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The detection of gravitational waves from the merger of binary black holes by the LIGO Collaboration has opened a new window to astrophysics. With the sensitivities of ground based detectors in the coming years we can only detect the local…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-28 Ilias Cholis

The pre-merger detection of gravitational waves from the early inspiral phase of compact binary coalescence events would allow the observation of the earlier stages of the merger in the electromagnetic band. This would significantly impact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-08 Reem Alfaidi , Christopher Messenger

Beyond LISA, proposed space-based gravitational wave (GW) missions aim to explore the sub-millihertz to microhertz frequency band, with one key objective being the detection of massive binary black hole (MBBH) mergers across cosmic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-25 Renjie Wang , Yumeng Xu , Gang Wang , Bin Hu , Rong-Gen Cai

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

We investigate a purely stellar dynamical solution to the Final Parsec Problem. Galactic nuclei resulting from major mergers are not spherical, but show some degree of triaxiality. With $N$-body simulations, we show that massive black hole…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Miguel Preto , Ingo Berentzen , Peter Berczik , Rainer Spurzem

We explore machine learning methods to detect gravitational waves (GW) from binary black hole (BBH) mergers using deep learning (DL) algorithms. The DL networks are trained with gravitational waveforms obtained from BBH mergers with…

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

This paper considers the problem of searching for quiet, long-duration and broadband gravitational wave signals, such as stellar-mass binary black hole binaries, in mock LISA data. We propose a method that combines a semi-coherent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-17 Diganta Bandopadhyay , Christopher J. Moore

We present a rapid and reliable deep learning-based method for gravitational wave signal reconstruction from elusive, generic binary black hole mergers in LIGO data. We demonstrate that our model, \texttt{AWaRe}, effectively recovers…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-08 Chayan Chatterjee , Karan Jani

This decade will see the first direct detections of gravitational waves by observatories such as Advanced LIGO and Virgo. Among the prime sources are coalescences of binary neutron stars and black holes, which are ideal probes of dynamical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-12 Chris Van Den Broeck

Coalescing massive black hole binaries are produced by the mergers of galaxies. The final stages of the black hole coalescence produce strong gravitational radiation that can be detected by the space-borne LISA. In cases where the black…

We present the first search for gravitational waves from sub-solar mass compact-binary mergers which allows for non-negligible orbital eccentricity. Sub-solar mass black holes are a signature of primordial origin black holes, which may be a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-11 Alexander H. Nitz , Yi-Fan Wang

The gravitational waves generated during supermassive black hole (SMBH) coalescence are prime candidates for detection by the satellite LISA. We use the extended Press-Schechter formalism combined with empirically motivated estimates for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kirsty J. Rhook , J. Stuart B. Wyithe

We evaluate the cosmological coalescence and detection rates for massive black hole (MBH) binaries targeted by the gravitational wave observatory Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). Our calculation starts with a population of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-20 Kunyang Li , Tamara Bogdanović , David R. Ballantyne , Matteo Bonetti

The observation of gravitational waves emitted during the merging phase of compact binary coalescing objects has opened a new field of investigation in fundamental physics. It is now possible to test the predictions of General Relativity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-09 Marco Danilo Claudio Torri , Fulvio Ricci , Marco Giammarchi , Lino Miramonti , Valerio Toso , Chiara Sigala

Based on the rate of gravitational-wave (GW) detections by Advanced LIGO and Virgo, we expect these detectors to observe hundreds of binary black hole mergers as they achieve their design sensitivities (within a few years). A small fraction…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-19 K. Haris , Ajit Kumar Mehta , Sumit Kumar , Tejaswi Venumadhav , Parameswaran Ajith

Massive black hole binary coalescences are prime targets for space-based gravitational wave (GW) observatories such as {\it LISA}. GW measurements can localize the position of a coalescing binary on the sky to an ellipse with a major axis…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-05-28 Ryan N. Lang , Scott A. Hughes

Gravitational waves (GWs) signals detected by the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA collaboration might be sourced (partly) by the merges of primordial black holes (PBHs). The conventional hierarchical Bayesian inference methods can allow us to study…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-26 Hai-Long Huang , Zhan-He Wang , Qing-Yu Lan , Jun-Qian Jiang , Jibin He , Yu-Tong Wang , Jun Zhang , Yun-Song Piao

Current gravitational wave (GW) detection pipelines for compact binary coalescence based on matched-filtering have reported over 90 confident detections during the first three observing runs of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) detector network.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-24 Charles Badger , Rahul Srinivasan , Alejandro Torres-Forné , Marie Anne Bizouard , José A. Font , Mairi Sakellariadou , Astrid Lamberts

Searches for gravitational-wave transients from binary black hole coalescences typically rely on one of two approaches: matched filtering with templates and morphology-independent excess power searches. Multiple algorithmic implementations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-16 Satya Mohapatra , Laura Cadonati , Sarah Caudill , James Clark , Chad Hanna , Sergey Klimenko , Chris Pankow , Ruslan Vaulin , Gabriele Vedovato , Salvatore Vitale