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We describe the methods used to construct the aligned-spin template bank of gravitational waveforms used by the GstLAL-based inspiral pipeline to analyze data from the second observing run of Advanced LIGO and the first observing run of…

This paper presents an algorithm for constructing matched-filter template banks in an arbitrary parameter space. The method places templates at random, then removes those which are "too close" together. The properties and optimality of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-22 Ian Harry , Bruce Allen , B. S. Sathyaprakash

The detection of gravitational waves from binary neutron stars is a major goal of the gravitational-wave observatories Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo. Previous searches for binary neutron stars with LIGO and Virgo neglected the component…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-10-16 Duncan A. Brown , Ian Harry , Andrew Lundgren , Alexander H. Nitz

Searches for gravitational wave events use models, or templates, for the signals of interest. The templates used in current searches in the LIGO-Virgo-Kagra (LVK) data model the dominant quadrupole mode $(\ell,|m|)=(2,2)$ of the signals,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-18 Digvijay Wadekar , Tejaswi Venumadhav , Ajit Kumar Mehta , Javier Roulet , Seth Olsen , Jonathan Mushkin , Barak Zackay , Matias Zaldarriaga

We discuss a method to analyze data from interferometric gravitational wave detectors focusing on the technique of hierarchical search to detect gravitational waves from inspiraling binaries. For this purpose, we propose new coordinates to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-30 Takahiro Tanaka , Hideyuki Tagoshi

Efficient multi-dimensional template placement is crucial in computationally intensive matched-filtering searches for Gravitational Waves (GWs). Here, we implement the Neighboring Cell Algorithm (NCA) to improve the detection volume of an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-13 Nathaniel Indik , Henning Fehrmann , Franz Harke , Badri Krishnan , Alex B. Nielsen

The detection of the gravitational waves (GWs) emitted by precessing binaries of spinning compact objects is complicated by the large number of parameters (such as the magnitudes and initial directions of the spins, and the position and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Yi Pan , Alessandra Buonanno , Yanbei Chen , Michele Vallisneri

Gravitational waves (GW) from coalescing stellar-mass black hole binaries (BBH) are expected to be detected by the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory and Advanced Virgo. Detection searches operate by…

All-sky, broadband, coherent searches for gravitational-wave pulsars are restricted by limited computational resources. Minimizing the number of templates required to cover the search parameter space, of sky position and frequency…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-01-05 Karl Wette

We present a novel gravitational wave detection algorithm that conducts a matched filter search stochastically across the compact binary parameter space rather than relying on a fixed bank of template waveforms. This technique is…

We construct efficient banks of templates suitable for all-sky narrow-band searches of almost monochromatic gravitational waves originating from spinning neutron stars in our Galaxy in data collected by interferometric detectors. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-10 Andrzej Pisarski , Piotr Jaranowski

In the search for binary systems inspiral signal in interferometric gravitational waves detectors, one needs the generation and placement of a grid of templates. We present an original technique for the placement in the associated parameter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 F. Beauville , D. Buskulic , R. Flaminio , R. Gouaty , D. Grosjean , F. Marion , B. Mours , E. Tournefier , D. Verkindt , M. Yvert

The existing matched filtering method for gravitational wave (GW) search relies on a template bank. The computational efficiency of this method scales with the size of the templates within the bank. Higher-order modes and eccentricity will…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-27 CunLiang Ma , Sen Wang , Wei Wang , Zhoujiang Cao

Searches for gravitational waves (GWs) from binary black holes using interferometric GW detectors require the construction of template banks for performing matched filtering while analyzing the data. Placement of templates over the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-24 Chinmay Kalaghatgi , Parameswaran Ajith , K. G. Arun

Searching for gravitational waves (GWs) from binary black holes (BBHs) with LIGO and Virgo involves matched-filtering data against a set of representative signal waveforms --- a template bank --- chosen to cover the full signal space of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-08 Collin Capano , Ian Harry , Stephen Privitera , Alessandra Buonanno

We study gravitational wave searches for merging binary neutron stars (NSs). We use nonspinning template waveforms towards the signals emitted from aligned-spin NS-NS binaries, in which the spins of the NSs are aligned with the orbital…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-14 Hee-Suk Cho , Chang-Hwan Lee

Detection template families (DTFs) are built to capture the essential features of true gravitational waveforms using a small set of phenomenological waveform parameters. Buonanno, Chen, and Vallisneri [Phys. Rev. D 67, 104025 (2003)]…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-29 Alessandra Buonanno , Yanbei Chen , Yi Pan , Hideyuki Tagoshi , Michele Vallisneri

We construct efficient banks of templates suitable for directed searches of almost monochromatic gravitational waves originating from spinning nuetron stars in our Galaxy in data being collected by currently operating interferometric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-02-15 Andrzej Pisarski , Piotr Jaranowski , Maciej Pietka

The mass and spin distributions of compact binary gravitational-wave sources are currently uncertain due to complicated astrophysics involved in their formation. Multiple sub-populations of compact binaries representing different…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-24 Jade Powell , Simon Stevenson , Ilya Mandel , Peter Tino