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The detection of gravitational waves (GWs) from binary neutron stars (BNSs) with possible telescope follow-ups opens a window to ground-breaking discoveries in the field of multi-messenger astronomy. With the improved sensitivity of current…

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Deep Learning Techniques to make Gravitational Wave Detections from Weak Time-Series Data

Gravitational waves are ripples in the space time fabric when high energy events such as black hole mergers or neutron star collisions take place. The first Gravitational Wave (GW) detection (GW150914) was made by the Laser Interferometer…

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Panning for gold with the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory: an optimal strategy for finding the counterparts to gravitational wave events

The LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA gravitational wave observatories are currently undertaking their O4 observing run offering the opportunity to discover new electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational wave events. We examine the capability of the…

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Virgo Detector Characterization and Data Quality during the O3 run

The Advanced Virgo detector has contributed with its data to the rapid growth of the number of detected gravitational-wave signals in the past few years, alongside the two LIGO instruments. First, during the last month of the Observation…

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Prospects for the observation of continuous gravitational waves from spinning neutron stars lensed by the galactic supermassive black hole

We study the prospects of detecting continuous gravitational waves (CGWs) from spinning neutron stars (NSs), gravitationally lensed by the galactic supermassive black hole. Assuming various astrophysically motivated spatial distributions of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-13 Soummyadip Basak , Aditya Kumar Sharma , Shasvath J. Kapadia , Parameswaran Ajith

Search for continuous gravitational waves directed at sub-threshold radiometer candidates in O3 LIGO data

We present results of a follow-up search for continuous gravitational waves (CWs) associated with sub-threshold candidates from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) All-Sky All-Frequency (ASAF) directed radiometer analysis, using Advanced LIGO data…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-28 Alan M. Knee , Helen Du , Evan Goetz , Jess McIver , Julian B. Carlin , Ling Sun , Liam Dunn , Lucy Strang , Hannah Middleton , Andrew Melatos

Coincident Searches between Gravitational Waves and High-Energy Neutrinos with the Antares and LIGO/Virgo Detectors

A multi-messenger approach with gravitational-wave transients and high-energy neutrinos is expected to open new perspectives in the study of the most violent astrophysical processes in the Universe. In particular, gamma-ray bursts are of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 B. Bouhou

Data-driven expectations for electromagnetic counterpart searches based on LIGO/Virgo public alerts

Searches for electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational-wave signals have redoubled since the first detection in 2017 of a binary neutron star merger with a gamma-ray burst, optical/infrared kilonova, and panchromatic afterglow. Yet, one…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-19 Polina Petrov , Leo P. Singer , Michael W. Coughlin , Vishwesh Kumar , Mouza Almualla , Shreya Anand , Mattia Bulla , Tim Dietrich , Francois Foucart , Nidhal Guessoum

Following up GW Alerts With MAGIC: The Third LIGO/Virgo Observation Run

The first two LIGO and Virgo observation runs have been important milestones in the gravitational wave (GW) field, thanks to the detection of GW signals from ten binary black hole systems and a binary neutron star system. In order to fully…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-10 Davide Miceli , Lucio Angelo Antonelli , Josefa Becerra Gonzalez , Alessio Berti , uZeljka Bousnjak , Stefano Covino , Barbara De Lotto , Francesca Del Puppo , Susumu Inoue , Francesco Longo , Elena Moretti , Lara Nava , Barbara Patricelli , Antonio Stamerra

PyCBC Live: Rapid Detection of Gravitational Waves from Compact Binary Mergers

We introduce an efficient and straightforward technique for rapidly detecting gravitational waves from compact binary mergers. We show that this method achieves the low latencies required to alert electromagnetic partners of candidate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-08 Alexander H. Nitz , Tito Dal Canton , Derek Davis , Steven Reyes

Galaxy Strategy for LIGO-Virgo Gravitational Wave Counterpart Searches

In this work we continue a line of inquiry begun in Kanner et al. which detailed a strategy for utilizing telescopes with narrow fields of view, such as the Swift X-ray Telescope (XRT), to localize gravity wave (GW) triggers from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-13 Neil Gehrels , John K. Cannizzo , Jonah Kanner , Mansi M. Kasliwal , Samaya Nissanke , Leo P. Singer

Search for gravitational-wave bursts in LIGO data at the Schenberg antenna sensitivity range

The Brazilian Mario Schenberg gravitational-wave detector remained operational until 2016 when it was disassembled. To assess the feasibility of reassembling the antenna, its capability to detect GW within its designed sensitivity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-25 Julio Cesar Martins , Ik Siong Heng , Iara Tosta e Melo , Odylio Denys Aguiar

AttenGW: A Lightweight Attention-Based Multi-Detector Gravitational-Wave Detection Pipeline

We present AttenGW, an attention-based multi-detector gravitational-wave detection model and accompanying software stack designed for analysis of real LIGO data. AttenGW combines a per-detector hierarchical dilated convolutional network…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-16 Victoria Tiki , Eliu Huerta

Challenges and Opportunities of Gravitational Wave Searches at MHz to GHz Frequencies

The first direct measurement of gravitational waves by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations has opened up new avenues to explore our Universe. This white paper outlines the challenges and gains expected in gravitational wave searches at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-14 N. Aggarwal , O. D. Aguiar , A. Bauswein , G. Cella , S. Clesse , A. M. Cruise , V. Domcke , D. G. Figueroa , A. Geraci , M. Goryachev , H. Grote , M. Hindmarsh , F. Muia , N. Mukund , D. Ottaway , M. Peloso , F. Quevedo , A. Ricciardone , J. Steinlechner , S. Steinlechner , S. Sun , M. E. Tobar , F. Torrenti , C. Unal , G. White

Searches After Gravitational-waves Using ARizona Observatories (SAGUARO): System Overview and First Results from Advanced LIGO/Virgo's Third Observing Run

We present Searches After Gravitational-waves Using ARizona Observatories (SAGUARO), a comprehensive effort dedicated to the discovery and characterization of optical counterparts to gravitational wave (GW) events. SAGUARO utilizes…

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Cosmology with space-based gravitational-wave detectors --- dark energy and primordial gravitational waves ---

Proposed space-based gravitational-wave (GW) detectors such as DECIGO and BBO will detect ~10^6 neutron-star (NS) binaries and determine the luminosity distances to the binaries with high precision. Combining the luminosity distances with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-27 Atsushi Nishizawa , Kent Yagi , Atsushi Taruya , Takahiro Tanaka

Method for detection and reconstruction of gravitational wave transients with networks of advanced detectors

We present a method for detection and reconstruction of the gravitational-wave (GW) transients with the networks of advanced detectors. Originally designed to search for transients with the initial GW detectors, it uses significantly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-17 S. Klimenko , G. Vedovato , M. Drago , F. Salemi , V. Tiwari , G. A. Prodi , C. Lazzaro , K. Ackley , S. Tiwari , C. F. Da Silva Cost- , G. Mitselmakher

Directed search for continuous gravitational-wave signals from the Galactic Center in the Advanced LIGO second observing run

In this work we present the results of a search for continuous gravitational waves from the Galactic Center using LIGO O2 data. The search uses the Band-Sampled-Data directed search pipeline, which performs a semi-coherent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-06 Ornella J. Piccinni , P. Astone , S. D'Antonio , S. Frasca , G. Intini , I. La Rosa , P. Leaci , S. Mastrogiovanni , A. Miller , C. Palomba

Searching for Electromagnetic Counterparts to Gravitational-wave Merger Events with the Prototype Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO-4)

We report the results of optical follow-up observations of 29 gravitational-wave triggers during the first half of the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration (LVC) O3 run with the Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO) in its prototype…

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Early Advanced LIGO binary neutron-star sky localization and parameter estimation

2015 will see the first observations of Advanced LIGO and the start of the gravitational-wave (GW) advanced-detector era. One of the most promising sources for ground-based GW detectors are binary neutron-star (BNS) coalescences. In order…

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