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“Implications for first-order cosmological phase transitions from the third LIGO-Virgo observing run ” by Alba Romero, Katarina Martinovic, Thomas A. Callister, et al. has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters.

The IFAE GW group is presenting 2 posters in the plenary poster session of the Ligo-Virgo-Kagra week

The GW group at IFAE is giving 2 presentations in the 55th Rencontres de Moriond 2021: Gravitation.

“Searches for Compact Binary Coalescence Events using Neural Networks in LIGO/Virgo Second Observation Period ” by A. Menendez et al., has been accepted for publication in Physical Review D.

The event is taking place online. Christos Karathanasis is contributing a talk: “Joint cosmological and population analyses using events from the first and second GWTC.”

Two new publications by the Gravitational Waves grup at IFAE

IFAE is contributing 3 talks: Alba Romero; “First Order Phase Transition signals in O3 data” Alexis Menendez, “Detection of CBC events in O3a using a convolutional neural network” Jorge Carretero, “CosmoHub: Interactive exploration and distribution of astronomical data on Hadoop”

The integration tests of the new instrumented baffle in new IMC payload at the EGO clean room were successful. Also the optical test for TIS in the baffle surface was done succesfully. Now the Baffle is being sent for optical coating , and the electronics are sent to industry for final assembly.

Mario Martínez is part of the organizing committee of the Virtual Iberian Gravitational Wave Meeting