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Accurate parameter estimation is key to maximizing the scientific impact of gravitational-wave astronomy. Parameters of a binary merger are typically estimated using Bayesian inference. It is necessary to make several assumptions when doing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-11 Suman Kulkarni , Collin D. Capano

We present a novel machine-learning approach to estimate selection effects in gravitational-wave observations. Using techniques similar to those commonly employed in image classification and pattern recognition, we train a series of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-18 Davide Gerosa , Geraint Pratten , Alberto Vecchio

Gravitational wave parameter inference pipelines operate on data containing unknown sources on distributed hardware with unreliable performance. For one specific analysis pipeline (RIFT), we have developed a flexible tool (RUNMON-RIFT) to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-18 Rhiannon Udall , Joshua Brandt , Grihith Manchanda , Adhav Arulanandan , James Clark , Jacob Lange , Richard O'Shaughnessy , Laura Cadonati

Data from gravitational-wave (GW) detectors often contains a high rate of non-Gaussian transient noise, known as glitches. The parameters estimated from GW signals coinciding with detector glitches are occasionally biased away from their…

Gravitational wave data are often contaminated by non-Gaussian noise transients, glitches, which can bias the inference of astrophysical signal parameters. Traditional approaches either subtract glitches in a pre-processing step, or a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-01 Ann-Kristin Malz , John Veitch

Gravitational waves (GWs) from stellar-mass compact binary coalescences (CBCs) are expected to be strongly lensed when encountering large agglomerations of matter, such as galaxies or clusters. Searches for strongly lensed GWs have been…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-08 Srashti Goyal , Shasvath Kapadia , Jean-Rene Cudell , Alvin K. Y. Li , Juno C. L. Chan

The first detection of gravitational waves by LIGO from the merger of two compact objects has sparked new interest in detecting electromagnetic counterparts to these violent events. For mergers involving neutron stars, it is thought that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-06 Neil J. Cornish

Once upon a time, predictions for the accuracy of inference on gravitational-wave signals relied on computationally inexpensive but often inaccurate techniques. Recently, the approach has shifted to actual inference on noisy signals with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-09 Carl-Johan Haster , Ilya Mandel , Will M. Farr

Third generation ground-based interferometers as well as the planned space-based interferometer LISA are expected to detect a plethora of gravitational wave signals from coalescing binaries at cosmological distance. The emitted…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-01 Camille Bonvin , Chiara Caprini , Riccardo Sturani , Nicola Tamanini

The analysis of optical images of galaxy-galaxy strong gravitational lensing systems can provide important information about the distribution of dark matter at small scales. However, the modeling and statistical analysis of these images is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-30 Adam Coogan , Konstantin Karchev , Christoph Weniger

One of the greatest theoretical challenges in the build-up to the era of second-generation gravitational-wave detectors is the modeling of generic binary waveforms. We introduce an approximation that has the potential to significantly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-03-12 Patricia Schmidt , Mark Hannam , Sascha Husa

We report a gravitational-wave parameter estimation algorithm, AMPLFI, based on likelihood-free inference using normalizing flows. The focus of AMPLFI is to perform real-time parameter estimation for candidates detected by machine-learning…

By listening to gravity in the low frequency band, between 0.1 mHz and 1 Hz, the future space-based gravitational-wave observatory LISA will be able to detect tens of thousands of astrophysical sources from cosmic dawn to the present. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-24 Quentin Baghi , Ira Thorpe , Jacob Slutsky , John Baker , Tito Dal Canton , Natalia Korsakova , Nikos Karnesis

One of the key challenges of real-time detection and parameter estimation of gravitational waves from compact binary mergers is the computational cost of conventional matched-filtering and Bayesian inference approaches. In particular, the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-30 Plamen G. Krastev , Kiranjyot Gill , V. Ashley Villar , Edo Berger

Tests of general relativity (GR) with gravitational waves (GWs) introduce additional deviation parameters in the waveform model. The enlarged parameter space makes inference computationally costly, which has so far limited systematic,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-06 Dhruv Kumar , Ish Gupta , Bangalore Sathyaprakash

Advancements in the sensitivity of gravitational wave detectors have increased the detection rate of transient astrophysical signals. We improve the existing BayesWave initialization algorithm and present a rapid, low latency approximate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-03 Sudhi Mathur , Neil J. Cornish

It is expected that gravitational waves, similar to electromagnetic waves, can be gravitationally lensed by intervening matters, producing multiple instances of the same signal arriving at different times from different apparent luminosity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-14 Rico K. L. Lo , Ignacio Magana Hernandez

We calculate how accurately parameters of the short-period binaries $(10^{-4} {Hz} \lsim f\lsim 10^{-2} {Hz})$ will be determined from the gravitational waves by LISA. In our analysis the chirp signal ${\dot f}$ is newly included as a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ryuichi Takahashi , Naoki Seto

Most all-sky searches for continuous gravitational waves assume the source to be isolated. In this paper, we allow for an unknown companion object in a long-period orbit and opportunistically use previous results from an all-sky search for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-24 Avneet Singh , Maria Alessandra Papa

Since the initial discovery of gravitational-waves from merging black holes, the LIGO Scientific Collaboration together with Virgo and KAGRA have published 90 gravitational-wave observations of compact binary mergers in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-09 Vera Del Favero