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The gravitational-wave (GW) detector data are affected by short-lived instrumental or terrestrial transients, called glitches, which can simulate GW signals. Mitigation of glitches is particularly difficult for algorithms which target…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-21 Sophie Bini , Gabriele Vedovato , Marco Drago , Francesco Salemi , Giovanni Andrea Prodi

We introduce a search method for a new class of gravitational-wave signals, namely long-duration O(hours - weeks) transients from spinning neutron stars. We discuss the astrophysical motivation from glitch relaxation models and we derive a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-08 Reinhard Prix , Stefanos Giampanis , Chris Messenger

Coherent WaveBurst is a generic, multidetector gravitational wave burst search based on the excess power approach. The coherent WaveBurst algorithm currently employed in the all-sky short-duration gravitational wave burst search uses a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-12 Dixeena Lopez , V. Gayathri , Archana Pai , Ik Siong Heng , Chris Messenger , Sagar Kumar Gupta

The vulnerability to single-detector instrumental artifacts in standard detection methods for long-duration quasimonochromatic gravitational waves from nonaxisymmetric rotating neutron stars [continuous waves (CWs)] was addressed in past…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-26 David Keitel

In recent years, convolutional neural network (CNN) and other deep learning models have been gradually introduced into the area of gravitational-wave (GW) data processing. Compared with the traditional matched-filtering techniques, CNN has…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-22 Heming Xia , Lijing Shao , Junjie Zhao , Zhoujian Cao

The signal of continuous gravitational waves has a longer duration than the observation period. Even if the waveform in the source frame is monochromatic, we will observe the waveform with modulated frequencies due to the motion of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-05 Takahiro S. Yamamoto , Takahiro Tanaka

Mergers of binary neutron stars (BNSs) emit signals in both the gravitational-wave (GW) and electromagnetic (EM) spectra. Famously, the 2017 multi-messenger observation of GW170817 led to scientific discoveries across cosmology, nuclear…

A small fraction of the gravitational-wave (GW) signals that will be detected by second and third generation detectors are expected to be strongly lensed by galaxies and clusters, producing multiple observable copies. While optimal Bayesian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-05 Srashti Goyal , Harikrishnan D. , Shasvath J. Kapadia , Parameswaran Ajith

Gravitational waves are ripples in the space time fabric when high energy events such as black hole mergers or neutron star collisions take place. The first Gravitational Wave (GW) detection (GW150914) was made by the Laser Interferometer…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-13 Yash Chauhan

We present a method for detection and reconstruction of the gravitational-wave (GW) transients with the networks of advanced detectors. Originally designed to search for transients with the initial GW detectors, it uses significantly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-17 S. Klimenko , G. Vedovato , M. Drago , F. Salemi , V. Tiwari , G. A. Prodi , C. Lazzaro , K. Ackley , S. Tiwari , C. F. Da Silva Cost- , G. Mitselmakher

Identifying the presence of a gravitational wave transient buried in non-stationary, non-Gaussian noise which can often contain spurious noise transients (glitches) is a very challenging task. For a given data set, transient gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-18 V. Gayathri , Dixeena Lopez , R. S. Pranjal , Ik Siong Heng , Archana Pai , Chris Messenger

Transient gravitational-wave searches can be divided into two main families of approaches: modelled and unmodelled searches, based on matched filtering techniques and time-frequency excess power identification respectively. The former,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-25 P. Bacon , Gayathri V. , E. Chassande-Mottin , A. Pai , F. Salemi , G. Vedovato

Current templated searches for gravitational waves (GWs) emanated from compact binary coalescences (CBCs) assume that the binaries have circularized by the time they enter the sensitivity band of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) network. However,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-03 Adhrit Ravichandran , Aditya Vijaykumar , Shasvath J. Kapadia , Prayush Kumar

A number of detections have been made in the past few years of gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences. While there exist well-understood waveform models for signals from compact binary coalescences, many sources of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-24 Sharan Banagiri , Ling Sun , Michael W. Coughlin , Andrew Melatos

Matched-filter based gravitational-wave search pipelines identify candidate events within seconds of their arrival on Earth, offering a chance to guide electromagnetic follow-up and observe multi-messenger events. Understanding the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-14 Ryan Magee , Richard George , Alvin Li , Ritwik Sharma

Precision pulsar timing at the level of tens to hundreds of nanoseconds allows detection of nanohertz gravitational waves (GWs) from supermassive binary black holes (SMBBHs) at the cores of merging galaxies and, potentially, from exotic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-25 J. M. Cordes , M. A. McLaughlin

The strongly lensed gravitational wave (SLGW) is a promising transient phenomenon. However, the long-wave nature of gravitational waves poses a significant challenge in identification of its host galaxy. To tackle this challenge, we propose…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-08 Xikai Shan , Bin Hu , Xuechun Chen , Rong-Gen Cai

Gravitational wave searches rely on a combination of methods, including matched filtering, coherent analyses, and more recent machine learning based pipelines. For compact binary coalescences, where signals originate from the relativistic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-11 Lorenzo Mobilia , Tito Dal Canton , Gianluca Maria Guidi

As of this moment, fifty gravitational waves (GW) detections have been announced, thanks to the observational efforts of the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration, working with the Advanced LIGO and the Advanced Virgo interferometers. The detection of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-30 Filip Morawski , Michał Bejger , Elena Cuoco , Luigia Petre

The observational era of gravitational-wave astronomy began in the Fall of 2015 with the detection of GW150914. One potential type of detectable gravitational wave is short-duration gravitational-wave bursts, whose waveforms can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-07 Ryan Lynch , Salvatore Vitale , Reed Essick , Erik Katsavounidis , Florent Robinet