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Activities in data analysis and numerical simulation of gravitational waves have to date largely proceeded independently. In this work we study how waveforms obtained from numerical simulations could be effectively used within the data…

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Space-borne gravitational wave detectors will expand the scope of gravitational wave astronomy to the milli-Hertz band in the near future. The development of data analysis software infrastructure at the current stage is crucial. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-13 Rui Niu , Chang Feng , Wen Zhao

We give full details regarding the new Cauchy-characteristic evolution (CCE) system in SpECTRE. The implementation is built to provide streamlined flexibility for either extracting waveforms during the process of a SpECTRE binary compact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-19 Jordan Moxon , Mark A. Scheel , Saul A. Teukolsky , Nils Deppe , Nils Fischer , Francois Hébert , Lawrence E. Kidder , William Throwe

A partially first-order form of the characteristic formulation is introduced to control the accuracy in the computation of gravitational waveforms produced by highly distorted single black hole spacetimes. Our approach is to reduce the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Roberto Gomez

Context. As the importance of Gravitational Wave (GW) Astrophysics increases rapidly, astronomers in different fields and with different backgrounds can have the need to get a quick idea of which GW source populations can be detected by…

We present a new method of extracting gravitational radiation from three-dimensional numerical relativity codes and providing outer boundary conditions. Our approach matches the solution of a Cauchy evolution of Einstein's equations to a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 M. E. Rupright , A. M. Abrahams , L. Rezzolla

We assess total-variation methods to denoise gravitational-wave signals in real noise conditions, by injecting numerical-relativity waveforms from core-collapse supernovae and binary black hole mergers in data from the first observing run…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 Alejandro Torres-Forné , Elena Cuoco , Antonio Marquina , José A. Font , José M. Ibáñez

The main aim of this study is the comparison of gravitational waveforms obtained from numerical simulations which employ different numerical evolution approaches and different wave-extraction techniques. For this purpose, we evolve an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-03-11 Luca Baiotti , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Giovanni Corvino , Roberto De Pietri , Alessandro Nagar

Gravitational wave echoes have been proposed as a smoking-gun signature of exotic compact objects with near-horizon structure. Recently there have been observational claims that echoes are indeed present in stretches of data from Advanced…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-11 Ka Wa Tsang , Archisman Ghosh , Anuradha Samajdar , Katerina Chatziioannou , Simone Mastrogiovanni , Michalis Agathos , Chris Van Den Broeck

We present the second release of the $\texttt{GR-Athena++}$ waveform catalog, comprising four new quasi-circular, non-precessing, spinning binary black hole simulations. These simulations are performed at high resolutions and represent a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-09 Estuti Shukla , Alireza Rashti , Rossella Gamba , David Radice , Koustav Chandra

Central to the gravitational wave detection problem is the challenge of separating features in the data produced by astrophysical sources from features produced by the detector. Matched filtering provides an optimal solution for Gaussian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-12-09 Tyson B. Littenberg , Neil J. Cornish

We describe a case study of translational research, applying interpretability techniques developed for computer vision to machine learning models used to search for and find gravitational waves. The models we study are trained to detect…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-16 Mohammadtaher Safarzadeh , Asad Khan , E. A. Huerta , Martin Wattenberg

Adaptive techniques are crucial for successful numerical modeling of gravitational waves from astrophysical sources such as coalescing compact binaries, since the radiation typically has wavelengths much larger than the scale of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Kimberly C. B. New , Dae-Il Choi , Joan M. Centrella , Peter MacNeice , Mijan F. Huq , Kevin Olson

Modelling noise in gravitational-wave observatories is crucial for accurately inferring the properties of gravitational-wave sources. We introduce a transdimensional Bayesian approach to characterise the noise in ground-based…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-10 Nir Guttman , Paul D. Lasky , Eric Thrane

We describe an independent analysis of LIGO data for black hole coalescence events. Gravitational wave strain waveforms are extracted directly from the data using a filtering method that exploits the observed or expected time-dependent…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-27 Martin A. Green , J. W. Moffat

We are developing 3 dimensional simulation codes for coalescing binary neutron stars. A code using the maximal slicing condition is obtained. To evaluate the gravitational radiation, we implemented a gauge-invariant wave extraction and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mari Kawamura , Ken-ichi Oohara , Takashi Nakamura

Mounting evidence indicates that some of the gravitational wave signals observed by the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA observatories might arise from eccentric compact object binaries, increasing the urgency for accurate waveform models for such systems.…

I discuss the accuracy requirements on numerical relativity calculations of inspiraling compact object binaries whose extracted gravitational waveforms are to be used as templates for matched filtering signal extraction and physical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Mark Miller

As of this moment, fifty gravitational waves (GW) detections have been announced, thanks to the observational efforts of the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration, working with the Advanced LIGO and the Advanced Virgo interferometers. The detection of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-30 Filip Morawski , Michał Bejger , Elena Cuoco , Luigia Petre