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The coherent WaveBurst (cWB) pipeline implements a minimally-modelled search to find a coherent response in the network of gravitational wave detectors of the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration in the time-frequency domain. In this manuscript, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-02 O. Halim , G. Vedovato , E. Milotti , G. A. Prodi , S. Bini , M. Drago , V. Gayathri , C. Lazzaro , D. Lopez , A. Miani , B. O'Brien , F. Salemi , M. Szczepanczyk , S. Tiwari , A. Virtuoso , S. Klimenko

Central to the gravitational wave detection problem is the challenge of separating features in the data produced by astrophysical sources from features produced by the detector. Matched filtering provides an optimal solution for Gaussian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-12-09 Tyson B. Littenberg , Neil J. Cornish

We report on the first joint search for gravitational waves by the TAMA and LIGO collaborations. We looked for millisecond-duration unmodelled gravitational-wave bursts in 473 hr of coincident data collected during early 2003. No candidate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-27 LIGO Scientific Collaboration , TAMA Collaboration

Gravitational wave astronomy opened dramatically in September 2015 with the LIGO discovery of a distant and massive binary black hole coalescence. The more recent discovery of a binary neutron star merger, followed by a gamma ray burst and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-20 Keith Riles

Crosscorrelation of the outputs of two Gravitational Wave (GW) detectors has recently been proposed [1] as a method for detecting statistical association between GWs and Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs). Unfortunately, the method can be effectively…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Modestino , A. Moleti

The detection of gravitational waves has inaugurated the era of gravitational astronomy and opened new avenues for the multimessenger study of cosmic sources. Thanks to their sensitivity, the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo interferometers…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-05 Massimiliano Razzano , Elena Cuoco

A central challenge in Gravitational Wave Astronomy is identifying weak signals in the presence of non-stationary and non-Gaussian noise. The separation of gravitational wave signals from noise requires good models for both. When accurate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-17 Neil J. Cornish , Tyson B. Littenberg

We present a machine learning (ML) based method for automated detection of Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) candidate events in the range 60 keV - 250 keV from the AstroSat Cadmium Zinc Telluride Imager data. We use density-based spatial clustering to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-18 Sheelu Abraham , Nikhil Mukund , Ajay Vibhute , Vidushi Sharma , Shabnam Iyyani , Dipankar Bhattacharya , A. R. Rao , Santosh Vadawale , Varun Bhalerao

We demonstrate an all-sky search for persistent, narrowband gravitational waves using mock data. The search employs radiometry to sidereal-folded data in order to uncover persistent sources of gravitational waves with minimal assumptions…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-31 Boris Goncharov , Eric Thrane

We present a search for short-duration gravitational-wave transients in data from the first eight months of Advanced LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA's fourth observing run, denoted O4a. We use four analyses which are sensitive to a wide range of potential…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-05 LIGO Scientific Collaboration , Virgo Collaboration , KAGRA Collaboration

Gravitational wave astronomy is rapidly advancing with the development of new observatories, leading to an increasing volume and complexity of data. This trend places growing pressure on classical data analysis methods and motivates the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-19 Fangzhou Guo , Jibo He

Gravitational wave emission is expected to arise from a variety of astrophysical phenomena. A new generation of detectors with sensitivity consistent with expectation from such sources is being developed. The Laser Interferometer…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Barry C. Barish

Interferometric gravitational-wave detectors like LIGO, GEO600 and Virgo record a surplus of information above and beyond possible gravitational-wave events. These auxiliary channels capture information about the state of the detector and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-29 Reed Essick , Lindy Blackburn , Erik Katsavounidis

Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo ground-based interferometers are instruments capable to detect gravitational wave signals exploiting advanced laser interferometry techniques. The underlying data analysis task consists in identifying…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-19 Francesco Pio Barone , Daniele Dell'Aquila , Marco Russo

We have performed an in-depth concept study of a gravitational wave data analysis method which targets repeated long quasi-monochromatic transients (triggers) from cosmic sources. The algorithm concept can be applied to multi-trigger data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 David Murphy , Maggie Tse , Peter Raffai , Imre Bartos , Rubab Khan , Zsuzsa Marka , Luca Matone , Keith Redwine , Szabolcs Marka

We analyze the gravitational wave signals with a model-independent time-frequency analysis, which is improved from the Hilbert-Huang transform (HHT) and optimized for characterizing the frequency variability on the time-frequency map.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-31 Chin-Ping Hu , Lupin Chun-Che Lin , Kuo-Chuan Pan , Kwan-Lok Li , Chien-Chang Yen , Albert K. H. Kong , C. Y. Hui

Observations of an optical source coincident with gravitational wave emission detected from a binary neutron star coalescence will improve the confidence of detection, provide host galaxy localisation, and test models for the progenitors of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-09-16 D. M. Coward , B. Gendre , P. J. Sutton , E. J. Howell , T. Regimbau , M. Laas-Bourez , A. Klotz , M. Boer , M. Branchesi

The first successful detection of gravitational waves by ground-based observatories, such as the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), marked a breakthrough in our comprehension of the Universe. However, due to the…

In recent years, the field of Gravitational Wave Astronomy has flourished. With the advent of more sophisticated ground-based detectors and space-based observatories, it is anticipated that Gravitational Wave events will be detected at a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-07 Argyro Sasli , Nikolaos Karnesis , Nikolaos Stergioulas