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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

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

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

Ninja data analysis with a detection pipeline based on the Hilbert-Huang Transform

The Ninja data analysis challenge allowed the study of the sensitivity of data analysis pipelines to binary black hole numerical relativity waveforms in simulated Gaussian noise at the design level of the LIGO observatory and the VIRGO…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-06-10 Alexander Stroeer , Jordan Camp

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

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

Searching for numerically-simulated signals of black hole binaries with a phenomenological template family

Recent progress in numerical relativity now allows computation of the binary black hole merger, whereas post-Newtonian and perturbative techniques can be used to model the inspiral and ringdown phases. So far, most gravitational-wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-06-10 Lucia Santamaria , Badri Krishnan , John T. Whelan

An $\dot{f}(f)$-frequency dynamics algorithm for gravitational waves

Coalescence of low mass compact binaries of neutron stars and black holes are primary burst sources for LIGO and VIRGO.Of importance in the early stages of observations will be the classification of candidate detections by source-type. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-30 Maurice H. P. M. van Putten , Abhinanda Sarkar

Searching for gravitational waves from binary coalescence

We describe the implementation of a search for gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences in LIGO and Virgo data. This all-sky, all-time, multi-detector search for binary coalescence has been used to search data taken in recent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-30 S. Babak , R. Biswas , P. R. Brady , D. A. Brown , K. Cannon , C. D. Capano , J. H. Clayton , T. Cokelaer , J. D. E. Creighton , T. Dent , A. Dietz , S. Fairhurst , N. Fotopoulos , G. Gonzalez , C. Hanna , I. W. Harry , G. Jones , D. Keppel , D. J. A. McKechan , L. Pekowsky , S. Privitera , C. Robinson , A. C. Rodriguez , B. S. Sathyaprakash , A. S. Sengupta , M. Vallisneri , R. Vaulin , A. J. Weinstein

A New Method to Observe Gravitational Waves emitted by Core Collapse Supernovae

While gravitational waves have been detected from mergers of binary black holes and binary neutron stars, signals from core collapse supernovae, the most energetic explosions in the modern Universe, have not been detected yet. Here we…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-14 P. Astone , P. Cerda-Duran , I. Di Palma , M. Drago , F. Muciaccia , C. Palomba , F. Ricci

LIGO-Virgo searches for gravitational waves from coalescing binaries: a status update

Coalescing compact binaries of neutron stars and/or black holes are considered as one of the most promising sources for Earth based gravitational wave detectors. The LIGO-Virgo joint collaboration's Compact Binary Coalescence (CBC) group is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-13 Anand S. Sengupta

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

Testing Quantum Gravity with Gravitational Waves from the ringdown of binary Black Holes coalescences: A New Frontier in Fundamental Physics

The observation of gravitational waves emitted during the merging phase of compact binary coalescing objects has opened a new field of investigation in fundamental physics. It is now possible to test the predictions of General Relativity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-09 Marco Danilo Claudio Torri , Fulvio Ricci , Marco Giammarchi , Lino Miramonti , Valerio Toso , Chiara Sigala

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

VIRGO sensitivity to binary coalescences and the Population III black hole binaries

We analyze the properties of VIRGO detector with the aim of studying its ability to search for coalescing black hole binaries. We focus on the remnants of the Population III stars, which currently should be massive black holes ($\sim…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 K. Kulczycki , T. Bulik , K. Belczynski , B. Rudak

Sensitivity of gravitational wave searches to the full signal of intermediate mass black hole binaries during the LIGO O1 Science Run

The sensitivity of gravitational wave searches for binary black holes is estimated via the injection and posterior recovery of simulated gravitational wave signals in the detector data streams. When a search reports no detections, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-17 Juan Calderón Bustillo , Francesco Salemi , Tito dal Canton , Karan Jani

Detecting and Denoising Gravitational Wave Signals from Binary Black Holes using Deep Learning

We present a convolutional neural network, designed in the auto-encoder configuration that can detect and denoise astrophysical gravitational waves from merging black hole binaries, orders of magnitude faster than the conventional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-05 Chinthak Murali , David Lumley

Measuring gravitational waves from binary black hole coalescences: I. Signal to noise for inspiral, merger, and ringdown

We estimate the expected signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) from the three phases (inspiral,merger,ringdown) of coalescing binary black holes (BBHs) for initial and advanced ground-based interferometers (LIGO/VIRGO) and for space-based…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-30 Eanna E. Flanagan , Scott A. Hughes

A burst search for gravitational waves from binary black holes

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

Hybrid algorithm combining matched filtering and convolutional neural networks for searching gravitational waves from binary black hole mergers

Efficient searches for gravitational waves from compact binary coalescence are crucial for gravitational wave observations. We present a proof-of-concept for a method that utilizes a neural network taking an SNR map, a stack of SNR time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-16 Takahiro S. Yamamoto , Kipp Cannon , Hayato Motohashi , Hiroaki W. H. Tahara