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Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) have made tremendous progress and are now showing strong evidence for the gravitational-wave background (GWB). Further probing the origin and characteristics of the GWB will require more generalized analysis…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-06 Kyle A. Gersbach , Stephen R. Taylor , Patrick M. Meyers , Joseph D. Romano

We present a method of searching for, and parameterizing, signals from known radio pulsars in data from interferometric gravitational wave detectors. This method has been applied to data from the LIGO and GEO 600 detectors to set upper…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-29 Réjean J. Dupuis , Graham Woan

A frequentist asymptotic expansion method for error estimation is employed for a network of gravitational wave detectors to assess the amount of information that can be extracted from gravitational wave observations. Mathematically we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-22 Rhondale Tso , Michele Zanolin

Computing the $GW$ quasiparticle bandstructure and Bethe-Salpeter Equation (BSE) absorption spectra for materials with spin-orbit coupling has commonly been done by treating $GW$ corrections and spin-orbit coupling as separate perturbations…

We introduce a new analysis method to deal with stationary non-Gaussian noises in gravitational wave detectors in terms of the independent component analysis. First, we consider the simplest case where the detector outputs are linear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-03 Soichiro Morisaki , Jun'ichi Yokoyama , Kazunari Eda , Yousuke Itoh

Deep learning techniques for gravitational-wave parameter estimation have emerged as a fast alternative to standard samplers $\unicode{x2013}$ producing results of comparable accuracy. These approaches (e.g., DINGO) enable amortized…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-10 Jonas Wildberger , Maximilian Dax , Stephen R. Green , Jonathan Gair , Michael Pürrer , Jakob H. Macke , Alessandra Buonanno , Bernhard Schölkopf

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

We propose a method for separating and detecting the non-tensor modes of stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds (SGWBs) using networks of space-based gravitational-wave detectors. We consider four distinct data-reconstruction schemes for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-24 Bo Mu , Zong-Kuan Guo

Strong evidence of the existence of the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background (SGWB) has been reported by the NANOGrav, PPTA, EPTA and CPTA collaborations. The Bayesian posteriors of the Gravitational-Wave Background (GWB) amplitude and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-04 Chao Zhang , Ning Dai , Qing Gao , Yungui Gong , Tong Jiang , Xuchen Lu

Bayesian methods for the detection of continuous gravitational waves (CGWs) in Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) data incur substantial computational costs that grow rapidly due to the number of noise and signal parameters characterizing the fitted…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-10 Yi-Qian Qian , Yan Wang , Soumya D. Mohanty , Siyuan Chen

Approximations are commonly employed in realistic applications of scientific Bayesian inference, often due to convenience if not necessity. In the field of gravitational-wave (GW) data analysis, fast-to-evaluate but approximate waveform…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-03 Ruiting Mao , Jeong Eun Lee , Ollie Burke , Alvin J. K. Chua , Matthew C. Edwards , Renate Meyer

The declining response rates in probability surveys along with the widespread availability of unstructured data has led to growing research into non-probability samples. Existing robust approaches are not well-developed for non-Gaussian…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-03-29 Ali Rafei , Michael R. Elliott , Carol A. C. Flannagan

A common technique for detection of gravitational-wave signals is searching for excess power in frequency-time maps of gravitational-wave detector data. In the event of a detection, model selection and parameter estimation will be performed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Michael Coughlin , Nelson Christensen , Jonathan Gair , Shivaraj Kandhasamy , Eric Thrane

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…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-07 M. Andrés-Carcasona , M. Martinez , Ll. M. Mir

In this paper the problem of restoration of non-negative sparse signals is addressed in the Bayesian framework. We introduce a new probabilistic hierarchical prior, based on the Generalized Hyperbolic (GH) distribution, which explicitly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-12 Mehdi Chahine Amrouche , Hervé Carfantan , Jérôme Idier

Gravitational wave astronomy has tremendous potential for studying extreme astrophysical phenomena and exploring fundamental physics. The waves produced by binary black hole mergers will provide a pristine environment in which to study…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-28 Neil Cornish , Laura Sampson , Nico Yunes , Frans Pretorius

Einstein's theory of general relativity predicts that gravitational waves (GWs) are tensor-polarized, with two modes of polarization: plus ($h_+$) and cross ($h_\times$). The unmodeled GW burst analysis pipeline, \textit{BayesWave}, offers…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-03 Yi Shuen C. Lee , Siddhant Doshi , Margaret Millhouse , Andrew Melatos

The announcement in the summer of 2023 about the discovery of evidence for a gravitational wave background (GWB) using pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) has ignited both the PTA and the larger scientific community's interest in the experiment and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-22 Nima Laal , Stephen R. Taylor , Rutger van Haasteren , William G Lamb , Xavier Siemens

We describe a novel approach to the detection and parameter estimation of a non\textendash Gaussian stochastic background of gravitational waves. The method is based on the determination of relevant statistical parameters using importance…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-22 Riccardo Buscicchio , Anirban Ain , Matteo Ballelli , Giancarlo Cella , Barbara Patricelli

We investigate the class of quadratic detectors (i.e., the statistic is a bilinear function of the data) for the detection of poorly modeled gravitational transients of short duration. We point out that all such detection methods are…

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