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Gravitational wave detection requires an in-depth understanding of the physical properties of gravitational wave signals, and the noise from which they are extracted. Understanding the statistical properties of noise is a complex endeavor,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-05 Wei Wei , E. A. Huerta

Noise of non-astrophysical origin will contaminate science data taken by the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (aLIGO) and Advanced Virgo gravitational-wave detectors. Prompt characterization of instrumental and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-21 Jade Powell , Daniele Trifiro , Elena Cuoco , Ik Siong Heng , Marco Cavaglia

With the advanced LIGO and Virgo detectors taking observations the detection of gravitational waves is expected within the next few years. Extracting astrophysical information from gravitational wave detections is a well-posed problem and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Tyson B. Littenberg , Jonah B. Kanner , Neil J. Cornish , Margaret Millhouse

Lensed gravitational waves (GWs) provide a new window into the study of dark matter substructures, yet the faint interference signatures they produce are buried in detector noise. To address this challenge, we develop a deep learning…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-25 Mengfei Sun , Jie Wu , Jin Li , Nan Yang , Xianghe Ma , Borui Wang , Minghui Zhang , Yuanhong Zhong

We demonstrate unprecedented accuracy for rapid gravitational-wave parameter estimation with deep learning. Using neural networks as surrogates for Bayesian posterior distributions, we analyze eight gravitational-wave events from the first…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-31 Maximilian Dax , Stephen R. Green , Jonathan Gair , Jakob H. Macke , Alessandra Buonanno , Bernhard Schölkopf

In the field of gravitational-wave (GW) interferometers, the most severe limitation to the detection of transient signals from astrophysical sources comes from transient noise artefacts, known as glitches, that happens at a rate around $1$…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-11 Melissa Lopez , Vincent Boudart , Stefano Schmidt , Sarah Caudill

Quality improvement of interferometric data collected by gravitational-wave detectors such as Advanced LIGO and Virgo is mission critical for the success of gravitational-wave astrophysics. Gravitational-wave detectors are sensitive to a…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2018-12-14 Marco Cavaglia , Kai Staats , Teerth Gill

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

"Blip glitches" are a type of short duration transient noise in LIGO data. The cause for the majority of these is currently unknown. Short duration transient noise creates challenges for searches of the highest mass binary black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-29 Alexander Harvey Nitz

Data from ground-based gravitational wave detectors are often contaminated by non-Gaussian instrumental artifacts or detector noise transients. Unbiased source property estimation relies on the ability to correctly identify and characterize…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-24 Man Leong Chan , Jess McIver , Yannick Lecoeuche , Dhatri Raghunathan , Sofía Álvarez-López , Julian Ding , Annudesh Liyanage , Raymond Ng , Heather Fong

In the data obtained by laser interferometric gravitational wave detectors, transient noise with non-stationary and non-Gaussian features occurs at a high rate. This often results in problems such as detector instability and the hiding…

The proposed Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission is tasked with the detection and characterization of gravitational waves from various sources in the universe. This endeavor is challenged by transient displacement and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-21 Niklas Houba , Luigi Ferraioli , Domenico Giardini

We report on the construction of a deep convolutional neural network that can reproduce the sensitivity of a matched-filtering search for binary black hole gravitational-wave signals. The standard method for the detection of well modeled…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-11 Hunter Gabbard , Michael Williams , Fergus Hayes , Chris Messenger

All scientific claims of gravitational wave discovery to date rely on the offline statistical analysis of candidate observations in order to quantify significance relative to background processes. The current foundation in such offline…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-12 Michael Andrews , Manfred Paulini , Luke Sellers , Alexey Bobrick , Gianni Martire , Haydn Vestal

Gravitational-wave detection pipelines have helped to identify over one hundred compact binary mergers in the data collected by the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo interferometers, whose sensitivity has provided unprecedented access to the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-22 Ryan Magee , Ritwik Sharma , Ananya Agrawal , Rhiannon Udall

The detection of gravitational waves from compact binary coalescence by Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo provides an opportunity to study the strong-field, highly relativistic regime of gravity. Gravitational-wave tests of general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-02 Jack Y. L. Kwok , Rico K. L. Lo , Alan J. Weinstein , Tjonnie G. F. Li

Deep learning method develops very fast as a tool for data analysis these years. Such a technique is quite promising to treat gravitational wave detection data. There are many works already in the literature which used deep learning…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 He Wang , Zhoujian Cao , Xiaolin Liu , Shichao Wu , Jian-Yang Zhu

Machine learning can be a powerful tool to discover new signal types in astronomical data. We here apply it to search for long-duration transient gravitational waves triggered by pulsar glitches, which could yield physical insight into the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-18 Luana M. Modafferi , Rodrigo Tenorio , David Keitel

Gravitational wave detection has opened up new avenues for exploring and understanding some of the fundamental principles of the universe. The optimal method for detecting modelled gravitational-wave events involves template-based matched…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-15 Damon Beveridge , Alistair McLeod , Linqing Wen , Andreas Wicenec

Transient signals of instrumental and environmental origins ("glitches") in gravitational wave data elevate the false alarm rate of searches for astrophysical signals and reduce their sensitivity. Glitches that directly overlap…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-24 Soumya D. Mohanty , Mohammad A. T. Chowdhury