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We show that gravitational-wave signals from compact binary mergers may be better distinguished from instrumental noise transients by using Bayesian models that look for signal coherence across a detector network. This can be achieved even…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-30 Maximiliano Isi , Rory Smith , Salvatore Vitale , T. J. Massinger , Jonah Kanner , Avi Vajpeyi

Sapce-borne gravitational wave antennas, such as LISA and LISA-like mission (Taiji and Tianqin), will offer novel perspectives for exploring our Universe while introduce new challenges, especially in data analysis. Aside from the known…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-17 Yuxiang Xu , Minghui Du , Peng Xu , Bo Liang , He Wang

Gravitational wave detectors will need optimal signal-processing algorithms to extract weak signals from the detector noise. Most algorithms designed to date are based on the unrealistic assumption that the detector noise may be modeled as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Bruce Allen , Jolien D. E. Creighton , Eanna E. Flanagan , Joseph D. Romano

In order to separate astrophysical gravitational-wave signals from instrumental noise, which often contains transient non-Gaussian artifacts, astronomers have traditionally relied on bootstrap methods such as time slides. Bootstrap methods…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-25 Gregory Ashton , Eric Thrane , Rory J. E. Smith

We present a new method for the classification of transient noise signals (or glitches) in advanced gravitational-wave interferometers. The method uses learned dictionaries (a supervised machine learning algorithm) for signal denoising, and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-22 Miquel Llorens-Monteagudo , Alejandro Torres-Forné , José A. Font , Antonio Marquina

This paper provides a comprehensive guide to gravitational wave data processing, with a particular focus on signal generation, noise modeling, and optimization techniques. Beginning with an introduction to gravitational waves and the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-17 Jingxu Wu , YuWei Yin , Chenjia Li , Yan Wang

Future searches for a gravitational-wave background using Earth-based gravitational-wave detectors might be impacted by correlated noise sources. A well known example are the Schumann resonances, which are extensively studied in the context…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-20 Kamiel Janssens , Thomas A. Callister , Nelson Christensen , Michael W. Coughlin , Ioannis Michaloliakos , Jishnu Suresh , Nick van Remortel

Pulsar timing experiments are reaching sufficient sensitivity to detect a postulated stochastic gravitational wave background generated by merging supermassive black hole systems in the cores of galaxies. We describe the techniques behind…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 G. Hobbs

The millihertz gravitational wave band is expected to be opened by space-borne detectors like TianQin. Various mechanisms can produce short outbursts of gravitational waves, whose actual waveform can be hard to model. In order to identify…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-15 Zheng Wu , Hui-Min Fan , Yi-Ming Hu , Ik Siong Heng

Identifying the presence of a gravitational wave transient buried in non-stationary, non-Gaussian noise which can often contain spurious noise transients (glitches) is a very challenging task. For a given data set, transient gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-18 V. Gayathri , Dixeena Lopez , R. S. Pranjal , Ik Siong Heng , Archana Pai , Chris Messenger

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

With the advanced LIGO and Virgo detectors taking observations the detection of gravitational waves is expected within the next few years. Extracting astrophysical information from gravitational wave detections is a well-posed problem and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Tyson B. Littenberg , Jonah B. Kanner , Neil J. Cornish , Margaret Millhouse

Gravitational wave astronomy has been already a well-established research domain for many years. Moreover, after the detection by LIGO/Virgo collaboration, in 2017, of the first gravitational wave signal emitted during the collision of a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-15 A. Caramete , A. I. Constantinescu , L. I. Caramete , T. Popescu , R. A. Balasov , D. Felea , M. V. Rusu , P. Stefanescu , O. M. Tintareanu

We address the issue of finding an optimal detection method for a discontinuous or intermittent gravitational wave stochastic background. Such a signal might sound something like popcorn popping. We derive an appropriate version of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Steve Drasco , Eanna E. Flanagan

The groundbreaking discoveries of gravitational waves from binary black-hole mergers and, most recently, coalescing neutron stars started a new era of Multi-Messenger Astrophysics and revolutionized our understanding of the Cosmos. Machine…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-08 Plamen G. Krastev

We report on the construction of a deep convolutional neural network that can reproduce the sensitivity of a matched-filtering search for binary black hole gravitational-wave signals. The standard method for the detection of well modeled…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-11 Hunter Gabbard , Michael Williams , Fergus Hayes , Chris Messenger

The present operation of the ground-based network of gravitational-wave laser interferometers in "enhanced" configuration brings the search for gravitational waves into a regime where detection is highly plausible. The development of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 John Veitch , Alberto Vecchio

We present and assess a Bayesian method to interpret gravitational wave signals from binary black holes. Our method directly compares gravitational wave data to numerical relativity simulations. This procedure bypasses approximations used…

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 work investigates the problem of detecting gravitational wave (GW) events based on simulated damped sinusoid signals contaminated with white Gaussian noise. It is treated as a classification problem with one class for the interesting…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-01 Xiangru Li , Woliang Yu , Xilong Fan , G. Jogesh Babu