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The prospect of unprecedented high-quality data of gravitational waves in the upcoming decades demands a theoretical effort to optimally study and analyze the signals that next generation detectors will provide. Here we study the…

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This paper reports a comprehensive study on the gravitational wave (GW) background from compact binary coalescences. We consider in our calculations newly available observation-based neutron star and black hole mass distributions and…

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It is expected that gravitational waves, similar to electromagnetic waves, can be gravitationally lensed by intervening matters, producing multiple instances of the same signal arriving at different times from different apparent luminosity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-14 Rico K. L. Lo , Ignacio Magana Hernandez

The excitation of quadrupolar quasi-normal modes in a neutron star leads to the emission of a short, distinctive, burst of gravitational radiation in the form of a decaying sinusoid or `ring-down'. We present a Bayesian analysis method…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Clark , I. S. Heng , M. Pitkin , G. Woan

The detection of gravitational waves (GWs) from coalescing compact binaries has become routine with ground-based detectors like LIGO and Virgo. However, beyond standard sources such as binary black holes and neutron stars and neutron star…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-30 Kanchan Soni , Alexander H. Nitz

We present ${\tt bajes}$, a parallel and lightweight framework for Bayesian inference of multimessenger transients. ${\tt bajes}$ is a Python modular package with minimal dependencies on external libraries adaptable to the majority of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-18 Matteo Breschi , Rossella Gamba , Sebastiano Bernuzzi

Next-generation ground-based gravitational-wave observatories such as the Einstein Telescope and Cosmic Explorer will detect $O(10^{5}-10^{6})$ signals from compact binary coalescences every year, the exact number depending on uncertainties…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-06 Luca Reali , Andrea Maselli , Emanuele Berti

The combined observation of gravitational and electromagnetic waves from the coalescence of two neutron stars marks the beginning of multi-messenger astronomy with gravitational waves (GWs). The development of accurate gravitational…

Accurate and reliable gravitational waveform models are crucial in determining the properties of compact binary mergers. In particular, next-generation gravitational-wave detectors will require more accurate waveforms to avoid biases in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-21 Adrian Abac , Felip A. Ramis Vidal , Marta Colleoni , Anna Puecher , Alejandra Gonzalez , Tim Dietrich

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), which is currently under construction, is designed to measure gravitational wave signals in the milli-Hertz frequency band. It is expected that tens of millions of Galactic binaries will be the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Stefan H. Strub , Luigi Ferraioli , Cedric Schmelzbach , Simon C. Stähler , Domenico Giardini

We examine the accuracy of estimation of parameters of the gravitational-wave signals from spinning neutron stars that can be achieved from observations by Earth-based laser interferometers. We consider a model of the signal consisting of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Piotr Jaranowski , Andrzej Królak

Neutron star equations of state with strong phase transitions may support twin stars, hybrid and hadronic stars with the same mass but different tidal deformabilities. The presence of twin stars in the population of merging neutron stars…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-20 Philippe Landry , Kabir Chakravarti

The detection of galactic binaries as sources of gravitational waves promises an unprecedented wealth of information about these systems, but also raises several challenges in signal processing. In particular the large number of expected…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-25 A. Blelly , J. Bobin , H. Moutarde

A central challenge in Gravitational Wave Astronomy is identifying weak signals in the presence of non-stationary and non-Gaussian noise. The separation of gravitational wave signals from noise requires good models for both. When accurate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-17 Neil J. Cornish , Tyson B. Littenberg

The promise of multi-messenger astronomy relies on the rapid detection of gravitational waves at very low latencies ($\mathcal{O}$(1\,s)) in order to maximize the amount of time available for follow-up observations. In recent years,…

With an increasing number of expected gravitational-wave detections of binary neutron star mergers, it is essential that gravitational-wave models employed for the analysis of observational data are able to describe generic compact binary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-06 Reetika Dudi , Tim Dietrich , Alireza Rashti , Bernd Bruegmann , Jan Steinhoff , Wolfgang Tichy

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

We combine amortized neural posterior estimation with importance sampling for fast and accurate gravitational-wave inference. We first generate a rapid proposal for the Bayesian posterior using neural networks, and then attach importance…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-31 Maximilian Dax , Stephen R. Green , Jonathan Gair , Michael Pürrer , Jonas Wildberger , Jakob H. Macke , Alessandra Buonanno , Bernhard Schölkopf

Precise measurement of stellar properties through the observation of continuous gravitational waves from spinning non-axisymmetric neutron stars can shed light onto new physics beyond terrestrial laboratories. Although hitherto undetected,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-09 Yuhan Hua , Karl Wette , Susan M. Scott , Matthew D. Pitkin

The gravitational wave signal emitted during the coalescence of two neutron stars carries information about the stars' internal structure. During the long inspiral phase the main matter observable is the tidal interaction between the binary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-13 Marcella Wijngaarden , Katerina Chatziioannou , Andreas Bauswein , James A. Clark , Neil J. Cornish