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It is widely accepted that quite a number of double compact objects (DCOs) in the Milky Way can be identified by future space-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors, while systematic investigations on the detection of the GW sources in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-18 Jian-Guo He , Yong Shao , Shi-Jie Gao , Xiang-Dong Li

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

Gravitational waves generated by the final merger of double neutron star (DNS) binary systems are a key target for the gravitational wave (GW) interferometric detectors, such as LIGO, and the next generation detectors, Advanced LIGO. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. M. Coward , M. Lilley , E. J. Howell , R. R. Burman , D. G. Blair

We demonstrate Bayesian analyses of the complete gravitational-wave spectrum of binary neutron star mergers events with the next-generation detector Einstein Telescope. Our mock analyses are performed for 20 different signals using the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-12 Giulia Huez , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Matteo Breschi , Rossella Gamba

Since the pioneering detection of gravitational wave (GW) from a binary black hole merger by the LIGO-Virgo collaboration, GW has become a powerful probe for astrophysics and cosmology. If compact dark matter (DM) candidates, e.g.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-04 Xin-Yi Lin , Xi-Jing Wang , Huan Zhou , Zhengxiang Li , Kai Liao , Zong-Hong Zhu

We calculate the expected nHz--$\mu$Hz gravitational wave (GW) spectrum from coalescing Massive Black Hole (MBH) binaries resulting from mergers of their host galaxies. We consider detection of this spectrum by precision pulsar timing and a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Andrew H. Jaffe , Donald C. Backer

Gravitational waves (GWs) provide a revolutionary tool to investigate yet unobserved astrophysical objects. Especially the first stars, which are believed to be more massive than present-day stars, might be indirectly observable via the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-05-20 Tilman Hartwig , Marta Volonteri , Volker Bromm , Ralf S. Klessen , Enrico Barausse , Mattis Magg , Athena Stacy

The detection of gravitational waves (GWs) has led to a deeper understanding of binaries of ordinary astrophysical objects, including neutron stars and black holes. In this work, we point out that binary systems may also exist in a dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-22 Yang Bai , Sida Lu , Nicholas Orlofsky

High frequency gravitational waves (HFGWs) are predicted in various exotic scenarios involving both cosmological and astrophysical sources. These elusive signals have recently sparked the interest of a diverse community of researchers, due…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-17 Claudio Gatti , Luca Visinelli , Michael Zantedeschi

High-frequency gravitational-wave (GW) radiation has been detected by LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA in the merger of compact stars. However, two GW events, GW190814 and GW200210, the mass of one companion object falls into the mass region of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-11 ZhaoWei Du , HouJun Lü , Xiaoxuan Liu , XiLong Fan , EnWei Liang

We present the first search for gravitational waves from sub-solar mass compact-binary mergers which allows for non-negligible orbital eccentricity. Sub-solar mass black holes are a signature of primordial origin black holes, which may be a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-11 Alexander H. Nitz , Yi-Fan Wang

Star clusters appear to be the ideal environment for the assembly of neutron star-neutron star (NS-NS) and black hole-neutron star (BH-NS) binaries. These binaries are among the most interesting astrophysical objects, being potential…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-30 Giacomo Fragione , Sambaran Banerjee

The source binary of the gravitational-wave (GW) event GW230529, detected at the beginning of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing run, was inferred to consist of a NS and a compact object in the lower mass gap, a purported gap between the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-19 Jessica Cotturone , Michael Zevin , Sylvia Biscoveanu

The current network of gravitational wave detectors has already revealed hundreds of compact binary coalescences (CBCs), including binary neutron stars, binary black holes, and black hole-neutron star systems. As detector sensitivity…

The two binary black-hole (BBH) coalescences detected by LIGO, GW150914 and GW151226, were relatively nearby sources, with a redshift of ~0.1. As the sensitivity of Advanced LIGO and Virgo increases in the next few years, they will…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-05 Salvatore Vitale , Matthew Evans

A crucial component to maximizing the science gain from the multi-messenger follow-up of gravitational-wave (GW) signals from compact binary mergers is the prompt discovery of the electromagnetic counterpart. Ideally, the GW detection and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-06 Shasvath J. Kapadia , Mukesh Kumar Singh , Md Arif Shaikh , Deep Chatterjee , Parameswaran Ajith

This paper reviews gravitational wave sources and their detection. One of the most exciting potential sources of gravitational waves are coalescing binary black hole systems. They can occur on all mass scales and be formed in numerous ways,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-19 Hyung Mok Lee , Eric-Olivier Le Bigot , ZhiHui Du , ZhangXi Lin , XiangYu Guo , LinQing Wen , Khun Sang Phukon , Vihan Pandey , Sukanta Bose , Xi-Long Fan , Martin Hendry

Gravitational wave (GW) astronomy truly began with the detection of merging compact binaries. The next breakthrough lies in detecting GWs from core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe), particularly the GW linear memory -- a phenomenon arising from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-11 Kiranjyot Gill

A milestone of multi-messenger astronomy has been achieved with the detection of gravitational waves from a binary neutron star merger accompanied by observations of several associated electromagnetic counterparts. Joint observations can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-28 Chris Pankow , Eve A. Chase , Scott Coughlin , Michael Zevin , Vassiliki Kalogera

We present results from a controlled numerical experiment investigating the effect of stellar density gas on the coalescence of binary black holes (BBHs) and the resulting gravitational waves (GWs). This investigation is motivated by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-22 J. M. Fedrow , C. D. Ott , U. Sperhake , J. Blackman , R. Haas , C. Reisswig , A. De Felice