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The Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors have enabled the confident detection of dozens of mergers of black holes and neutron stars. However, the presence of detector noise transients (glitches) hinders the search for these…

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Transient noise appearing in the data from gravitational-wave detectors frequently causes problems, such as instability of the detectors and overlapping or mimicking gravitational-wave signals. Because transient noise is considered to be…

To evaluate the probability of a gravitational-wave candidate originating from noise, GstLAL collects noise statistics from the data it analyzes. Gravitational-wave signals of astrophysical origin get added to the noise statistics, harming…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-30 Prathamesh Joshi , Leo Tsukada , Chad Hanna

Rapidly rotating neutron stars are promising sources of continuous gravitational wave radiation for the LIGO and Virgo interferometers. The majority of neutron stars in our galaxy have not been identified with electromagnetic observations.…

These lecture notes provide a brief introduction to methods used to search for a stochastic background of gravitational radiation -- a superposition of gravitational-wave signals that are either too weak or too numerous to individually…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-07 Joseph D. Romano

The stochastic cosmological gravitational-wave background (CGWB) provides a direct window to study early universe phenomena and fundamental physics. With the proposed third-generation ground-based gravitational wave detectors, Einstein…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-16 Ashish Sharma , Jan Harms

Any measurement in condition monitoring applications is associated with disturbing noise. Till now, most of the diagnostic procedures have assumed the Gaussian distribution for the noise. This paper shares a novel perspective to the problem…

We derive a lower bound on the sensitivity of generic mechanical and electromagnetic gravitational wave detectors. We consider both classical and quantum detection schemes, although we focus on the former. Our results allow for a simple…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-17 Raffaele Tito D'Agnolo , Sebastian A. R. Ellis

Gravitational wave detection has opened up new avenues for exploring and understanding some of the fundamental principles of the universe. The optimal method for detecting modelled gravitational-wave events involves template-based matched…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-15 Damon Beveridge , Alistair McLeod , Linqing Wen , Andreas Wicenec

Gravitational wave detectors now under construction are sensitive to the phase of the incident gravitational waves. Correspondingly, the signals from the different detectors can be combined, in the analysis, to simulate a single detector of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-31 Lee Samuel Finn

Detection confidence of the source-agnostic gravitational-wave burst search pipeline BayesWave is quantified by the log signal-versus-glitch Bayes factor, $\ln\mathcal{B}_{\mathcal{S},\mathcal{G}}$. A recent study shows that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-09 Yi Shuen C. Lee , Margaret Millhouse , Andrew Melatos

With the advent of gravitational wave astronomy, techniques to extend the reach of gravitational wave detectors are desired. In addition to the stellar-mass black hole and neutron star mergers already detected, many more are below the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 Rich Ormiston , Tri Nguyen , Michael Coughlin , Rana X. Adhikari , Erik Katsavounidis

We present a new method of wavelet packet decomposition to be used in gravitational wave detection. An issue in wavelet analysis is what is the time-frequency resolution which is best suited to analyze data when in quest of a signal of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Riccardo Sturani , Roberto Terenzi

Experiments at particle colliders are the primary source of insight into physics at microscopic scales. Searches at these facilities often rely on optimization of analyses targeting specific models of new physics. Increasingly, however,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-16 Marat Freytsis , Maxim Perelstein , Yik Chuen San

Two popular boosted decsion tree (BDT) methods, Adaptive BDT (AdaBDT) and Gradient BDT (GradBDT) are studied in the classification problem of separating signal from background assuming all trees are weak learners. The following results are…

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Gravitational wave detection requires sophisticated signal processing to identify weak astrophysical signals buried in instrumental noise. Traditional matched filtering approaches face computational challenges with diverse signal…

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The currently accepted model for gamma-ray burst phenomena involves the violent formation of a rapidly rotating solar-mass black hole. Gravitational waves should be associated with the black-hole formation, and their detection would permit…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-19 Lee Samuel Finn , Badri Krishnan , Patrick J. Sutton

In this paper, we present a successful implementation of a subtraction-noise projection method into a simple, simulated data analysis pipeline of a gravitational-wave search. We investigate the problem to reveal a weak stochastic background…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Jan Harms , Christoph Mahrdt , Markus Otto , Malte Priess

Gravitational wave bursters are sources which emit repeatedly bursts of gravitational waves, and have been recently suggested as potentially interesting candidates for gravitational wave (GW) detectors. Mechanisms that could give rise to a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Florian Dubath , Stefano Foffa , Maria Alice Gasparini , Michele Maggiore , Riccardo Sturani