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Advancements in gravitational-wave interferometers, particularly the next generation, are poised to profoundly impact gravitational wave astronomy and multimessenger astrophysics. A hybrid quantum algorithm is proposed to carry out quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-05 Gabriel Escrig , Roberto Campos , Hong Qi , M. A. Martin-Delgado

Many relevant applications in gravitational wave physics share a significant common problem: the seven-dimensional parameter space of gravitational waveforms from precessing compact binary inspirals and coalescences is large enough to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-16 Jonathan Blackman , Bela Szilagyi , Chad R. Galley , Manuel Tiglio

Gravitational Wave (GW) astronomy has experienced remarkable growth in recent years, driven by advancements in ground-based detectors. While detecting compact binary coalescences (CBCs) has become routine, searching for more complex ones,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-29 Kanchan Soni , Sanjeev Dhurandhar , Sanjit Mitra

We introduce a reduced basis approach as a new paradigm for modeling, representing and searching for gravitational waves. We construct waveform catalogs for non-spinning compact binary coalescences, and we find that for accuracies of 99%…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-17 Scott E. Field , Chad R. Galley , Frank Herrmann , Jan S. Hesthaven , Evan Ochsner , Manuel Tiglio

This work investigates the detection of binary neutron stars gravitational wave based on convolutional neural network (CNN). To promote the detection performance and efficiency, we proposed a scheme based on wavelet packet (WP)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-27 Baijiong Lin , Xiangru Li , Woliang Yu

The coalescence of binary neutron stars are one of the main sources of gravitational waves for ground-based gravitational wave detectors. As Bayesian inference for binary neutron stars is computationally expensive, more efficient and faster…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-20 Yann Bouffanais , Edward K. Porter

Searching for gravitational waves in pulsar timing array data is computationally intensive. The data is unevenly sampled, and the noise is heteroscedastic, necessitating the use of a time-domain likelihood function with attendant expensive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-22 Bence Bécsy , Neil J. Cornish , Matthew C. Digman

We present a lightweight, flexible, and high-performance framework for inferring the properties of gravitational-wave events. By combining likelihood heterodyning, automatically-differentiable and accelerator-compatible waveforms, and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-13 Kaze W. K. Wong , Maximiliano Isi , Thomas D. P. Edwards

This thesis presents advancements in the detection of gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences, utilising the most sensitive observatories constructed to date. The research focuses on enhancing gravitational-wave signal searches…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-27 Arthur Tolley

As next-generation gravitational-wave (GW) observatories approach unprecedented sensitivities, the need for robust methods to analyze increasingly complex, overlapping signals becomes ever more pressing. Existing matched-filtering…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-14 Tianyu Zhao , Yue Zhou , Ruijun Shi , Peng Xu , Zhoujian Cao , Zhixiang Ren

The coherent WaveBurst (cWB) pipeline implements a minimally-modelled search to find a coherent response in the network of gravitational wave detectors of the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration in the time-frequency domain. In this manuscript, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-02 O. Halim , G. Vedovato , E. Milotti , G. A. Prodi , S. Bini , M. Drago , V. Gayathri , C. Lazzaro , D. Lopez , A. Miani , B. O'Brien , F. Salemi , M. Szczepanczyk , S. Tiwari , A. Virtuoso , S. Klimenko

Continuous-wave (CW) gravitational waves (GWs) call for computationally-intensive methods. Low signal-to-noise ratio signals need templated searches with long coherent integration times and thus fine parameter-space resolution. Longer…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-21 Grant David Meadors , Badri Krishnan , Maria Alessandra Papa , John T. Whelan , Yuanhao Zhang

There has been remarkable progress in numerical relativity recently. This has led to the generation of gravitational waveform signals covering what has been traditionally termed the three phases of the coalescence of a compact binary - the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-06-10 Benjamin Farr , Stephen Fairhurst , B. S. Sathyaprakash

The inference of binary neutron star properties from gravitational-wave observations requires the generation of millions of waveforms, each one spanning about three order of magnitudes in frequency range. Thus, waveform models must be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-27 Rossella Gamba , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Alessandro Nagar

Weakly-modelled searches for gravitational waves are essential for ensuring that all potential sources are accounted for in detection efforts, as they make minimal assumptions regarding source morphology. While these searches primarily…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-06 Leigh Smith , Matteo Scialpi , Francesco di Clemente , Michał Bejger

The current network of gravitational wave detectors has already revealed hundreds of compact binary coalescences (CBCs), including binary neutron stars, binary black holes, and black hole-neutron star systems. As detector sensitivity…

We obtain analytical gravitational waveforms in the frequency-domain for precessing, quasi-circular compact binaries with small spins, applicable, for example, to binary neutron star inspirals. We begin by calculating an analytic solution…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-10-01 Katerina Chatziioannou , Antoine Klein , Nicolas Yunes , Neil Cornish

We present and assess a Bayesian method to interpret gravitational wave signals from binary black holes. Our method directly compares gravitational wave data to numerical relativity simulations. This procedure bypasses approximations used…

A common technique for detection of gravitational-wave signals is searching for excess power in frequency-time maps of gravitational-wave detector data. In the event of a detection, model selection and parameter estimation will be performed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Michael Coughlin , Nelson Christensen , Jonathan Gair , Shivaraj Kandhasamy , Eric Thrane

We present a comprehensive investigation of the F-statistic method for parameter estimation of gravitational wave (GW) signals from compact binary coalescences. By analytically maximizing the likelihood over the luminosity distance and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-15 Hai-Tian Wang