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Abbreviated: We investigate the potential of detecting the gravitational wave from individual binary black hole systems using pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) and calculate the accuracy for determining the GW properties. This is done in a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 K. J. Lee , N. Wex , M. Kramer , B. W. Stappers , C. G. Bassa , G. H. Janssen , R. Karuppusamy , R. Smits

We propose a new method to measure parameters of SMBHBs as individual resolvable evolving single GWs sources, using the timing data of three or more non-simultaneous pulsars. These parameters include the sky position of the SMBHB and a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-04-15 Shuxu Yi

The observation of gravitational wave signals from binary black hole mergers has established the field of gravitational wave astronomy. It is expected that future networks of gravitational wave detectors will possess great potential in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-06 Joseph Mills , Vaibhav Tiwari , Stephen Fairhurst

Recent works recognized lidars as an inherently streaming data source and showed that the end-to-end latency of lidar perception models can be reduced significantly by operating on wedge-shaped point cloud sectors rather then the full point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Qi Chen , Sourabh Vora , Oscar Beijbom

Potentially interesting gravitational-wave candidates (outliers) from the blind all-sky searches have to be confirmed or rejected by studying their origin and precisely estimating their parameters. We present the design and first results…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-05 Magdalena Sieniawska , Michał Bejger , Paweł Ciecieląg , Andrzej Królak

The sensitivity of gravitational-wave (GW) detectors is characterized by their noise curves, which determine the detector's reach and ability to measure the parameters of astrophysical sources accurately. The detector noise is typically…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-21 Sumit Kumar , Alexander H. Nitz , Xisco Jiménez Forteza

The detection of quasi-periodic sources of gravitational waves requires the accumulation of signal-to-noise over long observation times. If not removed, Earth-motion induced Doppler modulations, and intrinsic variations of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Patrick R Brady , Teviet Creighton

This article considers the detection of point sources in two dimensional astronomical images. The detection scheme we propose is based on peak statistics. We discuss the example of the detection of far galaxies in Cosmic Microwave…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Lopez-Caniego , D. Herranz , J. L. Sanz , R. B. Barreiro

The current gravitational-wave localization methods rely mainly on sources with electromagnetic counterparts. Unfortunately, a binary black hole does not emit light. Due to this, it is generally not possible to localize these objects…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-02 Otto A. Hannuksela , Thomas E. Collett , Mesut Çalışkan , Tjonnie G. F. Li

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

We propose a coherent method for the detection and reconstruction of gravitational wave signals for a network of interferometric detectors. The method is derived using the likelihood functional for unknown signal waveforms. In the standard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Klimenko , S. Mohanty , M. Rakhmanov , G. Mitselmakher , .

Rapid sky localization of gravitational wave sources is crucial to enable prompt electromagnetic follow-ups. In this article, we present a novel semianalytical approach for sky localization of gravitational waves from compact binary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-04 Qian Hu , Cong Zhou , Jhao-Hong Peng , Linqing Wen , Qi Chu , Manoj Kovalam

Accurate determination of gravitational wave source parameters relies on transforming between the source and detector frames. All-sky searches for continuous wave sources are computationally expensive, in part, because of barycentering…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-13 Orion Sauter , Vladimir Dergachev , Keith Riles

Gravitational waves propagate along null geodesics like light rays in the geometrical optics approximation, and they may have a chance to suffer from gravitational lensing by intervening objects, as is the case for electromagnetic waves.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-10-12 Yousuke Itoh , Toshifumi Futamase , Makoto Hattori

A world-wide array of highly sensitive interferometers stands poised to usher in a new era in astronomy with the first direct detection of gravitational waves. The data from these instruments will provide a unique perspective on extreme…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-02-27 Neil J. Cornish

Astrometry, the precise measurement of star motions, offers an alternative avenue to investigate low-frequency gravitational waves through the spatial deflection of photons, complementing pulsar timing arrays reliant on timing residuals.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-06 Mesut Çalışkan , Yifan Chen , Liang Dai , Neha Anil Kumar , Isak Stomberg , Xiao Xue

The quest to observe gravitational waves challenges our ability to discriminate signals from detector noise. This issue is especially relevant for transient gravitational waves searches with a robust eyes wide open approach, the so called…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-19 S. Vinciguerra , M. Drago , G. A. Prodi , S. Klimenko , C. Lazzaro , V. Necula , F. Salemi , V. Tiwari , M. C. Tringali , G. Vedovato

Accurate sky localization is essential for gravitational-wave (GW) astronomy, particularly for multimessenger follow-up and host galaxy identification. For strongly lensed GW events, achieving localization at the level of $\sim…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-21 Alvin K. Y. Li , Otto A. Hannuksela

Among third-generation ground-based gravitational-wave detectors proposed for the next decade, the Einstein Telescope provides a unique kind of null stream $\unicode{x2014}$ the signal-free linear combination of data $\unicode{x2014}$ that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-15 Boris Goncharov , Alexander H. Nitz , Jan Harms

In the reconstruction process of sound waves in a 3D stratified waveguide, a key technique is to effectively reduce the huge computational demand. In this work, we propose an efficient and simple multilevel reconstruction method to help…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-17 Keji Liu , Yongzhi Xu , Jun Zou