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We introduce a "loosely coherent" method for detection of continuous gravitational waves that bridges the gap between semi-coherent and purely coherent methods. Explicit control over accepted families of signals is used to increase…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-18 Vladimir Dergachev

This paper proposes a novel approach to robust radar detection of range-spread targets embedded in Gaussian noise with unknown covariance matrix. The idea is to model the useful target echo in each range cell as the sum of a coherent signal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-04 Angelo Coluccia , Alessio Fascista , Giuseppe Ricci

Non-linear gravitational collapse introduces non-Gaussian statistics into the matter fields of the late Universe. As the large-scale structure is the target of current and future observational campaigns, one would ideally like to have the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-12 Elena Sellentin , Andrew H. Jaffe , Alan F. Heavens

Folding uncertainty in theoretical models into Bayesian parameter estimation is necessary in order to make reliable inferences. A general means of achieving this is by marginalizing over model uncertainty using a prior distribution…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-04 Christopher J. Moore , Christopher P. L. Berry , Alvin J. K. Chua , Jonathan R. Gair

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

Grishchuk has shown that the stochastic background of gravitational waves produced by an inflationary phase in the early Universe has an unusual property: it is not a stationary Gaussian random process. Due to squeezing, the phases of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-25 Bruce Allen , Eanna Flanagan , Maria Alessandra Papa

When searching for gravitational waves in the data from ground-based gravitational wave detectors it is common to use a detection threshold to reduce the number of background events which are unlikely to be the signals of interest. However,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-03 C. Messenger , J. Veitch

Incredible progress on the theoretical uncertainty of the spatial correlations of the stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background were recently made. However, it remains to realize the impact of this theoretical uncertainty on PTA cross…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-16 Reginald Christian Bernardo , Kin-Wang Ng

A common technique for detection of gravitational-wave signals is searching for excess power in frequency-time maps of gravitational-wave detector data. In the event of a detection, model selection and parameter estimation will be performed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Michael Coughlin , Nelson Christensen , Jonathan Gair , Shivaraj Kandhasamy , Eric Thrane

This thesis presents advancements in the detection of gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences, utilising the most sensitive observatories constructed to date. The research focuses on enhancing gravitational-wave signal searches…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-27 Arthur Tolley

A new method is proposed to get image features' geometric information. Using Gaussian as an input signal, a theoretical optimal solution to calculate feature's affine shape is proposed. Based on analytic result of a feature model, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Xiaopeng Xu , Xiaochun Zhang

This article proposes numerically robust algorithms for Gaussian state estimation with singular observation noise. Our approach combines a series of basis changes with Bayes' rule, transforming the singular estimation problem into a…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-03-14 Nicholas Krämer , Filip Tronarp

Recent detection of nHz stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) by multiple pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) has stimulated intensive discussions about its physical origin. In principle, either supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-10 Xiao Xue , Zhen Pan , Liang Dai

We present a new ${\it{gating}}$ method to remove non-Gaussian noise transients in gravitational wave data. The method does not rely on any a-priori knowledge on the amplitude or duration of the transient events. In light of the character…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-02 Benjamin Steltner , Maria Alessandra Papa , Heinz-Bernd Eggenstein

We derive a method to reconstruct Gaussian signals from linear measurements with Gaussian noise. This new algorithm is intended for applications in astrophysics and other sciences. The starting point of our considerations is the principle…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-18 Niels Oppermann , Georg Robbers , Torsten A. Ensslin

The paper considers the problem of estimating the parameters in a continuous time regression model with a non-Gaussian noise of pulse type. The noise is specified by the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process driven by the mixture of a Brownian motion…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-09-17 Evgeny Pchelintsev

Gravitational wave background results from the superposition of gravitational waves generated from all sources across the Universe. Previous efforts on detecting such a background with pulsar timing arrays assume it is an isotropic Gaussian…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Xihao Deng

The direct detection of gravitational waves is a major goal of current astrophysics. We provide details of a new method for detecting a stochastic background of gravitational waves using pulsar timing data. Our results show that regular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Fredrick A. Jenet , George B. Hobbs , K. J. Lee , Richard N. Manchester

The declining response rates in probability surveys along with the widespread availability of unstructured data has led to growing research into non-probability samples. Existing robust approaches are not well-developed for non-Gaussian…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-03-29 Ali Rafei , Michael R. Elliott , Carol A. C. Flannagan

A Bayesian treatment of the problem of detecting an unmodelled gravitational wave burst with a global network of gravitational wave observatories reveals that several previously proposed statistics have implicit biases that render them…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Antony C Searle , Patrick J Sutton , Massimo Tinto , Graham Woan