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Probing Supernovae through gravitational wave entropy

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2025-11-12 v1 Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We study an entropy-based framework to analyze gravitational-wave signals from core-collapse supernovae. We use waveforms generated by numerical simulations and analyze them in both the time domain and the time-frequency domain using short-time Fourier and continuous wavelet transforms. From each representation, we compute four entropy measures -- Shannon, exponential, R\'enyi, and Tsallis -- and apply three feature selection methods to identify the most informative features. We then train machine-learning classifiers on these features to compare the performance of different methodological combinations. We find that the combination of R\'enyi entropy from the wavelet domain and the Relief-F selection method yields the most effective discrimination among different gravitational-wave signals.

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@article{arxiv.2511.08010,
  title  = {Probing Supernovae through gravitational wave entropy},
  author = {Aknur Sakan and Nurzhan Ussipov and Ernazar Abdikamalov and Almat Akhmetali and Marat Zaidyn and Alisher Zhunuskanov and José A. Font and Matthew C. Edwards and Sultan Abylkairov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.08010},
  year   = {2025}
}

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19 pages, 7 figures, 6 tables (4 + 2 appendix)

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