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We describe a case study of translational research, applying interpretability techniques developed for computer vision to machine learning models used to search for and find gravitational waves. The models we study are trained to detect…

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GWSkyNet-Multi is a machine learning model developed for classification of candidate gravitational-wave events detected by the LIGO and Virgo observatories. The model uses limited information released in the low-latency Open Public Alerts…

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Gravitational wave signals from coalescing compact binaries in the LIGO and Virgo interferometers are primarily detected by the template based matched filtering method. While this method is optimal for stationary and Gaussian data…

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With the rapid development of deep learning technology, more and more researchers apply it to gravitational wave (GW) data analysis. Previous studies focused on a single deep learning model. In this paper we design an ensemble algorithm…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-27 CunLiang Ma , Wei Wang , He Wang , Zhoujian Cao

Primordial black holes (PBHs), envisioned as a compelling dark matter candidate and a window onto early-Universe physics, may contribute to the part of the gravitational-wave (GW) signals detected by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA network.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-22 Jun-Qian Jiang , Hai-Long Huang , Jibin He , Yu-Tong Wang , Yun-Song Piao

We study the prospects of the Lunar Gravitational-Wave Antenna (LGWA), a proposed deci-Hz GW detector, to observe binary black holes (BBHs) and enable multiband science with ground-based detectors. We assess the detectability of the events…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-07 Francesco Iacovelli , Jacopo Tissino , Jan Harms , Emanuele Berti

The expected volume of data from the third-generation gravitational waves (GWs) Einstein Telescope (ET) detector would make traditional GWs search methods such as match filtering impractical. This is due to the large template bank required…

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Motivated by the preponderance of so-called "heavy black holes" in the binary black hole (BBH) gravitational wave (GW) detections to date, and the role that gravitational lensing continues to play in discovering new galaxy populations, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-24 Graham P. Smith , Mathilde Jauzac , John Veitch , Will M. Farr , Richard Massey , Johan Richard

In recent years, convolutional neural network (CNN) and other deep learning models have been gradually introduced into the area of gravitational-wave (GW) data processing. Compared with the traditional matched-filtering techniques, CNN has…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-22 Heming Xia , Lijing Shao , Junjie Zhao , Zhoujian Cao

Globular clusters (GCs) are crucial for studying stellar dynamics and galactic structure, yet precise measurements of their distances and masses are often limited by uncertainties in electromagnetic (EM) observations. We present a novel…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-07 Jie Wu , Yao Xiao , Mengfei Sun , Jin Li

The detection of gravitational waves (GWs) from binary neutron stars (BNSs) with possible telescope follow-ups opens a window to ground-breaking discoveries in the field of multi-messenger astronomy. With the improved sensitivity of current…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-17 Ana Martins , Melissa Lopez , Quirijn Meijer , Gregory Baltus , Marc van der Sluys , Chris Van Den Broeck , Sarah Caudill

Gravitational waves (GWs) are expected to originate from black holes interacting dynamically in dense astrophysical environments. In such environments, given that the velocity and cross section between the interacting black holes is low,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-04 Leigh Smith , Shubhanshu Tiwari , Michael Ebersold , Yeong-Bok Bae , Gungwon Kang , Ik Siong Heng

Gravitational waves (GWs) can be distorted by intervening mass distributions while propagating, leading to frequency-dependent modulations that imprint a distinct signature on the observed waveforms. Bayesian inference for GW lensing with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-15 Juno C. L. Chan , Lorena Magaña Zertuche , Jose María Ezquiaga , Rico K. L. Lo , Luka Vujeva , Joey Bowman

Gravitational wave denoising is an ongoing task for revealing the events of compact binary objects in the universe. Recently, with the aid of deep learning, gravitational waves have been efficiently and delicately extracted from the noisy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-27 Yi-De Lee , Hwei-Jang Yo

Gravitational lensing of gravitational waves (GWs) is a powerful probe of the matter distribution in the universe. Here we revisit the wave-optics effects induced by dark matter (DM) halos on the GW signals of merging massive black hole…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-23 Zucheng Gao , Xian Chen , Yi-Ming Hu , Jian-Dong Zhang , Shunjia Huang

Most of compact binary systems are expected to circularize before the frequency of emitted gravitational waves (GWs) enters the sensitivity band of the ground based interferometric detectors. However, several mechanisms have been proposed…

Parameterised models that predict the gravitational-wave (GW) signal from merging black holes are used to extract source properties from GW observations. The majority of research in this area has focused on developing methods capable of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-09 Sebastian Khan

A yet undetected class of GW signals is represented by the close encounters between compact objects in highly-eccentric e~1 orbits, that can occur in binary systems formed in dense environments such as globular clusters. The expected…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-26 Federico De Santi , Massimiliano Razzano , Francesco Fidecaro , Luca Muccillo , Lucia Papalini , Barbara Patricelli

Gravitational-wave (GW) astrophysics is a field in full blossom. Since the landmark detection of GWs from a binary black hole on September 14th 2015, several compact-object binaries have been reported by the LIGO-Virgo collaboration. Such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-04 Andrea Antonelli

The higher-multipoles of gravitational wave signals from coalescing compact binaries play a vital role in the accurate reconstruction of source properties, bringing about a deeper and nuanced understanding of fundamental physics and…

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