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Quality improvement of interferometric data collected by gravitational-wave detectors such as Advanced LIGO and Virgo is mission critical for the success of gravitational-wave astrophysics. Gravitational-wave detectors are sensitive to a…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2018-12-14 Marco Cavaglia , Kai Staats , Teerth Gill

Gravitational-wave signals from inspirals of binary compact objects (black holes and neutron stars) are primary targets of the ongoing searches by ground-based gravitational-wave (GW) interferometers (LIGO, Virgo, and GEO-600). We present…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-13 V. Raymond , M. V. van der Sluys , I. Mandel , V. Kalogera , C. Roever , N. Christensen

Since the very first detection of gravitational waves from the coalescence of two black holes in 2015, Bayesian statistical methods have been routinely applied by LIGO and Virgo to extract the signal out of noisy interferometric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-23 Renate Meyer , Matthew C. Edwards , Patricio Maturana-Russel , Nelson Christensen

Here I examine how to determine the sensitivity of the LIGO, VIRGO, and LAGOS gravitational wave detectors to sources of gravitational radiation by considering the process by which data are analyzed in a noisy detector. By constructing the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Lee Samuel Finn

As two neutron stars merge, they emit gravitational waves that can potentially be detected by earth bound detectors. Matched-filtering based algorithms have traditionally been used to extract quiet signals embedded in noise. We introduce a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-29 Marlin B. Schäfer , Frank Ohme , Alexander H. Nitz

Gravitational wave data from ground-based detectors is dominated by instrument noise. Signals will be comparatively weak, and our understanding of the noise will influence detection confidence and signal characterization. Mis-modeled noise…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-22 Tyson B. Littenberg , Neil J. Cornish

Recent developments in deep learning techniques have offered an alternative and complementary approach to traditional matched filtering methods for the identification of gravitational wave (GW) signals. The rapid and accurate identification…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-06 Yu-Xin Wang , Shang-Jie Jin , Tian-Yang Sun , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

Since the first detection of gravitational waves in 2015 by LIGO from the binary black hole merger GW150914, gravitational-wave astronomy has developed significantly, with over 200 compact binary merger events cataloged. The use of neural…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-28 Ethan Silver , Plamen Krastev , Edo Berger

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) network of gravitational-wave (GW) detectors have observed many tens of compact binary mergers to date. Transient, non-Gaussian noise excursions, known as "glitches", can impact signal detection in various ways.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-27 Neev Shah , Alan M. Knee , Jess McIver , David Stenning

Bayesian inference is used to extract unknown parameters from gravitational wave signals. Detector noise is typically modelled as stationary, although data from the LIGO and Virgo detectors is not stationary. We demonstrate that the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-13 O Edy , A. Lundgren , L. K. Nuttall

Deep learning can be used to drastically decrease the processing time of parameter estimation for coalescing binaries of compact objects including black holes and neutron stars detected in gravitational waves (GWs). As a first step, we…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-28 Alistair McLeod , Daniel Jacobs , Chayan Chatterjee , Linqing Wen , Fiona Panther

Ground-based gravitational wave interferometers such as the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) are susceptible to high-magnitude teleseismic events, which can interrupt their operation in science mode and…

Aims. The detection and measurement of gravitational-waves from coalescing neutron-star binary systems is an important science goal for ground-based gravitational-wave detectors. In addition to emitting gravitational-waves at frequencies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 The LIGO Scientific Collaboration , The Virgo Collaboration

We develop an accurate simulation-based inference framework for high-mass ($\gtrsim\!10^7 \rm{M_\odot}$) black-hole binaries observable by LISA. The method is implemented within the DINGO gravitational-wave parameter-estimation code,…

By now, tens of gravitational-wave (GW) events have been detected by the LIGO and Virgo detectors. These GWs have all been emitted by compact binary coalescence, for which we have excellent predictive models. However, there might be other…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 Tom Marianer , Dovi Poznanski , J. Xavier Prochaska

Noise of non-astrophysical origin will contaminate science data taken by the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (aLIGO) and Advanced Virgo gravitational-wave detectors. Prompt characterization of instrumental and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-21 Jade Powell , Daniele Trifiro , Elena Cuoco , Ik Siong Heng , Marco Cavaglia

Time series data and their time-frequency representation from gravitational-wave interferometers present multiple opportunities for the use of artificial intelligence methods associated with signal and image processing. Closely connected…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-13 Siddharth Soni , Nikhil Mukund , Erik Katsavounidis

Searches for continuous-wave gravitational radiation in data collected by modern long-baseline interferometers, such as the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO), the Virgo interferometer and the Kamioka Gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-30 Patrick Clearwater , Andrew Melatos , Surya Nepal , Matthew Bailes

The advent of gravitational wave astronomy (GW) has revolutionized the observation of cataclysmic cosmic events, such as black hole mergers and neutron star collisions. The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) has been…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-06 Yong Xiao , Li , Zin Nandar Win , He Wang , Hla Myo Tun , Win Thu Zar

I explore the possibility of resurrecting an old, non-Bayesian computational approach for inferring the source direction of a gravitational wave from the output of a two-detector network. The method gives the beam pattern response functions…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-04 Tom McClain