The MBTA Pipeline for Detecting Compact Binary Coalescences in the Fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observing Run

Christopher Alléné; Florian Aubin; Inès Bentara; Damir Buskulic; Gianluca M Guidi; Vincent Juste; Morgan Lethuillier; Frédérique Marion; Lorenzo Mobilia; Benoît Mours; Amazigh Ouzriat; Thomas Sainrat; Viola Sordini

doi:10.1088/1361-6382/add234

The MBTA Pipeline for Detecting Compact Binary Coalescences in the Fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observing Run

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2025-05-15 v2 Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

Authors: Christopher Alléné , Florian Aubin , Inès Bentara , Damir Buskulic , Gianluca M Guidi , Vincent Juste , Morgan Lethuillier , Frédérique Marion , Lorenzo Mobilia , Benoît Mours , Amazigh Ouzriat , Thomas Sainrat , Viola Sordini

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In this paper, we describe the Multi-Band Template Analysis (MBTA) search pipeline dedicated to the detection of compact binary coalescence (CBC) gravitational wave signals from the data obtained by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration (LVK) during the fourth observing run (O4), which started in May 2023. We give details on the configuration of the pipeline and its evolution compared to the third observing run (O3). We focus here on the configuration used for the offline results of the first part of the run (O4a), which are part of the GWTC-4 catalog (in preparation). We also give a brief summary of the online configuration and highlight some of the changes implemented or considered for the second part of O4 (O4b).

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compact binary coalescence gravitational wave detection LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA MBTA pipeline observing run

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@article{arxiv.2501.04598,
  title  = {The MBTA Pipeline for Detecting Compact Binary Coalescences in the Fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observing Run},
  author = {Christopher Alléné and Florian Aubin and Inès Bentara and Damir Buskulic and Gianluca M Guidi and Vincent Juste and Morgan Lethuillier and Frédérique Marion and Lorenzo Mobilia and Benoît Mours and Amazigh Ouzriat and Thomas Sainrat and Viola Sordini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.04598},
  year   = {2025}
}

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The MBTA Pipeline for Detecting Compact Binary Coalescences in the Fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observing Run

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