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The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory forms part of the international effort to detect and study gravitational waves of astrophysical origin. One of the major obstacles for this project with the first generation detectors…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-03-21 Duncan M. Macleod , Stephen Fairhurst , Brennan Hughey , Andrew P. Lundgren , Larne Pekowsky , Jameson Rollins , Joshua R. Smith

The fourth science run of the LIGO and GEO 600 gravitational-wave detectors, carried out in early 2005, collected data with significantly lower noise than previous science runs. We report on a search for short-duration gravitational-wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-27 LIGO Scientific Collaboration

Gravitational-wave data from advanced-era interferometric detectors consists of background Gaussian noise, frequent transient artefacts, and rare astrophysical signals. Multiple search algorithms exist to detect the signals from compact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-13 Gregory Ashton , Ann-Kristin Malz , Nicolo Colombo

A major challenge of any search for gravitational waves is to distinguish true astrophysical signals from those of terrestrial origin. Gravitational-wave experiments therefore make use of multiple detectors, considering only those signals…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-01 T. A. Callister , J. B. Kanner , T. J. Massinger , S. Dhurandhar , A. J. Weinstein

We present a convolutional neural network, designed in the auto-encoder configuration that can detect and denoise astrophysical gravitational waves from merging black hole binaries, orders of magnitude faster than the conventional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-05 Chinthak Murali , David Lumley

Core-collapse supernovae are expected to produce multimessenger signals. Low-energy neutrinos and gravitational waves are important to study the explosion mechanism of these events. The simulations and detections of gravitational waves from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-01 Odysse Halim , Claudio Casentini , Marco Drago , Viviana Fafone , Kate Scholberg , Carlo Vigorito , Giulia Pagliaroli

We present a new method which accounts for changes in the properties of gravitational-wave detector noise over time in the PyCBC search for gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences. We use information from LIGO data quality…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-07 Derek Davis , Max Trevor , Simone Mozzon , Laura K. Nuttall

Many continuous gravitational wave searches are affected by instrumental spectral lines that could be confused with a continuous astrophysical signal. Several techniques have been developed to limit the effect of these lines by penalising…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-28 Joseph Bayley , Chris Messenger , Graham Woan

The phenomenon of Gravitational Wave (GW) analysis has grown in popularity as technology has advanced and the process of observing gravitational waves has become more precise. Although the sensitivity and the frequency of observation of GW…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Elena-Simona Apostol , Ciprian-Octavian Truică

One class of gravitational wave signals LIGO is searching for consists of short duration bursts of unknown waveforms. Potential sources include core collapse supernovae, gamma ray burst progenitors, and mergers of binary black holes or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-07-22 Rubab Khan , Shourov Chatterji

An observation of gravitational waves is a trigger of the multi-messenger search of an astronomical event. A combination of the data from two or three gravitational wave telescopes indicates the location of a source and low-latency data…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-08 Seiya Sasaoka , Hirotaka Takahashi , Yilun Hou , Kentaro Somiya

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

By now, tens of gravitational-wave (GW) events have been detected by the LIGO and Virgo detectors. These GWs have all been emitted by compact binary coalescence, for which we have excellent predictive models. However, there might be other…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 Tom Marianer , Dovi Poznanski , J. Xavier Prochaska

We show that the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) is a powerful instrument in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). LIGO's ability to detect gravitational waves (GWs) from astrophysical sources, such…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-27 Luke Sellers , Alexey Bobrick , Gianni Martire , Michael Andrews , Manfred Paulini

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

As of this moment, fifty gravitational waves (GW) detections have been announced, thanks to the observational efforts of the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration, working with the Advanced LIGO and the Advanced Virgo interferometers. The detection of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-30 Filip Morawski , Michał Bejger , Elena Cuoco , Luigia Petre

We present a novel machine-learning approach to estimate selection effects in gravitational-wave observations. Using techniques similar to those commonly employed in image classification and pattern recognition, we train a series of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-18 Davide Gerosa , Geraint Pratten , Alberto Vecchio

$Context.$ Core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) are expected to emit gravitational wave signals that could be detected by current and future generation interferometers within the Milky Way and nearby galaxies. The stochastic nature of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-24 Alberto Iess , Elena Cuoco , Filip Morawski , Constantina Nicolaou , Ofer Lahav

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) is developing and running analysis pipelines to search for gravitational-wave transients emitted by astrophysical events such as compact binary mergers or core-collapse supernovae. However, because of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-13 R. Gouaty

Gravitational wave astronomy is established with direct observation of gravitational wave from merging binary black holes and binary neutron stars during the first and second observing run of LIGO and Virgo detectors. The gravitational-wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-24 V. Gayathri , P. Bacon , A. Pai , E. Chassande-Mottin , F. Salemi , G. Vedovato