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Space-borne gravitational wave detectors will expand the scope of gravitational wave astronomy to the milli-Hertz band in the near future. The development of data analysis software infrastructure at the current stage is crucial. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-13 Rui Niu , Chang Feng , Wen Zhao

The detection of the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background (SGWB) is one of the most challenging tasks for both current and next-generation detectors. Successfully distinguishing the SGWB from instrumental noise and environmental effects…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-22 Ilaria Caporali , Angelo Ricciardone

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

A recent study has shown that redshift information can be directly extracted from gravitational wave sources. This can be done by exploiting the tidal phasing contributions to the waveform during the inspiral phase of binary neutron stars…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-03-06 T. G. F. Li , W. Del Pozzo , C. Messenger

Gravitational waves emitted during compact binary coalescences are a promising source for gravitational-wave detector networks. The accuracy with which the location of the source on the sky can be inferred from gravitational wave data is a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-17 K. Grover , S. Fairhurst , B. F. Farr , I. Mandel , C. Rodriguez , T. Sidery , A. Vecchio

The various materials of test masses, and the difference of arm lengths of global ground-based gravitational-wave interferometer detectors offer a unique approach to test Newton's second law, weak equivalence principle, and Einstein…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-29 Xi-Long Fan

Data from gravitational wave detectors are recorded as time series that include contributions from myriad noise sources in addition to any gravitational wave signals. When regularly sampled data are available, such as for ground based and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-23 Neil J. Cornish

Quantum computational devices, currently under development, have the potential to accelerate data analysis techniques beyond the ability of any classical algorithm. We propose the application of a quantum algorithm for the detection of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-06 Sijia Gao , Fergus Hayes , Sarah Croke , Chris Messenger , John Veitch

The collection of gravitational waves (GWs) that are either too weak or too numerous to be individually resolved is commonly referred to as the gravitational-wave background (GWB). A confident detection and model-driven characterization of…

Gravitational-wave data from advanced-era interferometric detectors consists of background Gaussian noise, frequent transient artefacts, and rare astrophysical signals. Multiple search algorithms exist to detect the signals from compact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-13 Gregory Ashton , Ann-Kristin Malz , Nicolo Colombo

With the advance in computational resources, Bayesian inference is increasingly becoming the standard tool of practise in GW astronomy. However, algorithms such as Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) require a large number of iterations to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-04 Edward K. Porter

Gravitational-wave detectors operate in inherently non-stationary environments, requiring robust detector characterization (DetChar) to distinguish instrumental transients from astrophysical signals. Traditional DetChar frameworks typically…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-22 James Kennington , Zach Yarbrough

Spaceborne gravitational-wave (GW) detectors observing at milli-Hz and deci-Hz frequencies are expected to detect large numbers of quasi-monochromatic signals. The first and second time-derivative of the GW frequency ($\dot f_0$ and $\ddot…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-12 R. Barbieri , S. Savastano , L. Speri , A. Antonelli , L. Sberna , O. Burke , J. R. Gair , N. Tamanini

The accuracy of Bayesian inference can be negatively affected by the use of inaccurate forward models. In the case of gravitational-wave inference, accurate but computationally expensive waveform models are sometimes substituted with faster…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-02 Miaoxin Liu , Xiao-Dong Li , Alvin J. K. Chua

Gravitational waves (GWs) are one of the key signatures of cosmic strings. If GWs from cosmic strings are detected in future experiments, not only their existence can be confirmed but also their properties might be probed. In this paper, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-10 Sachiko Kuroyanagi , Koichi Miyamoto , Toyokazu Sekiguchi , Keitaro Takahashi , Joseph Silk

Search sensitivity to a stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) is enhanced by cross-correlating detector signals. However, one of the most serious concerns is the environmental noise correlated between detectors. The global…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-05 Yoshiaki Himemoto , Atsushi Nishizawa , Atsushi Taruya

Frequency response function (FRF) measurements are widely used in Gravitational Wave (GW) detectors, e.g., for the design of controllers, calibrating signals and diagnostic problems with system dynamics. The aim of this paper is to present…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-24 Mathyn van Dael , Max van Haren , Gert Witvoet , Bas Swinkels , Tom Oomen

The Einstein Telescope (ET) has been proposed as one of the third-generation gravitational wave (GW) detectors. The sensitivity of ET would be a factor of 10 better than the second-generation GW detector, Advanced LIGO (aLIGO); thus, the GW…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-30 Hee-Suk Cho

Data analysis in modern science using extensive experimental and observational facilities, such as a gravitational wave detector, is essential in the search for novel scientific discoveries. Accordingly, various techniques and mathematical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-14 Piljong Jung , Sang Hoon Oh , Young-Min Kim , Edwin J. Son , John J. Oh

Gravitational wave astrophysics requires accurate evaluation of the Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) and the Probability of Detection (Pdet) for applications such as population simulations and hierarchical Bayesian inference with selection…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-30 Hemantakumar Phurailatpam , Otto Akseli Hannuksela