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We currently lack good waveform models for many gravitational wave sources. Examples where models are lacking include neutron star post merger signals, core collapse supernovae, and signals of unknown origin. Wavelet based techniques have…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-19 Toral Gupta , Neil Cornish

Precision timing of highly stable milli-second pulsars is a promising technique for the detection of very low frequency sources of gravitational waves. In any single pulsar, a stochastic gravitational wave signal appears as an additional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-01 Neil J. Cornish , Laura M. Sampson

Searches for gravitational wave signals which do not have a precise model describing the shape of their waveforms are often performed using power detectors based on a quadratic form of the data. A new, optimal method of generalizing these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Julien Sylvestre

We present two search algorithms that implement logarithmic tiling of the time-frequency plane in order to efficiently detect astrophysically unmodeled bursts of gravitational radiation. The first is a straightforward application of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-29 S Chatterji , L Blackburn , G Martin , E Katsavounidis

Time-frequency analysis, such as the Gabor transform, plays an important role in many signal processing applications. The redundancy of such representations is often directly related to the computational load of any algorithm operating in…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Ewa Matusiak , Tomer Michaeli , Yonina C. Eldar

We review and expand on a Bayesian model selection technique for the detection of gravitational waves from neutron star ring-downs associated with pulsar glitches. The algorithm works with power spectral densities constructed from…

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

Glitches represent a category of non-Gaussian and transient noise that frequently intersects with gravitational wave (GW) signals, exerting a notable impact on the processing of GW data. The inference of GW parameters, crucial for GW…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-15 Tian-Yang Sun , Chun-Yu Xiong , Shang-Jie Jin , Yu-Xin Wang , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

Excess transient noise artifacts, or glitches impact the data quality of ground-based gravitational-wave (GW) detectors and impair the detection of signals produced by astrophysical sources. Mitigation of glitches is crucial for improving…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-09 Kentaro Mogushi

The thermal state of the intergalactic medium (IGM) contains vital information about the epoch of reionization, one of the most transformative yet poorly understood periods in the young universe. This thermal state is encoded in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-20 Molly Wolfson , Joseph F. Hennawi , Frederick B. Davies , Jose Oñorbe , Hector Hiss , Zarija Lukić

In order to extract information about the properties of compact binaries, we must estimate the noise power spectral density of gravitational-wave data, which depends on the properties of the gravitational-wave detector. In practice, it is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-18 Colm Talbot , Eric Thrane

The time-frequency content of a signal can be measured by the Gabor transform or windowed Fourier transform. This is a function defined on phase space that is computed by taking the Fourier transform of the product of the signal against a…

funct-an · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Jayakumar Ramanathan , Pankaj Topiwala

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

We introduce $\texttt{WaveletNet}$, a wavelet-based neural network architecture to identify and reduce non-Gaussian noise in gravitational wave data. Traditionally, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely used as a flexible…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-27 Arush Pimpalkar , Digvijay Wadekar , Mark Ho-Yeuk Cheung , Emanuele Berti

Inspiral signals from binary black holes, in particular those with masses in the range $10M_\odot \lsim M \lsim 1000 M_\odot,$ may last for only a few cycles within a detector's most sensitive frequency band. The spectrum of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-13 D. J. A. McKechan , C. Robinson , B. S. Sathyaprakash

We examine the properties of an excess power method to detect gravitational waves in interferometric detector data. This method is designed to detect short-duration (< 0.5 s) burst signals of unknown waveform, such as those from supernovae…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Warren G. Anderson , Patrick R. Brady , Jolien D. E. Creighton , Eanna E. Flanagan

We present a time-frequency method to detect gravitational wave signals in interferometric data. This robust method can detect signals from poorly modeled and unmodeled sources. We evaluate the method on simulated data containing noise and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-30 Warren G. Anderson , R. Balasubramanian

This work investigates the problem of detecting gravitational wave (GW) events based on simulated damped sinusoid signals contaminated with white Gaussian noise. It is treated as a classification problem with one class for the interesting…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-01 Xiangru Li , Woliang Yu , Xilong Fan , G. Jogesh Babu

Previous studies showed that hydro-climate processes are stochastic and complex systems, and it is difficult to discover the hidden patterns in the all non-stationary data and thoroughly understand the hydro-climate relationships. For the…

Applications · Statistics 2018-10-02 Jianhua Xu

While working within the spatial domain can pose problems associated with ill-conditioned scores caused by power-law decay, recent advances in diffusion-based generative models have shown that transitioning to the wavelet domain offers a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Xiongye Xiao , Shixuan Li , Luzhe Huang , Gengshuo Liu , Trung-Kien Nguyen , Yi Huang , Di Chang , Mykel J. Kochenderfer , Paul Bogdan

With the advanced LIGO and Virgo detectors taking observations the detection of gravitational waves is expected within the next few years. Extracting astrophysical information from gravitational wave detections is a well-posed problem and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Tyson B. Littenberg , Jonah B. Kanner , Neil J. Cornish , Margaret Millhouse