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We introduce a search method for a new class of gravitational-wave signals, namely long-duration O(hours - weeks) transients from spinning neutron stars. We discuss the astrophysical motivation from glitch relaxation models and we derive a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-08 Reinhard Prix , Stefanos Giampanis , Chris Messenger

Gravitational wave detectors now under construction are sensitive to the phase of the incident gravitational waves. Correspondingly, the signals from the different detectors can be combined, in the analysis, to simulate a single detector of…

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As the sensitivity and observing time of gravitational-wave detectors increase, a more diverse range of signals is expected to be observed from a variety of sources. Especially, long-lived gravitational-wave transients have received…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-24 Adrian Macquet , Marie-Anne Bizouard , Nelson Christensen , Michael Coughlin

This paper describes an incoherent method to search for continuous gravitational waves based on the Hough transform, a well known technique used for detecting patterns in digital images. We apply the Hough transform to detect patterns in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Badri Krishnan , Alicia M. Sintes , M. A. Papa , Bernard F. Schutz , Sergio Frasca , Cristiano Palomba

Gravitational-wave radiometry is a powerful tool by which weak signals with unknown signal morphologies are recovered through a process of cross correlation. Radiometry has been used, e.g., to search for persistent signals from known…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Eric Thrane , Sanjit Mitra , Nelson Christensen , Vuk Mandic , Anirban Ain

We derive a simple algebraic criterion to select the optimal detector network for a coherent wide parameter-space (all-sky) search for continuous gravitational waves. Optimality in this context is defined as providing the highest (average)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-15 Reinhard Prix

All-sky surveys for isolated continuous gravitational waves present a significant data-analysis challenge. Semicoherent search methods are commonly used to efficiently perform the computationally-intensive task of searching for these weak…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 K. Wette , S. Walsh , R. Prix , M. A. Papa

We simulate the response of a Storage Ring Gravitational-Wave Observatory (SRGO) to astrophysical millihertz (mHz) gravitational waves (GWs), numerically obtaining its sensitivity curve and optimal choices for some controllable experiment…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-13 Suvrat Rao , Julia Baumgarten , Jochen Liske , Marcus Brüggen

The search for gravitational waves using Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) is a computationally expensive complex analysis that involves source-specific noise studies. As more pulsars are added to the arrays, this stage of PTA analysis will…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-28 Lorenzo Speri , Nataliya K. Porayko , Mikel Falxa , Siyuan Chen , Jonathan R. Gair , Alberto Sesana , Stephen R. Taylor

Continuous gravitational wave signals, like those expected by asymmetric spinning neutron stars, are among the most promising targets for LIGO and Virgo detectors. The development of fast and robust data analysis methods is crucial to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-13 O. J. Piccinni , S. Frasca , P. Astone , S. D'Antonio , G. Intini , P. Leaci , S. Mastrogiovanni , A. Miller , C. Palomba , A. Singhal

The prospects for detection of gravitational waves from precessing pulsars have been considered by constructing fully relativistic rotating neutron star models and evaluating the expected wave amplitude $h$ from a galactic source. For a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 J. C. N. de Araújo , J. A. de Freitas Pacheco , J. E. Horvath , M. Cattani

Continuous gravitational waves have the potential to transform gravitational wave astronomy and yield fresh insights into astrophysics, nuclear and particle physics, and condensed matter physics. We evaluate their detectability by combining…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-05 Benjamin J. Owen , Binod Rajbhandari

With the improvement in sensitivity of gravitational wave (GW) detectors and the increasing diversity of GW sources, there is a strong need for accurate GW waveform models for data analysis. While the current model accuracy assessments…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-22 Qian Hu , John Veitch

We present new, original and alternative method for searching signals coded in noisy data. The method is based on the properties of random matrix eigenvalue spectra. First, we describe general ideas and support them with results of…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-05-28 D. Grech , J. Miskiewicz

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) detect low-frequency gravitational waves (GWs) by looking for correlated deviations in pulse arrival times. Current Bayesian searches use Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods, which struggle to sample the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-08 Gabriel E. Freedman , Aaron D. Johnson , Rutger van Haasteren , Sarah J. Vigeland

Searching for a signal depending on unknown parameters in a noisy background with matched filtering techniques always requires an analysis of the data with several templates in parallel in order to ensure a proper match between the filter…

We assess the detectability of a nanohertz gravitational wave (GW) background with respect to additive red and white noise in the timing of millisecond pulsars. We develop detection criteria based on the cross-correlation function summed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 J. M. Cordes , R. M. Shannon

Coalescing compact object binaries consisting of black holes and/or Neutron stars are a prime target for ground-based gravitational wave detectors. This article reviews the status of numerical simulations of these systems, with an emphasis…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-04 Harald P. Pfeiffer

Data analysis in modern science using extensive experimental and observational facilities, such as a gravitational wave detector, is essential in the search for novel scientific discoveries. Accordingly, various techniques and mathematical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-14 Piljong Jung , Sang Hoon Oh , Young-Min Kim , Edwin J. Son , John J. Oh

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…

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