5–9 Jul 2026
University of Canterbury
Pacific/Auckland timezone

GWTC-5.0: Observations from the second part of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing run

6 Jul 2026, 09:35
35m
Room E8 (Rātā / Engineering Core Building, University of Canterbury)

Room E8

Rātā / Engineering Core Building, University of Canterbury

Plenary Talk Plenary talks

Speaker

Jade Powell (Swinburne University of Technology)

Description

In this talk, I will present on behalf of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaborations the results from version 5.0 of the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC-5.0). The updated catalog contains results from the network of observatories up to the second part of the fourth observing run (O4b). We find 161 new compact binary coalescence candidates with masses consistent with signals from the merger of binary black holes, bringing the total number of gravitational-wave candidates up to 390. We present updated population properties, tests of general relativity, and constraints on the cosmic expansion rate.

Research Area Gravitational Waves

Author

Jade Powell (Swinburne University of Technology)

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