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Un-modeled search for black hole binary systems in the NINJA project

The gravitational wave signature from binary black hole coalescences is an important target for LIGO and VIRGO. The Numerical INJection Analysis (NINJA) project brought together the numerical relativity and gravitational wave data analysis…

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The NINJA-2 project: Detecting and characterizing gravitational waveforms modelled using numerical binary black hole simulations

The Numerical INJection Analysis (NINJA) project is a collaborative effort between members of the numerical relativity and gravitational-wave astrophysics communities. The purpose of NINJA is to study the ability to detect gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-05-21 The LIGO Scientific Collaboration , the Virgo Collaboration , 2 Collaboration , J. Aasi , B. P. Abbott , R. Abbott , T. Abbott , M. R. Abernathy , T. Accadia , F. Acernese , K. Ackley , C. Adams , T. Adams , P. Addesso , R. X. Adhikari , C. Affeldt , M. Agathos , N. Aggarwal , O. D. Aguiar , A. Ain , P. Ajith , A. Alemic , B. Allen , A. Allocca , D. Amariutei , M. Andersen , R. Anderson , S. B. Anderson , W. G. Anderson , K. Arai , M. C. Araya , C. Arceneaux , J. Areeda , S. M. Aston , P. Astone , P. Aufmuth , C. Aulbert , L. Austin , B. E. Aylott , S. Babak , P. T. Baker , G. Ballardin , S. W. Ballmer , J. C. Barayoga , M. Barbet , B. C. Barish , D. Barker , F. Barone , B. Barr , L. Barsotti , M. Barsuglia , M. A. Barton , I. Bartos , R. Bassiri , A. Basti , J. C. Batch , J. Bauchrowitz , Th. S. Bauer , B. Behnke , M. Bejger , M. G. Beker , C. Belczynski , A. S. Bell , C. Bell , G. Bergmann , D. Bersanetti , A. Bertolini , J. Betzwieser , P. T. Beyersdorf , I. A. Bilenko , G. Billingsley , J. Birch , S. Biscans , M. Bitossi , M. A. Bizouard , E. Black , J. K. Blackburn , L. Blackburn , D. Blair , S. Bloemen , M. Blom , O. Bock , T. P. Bodiya , M. Boer , G. Bogaert , C. Bogan , C. Bond , F. Bondu , L. Bonelli , R. Bonnand , R. Bork , M. Born , V. Boschi , Sukanta Bose , L. Bosi , C. Bradaschia , P. R. Brady , V. B. Braginsky , M. Branchesi , J. E. Brau , T. Briant , D. O. Bridges , A. Brillet , M. Brinkmann , V. Brisson , A. F. Brooks , D. A. Brown , D. D. Brown , F. Brückner , S. Buchman , T. Bulik , H. J. Bulten , A. Buonanno , R. Burman , D. Buskulic , C. Buy , L. Cadonati , G. Cagnoli , J. Calderón Bustillo , E. Calloni , J. B. Camp , P. Campsie , K. C. Cannon , B. Canuel , J. Cao , C. D. Capano , F. Carbognani , L. Carbone , S. Caride , A. Castiglia , S. Caudill , M. Cavaglià , F. Cavalier , R. Cavalieri , C. Celerier , G. Cella , C. Cepeda , E. Cesarini , R. Chakraborty , T. Chalermsongsak , S. J. Chamberlin , S. Chao , P. Charlton , E. Chassande-Mottin , X. Chen , Y. Chen , A. Chincarini , A. Chiummo , H. S. Cho , J. Chow , N. Christensen , Q. Chu , S. S. Y. Chua , S. Chung , G. Ciani , F. Clara , J. A. Clark , F. Cleva , E. Coccia , P. -F. Cohadon , A. Colla , C. Collette , M. Colombini , L. Cominsky , M. Constancio , A. Conte , D. Cook , T. R. Corbitt , M. Cordier , N. Cornish , A. Corpuz , A. Corsi , C. A. Costa , M. W. Coughlin , S. Coughlin , J. -P. Coulon , S. Countryman , P. Couvares , D. M. Coward , M. Cowart , D. C. Coyne , R. Coyne , K. Craig , J. D. E. Creighton , S. G. Crowder , A. Cumming , L. Cunningham , E. Cuoco , K. Dahl , T. Dal Canton , M. Damjanic , S. L. Danilishin , S. D'Antonio , K. Danzmann , V. Dattilo , H. Daveloza , M. Davier , G. S. Davies , E. J. Daw , R. Day , T. Dayanga , G. Debreczeni , J. Degallaix , S. Deléglise , W. Del Pozzo , T. Denker , T. Dent , H. Dereli , V. Dergachev , R. De Rosa , R. T. DeRosa , R. DeSalvo , S. Dhurandhar , M. Díaz , L. Di Fiore , A. Di Lieto , I. Di Palma , A. Di Virgilio , A. Donath , F. Donovan , K. L. Dooley , S. Doravari , S. Dossa , R. Douglas , T. P. Downes , M. Drago , R. W. P. Drever , J. C. Driggers , Z. Du , S. Dwyer , T. Eberle , T. Edo , M. Edwards , A. Effler , H. Eggenstein , P. Ehrens , J. Eichholz , S. S. Eikenberry , G. Endrőczi , R. Essick , T. Etzel , M. Evans , T. Evans , M. Factourovich , V. Fafone , S. Fairhurst , Q. Fang , S. Farinon , B. Farr , W. M. Farr , M. Favata , H. Fehrmann , M. M. Fejer , D. Feldbaum , F. Feroz , I. Ferrante , F. Ferrini , F. Fidecaro , L. S. Finn , I. Fiori , R. P. Fisher , R. Flaminio , J. -D. Fournier , S. Franco , S. Frasca , F. Frasconi , M. Frede , Z. Frei , A. Freise , R. Frey , T. T. Fricke , P. Fritschel , V. V. Frolov , P. Fulda , M. Fyffe , J. Gair , L. Gammaitoni , S. Gaonkar , F. Garufi , N. Gehrels , G. Gemme , E. Genin , A. Gennai , S. Ghosh , J. A. Giaime , K. D. Giardina , A. Giazotto , C. Gill , J. Gleason , E. Goetz , R. Goetz , L. Gondan , G. González , N. Gordon , M. L. Gorodetsky , S. Gossan , S. Goßler , R. Gouaty , C. Gräf , P. B. Graff , M. Granata , A. Grant , S. Gras , C. Gray , R. J. S. Greenhalgh , A. M. Gretarsson , P. Groot , H. Grote , K. Grover , S. Grunewald , G. M. Guidi , C. Guido , K. Gushwa , E. K. Gustafson , R. Gustafson , D. Hammer , G. Hammond , M. Hanke , J. Hanks , C. Hanna , J. Hanson , J. Harms , G. M. Harry , I. W. Harry , E. D. Harstad , M. Hart , M. T. Hartman , C. -J. Haster , K. Haughian , A. Heidmann , M. Heintze , H. Heitmann , P. Hello , G. Hemming , M. Hendry , I. S. Heng , A. W. Heptonstall , M. Heurs , M. Hewitson , S. Hild , D. Hoak , K. A. Hodge , K. Holt , S. Hooper , P. Hopkins , D. J. Hosken , J. Hough , E. J. Howell , Y. Hu , B. Hughey , S. Husa , S. H. Huttner , M. Huynh , T. Huynh-Dinh , D. R. Ingram , R. Inta , T. Isogai , A. Ivanov , B. R. Iyer , K. Izumi , M. Jacobson , E. James , H. Jang , P. Jaranowski , Y. Ji , F. Jiménez-Forteza , W. W. Johnson , D. I. Jones , R. Jones , R. J. G. Jonker , L. Ju , Haris K , P. Kalmus , V. Kalogera , S. Kandhasamy , G. Kang , J. B. Kanner , J. Karlen , M. Kasprzack , E. Katsavounidis , W. Katzman , H. Kaufer , K. Kawabe , F. Kawazoe , F. Kéfélian , G. M. Keiser , D. Keitel , D. B. Kelley , W. Kells , A. Khalaidovski , F. Y. Khalili , E. A. Khazanov , C. Kim , K. Kim , N. Kim , N. G. Kim , Y. -M. Kim , E. J. King , P. J. King , D. L. Kinzel , J. S. Kissel , S. Klimenko , J. Kline , S. Koehlenbeck , K. Kokeyama , V. Kondrashov , S. Koranda , W. Z. Korth , I. Kowalska , D. B. Kozak , A. Kremin , V. Kringel , B. Krishnan , A. Królak , G. Kuehn , A. Kumar , P. Kumar , R. Kumar , L. Kuo , A. Kutynia , P. Kwee , M. Landry , B. Lantz , S. Larson , P. D. Lasky , C. Lawrie , A. Lazzarini , C. Lazzaro , P. Leaci , S. Leavey , E. O. Lebigot , C. -H. Lee , H. K. Lee , H. M. Lee , J. Lee , M. Leonardi , J. R. Leong , A. Le Roux , N. Leroy , N. Letendre , Y. Levin , B. Levine , J. Lewis , T. G. F. Li , K. Libbrecht , A. Libson , A. C. Lin , T. B. Littenberg , V. Litvine , N. A. Lockerbie , V. Lockett , D. Lodhia , K. Loew , J. Logue , A. L. Lombardi , M. Lorenzini , V. Loriette , M. Lormand , G. Losurdo , J. Lough , M. J. Lubinski , H. Lück , E. Luijten , A. P. Lundgren , R. Lynch , Y. Ma , J. Macarthur , E. P. Macdonald , T. MacDonald , B. Machenschalk , M. MacInnis , D. M. Macleod , F. Magana-Sandoval , M. Mageswaran , C. Maglione , K. Mailand , E. Majorana , I. Maksimovic , V. Malvezzi , N. Man , G. M. Manca , I. Mandel , V. Mandic , V. Mangano , N. Mangini , M. Mantovani , F. Marchesoni , F. Marion , S. Márka , Z. Márka , A. Markosyan , E. Maros , J. Marque , F. Martelli , I. W. Martin , R. M. Martin , L. Martinelli , D. Martynov , J. N. Marx , K. Mason , A. Masserot , T. J. Massinger , F. Matichard , L. Matone , R. A. Matzner , N. Mavalvala , N. Mazumder , G. Mazzolo , R. McCarthy , D. E. McClelland , S. C. McGuire , G. McIntyre , J. McIver , K. McLin , D. Meacher , G. D. Meadors , M. Mehmet , J. Meidam , M. Meinders , A. Melatos , G. Mendell , R. A. Mercer , S. Meshkov , C. Messenger , P. Meyers , H. Miao , C. Michel , E. E. Mikhailov , L. Milano , S. Milde , J. Miller , Y. Minenkov , C. M. F. Mingarelli , C. Mishra , S. Mitra , V. P. Mitrofanov , G. Mitselmakher , R. Mittleman , B. Moe , P. Moesta , M. Mohan , S. R. P. Mohapatra , D. Moraru , G. Moreno , N. Morgado , S. R. Morriss , K. Mossavi , B. Mours , C. M. Mow-Lowry , C. L. Mueller , G. Mueller , S. Mukherjee , A. Mullavey , J. Munch , D. Murphy , P. G. Murray , A. Mytidis , M. F. Nagy , D. Nanda Kumar , I. Nardecchia , L. Naticchioni , R. K. Nayak , V. Necula , G. Nelemans , I. Neri , M. Neri , G. Newton , T. Nguyen , A. Nitz , F. Nocera , D. Nolting , M. E. N. Normandin , L. K. Nuttall , E. Ochsner , J. O'Dell , E. Oelker , J. J. Oh , S. H. Oh , F. Ohme , P. Oppermann , B. O'Reilly , R. O'Shaughnessy , C. Osthelder , D. J. Ottaway , R. S. Ottens , H. Overmier , B. J. Owen , C. Padilla , A. Pai , O. Palashov , C. Palomba , H. Pan , Y. Pan , C. Pankow , F. Paoletti , R. Paoletti , M. A. Papa , H. Paris , A. Pasqualetti , R. Passaquieti , D. Passuello , M. Pedraza , S. Penn , A. Perreca , M. Phelps , M. Pichot , M. Pickenpack , F. Piergiovanni , V. Pierro , L. Pinard , I. M. Pinto , M. Pitkin , J. Poeld , R. Poggiani , A. Poteomkin , J. Powell , J. Prasad , S. Premachandra , T. Prestegard , L. R. Price , M. Prijatelj , S. Privitera , G. A. Prodi , L. Prokhorov , O. Puncken , M. Punturo , P. Puppo , J. Qin , V. Quetschke , E. Quintero , G. Quiroga , R. Quitzow-James , F. J. Raab , D. S. Rabeling , I. Rácz , H. Radkins , P. Raffai , S. Raja , G. Rajalakshmi , M. Rakhmanov , C. Ramet , K. Ramirez , P. Rapagnani , V. Raymond , V. Re , J. Read , C. M. Reed , T. Regimbau , S. Reid , D. H. Reitze , E. Rhoades , F. Ricci , K. Riles , N. A. Robertson , F. Robinet , A. Rocchi , M. Rodruck , L. Rolland , J. G. Rollins , R. Romano , G. Romanov , J. H. Romie , D. Rosińska , S. Rowan , A. Rüdiger , P. Ruggi , K. Ryan , F. Salemi , L. Sammut , V. Sandberg , J. R. Sanders , V. Sannibale , I. Santiago-Prieto , E. Saracco , B. Sassolas , B. S. Sathyaprakash , P. R. Saulson , R. Savage , J. Scheuer , R. Schilling , R. Schnabel , R. M. S. Schofield , E. Schreiber , D. Schuette , B. F. Schutz , J. Scott , S. M. Scott , D. Sellers , A. S. Sengupta , D. Sentenac , V. Sequino , A. Sergeev , D. Shaddock , S. Shah , M. S. Shahriar , M. Shaltev , B. Shapiro , P. Shawhan , D. H. Shoemaker , T. L. Sidery , K. Siellez , X. Siemens , D. Sigg , D. Simakov , A. Singer , L. Singer , R. Singh , A. M. Sintes , B. J. J. Slagmolen , J. Slutsky , J. R. Smith , M. Smith , R. J. E. Smith , N. D. Smith-Lefebvre , E. J. Son , B. Sorazu , T. Souradeep , L. Sperandio , A. Staley , J. Stebbins , J. Steinlechner , S. Steinlechner , B. C. Stephens , S. Steplewski , S. Stevenson , R. Stone , D. Stops , K. A. Strain , N. Straniero , S. Strigin , R. Sturani , A. L. Stuver , T. Z. Summerscales , S. Susmithan , P. J. Sutton , B. Swinkels , M. Tacca , D. Talukder , D. B. Tanner , S. P. Tarabrin , R. Taylor , A. P. M. ter Braack , M. P. Thirugnanasambandam , M. Thomas , P. Thomas , K. A. Thorne , K. S. Thorne , E. Thrane , V. Tiwari , K. V. Tokmakov , C. Tomlinson , A. Toncelli , M. Tonelli , O. Torre , C. V. Torres , C. I. Torrie , F. Travasso , G. Traylor , M. Tse , D. Ugolini , C. S. Unnikrishnan , A. L. Urban , K. Urbanek , H. Vahlbruch , G. Vajente , G. Valdes , M. Vallisneri , J. F. J. van den Brand , C. Van Den Broeck , S. van der Putten , M. V. van der Sluys , J. van Heijningen , A. A. van Veggel , S. Vass , M. Vasúth , R. Vaulin , A. Vecchio , G. Vedovato , J. Veitch , P. J. Veitch , K. Venkateswara , D. Verkindt , S. S. Verma , F. Vetrano , A. Viceré , R. Vincent-Finley , J. -Y. Vinet , S. Vitale , T. Vo , H. Vocca , C. Vorvick , W. D. Vousden , S. P. Vyachanin , A. Wade , L. Wade , M. Wade , M. Walker , L. Wallace , M. Wang , X. Wang , R. L. Ward , M. Was , B. Weaver , L. -W. Wei , M. Weinert , A. J. Weinstein , R. Weiss , T. Welborn , L. Wen , P. Wessels , M. West , T. Westphal , K. Wette , J. T. Whelan , S. E. Whitcomb , D. J. White , B. F. Whiting , K. Wiesner , C. Wilkinson , K. Williams , L. Williams , R. Williams , T. Williams , A. R. Williamson , J. L. Willis , B. Willke , M. Wimmer , W. Winkler , C. C. Wipf , A. G. Wiseman , H. Wittel , G. Woan , J. Worden , J. Yablon , I. Yakushin , H. Yamamoto , C. C. Yancey , H. Yang , Z. Yang , S. Yoshida , M. Yvert , A. Zadrożny , M. Zanolin , J. -P. Zendri , Fan Zhang , L. Zhang , C. Zhao , X. J. Zhu , M. E. Zucker , S. Zuraw , J. Zweizig , M. Boyle , B. Brügmann , L. T. Buchman , M. Campanelli , T. Chu , Z. B. Etienne , M. Hannam , J. Healy , I. Hinder , L. E. Kidder , P. Laguna , Y. T. Liu , L. London , C. O. Lousto , G. Lovelace , I. MacDonald , P. Marronetti , P. Mösta , D. Müller , B. C. Mundim , H. Nakano , V. Paschalidis , L. Pekowsky , D. Pollney , H. P. Pfeiffer , M. Ponce , M. Pürrer , G. Reifenberger , C. Reisswig , L. Santamaría , M. A. Scheel , S. L. Shapiro , D. Shoemaker , C. F. Sopuerta , U. Sperhake , B. Szilágyi , N. W. Taylor , W. Tichy , P. Tsatsin , Y. Zlochower

Testing gravitational-wave searches with numerical relativity waveforms: Results from the first Numerical INJection Analysis (NINJA) project

The Numerical INJection Analysis (NINJA) project is a collaborative effort between members of the numerical relativity and gravitational-wave data analysis communities. The purpose of NINJA is to study the sensitivity of existing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-18 Benjamin Aylott , John G. Baker , William D. Boggs , Michael Boyle , Patrick R. Brady , Duncan A. Brown , Bernd Brügmann , Luisa T. Buchman , Alessandra Buonanno , Laura Cadonati , Jordan Camp , Manuela Campanelli , Joan Centrella , Shourov Chatterji , Nelson Christensen , Tony Chu , Peter Diener , Nils Dorband , Zachariah B. Etienne , Joshua Faber , Stephen Fairhurst , Benjamin Farr , Sebastian Fischetti , Gianluca Guidi , Lisa M. Goggin , Mark Hannam , Frank Herrmann , Ian Hinder , Sascha Husa , Vicky Kalogera , Drew Keppel , Lawrence E. Kidder , Bernard J. Kelly , Badri Krishnan , Pablo Laguna , Carlos O. Lousto , Ilya Mandel , Pedro Marronetti , Richard Matzner , Sean T. McWilliams , Keith D. Matthews , R. Adam Mercer , Satyanarayan R. P. Mohapatra , Abdul H. Mroué , Hiroyuki Nakano , Evan Ochsner , Yi Pan , Larne Pekowsky , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Denis Pollney , Frans Pretorius , Vivien Raymond , Christian Reisswig , Luciano Rezzolla , Oliver Rinne , Craig Robinson , Christian Röver , Lucía Santamaría , Bangalore Sathyaprakash , Mark A. Scheel , Erik Schnetter , Jennifer Seiler , Stuart L. Shapiro , Deirdre Shoemaker , Ulrich Sperhake , Alexander Stroeer , Riccardo Sturani , Wolfgang Tichy , Yuk Tung Liu , Marc van der Sluys , James R. van Meter , Ruslan Vaulin , Alberto Vecchio , John Veitch , Andrea Viceré , John T. Whelan , Yosef Zlochower

Methods for detection and characterization of signals in noisy data with the Hilbert-Huang Transform

The Hilbert-Huang Transform is a novel, adaptive approach to time series analysis that does not make assumptions about the data form. Its adaptive, local character allows the decomposition of non-stationary signals with hightime-frequency…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2010-04-22 Alexander Stroeer , John K. Cannizzo , Jordan B. Camp , Nicolas Gagarin

Status of NINJA: the Numerical INJection Analysis project

The 2008 NRDA conference introduced the Numerical INJection Analysis project (NINJA), a new collaborative effort between the numerical relativity community and the data analysis community. NINJA focuses on modeling and searching for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-03-26 Benjamin Aylott , John G. Baker , William D. Boggs , Michael Boyle , Patrick R. Brady , Duncan A. Brown , Bernd Brügmann , Luisa T. Buchman , Alessandra Buonanno , Laura Cadonati , Jordan Camp , Manuela Campanelli , Joan Centrella , Shourov Chatterjis , Nelson Christensen , Tony Chu , Peter Diener , Nils Dorband , Zachariah B. Etienne , Joshua Faber , Stephen Fairhurst , Benjamin Farr , Sebastian Fischetti , Gianluca Guidi , Lisa M. Goggin , Mark Hannam , Frank Herrmann , Ian Hinder , Sascha Husa , Vicky Kalogera , Drew Keppel , Lawrence E. Kidder , Bernard J. Kelly , Badri Krishnan , Pablo Laguna , Carlos O. Lousto , Ilya Mandel , Pedro Marronetti , Richard Matzner , Sean T. McWilliams , Keith D. Matthews , R. Adam Mercer , Satyanarayan R. P. Mohapatra , Abdul H. Mroué , Hiroyuki Nakano , Evan Ochsner , Yi Pan , Larne Pekowsky , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Denis Pollney , Frans Pretorius , Vivien Raymond , Christian Reisswig , Luciano Rezzolla , Oliver Rinne , Craig Robinson , Christian Röver , Lucía Santamaría , Bangalore Sathyaprakash , Mark A. Scheel , Erik Schnetter , Jennifer Seiler , Stuart L. Shapiro , Deirdre Shoemaker , Ulrich Sperhake , Alexander Stroeer , Riccardo Sturani , Wolfgang Tichy , Yuk Tung Liu , Marc van der Sluys , James R. van Meter , Ruslan Vaulin , Alberto Vecchio , John Veitch , Andrea Viceré , John T. Whelan , Yosef Zlochower

Identifying glitches near gravitational-wave signals from compact binary coalescences using the Q-transform

We present a computational method to identify glitches in gravitational-wave data that occur nearby gravitational-wave signals from compact binary coalescences. The Q-transform, an established tool in LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA data analysis,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 Leah Vazsonyi , Derek Davis

Searches for Compact Binary Coalescence Events using Neural Networks in LIGO/Virgo Second Observation Period

We present results on the search for the coalescence of compact binary mergers using convolutional neural networks and the LIGO/Virgo data, corresponding to the O2 observation period. Two-dimensional images in time and frequency are used as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-21 A. Menéndez-Vázquez , M. Kolstein , M. Martínez , Ll. M. Mir

The roles of individual advanced LIGO detectors on revealing the neutron star properties

In this work we re-analyze the data of GW170817, the first binary neutron star (BNS) merger event, in two ways, including the parameterized equation of state (EoS) method and gravitational wave (GW) parameter estimation analysis. Three sets…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Ming-zhe Han , Jin-liang Jiang , Shao-peng Tang , Yin-jie Li , Yi-zhong Fan

Advanced VIRGO: detector optimization for gravitational waves by inspiralling binaries

For future configurations, we study the relation between the abatement of the noise sources and the Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) for coalescing binaries. Our aim is not the proposition of a new design, but an indication of where in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Alessandro D. A. M. Spallicci , Sofiane Aoudia , Jose De Freitas Pacheco , Giorgio Frossati , Tania Regimbau

Leveraging waveform complexity for confident detection of gravitational waves

The recent completion of Advanced LIGO suggests that gravitational waves (GWs) may soon be directly observed. Past searches for gravitational-wave transients have been impacted by transient noise artifacts, known as glitches, introduced…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Jonah B. Kanner , Tyson B. Littenberg , Neil Cornish , Meg Millhouse , Enia Xhakaj , Francesco Salemi , Marco Drago , Gabriele Vedovato , Sergey Klimenko

A Comprehensive Analysis of the Gravitational Wave Events with the Hilbert-Huang Transform: From Compact Binary Coalescence to Supernova

We analyze the gravitational wave signals with a model-independent time-frequency analysis, which is improved from the Hilbert-Huang transform (HHT) and optimized for characterizing the frequency variability on the time-frequency map.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-31 Chin-Ping Hu , Lupin Chun-Che Lin , Kuo-Chuan Pan , Kwan-Lok Li , Chien-Chang Yen , Albert K. H. Kong , C. Y. Hui

The NINJA-2 catalog of hybrid post-Newtonian/numerical-relativity waveforms for non-precessing black-hole binaries

The Numerical INJection Analysis (NINJA) project is a collaborative effort between members of the numerical relativity and gravitational wave data analysis communities. The purpose of NINJA is to study the sensitivity of existing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 P. Ajith , Michael Boyle , Duncan A. Brown , Bernd Brügmann , Luisa T. Buchman , Laura Cadonati , Manuela Campanelli , Tony Chu , Zachariah B. Etienne , Stephen Fairhurst , Mark Hannam , James Healy , Ian Hinder , Sascha Husa , Lawrence E. Kidder , Badri Krishnan , Pablo Laguna , Yuk Tung Liu , Lionel London , Carlos O. Lousto , Geoffrey Lovelace , Ilana MacDonald , Pedro Marronetti , Satya Mohapatra , Philipp Mösta , Doreen Müller , Bruno C. Mundim , Hiroyuki Nakano , Frank Ohme , Vasileios Paschalidis , Larne Pekowsky , Denis Pollney , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Marcelo Ponce , Michael Pürrer , George Reifenberger , Christian Reisswig , Lucía Santamaría , Mark A. Scheel , Stuart L. Shapiro , Deirdre Shoemaker , Carlos F. Sopuerta , Ulrich Sperhake , Béla Szilágyi , Nicholas W. Taylor , Wolfgang Tichy , Petr Tsatsin , Yosef Zlochower

Fortifying the characterization of binary mergers in LIGO data

The study of compact binary in-spirals and mergers with gravitational wave observatories amounts to optimizing a theoretical description of the data to best reproduce the true detector output. While most of the research effort in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-30 Tyson B. Littenberg , Michael Coughlin , Benjamin Farr , Will M. Farr

Preparations for detecting and characterizing gravitational-wave signals from binary black hole coalescences

We evaluate how well EOBNR waveforms, obtained from the effective one-body formalism, perform in detecting gravitational wave (GW) signals from binary black hole (BBH) coalescences modelled by numerical relativity (NR) groups participating…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-21 Thilina Dayanga , Sukanta Bose

Reconstructing gravitational wave signals from binary black hole mergers with minimal assumptions

We present a systematic comparison of the binary black hole (BBH) signal waveform reconstructed by two independent and complementary approaches used in LIGO and Virgo source inference: a template-based analysis, and a morphology-independent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-23 Sudarshan Ghonge , Katerina Chatziioannou , James A. Clark , Tyson Littenberg , Margaret Millhouse , Laura Cadonati , Neil Cornish

WaveFormer: transformer-based denoising method for gravitational-wave data

With the advent of gravitational-wave astronomy and the discovery of more compact binary coalescences, data quality improvement techniques are desired to handle the complex and overwhelming noise in gravitational wave (GW) observational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-21 He Wang , Yue Zhou , Zhoujian Cao , Zong-Kuan Guo , Zhixiang Ren

A Search for Binary Black Hole Mergers in LIGO O1-O3 Data with Convolutional Neural Networks

Since the first detection of gravitational waves in 2015 by LIGO from the binary black hole merger GW150914, gravitational-wave astronomy has developed significantly, with over 200 compact binary merger events cataloged. The use of neural…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-28 Ethan Silver , Plamen Krastev , Edo Berger

Sequence modeling of higher-order wave modes of binary black hole mergers

Higher-order gravitational wave modes from quasi-circular, spinning, non-precessing binary black hole mergers encode key information about these systems' nonlinear dynamics. We model these waveforms using transformer architectures,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-21 Victoria Tiki , Kiet Pham , Eliu Huerta

Early warning of coalescing neutron-star and neutron-star-black-hole binaries from nonstationary noise background using neural networks

The success of the multi-messenger astronomy relies on gravitational-wave observatories like LIGO and Virgo to provide prompt warning of merger events involving neutron stars (including both binary neutron stars and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-15 Hang Yu , Rana X. Adhikari , Ryan Magee , Surabhi Sachdev , Yanbei Chen

An early warning system for electromagnetic follow-up of gravitational-wave events

Binary neutron stars (BNSs) will spend $\simeq 10$ -- 15 minutes in the band of Advanced LIGO and Virgo detectors at design sensitivity. Matched-filtering of gravitational-wave (GW) data could in principle accumulate enough signal-to-noise…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-06 Surabhi Sachdev , Ryan Magee , Chad Hanna , Kipp Cannon , Leo Singer , Javed Rana SK , Debnandini Mukherjee , Sarah Caudill , Chiwai Chan , Jolien D. E. Creighton , Becca Ewing , Heather Fong , Patrick Godwin , Rachael Huxford , Shasvath Kapadia , Alvin K. Y. Li , Rico Ka Lok Lo , Duncan Meacher , Cody Messick , Siddharth R. Mohite , Atsushi Nishizawa , Hiroaki Ohta , Alexander Pace , Amit Reza , B. S. Sathyaprakash , Minori Shikauchi , Divya Singh , Leo Tsukada , Daichi Tsuna , Takuya Tsutsui , Koh Ueno