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Activities in data analysis and numerical simulation of gravitational waves have to date largely proceeded independently. In this work we study how waveforms obtained from numerical simulations could be effectively used within the data…

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In order to reach the sensitivity required to detect gravitational waves, pulsar timing array experiments need to mitigate as much noise as possible in timing data. A dominant amount of noise is likely due to variations in the dispersion…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 K. J. Lee , C. G. Bassa , G. H. Janssen , R. Karuppusamy , M. Kramer , K. Liu , D. Perrodin , R. Smits , B. W. Stappers , R. van Haasteren , L. Lentati

The accuracy of Bayesian inference can be negatively affected by the use of inaccurate forward models. In the case of gravitational-wave inference, accurate but computationally expensive waveform models are sometimes substituted with faster…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-02 Miaoxin Liu , Xiao-Dong Li , Alvin J. K. Chua

The matched filtering technique is used to search for gravitational wave signals of a known form in the data taken by ground-based detectors. However, the analyzed data contains a number of artifacts arising from various broad-band…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-16 S. Babak , H. Grote , M. Hewitson , H. Lück , K. A. Strain

The list of putative sources of gravitational waves possibly detected by the ongoing worldwide network of large scale interferometers has been continuously growing in the last years. For some of them, the detection is made difficult by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Eric Chassande-Mottin , Archana Pai

As of this moment, fifty gravitational waves (GW) detections have been announced, thanks to the observational efforts of the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration, working with the Advanced LIGO and the Advanced Virgo interferometers. The detection of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-30 Filip Morawski , Michał Bejger , Elena Cuoco , Luigia Petre

In the presence of electromagnetic fields, both axions and gravitational waves (GWs) induce oscillating magnetic fields: a potentially detectable fingerprint of their presence. We demonstrate that the response is largely dictated by the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-30 Valerie Domcke , Camilo Garcia-Cely , Sung Mook Lee , Nicholas L. Rodd

Calibration of the Advanced LIGO detectors is the quantification of the detectors' response to gravitational waves. Gravitational waves incident on the detectors cause phase shifts in the interferometer laser light which are read out as…

In preparation for future space-borne gravitational-wave (GW) detectors, should the modelling effort focus on high-precision vacuum templates or on the astrophysical environment of the sources? We perform a systematic comparison of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-15 Lorenz Zwick , Pedro R. Capelo , Lucio Mayer

The discovery of gravitational waves (GWs) from merging compact binaries has transformed modern astrophysics, driving innovation in detection methodologies. Whereas matched-filtering techniques have long been the standard, the growing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-08 Alexandra E. Koloniari , Lazaros Lazaridis , Christos Paschalidis , Nikolaos Stergioulas

Uncertainty in the calibration of gravitational-wave (GW) detector data leads to systematic errors which must be accounted for in setting limits on the strength of GW signals. When cross-correlation measurements are made using data from a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-03-07 John T. Whelan , Emma L. Robinson , Joseph D. Romano , Eric H. Thrane

Next-generation gravitational wave detectors such as the Einstein Telescope and Cosmic Explorer will have increased sensitivity and observing volumes, enabling unprecedented precision in parameter estimation. However, this enhanced…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-16 Veome Kapil , Luca Reali , Roberto Cotesta , Emanuele Berti

We discuss a method to analyze data from interferometric gravitational wave detectors focusing on the technique of hierarchical search to detect gravitational waves from inspiraling binaries. For this purpose, we propose new coordinates to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-30 Takahiro Tanaka , Hideyuki Tagoshi

As gravitational wave detectors improve in sensitivity, signal-to-noise ratios of compact binary coalescences will dramatically increase, reaching values in the hundreds and potentially thousands. Such strong signals offer both exciting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-15 Aasim Jan , Deborah Ferguson , Jacob Lange , Deirdre Shoemaker , Aaron Zimmerman

Advanced ground-based gravitational-wave detectors are capable of measuring tidal influences in binary neutron-star systems. In this work, we report on the statistical uncertainties in measuring tidal deformability with a full Bayesian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-05-28 Leslie Wade , Jolien D. E. Creighton , Evan Ochsner , Benjamin D. Lackey , Benjamin F. Farr , Tyson B. Littenberg , Vivien Raymond

The absolute accuracy of the estimated parameters of gravitational wave sources will be fundamentally limited by the calibration uncertainties of the detectors in upcoming observation runs with the increased number of source statistics.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-18 Yuki Inoue , Sadakazu Haino , Nobuyuki Kanda , Yujiro Ogawa , Toshikazu Suzuki , Takayuki Tomaru , Takahiro Yamamoto , Takaaki Yokozawa

The phenomenon of Gravitational Wave (GW) analysis has grown in popularity as technology has advanced and the process of observing gravitational waves has become more precise. Although the sensitivity and the frequency of observation of GW…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Elena-Simona Apostol , Ciprian-Octavian Truică

A typical problem in the detection of the gravitational waves in the data of gravitational antennas is the non-stationarity of the Gaussian noise (and so the varying sensitivity) and the presence of big impulsive disturbances. In such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-05-18 Sergio Frasca , Pia Astone

We introduce a technique to enhance the reliability of gravitational wave parameter estimation results produced by machine learning. We develop two independent machine learning models based on the Vision Transformer to estimate effective…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-15 Hibiki Iwanaga , Mahoro Matsuyama , Yousuke Itoh

The detection and subsequent inference of binary black hole signals rely heavily on the accuracy of the waveform model employed. In the highly non-linear, dynamic, and strong-field regime near merger, these waveforms can only be accurately…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-02 Alireza Rashti , Rossella Gamba , Koustav Chandra , David Radice , Boris Daszuta , William Cook , Sebastiano Bernuzzi