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By listening to gravity in the low frequency band, between 0.1 mHz and 1 Hz, the future space-based gravitational-wave observatory LISA will be able to detect tens of thousands of astrophysical sources from cosmic dawn to the present. The…

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The nascent field of gravitational-wave astronomy offers many opportunities for effective and inspirational astronomy outreach. Gravitational waves, the "ripples in space-time" predicted by Einstein's theory of General Relativity, are…

Recent proposals are emerging for the experimental detection of entanglement mediated by classical gravity, carrying significant theoretical and observational implications. In fact, the detection of gravitational waves (GWs) in LIGO…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-07 Partha Nandi , Bibhas Ranjan Majhi , Nandita Debnath , Subhajit Kala

As LIGO and Virgo are upgraded, improving calibration systems to keep pace with the anticipated signal-to-noise enhancements will be challenging. We explore here a calibration method that uses astronomical signals, namely inspiral signals…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-23 B. F. Schutz , B. S. Sathyaprakash

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

Aims. The detection and measurement of gravitational-waves from coalescing neutron-star binary systems is an important science goal for ground-based gravitational-wave detectors. In addition to emitting gravitational-waves at frequencies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 The LIGO Scientific Collaboration , The Virgo Collaboration

Interferometric gravitational-wave detectors like LIGO, GEO600 and Virgo record a surplus of information above and beyond possible gravitational-wave events. These auxiliary channels capture information about the state of the detector and…

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The formation of primordial black holes or other dark matter relics from amplified density fluctuations in the early universe may also generate scalar-induced gravitational waves (GW), carrying vital information about the primordial power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-25 Aya Ghaleb , Ameek Malhotra , Gianmassimo Tasinato , Ivonne Zavala

Gravitational waves carry unique information about high-energy astrophysical events such as the inspiral and merger of neutron stars and black holes, core collapse in massive stars, and other sources. Large gravitational wave (GW) detectors…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Peter S. Shawhan

The LIGO/Virgo collaboration has recently announced the direct detection of gravitational waves emitted in the coalescence of a neutron star binary. This discovery allows, for the first time, to set new constraints on the behavior of matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-17 Tiziano Abdelsalhin , Andrea Maselli , Valeria Ferrari

Excess noise from scattered light poses a persistent challenge in the analysis of data from gravitational wave detectors such as LIGO. We integrate a physically motivated model for the behavior of these "glitches" into a standard Bayesian…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-15 Rhiannon Udall , Derek Davis

The first simultaneous operation of the AURIGA detector and the LIGO observatory was an opportunity to explore real data, joint analysis methods between two very different types of gravitational wave detectors: resonant bars and…

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Microlensing imprints by typical stellar mass lenses on gravitational waves are challenging to identify in the LIGO and Virgo frequency band because such effects are weak. However, stellar mass lenses are generally embedded in lens galaxies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-01 Eungwang Seo , Otto A. Hannuksela , Tjonnie G. F. Li

Fast, highly accurate, and reliable inference of the sky origin of gravitational waves would enable real-time multi-messenger astronomy. Current Bayesian inference methodologies, although highly accurate and reliable, are slow. Deep…

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Data streams of gravitational-wave detectors are polluted by transient noise features, or "glitches", of instrumental and environmental origin. In this work, we investigate the use of total-variation methods and learned dictionaries to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-15 Alejandro Torres-Forné , Elena Cuoco , José A. Font , Antonio Marquina

Gravitational waves from compact binaries measured by the LIGO and Virgo detectors are routinely analyzed using Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling algorithms. Because the evaluation of the likelihood function requires evaluating millions of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-23 Arnaud Delaunoy , Antoine Wehenkel , Tanja Hinderer , Samaya Nissanke , Christoph Weniger , Andrew R. Williamson , Gilles Louppe

A second generation of gravitational wave detectors will soon come online with the objective of measuring for the first time the tiny gravitational signal from the coalescence of black hole and/or neutron star binaries. In this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-26 Eric Chassande-Mottin , Eric Lebigot , Hugo Magaldi , Eve Chase , Archana Pai , Gayathri V , Gabriele Vedovato

In the era of second generation ground-based gravitational wave detectors, short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) will be among the most promising astrophysical events for joint electromagnetic and gravitational wave observation. A targeted search…

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