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The determination of the physical parameters of gravitational wave events is a fundamental pillar in the analysis of the signals observed by the current ground-based interferometers. Typically, this is done using Bayesian inference…

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Bayesian model selection provides a powerful and mathematically transparent framework to tackle hypothesis testing, such as detection tests of gravitational waves emitted during the coalescence of binary systems using ground-based laser…

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We study whether binary black hole template banks can be used to search for the gravitational waves emitted by general binary coalescences. To recover binary signals from noisy data, matched-filtering techniques are typically required. This…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-16 Horng Sheng Chia , Thomas D. P. Edwards

Bayesian inference is the workhorse of gravitational-wave astronomy, for example, determining the mass and spins of merging black holes, revealing the neutron star equation of state, and unveiling the population properties of compact…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-04 Colm Talbot , Rory Smith , Eric Thrane , Gregory B. Poole

The population of stellar-mass, compact object binaries that merge with non-negligible eccentricity may be large enough to motivate searches with ground-based gravitational wave detectors. Such events could be exceptional laboratories to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-11 Nicholas Loutrel , Nicolas Yunes , Frans Pretorius

We present a first-stage study of the effect of using knowledge from electromagnetic (EM) observations in the gravitational wave (GW) data analysis of Galactic binaries that are predicted to be observed by the new Laser Interferometer Space…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Sweta Shah , Marc van der Sluys , Gijs Nelemans

Gravitational wave observations can potentially measure properties of neutron star equations of state by measuring departures from the point-particle limit of the gravitational waveform produced in the late inspiral of a neutron star…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-10-19 Charalampos Markakis , Jocelyn S. Read , Masaru Shibata , Koji Uryu , Jolien D. E. Creighton , John L. Friedman , Benjamin D. Lackey

Parameterised models that predict the gravitational-wave (GW) signal from merging black holes are used to extract source properties from GW observations. The majority of research in this area has focused on developing methods capable of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-09 Sebastian Khan

We present a robust method to characterize the gravitational wave emission from the remnant of a neutron star coalescence. Our approach makes only minimal assumptions about the morphology of the signal and provides a full posterior…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-03 Katerina Chatziioannou , James Alexander Clark , Andreas Bauswein , Margaret Millhouse , Tyson B. Littenberg , Neil Cornish

This article provides the details on the technical derivation of the gravitational waveform and total gravitational-wave energy flux of non-spinning compact binary systems to the 4PN (fourth post-Newtonian) order beyond the Einstein…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-03 Luc Blanchet , Guillaume Faye , Quentin Henry , François Larrouturou , David Trestini

Singular-value decomposition is a powerful technique that has been used in the analysis of matrices in many fields. In this paper, we summarize how it has been applied to the analysis of gravitational-wave data. These include producing…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-06-03 Drew Keppel

Many astronomical surveys are limited by the brightness of the sources, and gravitational-wave searches are no exception. The detectability of gravitational waves from merging binaries is affected by the mass and spin of the constituent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-04 Colm Talbot , Eric Thrane

Gravitational waves from coalescing compact binaries are searched using the matched filtering technique. As the model waveform depends on a number of parameters, it is necessary to filter the data through a template bank covering the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Babak , R. Balasubramanian , D. Churches , T. Cokelaer , B. S. Sathyaprakash

Gravitational wave observations of binary black hole mergers probe their astrophysical origins via the binary spin, namely the spin magnitudes and directions of each component black hole, together described by six degrees of freedom.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-15 Simona J. Miller , Zoe Ko , Thomas A. Callister , Katerina Chatziioannou

Electromagnetic methods recently proposed for detecting gravitational waves modify the Michelson phase shift analysis (historically employed for special relativity). We suggest that a frequency modulation analysis is more suited to general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Sivasubramanian , Y. N. Srivastava , A. Widom

Most all-sky searches for continuous gravitational waves assume the source to be isolated. In this paper, we allow for an unknown companion object in a long-period orbit and opportunistically use previous results from an all-sky search for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-24 Avneet Singh , Maria Alessandra Papa

Relativistic ultracompact objects without an event horizon may be able to form in nature and merge as binary systems, mimicking the coalescence of ordinary black holes. The postmerger phase of such processes presents characteristic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-15 Andrea Maselli , Sebastian H. Völkel , Kostas D. Kokkotas

Advancements in gravitational-wave interferometers, particularly the next generation, are poised to profoundly impact gravitational wave astronomy and multimessenger astrophysics. A hybrid quantum algorithm is proposed to carry out quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-05 Gabriel Escrig , Roberto Campos , Hong Qi , M. A. Martin-Delgado

We formulate the data analysis problem for the detection of the Newtonian waveform from an inspiraling compact-binary by a network of arbitrarily oriented and arbitrarily distributed laser interferometric gravitational wave detectors. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Sukanta Bose , Archana Pai , Sanjeev Dhurandhar

We present in this paper a Bayesian parameter estimation method for the analysis of interferometric gravitational wave observations of an inspiral of binary compact objects using data recorded simultaneously by a network of several…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Christian Röver , Renate Meyer , Gianluca M. Guidi , Andrea Viceré , Nelson Christensen