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Rapid and robust parameter estimation of gravitational-wave sources is a key component of modern multi-messenger astronomy. We present a novel and straightforward method for rapid parameter estimation of gravitational-wave sources that uses…

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Continuous-wave (CW) gravitational waves (GWs) call for computationally-intensive methods. Low signal-to-noise ratio signals need templated searches with long coherent integration times and thus fine parameter-space resolution. Longer…

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Gravitational-wave analyses depend heavily on waveforms that model the evolution of compact binary coalescences as seen by observing detectors. In many cases these waveforms are given by waveform approximants, models that approximate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-11 Quirijn Meijer , Sarah Caudill

Folding uncertainty in theoretical models into Bayesian parameter estimation is necessary in order to make reliable inferences. A general means of achieving this is by marginalizing over model uncertainty using a prior distribution…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-04 Christopher J. Moore , Christopher P. L. Berry , Alvin J. K. Chua , Jonathan R. Gair

Ground-based gravitational wave detectors are sensitive to a narrow range of frequencies, effectively taking a snapshot of merging compact-object binary dynamics just before merger. We demonstrate that by adopting analysis parameters that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-01 Benjamin Farr , Evan Ochsner , Will M. Farr , Richard O'Shaughnessy

We describe several new techniques which accelerate Bayesian searches for continuous gravitational-wave emission from supermassive black-hole binaries using pulsar timing arrays. These techniques mitigate the problematic increase of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-25 Stephen Taylor , Justin Ellis , Jonathan Gair

We present a fast Bayesian inference framework to address the growing computational cost of gravitational-wave parameter estimation. The increased cost is driven by improved broadband detector sensitivity, particularly at low frequencies…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-07 Abhishek Sharma , Lalit Pathak , Soumen Roy , Anand S. Sengupta

Bayesian inference with stochastic sampling has been widely used to obtain the properties of gravitational wave (GW) sources. Although computationally intensive, its cost remains manageable for current second-generation GW detectors because…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-02 Qian Hu , John Veitch

Estimating the source parameters of gravitational waves from compact binary coalescence(CBC) is a key analysis task in gravitational-wave astronomy. To deal with the increasing detection rate of CBC signals, optimizing the parameter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-13 Eunsub Lee , Soichiro Morisaki , Hideyuki Tagoshi

We describe an implementation of the relative binning technique to speed up parameter estimation of gravitational-wave signals. We first give a pedagogical overview of relative binning, discussing also the expressions for the likelihood…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-12 Kruthi Krishna , Aditya Vijaykumar , Apratim Ganguly , Colm Talbot , Sylvia Biscoveanu , Richard N George , Natalie Williams , Aaron Zimmerman

This paper presents an algorithm to accelerate the evaluation of inspiral-merger-ringdown waveform models for gravitational wave data analysis. While the idea can also be applied in the time domain, here we focus on the frequency domain,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-03 Cecilio García-Quirós , Sascha Husa , Maite Mateu-Lucena , Angela Borchers

Gravitational-wave data from advanced-era interferometric detectors consists of background Gaussian noise, frequent transient artefacts, and rare astrophysical signals. Multiple search algorithms exist to detect the signals from compact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-13 Gregory Ashton , Ann-Kristin Malz , Nicolo Colombo

Gravitational Wave (GW) astronomy has experienced remarkable growth in recent years, driven by advancements in ground-based detectors. While detecting compact binary coalescences (CBCs) has become routine, searching for more complex ones,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-29 Kanchan Soni , Sanjeev Dhurandhar , Sanjit Mitra

Inspiraling compact binaries are promising sources of gravitational waves for ground and space-based laser interferometric detectors. The time-dependent signature of these sources in the detectors is a well-characterized function of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 S. Mitra , S. V. Dhurandhar , L. S. Finn

Low-latency pipelines analyzing gravitational waves from compact binary coalescence events rely on matched filter techniques. Limitations in template banks and waveform modeling, as well as non-stationary detector noise cause errors in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-21 Sushant Sharma Chaudhary , Gianmarco Puleo , Marco Cavaglia

Weakly-modelled searches for gravitational waves are essential for ensuring that all potential sources are accounted for in detection efforts, as they make minimal assumptions regarding source morphology. While these searches primarily…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-06 Leigh Smith , Matteo Scialpi , Francesco di Clemente , Michał Bejger

The prior knowledge of the gravitational waveform from compact binary systems makes matched filtering an attractive detection strategy. This detection method involves the filtering of the detector output with a set of theoretical waveforms…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Edward K. Porter

In the coming years, third-generation detectors such as Einstein Telescope and Cosmic Explorer will enter the network of ground-based gravitational-wave detectors. Their current design predicts a significantly improved sensitivity band with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-21 Justin Janquart , Tomasz Baka , Anuradha Samajdar , Tim Dietrich , Chris Van Den Broeck

Compact binary systems with total masses between tens and hundreds of solar masses will produce gravitational waves during their merger phase that are detectable by second-generation ground-based gravitational-wave detectors. In order to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-30 Kipp Cannon , Chad Hanna , Drew Keppel

Third-generation gravitational wave detectors such as Einstein Telescope and Cosmic Explorer will have significantly better sensitivities than current detectors, as well as a wider frequency bandwidth. This will increase the number and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-22 Tomasz Baka , Harsh Narola , Justin Janquart , Anuradha Samajdar , Tim Dietrich , Chris Van Den Broeck