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The gravitational wave signals produced by the coalescence of compact binaries progress through three stages: inspiral, merger, and postmerger. The evolution of their frequency follows a slow build up during the inspiral that peaks at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-28 Chad Henshaw , Megan Arogeti , Alice Heranval , Laura Cadonati

Electromagnetic methods recently proposed for detecting gravitational waves modify the Michelson phase shift analysis (historically employed for special relativity). We suggest that a frequency modulation analysis is more suited to general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Sivasubramanian , Y. N. Srivastava , A. Widom

We present a perturbative reconstruction method to make a skymap of gravitational-wave backgrounds (GWBs) observed via space-based interferometer. In the presence of anisotropies in GWBs, the cross-correlated signals of observed GWBs are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Atsushi Taruya , Hideaki Kudoh

We present an enhanced method for the application of Gaussian Mixture Modelling (GMM) to the coherent WaveBurst (cWB) algorithm in the search for short-duration gravitational wave (GW) transients. The supervised Machine Learning method of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-06 Leigh Smith , Sayantan Ghosh , Jiyoon Sun , V. Gayathri , Ik Siong Heng , Archana Pai

Excess transient noise artifacts, or glitches impact the data quality of ground-based gravitational-wave (GW) detectors and impair the detection of signals produced by astrophysical sources. Mitigation of glitches is crucial for improving…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-09 Kentaro Mogushi

In a recent paper dealing with maximum likelihood detection of gravitational wave chirps from coalescing binaries with unknown parameters we introduced an accurate representation of the no-signal cumulative distribution of the supremum of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 R. P. Croce , Th. Demma , M. Longo , S. Marano , V. Matta , V. Pierro , I. M. Pinto

Pulsars are spinning neutron stars which emit an electromagnetic beam. We expect pulsars to slowly decrease their rotational frequency. However, sudden increases of the rotational frequency have been observed from different pulsars. These…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-24 Luana M. Modafferi , Joan Moragues , David Keitel , LIGO Scientific Collaboration , Virgo Collaboration , KAGRA Collaboration

Rapidly rotating neutron stars are promising sources of continuous gravitational wave radiation for the LIGO and Virgo interferometers. The majority of neutron stars in our galaxy have not been identified with electromagnetic observations.…

In the light of the history of researches on electromagnetic wave spectrum, a sharp emission line of gravitational-wave background (GWB) would be an interesting observational target. Here we study an efficient method to detect a line GWB by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-10 Atsushi Nishizawa , Naoki Seto

We present a method of mode analysis to search for signals with frequency evolution and limited duration in a given data stream. Our method is a natural expansion of the Fourier analysis, and we can obtain the information about frequency…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-26 Fumihiko Ishiyama , Ryutaro Takahashi

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

The recent completion of Advanced LIGO suggests that gravitational waves (GWs) may soon be directly observed. Past searches for gravitational-wave transients have been impacted by transient noise artifacts, known as glitches, introduced…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Jonah B. Kanner , Tyson B. Littenberg , Neil Cornish , Meg Millhouse , Enia Xhakaj , Francesco Salemi , Marco Drago , Gabriele Vedovato , Sergey Klimenko

Cosmic strings are important remnants of early-Universe phase transitions. We show that they can be probed by Gravitational Waves (GWs) from compact binary mergers. If such chirping GW passes by a cosmic string, it is gravitationally lensed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-05 Sunghoon Jung , TaeHun Kim

The task of separating a superposition of signals into its individual components is a common challenge encountered in various signal processing applications, especially in domains such as audio and radar signals. A previous paper by Chui…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-30 Eric Mason , Sippanon Kitimoon , Hrushikesh Mhaskar

In this article, we explore the beam dynamics within symmetrically chirped nonlinear waveguide arrays, focusing on linear and quadratic chirping schemes. We propose a practical structure for these arrays that enhances control over light…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-20 Anuj P. Lara , Samudra Roy

The idea of searching for gravitational waves using cavities in strong magnetic fields has recently received significant attention. Specifically, discussions focus on cavities with relatively small volumes, which are currently employed in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-23 Kristof Schmieden , Matthias Schott

Posterior distributions on parameters computed from experimental data using Bayesian techniques are only as accurate as the models used to construct them. In many applications these models are incomplete, which both reduces the prospects of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-23 Christopher J. Moore , Jonathan R. Gair

The detection of gravitational waves by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration has ushered in a new era of observational astronomy, emphasizing the need for rapid and detailed parameter estimation and population-level analyses. Traditional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-22 Bo Liang , He Wang

As second-generation gravitational-wave detectors prepare to analyze data at unprecedented sensitivity, there is great interest in searches for unmodeled transients, commonly called bursts. Significant effort has yielded a variety of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-04 Eric Thrane , Michael Coughlin

In this talk I review recent progresses in the detection of scalar gravitational waves. Furthermore, in the framework of the Jordan-Brans-Dicke theory, I compute the signal to noise ratio for a resonant mass detector of spherical shape and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Fucito