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Accurate parameter estimation(PE) of gravitational waves(GW) is essential for GW data analysis. In extreme mass-ratio inspiral binary(EMRI) systems, orbital eccentricity is a critical parameter for PE. However, current software for for PE…

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The paper presents a statistical model which reproduces the results of Monte Carlo simulations to estimate the parameters of the gravitational wave signal from a coalesing binary system. The model however is quite general and would be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Balasubramanian , S. V. Dhurandhar

Matched-filter searches for gravitational waves from coalescing compact binaries by the LIGO Scientific Collaboration use the FINDCHIRP algorithm: an implementation of the optimal filter with innovations to account for unknown signal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-19 Bruce Allen , Warren G. Anderson , Patrick R. Brady , Duncan A. Brown , Jolien D. E. Creighton

Fisher matrix and related studies have suggested that with second-generation gravitational wave detectors, it may be possible to infer the equation of state of neutron stars using tidal effects in binary inspiral. Here we present the first…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-16 Walter Del Pozzo , Tjonnie G. F. Li , Michalis Agathos , Chris Van Den Broeck , Salvatore Vitale

Current gravitational wave (GW) detections rely on the existence of libraries of theoretical waveforms. Consequently, finding new physics with GWs requires libraries of non-standard models, which are computationally demanding. We discuss…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-03 Felipe F. Freitas , Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , António P. Morais , António Onofre , Roman Pasechnik , Eugen Radu , Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , Rui Santos

Local Fisher discriminant analysis is a localized variant of Fisher discriminant analysis and it is popular for supervised dimensionality reduction method. lfda is an R package for performing local Fisher discriminant analysis, including…

Applications · Statistics 2016-12-30 Yuan Tang , Wenxuan Li

Rapid and robust parameter estimation of gravitational-wave sources is a key component of modern multi-messenger astronomy. We present a novel and straightforward method for rapid parameter estimation of gravitational-wave sources that uses…

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We develop algebraic tools for statistical inference from samples of rotation matrices. This rests on the theory of D-modules in algebraic analysis. Noncommutative Gr\"obner bases are used to design numerical algorithms for maximum…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-12-30 Michael F. Adamer , András C. Lőrincz , Anna-Laura Sattelberger , Bernd Sturmfels

The Fisher information matrix (FIM) is a key quantity in statistics as it is required for example for evaluating asymptotic precisions of parameter estimates, for computing test statistics or asymptotic distributions in statistical testing,…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-02-07 Maud Delattre , Estelle Kuhn

Physically motivated gravitational wave signals are needed in order to study the behaviour and efficacy of different data analysis methods seeking their detection. GravEn, short for Gravitational-wave Engine, is a MATLAB software package…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Amber L. Stuver , Lee Samuel Finn

We present Korali, an open-source framework for large-scale Bayesian uncertainty quantification and stochastic optimization. The framework relies on non-intrusive sampling of complex multiphysics models and enables their exploitation for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Sergio M. Martin , Daniel Wälchli , Georgios Arampatzis , Athena E. Economides , Petr Karnakov , Petros Koumoutsakos

In various fields of physics and astronomy, access to experimental facilities or to telescopes is becoming more and more competitive and limited. It becomes therefore important to optimize the type of measurements and their scheduling to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-01 A. Hees , A. Dehghanfar , T. Do , A. M. Ghez , G. D. Martinez , R. Campbell , J. R. Lu

Uncertainty propagation and filtering can be interpreted as gradient flows with respect to suitable metrics in the infinite dimensional manifold of probability density functions. Such a viewpoint has been put forth in recent literature, and…

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Gaussian variational approximation is a popular methodology to approximate posterior distributions in Bayesian inference especially in high dimensional and large data settings. To control the computational cost while being able to capture…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Bingxin Zhou , Junbin Gao , Minh-Ngoc Tran , Richard Gerlach

We present LEGWORK (LISA Evolution and Gravitational Wave Orbit Kit), an open-source Python package for making predictions about stellar-origin gravitational wave sources and their detectability in LISA or other space-based gravitational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-08 Tom Wagg , Katelyn Breivik , Selma E. de Mink

We have developed a 3-D Eulerian hydrodynamics code to model sources of gravitational radiation. The code is written in cylindrical coordinates $(\varpi,z,\varphi)$ and has moving grids in the $\varpi$ and $z$-directions. We use Newtonian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Scott C. Smith , Joan M. Centrella , Sean P. Clancy

We discuss the potential of the advanced ground-based gravitational-wave detectors such as LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA to detect generic deviations of gravitational waveforms from the predictions of general relativity. We use the parameterized…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-21 Tatsuya Narikawa , Hideyuki Tagoshi

Using simple, intuitive arguments, we discuss the expected accuracy with which astrophysical parameters can be extracted from an observed gravitational wave signal. The observation of a chirp like signal in the data allows for measurement…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-18 Stephen Fairhurst , Charlie Hoy , Rhys Green , Cameron Mills , Samantha A. Usman

We study the information content of summary statistics built from the multi-scale topology of large-scale structures on primordial non-Gaussianity of the local and equilateral type. We use halo catalogs generated from numerical N-body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-05 Matteo Biagetti , Juan Calles , Lina Castiblanco , Alex Cole , Jorge Noreña

It has become increasingly useful to answer questions in gravitational-wave astronomy using transdimensional models where the number of free parameters can be varied depending on the complexity required to fit the data. Given the growing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-08 Hui Tong , Nir Guttman , Teagan A. Clarke , Paul D. Lasky , Eric Thrane , Ethan Payne , Rowina Nathan , Ben Farr , Maya Fishbach , Gregory Ashton , Valentina Di Marco