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The matched filtering paradigm is the mainstay of gravitational wave (GW) searches from astrophysical coalescing compact binaries. The compact binary coalescence (CBC) search pipelines perform the matched filter between the GW detector's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-19 Chetan Verma , Amit Reza , Dilip Krishnaswamy , Sarah Caudill , Gurudatt Gaur

In searching for continuous gravitational waves over very many ($\approx 10^{17}$) templates , clustering is a powerful tool which increases the search sensitivity by identifying and bundling together candidates that are due to the same…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-11 Banafsheh Beheshtipour , Maria Alessandra Papa

Current matched-filter searches for gravitational waves from binary black-hole mergers compare the calibrated detector data to waveform templates that omit the higher-order mode content of the signals predicted by General Relativity.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-14 Koustav Chandra , Juan Calderón Bustillo , Archana Pai , Ian Harry

After a short review of prominent properties of gravitational waves and the newly born gravitational astronomy, we focus on theoretical aspects. Analytic approximation methods in general relativity have played a crucial role in the recent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-08 Luc Blanchet

We present a first proof-of-principle study for using deep neural networks (DNNs) as a novel search method for continuous gravitational waves (CWs) from unknown spinning neutron stars. The sensitivity of current wide-parameter-space CW…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-09 Christoph Dreissigacker , Rahul Sharma , Chris Messenger , Ruining Zhao , Reinhard Prix

Advanced LIGO's recent observations of gravitational waves (GWs) from merging binary black holes have opened up a unique laboratory to test general relativity (GR) in the highly relativistic regime. One of the tests used to establish the…

The Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) discovered gravitational waves (GWs) from a binary black hole merger in 2015 September and may soon observe signals from neutron star mergers. There is considerable…

Gravitational waves from binary black hole and neutron star mergers are being regularly detected. As of 2021, ninety confident gravitational wave detections have been made by the LIGO and Virgo detectors. Work is ongoing to further increase…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-15 Craig Cahillane , Georgia Mansell

Gravitational-wave astronomy of compact binaries relies on theoretical models of the gravitational-wave signal that is emitted as binaries coalesce. These models do not only need to be accurate, they also have to be fast to evaluate in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-04 Yoshinta Setyawati , Michael Pürrer , Frank Ohme

We report on advances to interpret current and future gravitational-wave events in light of astrophysical simulations. A machine-learning emulator is trained on numerical population-synthesis predictions and inserted into a Bayesian…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-30 Kaze W. K. Wong , Davide Gerosa

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

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

(abridged for arXiv) With the first direct detection of gravitational waves, the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) has initiated a new field of astronomy by providing an alternate means of sensing the…

Matched-filter based gravitational-wave search pipelines identify candidate events within seconds of their arrival on Earth, offering a chance to guide electromagnetic follow-up and observe multi-messenger events. Understanding the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-14 Ryan Magee , Richard George , Alvin Li , Ritwik Sharma

Gravitational waves searches for compact binary mergers with LIGO and Virgo are presently a two stage process. First, a gravitational wave signal is identified. Then, an exhaustive search over possible signal parameters is performed. It is…

The detection of gravitational waves has revolutionized our understanding of the universe, offering unprecedented insights into its dynamics. A major goal of gravitational wave data analysis is to speed up the detection and parameter…

Multi-messenger observations of gravitational waves and electromagnetic emission from compact object mergers offer unique insights into the structure of neutron stars, the formation of heavy elements, and the expansion rate of the Universe.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-20 Nayyer Raza , Man Leong Chan , Daryl Haggard , Ashish Mahabal , Jess McIver , Audrey Durand , Alexandre Larouche , Hadi Moazen

Two new observational windows have been opened to strong gravitational physics: gravitational waves, and very long baseline interferometry. This suggests observational searches for new phenomena in this regime, and in particular for those…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-07 Steven B. Giddings , Seth Koren , Gabriel Treviño

The detection and characterization of post-merger gravitational wave signals from binary neutron star mergers remains challenging with current ground-based detectors. We present a convolutional neural network framework designed for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-06 Roo Weerasinghe

The formation of merging binary black holes can occur through multiple astrophysical channels such as, e.g., isolated binary evolution and dynamical formation or, alternatively, have a primordial origin. Increasingly large…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-13 Simone S. Bavera , Gabriele Franciolini , Giulia Cusin , Antonio Riotto , Michael Zevin , Tassos Fragos