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Scattered light is one of the most common sources of noise in the LIGO gravitational wave detectors. Light scattering is a highly non-linear process through which motion at low frequencies gets up-converted and creates noise in a higher…
We study frequency dependent (FD) input-output schemes for signal-recycling interferometers, the baseline design of Advanced LIGO and the current configuration of GEO 600. Complementary to a recent proposal by Harms et al. to use FD input…
The sensitivity achievable by a pair of VIRGO detectors to stochastic and isotropic gravitational wave backgrounds of cosmological origin is discussed in view of the development of a second VIRGO interferometer. We describe a…
We investigate a turbo soft detector based on the expectation propagation (EP) algorithm for large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. Optimal detection in MIMO systems becomes computationally unfeasible for high-order…
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This article provides an overview of the current state of machine learning in gravitational-wave research with interferometric detectors. Such applications are often still in their early days, but have reached sufficient popularity to…
Non-ideal oscillators both at the transmitter and the receiver introduces time varying phase noise which interacts with the transmitted data in a non-linear fashion. Phase noise becomes a detrimental problem and needs to be estimated and…
The aim of this work is to show how it is possible to build an on line whitening filter in an adaptive way. We have modeled the VIRGO noise spectrum as an autoregressive stochastic process, after a pre-filtering of the theoretical curve…
Glitches are transitory noise artifacts that degrade the detection sensitivity and accuracy of interferometric observatories such as LIGO and Virgo in gravitational wave astronomy. Reliable glitch subtraction techniques are essential for…
The proposed method introduces a parameter determination approach based on the minimum Fractal box dimension (FBD) of Variational Mode Decomposition (VMD) components, aiming to address the issue of manual determination of VMD decomposition…
Video frame interpolation, the process of synthesizing intermediate frames between sequential video frames, has made remarkable progress with the use of event cameras. These sensors, with microsecond-level temporal resolution, fill…
We propose a time-varying optimal window width (TVOWW) selection scheme to optimize the performance of several nonlinear-type time-frequency analyses, including the reassignment method, and the synchrosqueezing transform (SST) and its…
In this work we estimate the performance of a method for the detection of burst events in the data produced by interferometric gravitational wave detectors. We compute the receiver operating characteristics in the specific case of a…