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Gravitational-wave parameter estimation for binary neutron star (BNS) systems poses severe computational challenges due to the extended signal duration, which can reach several minutes in current detectors. Neural posterior estimation…

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The origins of merging compact binaries observed by gravitational-wave detectors remains highly uncertain. Several astrophysical channels may contribute to the overall merger rate, with distinct formation processes imprinted on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-03 Jack Heinzel , Matthew Mould , Sofía Álvarez-López , Salvatore Vitale

We investigate the measurability of effective inspiral spin in the detectable compact binary mergers using gravitational-wave observations. Measurements from the latest gravitational-wave transient catalog do not rule out the existence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-31 Souradeep Pal

Low-latency pipelines analyzing gravitational waves from compact binary coalescence events rely on matched filter techniques. Limitations in template banks and waveform modeling, as well as non-stationary detector noise cause errors in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-21 Sushant Sharma Chaudhary , Gianmarco Puleo , Marco Cavaglia

Reliable low-latency gravitational wave parameter estimation is essential to target limited electromagnetic followup facilities toward astrophysically interesting and electromagnetically relevant sources of gravitational waves. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-09 Brandon Miller , Richard O'Shaughnessy , Tyson B. Littenberg , Ben Farr

Parameter estimation (PE) for compact binary coalescence (CBC) events observed by gravitational wave (GW) laser interferometers is a core task in GW astrophysics. We present a method to compute the posterior distribution efficiently without…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-09 Jonathan Mushkin , Javier Roulet , Barak Zackay , Tejaswi Venumadhav , Oryna Ivashtenko , Digvijay Wadekar , Ajit Kumar Mehta , Matias Zaldarriaga

We suggest a new approach to the detection of gravitational waves using observations of a group of millisecond pulsars. In contrast to the usual method, based on increasing the accuracy of the arrival times of pulses by excluding possible…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-26 Alexander E. Rodin

With the discovery of the binary black hole coalescence GW150914, the era of gravitational-wave astrophysics has started. Gravitational-wave signals emitted by compact binary coalescences will be detected in large number by LIGO and Virgo…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-15 Salvatore Vitale , Ryan Lynch , Riccardo Sturani , Philip Graff

Gravitational waves from a binary with a single dynamically significant spin, notably including precessing black hole-neutron star (BH-NS) binaries, let us constrain that binary's properties: the two masses and the dominant black hole spin.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-23 R. O'Shaughnessy , P. Nepal , A. Lundgren

Inspiraling compact binaries are promising sources of gravitational waves for ground and space-based laser interferometric detectors. The time-dependent signature of these sources in the detectors is a well-characterized function of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 S. Mitra , S. V. Dhurandhar , L. S. Finn

In the coming years, advanced gravitational wave detectors will observe signals from a large number of compact binary coalescences. The majority of these signals will be relatively weak, making the precision measurement of subtle effects,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-03 Aaron Zimmerman , Carl-Johan Haster , Katerina Chatziioannou

We describe a novel approach to the detection and parameter estimation of a non\textendash Gaussian stochastic background of gravitational waves. The method is based on the determination of relevant statistical parameters using importance…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-22 Riccardo Buscicchio , Anirban Ain , Matteo Ballelli , Giancarlo Cella , Barbara Patricelli

Electromagnetic (EM) follow-up observations of gravitational wave (GW) events will help shed light on the nature of the sources, and more can be learned if the EM follow-ups can start as soon as the GW event becomes observable. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 Jing Luan , Shaun Hooper , Linqing Wen , Yanbei Chen

Abbreviated: We investigate the potential of detecting the gravitational wave from individual binary black hole systems using pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) and calculate the accuracy for determining the GW properties. This is done in a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 K. J. Lee , N. Wex , M. Kramer , B. W. Stappers , C. G. Bassa , G. H. Janssen , R. Karuppusamy , R. Smits

The maximum likelihood method is often used for parameter estimation in gravitational wave astronomy. Recently, an interesting approach was proposed by Vallisneri to evaluate the distributions of parameter estimation errors expected for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Naoki Seto , Koutarou Kyutoku

Quasicircular binary black hole mergers are described by 15 parameters, of which gravitational wave observations can typically constrain only $\sim 10$ independent combinations to varying degree. In this work, we devise coordinates that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-28 Javier Roulet , Seth Olsen , Jonathan Mushkin , Tousif Islam , Tejaswi Venumadhav , Barak Zackay , Matias Zaldarriaga

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

Parameterised models that predict the gravitational-wave (GW) signal from merging black holes are used to extract source properties from GW observations. The majority of research in this area has focused on developing methods capable of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-09 Sebastian Khan

The determination of the physical parameters of gravitational wave events is a fundamental pillar in the analysis of the signals observed by the current ground-based interferometers. Typically, this is done using Bayesian inference…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-07 M. Andrés-Carcasona , M. Martinez , Ll. M. Mir

Compact binary coalescences are the most promising sources of gravitational waves (GWs) for ground based detectors. Binary systems containing one or two spinning black holes are particularly interesting due to spin-orbit (and eventual…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-02 Salvatore Vitale , Ryan Lynch , John Veitch , Vivien Raymond , Riccardo Sturani
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