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Since the recent announcements of evidence for a stochastic gravitational wave background from several pulsar timing array collaborations, much effort has been devoted to explore features beyond the fiducial Hellings-Downs background…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-01 Heling Deng , Xavier Siemens , Rand Burnette

A Bayesian treatment of the problem of detecting an unmodelled gravitational wave burst with a global network of gravitational wave observatories reveals that several previously proposed statistics have implicit biases that render them…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Antony C Searle , Patrick J Sutton , Massimo Tinto , Graham Woan

Strong lensing of gravitational waves can produce several detectable images as repeated events in the upcoming observing runs, which can be detected with the posterior overlap analysis (Bayes factor). The choice of the binary black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-26 Damon H. T. Cheung , Stefano Rinaldi , Martina Toscani , Otto A. Hannuksela

Bayesian inference of gravitational wave signals is subject to systematic error due to modelling uncertainty in waveform signal models, coined approximants. A growing collection of approximants are available which use different approaches…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-25 Gregory Ashton , Sebastian Khan

Bayesian inference is a powerful tool in gravitational-wave astronomy. It enables us to deduce the properties of merging compact-object binaries and to determine how these mergers are distributed as a population according to mass, spin, and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-15 Isobel M. Romero-Shaw , Eric Thrane , Paul D. Lasky

We propose a new model of Bayesian Neural Networks to not only detect the events of compact binary coalescence in the observational data of gravitational waves (GW) but also identify the full length of the event duration including the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-31 Yu-Chiung Lin , Jiun-Huei Proty Wu

We present further evidence that the second post-Newtonian (pN) approximation to the gravitational waves emitted by inspiraling compact binaries is sufficient for the detection of these systems. This is established by comparing the 2-pN…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-25 Serge Droz

We describe several new techniques which accelerate Bayesian searches for continuous gravitational-wave emission from supermassive black-hole binaries using pulsar timing arrays. These techniques mitigate the problematic increase of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-25 Stephen Taylor , Justin Ellis , Jonathan Gair

The search for gravitational waves generated by the inspiral phase of binaries of light compact objects holds significant promise in testing the existence of primordial black holes and/or other exotic objects. In this paper, we present a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-08 M. Andrés-Carcasona , O. J. Piccinni , M. Martínez , Ll. M. Mir

In this technical note, we study the possibility of using networks of ground-based detectors to directly measure gravitational-wave polarizations using signals from compact binary coalescences. We present a simple data analysis method to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-12 Maximiliano Isi , Alan J. Weinstein

Compact binary coalescence (CBC) is one of the most promising sources of gravitational waves. These sources are usually searched for with matched filters which require accurate calculation of the GW waveforms and generation of large…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-13 C. Pankow , S. Klimenko , G. Mitselmakher , I. Yakushin , G. Vedovato , M. Drago , R. A. Mercer , P. Ajith

Electromagnetic (EM) follow-up observations of gravitational wave (GW) events will help shed light on the nature of the sources, and more can be learned if the EM follow-ups can start as soon as the GW event becomes observable. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 Jing Luan , Shaun Hooper , Linqing Wen , Yanbei Chen

Matched filtering is used to search for gravitational waves emitted by inspiralling compact binaries in data from the ground-based interferometers. One of the key aspects of the detection process is the design of a template bank that covers…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Thomas Cokelaer

The ringdown of the gravitational-wave signal from a merger of two black holes has been suggested as a probe of the structure of the remnant compact object, which may be more exotic than a black hole. It has been pointed out that there will…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-05 R. K. L. Lo , T. G. F. Li , A. J. Weinstein

We revisit the problem of searching for gravitational waves from inspiralling compact binaries in Gaussian coloured noise. For binaries with quasicircular orbits and non-precessing component spins, considering dominant mode emission only,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-03-26 Thomas Dent , John Veitch

Inspiraling compact binaries are promising sources of gravitational waves for ground and space-based laser interferometric detectors. The time-dependent signature of these sources in the detectors is a well-characterized function of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 S. Mitra , S. V. Dhurandhar , L. S. Finn

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) is developing and running analysis pipelines to search for gravitational-wave transients emitted by astrophysical events such as compact binary mergers or core-collapse supernovae. However, because of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-13 R. Gouaty

Matched filtering is used to search for gravitational waves emitted by inspiralling compact binaries in data from ground-based interferometers. One of the key aspects of the detection process is the deployment of a set of templates, also…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Thomas Cokelaer

We present a method for assigning a statistical significance to detection candidates in targeted searches for continuous gravitational waves from known pulsars, without assuming the detector noise is Gaussian and stationary. We take…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-04 Maximiliano Isi , Simone Mastrogiovanni , Matthew Pitkin , Ornella Juliana Piccinni

We introduce a "loosely coherent" method for detection of continuous gravitational waves that bridges the gap between semi-coherent and purely coherent methods. Explicit control over accepted families of signals is used to increase…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-18 Vladimir Dergachev