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Data from ground-based gravitational-wave detectors like LIGO contain many types of noise. Glitches are short bursts of non-Gaussian noise that may hinder our ability to identify or analyse gravitational-wave signals. They may have…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-23 E Mackenzie , C P L Berry , G Niklasch , B Téglás , C Unsworth , K Crowston , D Davis , A K Katsaggelos

We present a unified description of gravitational-wave data analysis that unites the template-based analysis used to detect deterministic signals from well-modeled sources, such as binary-black-hole mergers, with the cross-correlation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-15 Neil J. Cornish , Joseph D. Romano

GWSkyNet-Multi is a machine learning model developed for classification of candidate gravitational-wave events detected by the LIGO and Virgo observatories. The model uses limited information released in the low-latency Open Public Alerts…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-25 Nayyer Raza , Man Leong Chan , Daryl Haggard , Ashish Mahabal , Jess McIver , Thomas C. Abbott , Eitan Buffaz , Nicholas Vieira

Gravitational Wave (GW) detectors routinely encounter transient noise bursts, known as glitches, which are caused by either instrumental or environmental factors. Due to their high occurrence rate, glitches can overlap with GW signals, as…

This work introduces a novel deep learning-based approach for gravitational wave anomaly detection, aiming to overcome the limitations of traditional matched filtering techniques in identifying unknown waveform gravitational wave signals.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Jianqi Yan , Alex P. Leung , Zhiyuan Pei , David C. Y. Hui , Sangin Kim

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

The detection of the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background (SGWB) is one of the most challenging tasks for both current and next-generation detectors. Successfully distinguishing the SGWB from instrumental noise and environmental effects…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-22 Ilaria Caporali , Angelo Ricciardone

Recent studies have noted an intriguing phenomenon termed Neural Collapse, that is, when the neural networks establish the right correlation between feature spaces and the training targets, their last-layer features, together with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Yining Wang , Junjie Sun , Chenyue Wang , Mi Zhang , Min Yang

To investigate GRBs in depth, it is crucial to develop an effective method for identifying GRBs accurately. Current criteria, e.g., onboard blind search, ground blind search, and target search, are limited by manually set thresholds and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-20 Peng Zhang , Bing Li , RenZhou Gui , Shaolin Xiong , Ze-Cheng Zou , Xianggao Wang , Xiaobo Li , Ce Cai , Yi Zhao , Yanqiu Zhang , Wangchen Xue , Chao Zheng , Hongyu Zhao

Network data analysis methods are the only way to properly separate real gravitational wave (GW) transient events from detector noise. They can be divided into two generic classes: the coincidence method and the coherent analysis. The…

Understanding and dealing with inference biases in gravitational-wave (GW) parameter estimation when a plethora of signals are present in the data is one of the key challenges for the analysis of data from future GW detectors. Working…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-25 Andrea Antonelli , Ollie Burke , Jonathan R. Gair

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…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-06 Seraphim Jarov , Sarah Thiele , Siddharth Soni , Julian Ding , Jess McIver , Raymond Ng , Rikako Hatoya , Derek Davis

Broadband noise in gravitational wave (GW) detectors, also known as triggers, can often be a deterrant to the efficiency with which astrophysical search pipelines detect sources. It is important to understand their instrumental or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-30 Soma Mukherjee , Papia Rizwan , Rahul Biswas

Gravitational-wave data from advanced-era interferometric detectors consists of background Gaussian noise, frequent transient artefacts, and rare astrophysical signals. Multiple search algorithms exist to detect the signals from compact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-13 Gregory Ashton , Ann-Kristin Malz , Nicolo Colombo

Core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) are a potential source for ground-based gravitational wave detectors, as their predicted emission peaks in the detectors' frequency band. Typical searches for gravitational wave bursts reconstruct signals…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-26 Sofia Suvorova , Jade Powell , Andrew Melatos

We present a new multivariate regression model for analysis and parameter estimation of gravitational waves observed from well but not perfectly modeled sources such as core-collapse supernovae. Our approach is based on a principal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-17 William J. Engels , Raymond Frey , Christian D. Ott

Upcoming Fast Radio Burst (FRB) surveys will search $\sim$10\,$^3$ beams on sky with very high duty cycle, generating large numbers of single-pulse candidates. The abundance of false positives presents an intractable problem if candidates…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-28 Liam Connor , Joeri van Leeuwen

Core-Collapse Supernovae (CCSNe) remain a critical focus in the search for gravitational waves (GWs) in modern astronomy. Their detection and subsequent analysis will enhance our understanding of the explosion mechanisms in massive stars.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-04 Zhicheng Pan , El Mehdi Zahraoui , Guillermo Cabrera-Guerrero , Patricio Maturana-Russel

In this paper, leveraging the capabilities of neural networks for modeling the non-linearities that exist in the data, we propose several models that can project data into a low dimensional, discriminative, and smooth manifold. The proposed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-30 Sara Bahaadini , Yunan Wu , Scott Coughlin , Michael Zevin , Aggelos K. Katsaggelos

Traditionally, gravitational waves are detected with techniques such as matched filtering or unmodeled searches based on wavelets. However, in the case of generic black hole binaries with non-aligned spins, if one wants to explore the whole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-26 Paraskevi Nousi , Alexandra E. Koloniari , Nikolaos Passalis , Panagiotis Iosif , Nikolaos Stergioulas , Anastasios Tefas