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Gravitational wave (GW) memory is an important prediction of general relativity. Existing works on the GW memory detection focus on the waveform analysis. It is hard for waveform analysis method to detect the GW memory due to its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-30 Zhi-Chao Zhao , Xiaolin Liu , Zhoujian Cao , Xiaokai He

Gravitational-wave (GW) ringdown signals from black holes (BHs) encode crucial information about the gravitational dynamics in the strong-field regime, which offers unique insights into BH properties. In the future, the improving…

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We describe an independent analysis of LIGO data for black hole coalescence events. Gravitational wave strain waveforms are extracted directly from the data using a filtering method that exploits the observed or expected time-dependent…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-27 Martin A. Green , J. W. Moffat

Important scientific discoveries should be backed by high statistical significance. In the 2030s, multiple space-based gravitational wave detectors are expected to operate. While many works aim to achieve quick and reliable detection and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-03 Hong-Yu Chen , En-Kun Li , Yi-Ming Hu

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

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

We present the first application of deep learning forecasting for binary neutron stars, neutron star - black hole systems, and binary black hole mergers that span an eccentricity range e <= 0.9. We train neural networks that describe these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-19 Wei Wei , E. A. Huerta , Mengshen Yun , Nicholas Loutrel , Md Arif Shaikh , Prayush Kumar , Roland Haas , Volodymyr Kindratenko

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…

Gravitational waves from the coalescence of compact-binary sources are now routinely observed by Earth bound detectors. The most sensitive search algorithms convolve many different pre-calculated gravitational waveforms with the detector…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-11 Marlin B. Schäfer , Alexander H. Nitz

We present a complete pipeline for detecting and characterizing gravitational waves (GWs) produced by the inspiral of stellar-mass binary black holes in data from the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). The analysis framework relies…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-25 Diganta Bandopadhyay , Christian E. A. Chapman-Bird , Alberto Vecchio

The first detected gravitational wave signal, GW150914, was produced by the coalescence of a stellar-mass binary black hole. Along with the subsequent detection of GW151226, GW170104 and the candidate event LVT151012, this gives us evidence…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-27 Sebastian M. Gaebel , John Veitch

The Coherent WaveBurst (cWB) search algorithm identifies generic gravitational wave (GW) signals in the LIGO-Virgo strain data. We propose a machine learning (ML) method to optimize the pipeline sensitivity to the special class of GW…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-21 Tanmaya Mishra , Brendan O'Brien , V. Gayathri , Marek Szczepanczyk , Shubhagata Bhaumik , Imre Bartos , Sergey Klimenko

We describe new methods for denoising and detection of gravitational waves embedded in additive Gaussian noise. The methods are based on Total Variation denoising algorithms. These algorithms, which do not need any a priori information…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-10 Alejandro Torres , Antonio Marquina , José A. Font , José M. Ibáñez

Millilensed gravitational waves (GWs) can potentially be identified by the interference signatures caused by $\sim\!O(10\textrm{--}100)~\textrm{ms}$ time delays between multiple overlapping lensed signals. However, distinguishing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-04 Anna Liu , Kyungmin Kim

During its inspiral stage, a binary black hole (BBH) produces characteristic gravitational wave (GW) signals. The waveform of the GW signals can be described by the physical parameters of BBH, such as the masses of the black holes and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-04 Han Gil Choi , Tao Yang , Hyung Mok Lee

Recent astrophysical models predict that stellar-mass binary black holes (BBHs) could form and coalesce within a few gravitational radii of a supermassive black hole (SMBH). Detecting the gravitational waves (GWs) from such systems requires…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-06 Zhongfu Zhang , Xian Chen

We determine the mass-ratio, eccentricity and binary inclination angles that maximize the contribution of the higher-order waveform multipoles $(\ell, \, |m|)= \{(2,\,2),\, (2,\,1),\, (3,\,3),\, (3,\,2), \, (3,\,1),\, (4,\,4),\, (4,\,3),\,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-19 Adam Rebei , E. A. Huerta , Sibo Wang , Sarah Habib , Roland Haas , Daniel Johnson , Daniel George

Current gravitational wave (GW) detections rely on the existence of libraries of theoretical waveforms. Consequently, finding new physics with GWs requires libraries of non-standard models, which are computationally demanding. We discuss…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-03 Felipe F. Freitas , Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , António P. Morais , António Onofre , Roman Pasechnik , Eugen Radu , Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , Rui Santos

We investigate the impact of gravitational wave (GW) dephasing due to gas accretion on the subtraction of massive black hole (MBH) binary signals over 4 yr of LISA data in the context of the global-fit. Based on state of the art predictions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-10 Lorenz Zwick

The coalescences of stellar-mass black-hole binaries through their inspiral, merger, and ringdown are among the most promising sources for ground-based gravitational-wave (GW) detectors. If a GW signal is observed with sufficient…