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Weakly-modelled searches for gravitational waves are essential for ensuring that all potential sources are accounted for in detection efforts, as they make minimal assumptions regarding source morphology. While these searches primarily…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-06 Leigh Smith , Matteo Scialpi , Francesco di Clemente , Michał Bejger

Signal extraction out of background noise is a common challenge in high precision physics experiments, where the measurement output is often a continuous data stream. To improve the signal to noise ratio of the detection, witness sensors…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-26 Gabriele Vajente , Yiwen Huang , Maximiliano Isi , Jenne C. Driggers , Jeffrey S. Kissel , Marek J. Szczepanczyk , Salvatore Vitale

Gravitational lensing is the phenomenon where the presence of matter (called a lens) bends the path of light-like trajectories travelling nearby. Similar to the geometric optics limit of electromagnetic waves, gravitational lensing of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-20 Aniruddha Chakraborty , Suvodip Mukherjee

Separating a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) from noise is a challenging statistical task. One approach to establishing a detection criterion for the SGWB is using Bayesian evidence. If the evidence ratio (Bayes factor)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-17 Federico Pozzoli , Jonathan Gair , Riccardo Buscicchio , Lorenzo Speri

Future searches for a gravitational-wave background using Earth-based gravitational-wave detectors might be impacted by correlated noise sources. A well known example are the Schumann resonances, which are extensively studied in the context…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-20 Kamiel Janssens , Thomas A. Callister , Nelson Christensen , Michael W. Coughlin , Ioannis Michaloliakos , Jishnu Suresh , Nick van Remortel

In this talk I review recent progresses in the detection of scalar gravitational waves. Furthermore, in the framework of the Jordan-Brans-Dicke theory, I compute the signal to noise ratio for a resonant mass detector of spherical shape and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Fucito

Background estimation is important for determining the statistical significance of a gravitational-wave event. Currently, the background model is constructed numerically from the strain data using estimation techniques that insulate the…

Gravitational waves (GWs) from compact binary stars at cosmological distances are promising and powerful cosmological probes, referred to as the GW standard sirens. With future GW detectors, we will be able to precisely measure source…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-30 Toshiya Namikawa , Atsushi Nishizawa , Atsushi Taruya

Gravitational waves (GWs) hold great potential for an unobscured view of protoneutron stars (PNSs) formed as a result of stellar collapses. While waiting for discovery, deepening the understanding of GW emission in theory is beneficial for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-18 Shuai Zha

Next-generation gravitational wave (GW) experiments will explore higher frequency ranges, where GW wavelengths approach the size of the detector itself. In this regime, GWs may be detected not just through the well-known mechanical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-01 Lars Fischer , Tom Krokotsch , Gudrid Moortgat-Pick

Detecting a stochastic gravitational wave background requires that we first understand and model any astrophysical foregrounds. In the millihertz frequency band, the predominate foreground signal will be from unresolved white dwarf binaries…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-01-23 Matthew R. Adams , Neil J. Cornish

We simulate the response of a Storage Ring Gravitational-Wave Observatory (SRGO) to astrophysical millihertz (mHz) gravitational waves (GWs), numerically obtaining its sensitivity curve and optimal choices for some controllable experiment…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-13 Suvrat Rao , Julia Baumgarten , Jochen Liske , Marcus Brüggen

Gravitational-wave memory is a low-frequency, non-oscillatory signal that provides a promising probe of strong-field gravity. We present the first computation of memory from full inspiral--merger--ringdown waveforms in a theory beyond GR,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-11 Silvia Gasparotto

One of the most interesting predictions of string-inspired cosmological models is the presence of a stochastic background of relic gravitational waves in the frequency band accessible to Earth-based detectors. Here we consider a ``minimal''…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Ungarelli , A. Vecchio

In this paper we introduce the SCoRe (Submodular Combinatorial Representation Learning) framework, a novel approach in representation learning that addresses inter-class bias and intra-class variance. SCoRe provides a new combinatorial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Anay Majee , Suraj Kothawade , Krishnateja Killamsetty , Rishabh Iyer

This article derives an optimal (i.e., unbiased, minimum variance) estimator for the pseudo-detector strain for a pair of co-located gravitational wave interferometers (such as the pair of LIGO interferometers at its Hanford Observatory),…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Lazzarini , S. Bose , P. Fritschel , M. McHugh , T. Regimbau , K. Reilly , J. D. Romano , J. T. Whelan , S. Whitcomb , B. F. Whiting

Detecting stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) from cosmic strings is crucial for unveiling the evolutionary laws of the early universe and validating non-standard cosmological models. This study presents the first systematic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-18 Geng-Chen Wang , Hong-Bo Jin , Xin Zhang

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

Continuous gravitational waves are long-lasting forms of gravitational radiation produced by persistent quadrupolar variations of matter. Standard expected sources for ground-based interferometric detectors are neutron stars presenting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-08 Rodrigo Tenorio , David Keitel , Alicia M. Sintes

The detection of gravitational waves from astrophysical sources of gravitational waves is a realistic goal for the current generation of interferometric gravitational-wave detectors. Short duration bursts of gravitational waves from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Patrick R Brady , Saikat Ray-Majumder