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The reliability of the first detection is one of the most interesting challenges for the gravitational wave community. To increase the detection confidence, the LIGO and Virgo collaborations have already started coincident observations…

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This work investigates the detection of binary neutron stars gravitational wave based on convolutional neural network (CNN). To promote the detection performance and efficiency, we proposed a scheme based on wavelet packet (WP)…

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We introduce a fully-coherent method for searching for gravitational wave signals generated by the merger of black hole and/or neutron star binaries. This extends the coherent analysis previously developed and used for targeted…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-09 D. M. Macleod , I. W. Harry , S. Fairhurst

GW170817-GRB 170817A provided the first observation of gravitational waves from a neutron star merger with associated transient counterparts across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. This discovery demonstrated the long-hypothesized…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-07 M. Pillas , T. Dal Canton , C. Stachie , B. Piotrzkowski , F. Hayes , R. Hamburg , E. Burns , J. Wood , P. A. Duverne , N. Christensen

In the era of second generation ground-based gravitational wave detectors, short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) will be among the most promising astrophysical events for joint electromagnetic and gravitational wave observation. A targeted search…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-31 A. R. Williamson , C. Biwer , S. Fairhurst , I. W. Harry , E. Macdonald , D. Macleod , V. Predoi

The gravitational waves produced by binary neutron star mergers offer a unique window into matter behavior under extreme conditions. In this context, we model analytically the effect of matter on the gravitational waves from binary neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-06 Alexander O'Dell , Maria C. Babiuc Hamilton

Gravitational waves from the merger of two neutron stars cannot be easily distinguished from those produced by a comparable-mass mixed binary in which one of the companions is a black hole. Low-mass black holes are interesting because they…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-29 Margherita Fasano , Kaze W. K. Wong , Andrea Maselli , Emanuele Berti , Valeria Ferrari , Bangalore S. Sathyaprakash

The first detection of gravitational waves by LIGO from the merger of two compact objects has sparked new interest in detecting electromagnetic counterparts to these violent events. For mergers involving neutron stars, it is thought that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-06 Neil J. Cornish

The first discovery of the gravitational wave (GW) event, GW150914, suggests a higher merger rate of black-hole (BH) binaries. If this is true, a number of BH binaries will be observed via the second-generation GW detectors, and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-13 Toshiya Namikawa , Atsushi Nishizawa , Atsushi Taruya

Gravitational wave astronomy is established with direct observation of gravitational wave from merging binary black holes and binary neutron stars during the first and second observing run of LIGO and Virgo detectors. The gravitational-wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-24 V. Gayathri , P. Bacon , A. Pai , E. Chassande-Mottin , F. Salemi , G. Vedovato

Gravitational waves from binary neutron star inspirals have been detected along with the electromagnetic transients coming from the aftermath of the merger in GW170817. However, much is still unknown about the post-merger dynamics that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-03 Teng Zhang , Jiří Smetana , Yikang Chen , Joe Bentley , William E. East , Denis Martynov , Haixing Miao , Huan Yang

We present a novel gravitational wave detection algorithm that conducts a matched filter search stochastically across the compact binary parameter space rather than relying on a fixed bank of template waveforms. This technique is…

In this paper, we present a new method to search for a short, a few tens of milliseconds long, postmerger gravitational-wave signal following the merger of two neutron stars. Such a signal could follow the event GW170817 observed by LIGO…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-16 Andrzej Królak , Piotr Jaranowski , Michał Bejger , Paweł Ciecieląg , Orest Dorosh , Andrzej Pisarski

Our knowledge and understanding of the Universe is mainly based on observations of the electromagnetic radiation in a wide range of wavelengths. Only during the past two decades, new kinds of detectors have been developed, exploiting other…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-11 Maurizio Spurio

Gravitational waves from binary neutron star mergers can be used as alerts to enable prompt follow-up observations. In particular, capturing prompt electromagnetic and astroparticle emissions from the moment of a binary merger presents…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-09 Manoj Kovalam , Md Anwarul Kaium Patwary , Anala K Sreekumar , Linqing Wen , Fiona H Panther , Qi Chu

Gravitational waves from the coalescence of compact-binary sources are now routinely observed by Earth bound detectors. The most sensitive search algorithms convolve many different pre-calculated gravitational waveforms with the detector…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-11 Marlin B. Schäfer , Alexander H. Nitz

The detection rate for compact binary mergers has grown as the sensitivity of the global network of ground based gravitational wave detectors has improved, now reaching the stage where robust automation of the analyses is essential.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-02 Neil J. Cornish

The recent breakthroughs regarding the detection of compact binary mergers via gravitational waves opened up a new window to the Universe. Gravitational-wave models have been essential to this success since they are necessary to infer the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-15 Adrian Abac , Anna Puecher , Jonathan Gair , Tim Dietrich

Gravitational waves have been detected from the inspiral of a binary neutron-star, GW170817, which allowed constraints to be placed on the neutron star equation of state. The equation of state can be further constrained if gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-14 Paul J. Easter , Paul D. Lasky , Andrew R. Casey , Luciano Rezzolla , Kentaro Takami

During its first 4 months of taking data, Advanced LIGO has detected gravitational waves from two binary black hole mergers, GW150914 and GW151226, along with the statistically less significant binary black hole merger candidate LVT151012.…

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