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Compact binary systems emit gravitational radiation which is potentially detectable by current Earth bound detectors. Extracting these signals from the instruments' background noise is a complex problem and the computational cost of most…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-11 Marlin B. Schäfer , Ondřej Zelenka , Alexander H. Nitz , Frank Ohme , Bernd Brügmann

The detection of gravitational waves has inaugurated the era of gravitational astronomy and opened new avenues for the multimessenger study of cosmic sources. Thanks to their sensitivity, the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo interferometers…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-05 Massimiliano Razzano , Elena Cuoco

Broad searches for continuous gravitational wave signals rely on hierarchies of follow-up stages for candidates above a given significance threshold. An important step to simplify these follow-ups and reduce the computational cost is to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-24 Banafsheh Beheshtipour , Maria Alessandra Papa

Many continuous gravitational wave searches are affected by instrumental spectral lines that could be confused with a continuous astrophysical signal. Several techniques have been developed to limit the effect of these lines by penalising…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-28 Joseph Bayley , Chris Messenger , Graham Woan

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

To evaluate the probability of a gravitational-wave candidate originating from noise, GstLAL collects noise statistics from the data it analyzes. Gravitational-wave signals of astrophysical origin get added to the noise statistics, harming…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-30 Prathamesh Joshi , Leo Tsukada , Chad Hanna

We present a first proof-of-principle study for using deep neural networks (DNNs) as a novel search method for continuous gravitational waves (CWs) from unknown spinning neutron stars. The sensitivity of current wide-parameter-space CW…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-09 Christoph Dreissigacker , Rahul Sharma , Chris Messenger , Ruining Zhao , Reinhard Prix

Space-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors will be able to observe signals from sources that are otherwise nearly impossible from current ground-based detection. Consequently, the well established signal detection method, matched…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-17 Tianyu Zhao , Ruoxi Lyu , He Wang , Zhoujian Cao , Zhixiang Ren

The quest to observe gravitational waves challenges our ability to discriminate signals from detector noise. This issue is especially relevant for transient gravitational waves searches with a robust eyes wide open approach, the so called…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-19 S. Vinciguerra , M. Drago , G. A. Prodi , S. Klimenko , C. Lazzaro , V. Necula , F. Salemi , V. Tiwari , M. C. Tringali , G. Vedovato

Gravitational wave science is a pioneering field with rapidly evolving data analysis methodology currently assimilating and inventing deep learning techniques. The bulk of the sophisticated flagship searches of the field rely on the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-23 Jingkai Yan , Mariam Avagyan , Robert E. Colgan , Doğa Veske , Imre Bartos , John Wright , Zsuzsa Márka , Szabolcs Márka

In searching for continuous gravitational waves over very many ($\approx 10^{17}$) templates , clustering is a powerful tool which increases the search sensitivity by identifying and bundling together candidates that are due to the same…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-11 Banafsheh Beheshtipour , Maria Alessandra Papa

Gravitational wave signals from coalescing compact binaries in the LIGO and Virgo interferometers are primarily detected by the template based matched filtering method. While this method is optimal for stationary and Gaussian data…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-16 Chayan Chatterjee , Karan Jani

The recent completion of Advanced LIGO suggests that gravitational waves (GWs) may soon be directly observed. Past searches for gravitational-wave transients have been impacted by transient noise artifacts, known as glitches, introduced…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Jonah B. Kanner , Tyson B. Littenberg , Neil Cornish , Meg Millhouse , Enia Xhakaj , Francesco Salemi , Marco Drago , Gabriele Vedovato , Sergey Klimenko

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

We demonstrate unprecedented accuracy for rapid gravitational-wave parameter estimation with deep learning. Using neural networks as surrogates for Bayesian posterior distributions, we analyze eight gravitational-wave events from the first…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-31 Maximilian Dax , Stephen R. Green , Jonathan Gair , Jakob H. Macke , Alessandra Buonanno , Bernhard Schölkopf

All-sky and wide parameter space searches for continuous gravitational waves are generally template-matching schemes which test a bank of signal waveforms against data from a gravitational wave detector. Such searches can offer optimal…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-24 Joe Bayley , Graham Woan , Chris Messenger

One class of gravitational wave signals LIGO is searching for consists of short duration bursts of unknown waveforms. Potential sources include core collapse supernovae, gamma ray burst progenitors, and mergers of binary black holes or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-07-22 Rubab Khan , Shourov Chatterji

The direct detection of gravitational waves by LIGO has heralded a new era for astronomy and physics. Typically the gravitational waves observed by LIGO are dominated by noise. In this work we use Deep Convolutional Neural Networks…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-30 Akshay Ghalsasi

Deep learning techniques for gravitational-wave parameter estimation have emerged as a fast alternative to standard samplers $\unicode{x2013}$ producing results of comparable accuracy. These approaches (e.g., DINGO) enable amortized…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-10 Jonas Wildberger , Maximilian Dax , Stephen R. Green , Jonathan Gair , Michael Pürrer , Jakob H. Macke , Alessandra Buonanno , Bernhard Schölkopf

In this work, we apply Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to detect gravitational wave (GW) signals of compact binary coalescences, using single-interferometer data from LIGO detectors. As novel contribution, we adopted a resampling…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-10 Manuel D. Morales , Javier M. Antelis , Claudia Moreno , Alexander I. Nesterov