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Understanding the noise in gravitational-wave detectors is central to detecting and interpreting gravitational-wave signals. Glitches are transient, non-Gaussian noise features that can have a range of environmental and instrumental…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-23 J. Glanzer , S. Banagiri , S. B. Coughlin , S. Soni , M. Zevin , C. P. L. Berry , O. Patane , S. Bahaadini , N. Rohani , K. Crowston , V. Kalogera , C. Østerlund , A. Katsaggelos

We carry out astrophysical inference for compact binary merger events in LIGO-Virgo's first gravitational-wave transient catalog (GWTC-1) using a physically motivated calibration model. We demonstrate that importance sampling can be used to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-04 Ethan Payne , Colm Talbot , Paul D. Lasky , Eric Thrane , Jeffrey S. Kissel

With increasing sensitivity of the gravitational wave (GW) detectors, we expect a significant rise in the detectable GW events. To process, analyse and identify such large amounts of GW signals arising from mergers of Binary Black Holes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-27 Soorya Narayan , Anupreeta More , Sunil Choudhary , Sudhagar Suyamprakasam , Sukanta Bose

We present a flexible model to describe the effects of generic deviations of observed gravitational wave signals from modeled waveforms in the LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors. With the detection of 11 gravitational wave events…

We introduce a new analysis method to deal with stationary non-Gaussian noises in gravitational wave detectors in terms of the independent component analysis. First, we consider the simplest case where the detector outputs are linear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-03 Soichiro Morisaki , Jun'ichi Yokoyama , Kazunari Eda , Yousuke Itoh

The Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors have enabled the confident detection of dozens of mergers of black holes and neutron stars. However, the presence of detector noise transients (glitches) hinders the search for these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-06 Seraphim Jarov , Sarah Thiele , Siddharth Soni , Julian Ding , Jess McIver , Raymond Ng , Rikako Hatoya , Derek Davis

Gravitational wave (GW) detectors, such as LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA, detect faint signals from distant astrophysical events. However, their high sensitivity also makes them susceptible to background noise, which can obscure these signals.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-23 Tom Dooney , Harsh Narola , Stefano Bromuri , R. Lyana Curier , Chris Van Den Broeck , Sarah Caudill , Daniel Stanley Tan

The exquisite sensitivity of the advanced LIGO detectors has enabled the detection of multiple gravitational wave signals. The sophisticated design of these detectors mitigates the effect of most types of noise. However, advanced LIGO data…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-15 Daniel George , Hongyu Shen , E. A. Huerta

Gravitational wave (GW) observations have provided a novel tool to explore the universe. In the near future, space-borne detectors will further open the window of low-frequency GW band where abundant sources exist and invaluable information…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-21 Rui Niu , Wen Zhao

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

Searches for gravitational waves crucially depend on exact signal processing of noisy strain data from gravitational wave detectors, which are known to exhibit significant non-Gaussian behavior. In this paper, we study two distinct…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-29 Barak Zackay , Tejaswi Venumadhav , Javier Roulet , Liang Dai , Matias Zaldarriaga

Ground-based gravitational wave detectors are sensitive to a narrow range of frequencies, effectively taking a snapshot of merging compact-object binary dynamics just before merger. We demonstrate that by adopting analysis parameters that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-01 Benjamin Farr , Evan Ochsner , Will M. Farr , Richard O'Shaughnessy

The detection of gravitational wave usually requires to match the measurement data with a large number of templates, which is computationally very expensive. Compressed sensing methods allow one to match the data with a small number of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-02-26 Yan Wang

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

We study the performance of various analytical frequency-domain templates for detection and parameter estimation of gravitational waves from spin-precessing, quasi-circular, compact binary inspirals. We begin by assessing the extent to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-05-16 Katerina Chatziioannou , Neil Cornish , Antoine Klein , Nicolas Yunes

Modelling noise in gravitational-wave observatories is crucial for accurately inferring the properties of gravitational-wave sources. We introduce a transdimensional Bayesian approach to characterise the noise in ground-based…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-10 Nir Guttman , Paul D. Lasky , Eric Thrane

We consider the problem of searching for gravitational waves emitted during the inspiral phase of binary systems when the orbital plane precesses due to relativistic spin-orbit coupling. Such effect takes place when the spins of the binary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Grandclement , V. Kalogera , A. Vecchio

Data recorded by gravitational wave detectors includes many non-astrophysical transient noise bursts, the most common of which is caused by scattered-light within the detectors. These so-called ``glitches'' in the data impact the ability to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-21 Arthur E. Tolley , Gareth S. Cabourn Davies , Ian W. Harry , Andrew P. Lundgren

Gravitational waves, first predicted by Albert Einstein within the framework of general relativity, were confirmed in 2015 by the LIGO/Virgo collaboration, marking a pivotal breakthrough in astrophysics. Despite this achievement, a key…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-26 Alessandro Licciardi , Davide Carbone , Lamberto Rondoni , Alessandro Nagar

"Blip glitches" are a type of short duration transient noise in LIGO data. The cause for the majority of these is currently unknown. Short duration transient noise creates challenges for searches of the highest mass binary black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-29 Alexander Harvey Nitz