tim Dietrich, Katy Clough

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Frozen Firewall: Generic Singularity Formation on an Extremal Horizon

Gary T. Horowitz, Maciej Kolanowski, Jorge E. Santos

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Scalar fields around black hole binaries in LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA

Soumen Roy, Rodrigo Vicente, Josu C. Aurrekoetxea, Katy Clough, Pedro G. Ferreira

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A relativistic treatment of accretion disk torques on extreme mass ratio inspirals around spinning black holes

Abhishek Hegade K.R., Charles F. Gammie, Nicolás Yunes

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Neural Post-Einsteinian Test of General Relativity with the Third Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog

Yiqi Xie, Gautham Narayan, Nicolás Yunes

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Data-driven extraction and phenomenology of eccentric harmonics in eccentric spinning binary black hole mergers

Tousif Islam, Tejaswi Venumadhav, Ajit Kumar Mehta, Digvijay Wadekar, Javier Roulet, Isha Anantpurkar, Jonathan Mushkin, Barak Zackay, Matias Zaldarriaga

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Black holes black out: total absorption in time-dependent scattering

Furkan Tuncer, Vitor Cardoso, Rodrigo Panosso Macedo, Thomas F.M. Spieksma

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