Data product
Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog
The cumulative catalogue of confident gravitational-wave detections from the LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA observing runs — the growing census of compact-binary mergers, released as open data, from which the population of black holes and neutron stars across cosmic time is reconstructed.
Highlights
- ›The open census of every confident detection
Detectors, messengers & sources
Knowledge connections
- Associated withBinary Black Hole Merger
- Associated withParameter Estimation
Sources
The primary and reference sources this topic draws on.
- LIGO Scientific CollaborationLIGO Scientific Collaboration & Virgo Collaboration
Direct detections of gravitational waves from compact-object mergers.